sounded like gunshots. bennett said he, like everyone else, tried to run for cover. he was targeted by police. tmz obtained video of bennett being detained. in a letter on twitter, he said police pointed their guns at me and singled my out for doing nothing more than simply being a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time. police describe a different version of events. they say that bennett s actions appeared suspicious, and when more security video emerges, the officers will be exonerated. bennett was detained for ten minutes before being released. yesterday he spoke about the terrifying experience. i m just lucky to be here to be able to speak about it. at any moment i could have made the wrong decision, felt resistant or made the wrong decision, the seahawks walk wearing a patch with the number 72 on it. try to tell my daughters every day that they matter.
disgraceful before it was made? obviously gop leadership was unhappy with the way things unfolded yesterday. this was not something they wanted to do. conservatives were balking at the idea of tying harvey relief funding to the debt ceiling before there was even talk of shortening the timeline of the debt limit extension to three months. that s not something anyone in the gop wanted to do. the message to the gop from trump seems to be that he doesn t need congressional republicans for everything. he has expressed frustration in the past with the way members of leadership particularly mitch mcconnell, have dictate the pace and the terms of his agenda and produced very little in terms of results. so i think that is fuelling in part his decision to side with his friends, chuck and nancy, in this instance because they re promising to get something done. the three-month timeline guarantees this will pass with