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Two Transylvania University Students Assaulted by Man Wielding Machete

Police evacuate students near Glenn Building on the Transylvania University campus where a female student was attacked in a cafe nearby.
Apr 28 2017
A former student at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, struck two female victims with a machete in the campus coffee shop on Friday morning after asking them about their political affiliations, campus officials confirmed.
One female victim was transported to the University of Kentucky Healthcare Hospital and is currently in stable condition and recovering. The other was treated and released at the scene. Both victims suffered non-life threatening injuries.
The alleged assailant, 19-year-old Mitchell W. Adkins, was charged with first degree assault, three counts of first degree wanton endangerment and fourth degree assault, Sgt. Jervis Middleton, the public information officer for Lexington Police told NBC News in a statement.
"Transylvania campus police quickly arrived on the scene and were able to take Adkins into custody after a brief struggle," Middleton said. "He was transported to the hospital with self-inflicted injuries."
Middleton said an investigation is still underway to determine what led to the attack.
Adkins, who withdrew from the college in 2015, ran into the coffee shop inside the Glenn Building with a bag filled with various weapons, including a machete and knives, on Friday around 8 a.m. He demanded students answer him about whether they called themselves Republicans or Democrats.
"[He] came in, banged something, a hatchet or an ax, on the table and said 'the day of reckoning has come,'" witness Tristan Reynolds told the Lexington Herald. "He asked somebody what their political affiliation was, they said 'Republican' and the guy said 'you are safe.' And then I realized what was going on and started getting people out."
Reynolds added that people "scattered" about, running to evacuate as public safety officers reached the scene and blocked Adkins from escaping.The coffee shop is a popular gathering place for students.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-transylvania-university-students-assaulted-man-wielding-machete-n752731


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I, a White, Rode the Train With Blacks 1 Day, and It Was Crazy: An Atlanta-Newspaper Reader Writes on Race

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority Police Officer Paris Swinson searches for explosives with his bomb-sniffing dog, Haro, on the North Line on July 7, 2005
4/28/17
http://www.theroot.com/i-a-white-rode-the-train-with-blacks-one-day-and-it-1794724440 [with comments]


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ICE data shows half of immigrants arrested in targeted raids had only traffic convictions or no record

April 28, 2017
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The raids were part of a nationwide immigration roundup dubbed Operation Cross Check, which accounts for a small portion of the 21,362 immigrants the Trump administration took into custody for deportation proceedings from January through mid-March.
The two-month total represents a 32 percent increase in deportation arrests over the same period last year. Most are criminals, administration officials have said. But 5,441 were not criminals, double the number of undocumented immigrants arrested for deportation a year earlier. The administration has released a detailed breakdown of the criminal records only of the raids in early February.
Trump has said that public safety threats are his top priority. Shortly after he was elected, he vowed to first deport serious criminals from the United States.
But critics say immigration agents instead have also targeted students, parents of U.S. citizens who do not have serious criminal records and minor offenders.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/ice-data-shows-half-of-immigrants-arrested-in-raids-had-traffic-convictions-or-no-record/2017/04/28/81ff7284-2c59-11e7-b605-33413c691853_story.html [with embedded video, and comments]


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White House Weighs Kicking Out Sebastian Gorka
The president admires Sebastian Gorka for his fiery TV performances, but his ties to far-right organizations are making him more liability than asset, administration sources say.
04.28.17
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/28/white-house-weighs-kicking-out-sebastian-gorka.html


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In Cairo, Francis Takes On ‘Demagogic’ Populism and Violence Masked as Piety

Pope Francis arrived for a peace conference hosted by Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of Al Azhar mosque, on Friday in Cairo.
UPDATED APRIL 28, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/world/middleeast/pope-francis-egypt.html


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