A bright light for a new Georgia : Gov. Kemp signs citizen s arrest statute repeal into law Beau Evans
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Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation Monday overhauling Georgia’s citizen’s arrest law to greatly limit who can detain criminal suspects beyond on-duty police officers.
Enactment of the bill sponsored by former state Rep. Bert Reeves, R-Marietta, and co-sponsored by Savannah-area Rep. Carl Gilliard, D-Garden City, marks the most high-profile bill on criminal justice to clear the 2021 legislative session following last summer’s nationwide protests against police brutality and racial injustice.
It came in response to the killing last year of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man gunned down while jogging near Brunswick during an altercation with three white men who said they believed he had burglarized a home under construction. Father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, and William “Roddie” Bryan claimed they were making a c
Pfau is already planning to sue two religious orders the Franciscan Friars and the Christian Brothers for alleged sex abuse cases in Albany and the Buffalo areas.
In one of those cases, Fr. Luke Rutter, a Franciscan priest who worked at St. Francis High School in Athol Springs, New York, is accused of molesting Scott Heldwein a student in the 1980s who lived in the school’s freshman and sophomore dormitories.
“He would take me to dinners at nice restaurants and all that,” Heldwein said. “The abuse always happened when – I don’t know if he slipped something in my drink or whatever – but it always happened when alcohol and marijuana was involved.”
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Statewide Amber Alert in Kansas canceled after toddler in stolen vehicle found safe in Finney County
Sebastian Bautista was in the back of his mother s car when it was stolen from their driveway Share Updated: 8:37 AM CDT May 5, 2021 KMBC 9 News Staff
Statewide Amber Alert in Kansas canceled after toddler in stolen vehicle found safe in Finney County
Sebastian Bautista was in the back of his mother s car when it was stolen from their driveway Share Updated: 8:37 AM CDT May 5, 2021
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Show Transcript BREAKING NEWS. WE HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS MORNING. WE KNOW THAT POLICE HAVE FOUND ONE YEAR OLD SEBASTIAN BAUTISTA. WE WAS FOUND SAFE IN FINNEY COUNTY KANSAS IN THE WHITE CHEVY TAHOE HIS MOM SAYS THAT WAS STOLEN IT T