Barbara Boxer
@BarbaraBoxer
Earlier today former Senator Barbara Boxer was assaulted in the Jack London Square neighborhood of Oakland. The assailant pushed her in the back, stole her cell phone and jumped in a waiting car. She is thankful that she was not seriously injured.”
3:18 PM · Jul 26, 2021
https://www.audacy.com/kcbsradio/news/local/former-sen-barbara-boxer-assaulted-in-oakland
Vatican prosecutors have alleged a jaw-dropping series of scandals in the biggest criminal trial in the Vatican’s modern history, which opens Tuesday in a modified courtroom in the Vatican Museums. The once-powerful cardinal and nine other people are accused of bleeding the Holy See of tens of millions of dollars in donations through bad investments, deals with shady money managers and apparent favors to friends and family. They face prison sentences, fines or both if convicted.
The trial, which will likely be postponed for several months after the first hearings Tuesday and Wednesday, is the culmination of a two-year investigation into the Holy See’s flawed 350 million-euro London real estate venture. That operation exposed the Vatican’s once-secret financial dealings and its structural dysfunction, which allowed just a few people to do so much damage to the Vatican’s finances and reputation, with little expertise or oversight.
It’s the Criminals, Stupid...
Chicago Top Cop Blames Lenient Courts for Crime Wave After 70 People Shot Over Weekend
(snip)Chicago Police Department Superintendent David Brown said during a recent press conference that while the police department has continued to show courage in battling the city’s crime wave, “violent offenders need more serious consequences in our courts.”
Brown continued, “What we can do different is challenge the courts to render Chicago safe....Holding offenders in jail longer, not releasing murderers back into our community. That’s what we can do different.”
Brown also called on members of the media to question courts in the city the same way they question the Chicago Police Department.
“You should be adversarial to the courts. Use the same energy you just asked me that question to ask the courts,” Brown said. “Why are you releasing violent people, dangerous people that Chicago police officers arrest and charge, back into these communities to create this environment of lawlessness, that we’re seeing here.”
Sounds like any large city this past year...
(hmmm, now what would they all have in common?)