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Mike Luckovich…does it again!
Getting back into the groove of things, so tonight I have some updates on a few crime and white supremacy stories we have been watching.
First is one that has me scratching my head about…remember that “cannibal” attack in Miami? The one that was blamed on “bath salts,” well…according to the county Medical Examiner: Causeway Cannibal Not High On Bath Salts
Rudy Eugene, the Causeway Cannibal who ate the face off a homeless man he attacked along the MacArthur Causeway, was apparently not high on bath salts or any other exotic street drug at the time of the attack, according to a report released Wednesday by the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner. The news leaves law enforcement officials wondering what drove Eugene to strip off his clothes, attack homeless man Ronald Poppo, and chew off pieces of flesh from Poppo’s face
Maybe it was a voodoo curse after all?
The much-anticipated toxicology report released by Miami-Dade Medical Examiner Dr. Bruce Hyma found marijuana in Eugene’s system, something CBS4 News had previously reported, but no evidence of any other street drugs, alcohol or prescription drugs, or any adulterants found in street drugs.
The report said this includes cocaine, LSD, amphetamines (Ecstasy, Meth and others), phencyclidine (PCP or Angel Dust), heroin, oxycodone, Xanax, synthetic marijuana (Spice), and many other similar compounds.
Hyma’s office specifically ruled out bath salts, a class of synthetic drugs that have been known to cause bizarre behavior and overheating of people who use them, two things that made some believe Eugene’s cannibalistic behavior could be blamed on the drugs.
“The department has also sought the assistance of an outside forensic toxicology reference laboratory, which has confirmed the absence of “bath salts,” synthetic marijuana and LSD,” the report said.
“Within the limits of current technology by both laboratories, marijuana is the only drug identified in the body of Mr. Rudy Eugene.”
The news from the medical examiner sends investigators back to square one as they look for what caused Eugene’s bizarre behavior.
Freaky stuff!
In other news out of Sanford, Florida: Sanford detective: Trayvon Martin never used deadly force
police records released Tuesday show in greater detail how the Sanford detective investigating the case was unconvinced that Zimmerman was legally justified when he shot Martin. Detective Chris Serino believed Zimmerman jumped to a “faulty conclusion” about Martin, an unarmed teen who he said never used deadly force when he battered Zimmerman and caused him to frantically scream for help 14 times.
Days after several recorded interviews between Serino and Zimmerman were made public, the detective got a new job: On July 7, he starts in his new assignment as a uniformed patrolman on the graveyard shift, at the same pay.
“It’s not a demotion,” Sanford Police spokesman Sgt. David Morgenstern said of Serino, 45, who has been with the department for 15 years.
“There isn’t any more prestige in being a detective. We have officers who love uniform patrol. This was of his own free will.”
The article continues,
On Tuesday, prosecutors released several videos and audio tapes, most of which had already been made public last week by Zimmerman’s attorney, Mark O’Mara. One video released Tuesday shows several minutes of previously unseen footage of Zimmerman discussing with police his doctor’s diagnosis of his injuries.
“I have a broken nose. She says I could use stitches, but she’d rather not put them in – as long as I didn’t mess with my head. My skin is already healing nicely,” Zimmerman said at the end of a video where he walked through the scene with investigators the day after the Feb. 26 shooting. “She says I didn’t need to put stitches in right away.”
As to the absence of wounds on other parts of his body, Zimmerman said: Martin “was just focused on my head.”
Zimmerman said that his doctor also advised that he needed to let the swelling in his nose go down before it could be treated. Sanford Detective Doris Singleton noticed that the inflammation on the side of Zimmerman’s bruised head had gone down.
“My wife is an RN student, so she went to work,” Zimmerman said. “Good to keep her busy, I guess.”
An unedited version of Serino’s sworn statement shows he believed the injuries were “marginally consistent with a life-threatening violent episode described by him, during which neither a deadly weapon nor deadly force was deployed by Trayvon Martin.”
Ugh…no comment…cause you all know what I think about all this.
In Banjoville news, ACLU to represent KKK group
The American Civil Liberties Union will champion a Ku Klux Klan outfit’s right to “adopt” a section of highway in Union County, an ACLU official said Tuesday — on the same day that key members of the KKK group acknowledged they live in a neighboring county.
The cyclops lives on the border of Union County, and according to him…
…lives in Morganton in Fannin County, which he described as “a mile or two from the Union County border.” But he said the KKK’s headquarters is in Blairsville. He said it also has a physical headquarters there but would not provide specifics.
“That’s one of the secrets we do have,” he said, adding that the fact that he lives in Fannin has no bearing on the Adopt-a Highway application. “It doesn’t matter where we live, it’s irrelevant to the case.”
But it’s not irrelevant to some in Union County.
“We don’t know why they picked Union County,” said Union County Commissioner Lamar Paris, a native of the county and the top elected official for a dozen years. “They could have easily chosen the last mile of Fannin County as opposed to the first mile in Union County.”
Paris said he was “not aware of any members of the KKK now or in the past being from the county.”
Yeah I bet…it is an election year, in fact Union County voters will be hitting the polls next month. In our local paper he does not mention any negative feelings towards members of the KKK…just that the news of this adopt-a-mile ruckus must have been picked up by news outlets world wide because it was a “slow news day.” The people in office in my county are all asses, and the ones who are trying to get elected are even worse.
One last news bit for you…and Kreepy is just the thing this story is about. Cannonfire: Judge Kreep
If a writer of fiction had come up with such a name, readers would hoot. A guy named Gary Kreep runs a far-right Muslim-bashing “birther” group called the United States Justice Foundation. He was just elected a judge in San Diego.
Let me take a step back, though. Mr. Kreep was just elected to San Diego’s Superior Court. This ninny is a judge, beating out a 27 year deputy district attorney that had “received the county bar association’s highest rating and who was supported by local police unions and sitting judges.”
Damn, what the hell is this world coming too!
Oh…and one last thing, I have a video/dvr alert for you all:
DIRECTED BY PRESTON STURGES – 6/30 on TCM
The reason this is so exciting, is that they are having The Great McGinty at 11 pm EST, don’t miss it!
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