Monday, May 22, 2017 6:51:40 AM
Protesting Notre Dame students walk out of Pence’s commencement speech
May 21, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/05/21/protesting-notre-dame-students-walk-out-of-mike-pences-commencement-speech/ [with embedded videos, and comments]
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Authorities investigating whether U.-Md. stabbing death was a hate crime
Bowie State student Richard Collins who was stabbed to death at UMd. Family photo.
May 21, 2017
The FBI is assisting in the murder investigation of a Bowie State University student to determine whether his stabbing death was a hate crime, authorities said Sunday.
A 22-year-old University of Maryland student has been charged in Saturday’s deadly knife attack that left Richard W. Collins III, 23, dead.
Sean Christopher Urbanski, of Severna Park, Md., was charged with first- and second-degree murder and first-degree assault in what police called a “totally unprovoked” attack.
He is being held without bond.
Urbanski is white and Collins is African American. Authorities said the hate crime investigation stems from Urbanski’s involvement in an online Facebook group that posts racist and other inflammatory material. The FBI is providing “technical support” to help determine if this was a hate crime, FBI special agent Gordon Johnson said at a news conference Sunday night.
Collins had been visiting the College Park campus when the incident occurred, and authorities said surveillance cameras captured the attack. Police said Collins was with two friends, waiting for an Uber along Regents Drive near Montgomery Hall about 3 a.m.
U-Md. Police Chief David B. Mitchell said Collins and his friends watched as Urbanski approached the group. Urbanski said “step left, step left if you know what’s best for you.” Collins said “no.” Urbanski attacked.
Collins was stabbed in the chest. He died at a hospital.
[...]
U-Md., along with other schools in Washington region, has been the scene of other racially charged incidents in recent months, including at least three cases in which white supremacist fliers were found on the College Park campus. “It is your civic duty to report any and all illegal aliens,” one flier said. “They are criminals. America is a white nation.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/university-of-maryland-student-charged-in-deadly-stabbing-on-campus/2017/05/21/053b5f68-3e30-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html [with comments]
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[Black Female] Georgetown professor confronts white nationalist Richard Spencer at the gym — which terminates his membership
Richard Spencer.
May 21, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/georgetown-professor-confronts-white-nationalist-richard-spencer-at-the-gym--which-terminates-his-membership/2017/05/21/d3ff6512-3e51-11e7-8c25-44d09ff5a4a8_story.html [with comments]
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A millionaire, a hotel maid and an arrest after the inauguration for sex abuse
John Joseph Boswell, the chief executive of a barrel manufacturing company, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor sexual abuse for groping a maid at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington.
May 21, 2017
He was a millionaire, in Washington to toast President Trump’s inauguration.
She was a maid, tasked with cleaning rooms that cost more in a few days than her monthly rent.
On Jan. 19, as the nation’s capital swelled with tourists and protesters, the millionaire and the maid met on the 10th floor of the Mayflower Hotel downtown, in Room 1065.
As she made his bed, he approached from behind and began rubbing her buttocks, according to a police report.
“This is very nice stuff,” he said, according to the report. “I like that!”
]...]
Perhaps the only thing unusual about what happened in Room 1065 was that the man was arrested.
John Joseph Boswell pleaded guilty last month to misdemeanor sexual abuse in D.C. Superior Court. He was sentenced to 10 days incarceration and six months probation, although the jail time was suspended.
The maid declined to comment. The Washington Post generally does not name victims of sexual assault.
In an interview with The Post, Boswell maintained his innocence.
“I patted her on the lower back,” said Boswell, 70, who is married and has three young children. “It was just a friendly gesture.”
The prosecutor in the case saw things differently.
“He took advantage of [her] while she was working, vulnerable, and alone,” Vivian Kim, an assistant U.S. attorney, wrote in an email to Boswell’s attorney.
Two different Americas collided at the Mayflower that afternoon.
The woman is an African immigrant who cleans strangers’ rooms for $20 an hour.
Boswell is the chief executive of Independent Stave Company, the world’s largest wine-and-whiskey barrel manufacturer. He lives in a 14,000-square-foot, $7 million mansion in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., 20 miles from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/at-mar-a-lago-the-star-power-of-the-presidency-helps-charities--and-trump--make-more-money/2017/05/13/e6bf6782-34ca-11e7-b412-62beef8121f7_story.html ] estate.
Boswell — who has contributed more than $120,000 to Republican candidates and conservative groups over the past 25 years — wasn’t always a Trump backer. In the 2016 presidential election, he supported Ben Carson and Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.). But by the time of Trump’s inauguration, Boswell had embraced the new president and booked a room at the Mayflower.
On the morning of Jan. 19 — the day before the inauguration — the maid commuted from her modest apartment in Riverdale, Md., to the historic hotel, with its gilded ballrooms and crystal chandeliers.
It was about 2 p.m. when she entered Boswell’s room, and he began touching her.
She froze and, in shock, apologized to him, according to the police report. “Sorry sir,” she said. “Sorry sir!”
When another maid emerged from the bathroom, Boswell “immediately moved,” the report said. The first maid rushed out of the room, shaking, and told her co-worker that she would have to clean it by herself.
As the second maid attempted to make the bed, Boswell approached her, too, and “placed his hand on the top of her shoulder” until she ordered him to sit down, according to the police report.
Neither woman reported the incident. But the next day, when a co-worker told a manager what had happened, police were called.
At 6:20 p.m. — as the parade for the newly sworn-in president was winding down and supporters and protesters were still clashing in the District’s streets — police knocked on Boswell’s hotel room door. When he stepped out, the maid identified him to officers, and he was arrested.
He was jailed alongside more than 200 protesters [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/protesters-bring-shouts-skirmishes-and-shutdowns-to-inauguration-celebration/2017/01/20/00ea4c72-df11-11e6-acdf-14da832ae861_story.html ], including black-clad anarchists [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/protesters-who-destroyed-property-on-inauguration-day-part-of-well-organized-group/2017/01/21/096678c8-dfeb-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html ] accused of smashing Starbucks windows and torching a limousine.
When he was released the following afternoon, Boswell emerged from the D.C. Superior courthouse — less than a mile from where Trump had been sworn in — wearing a green flannel shirt, jeans and glasses.
At first, the crowd cheered, mistaking him for a protester. Then someone who had been in court when Boswell was charged shouted that he was a “sex offender.” Protesters began throwing things at him. An orange slice struck Boswell in the head.
“Well, that wasn’t very nice,” he told a Post reporter, wiping the fruit from his forehead before walking back toward his hotel.
Boswell’s attorney, Bernard Grimm, pushed prosecutors to grant his client a deferred sentencing agreement, or DSA, under which Boswell would have admitted guilt but then, after a short period of good behavior, could have withdrawn his guilty plea
Kim refused, pointing out that Boswell “could have potentially faced an additional charge based on similar conduct with another hotel employee the same day.”
On April 11, Boswell pleaded guilty. Court documents show that Boswell earns $600,000 a month, but Judge Michael Ryan ordered him to pay $50 into the crime victims compensation fund — one-fifth of the maximum penalty for the offense.
The judge and the prosecutor also agreed that Boswell could travel overseas while on probation. Last month, he was allowed to fly to the Bahamas. At the end of this month, he is scheduled to spend two weeks in the Dominican Republic for a family reunion.
Meanwhile his victim was so frightened by a visit from Boswell’s defense team to her apartment that she moved, said a co-worker, who spoke to The Post on the condition of anonymity.
Although the two women still work together at the Mayflower, they don’t talk about what happened in Room 1065.
“Whenever she would talk about it,” her co-worker said, “she would cry.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-millionaire-a-hotel-maid-and-an-arrest-after-inauguration/2017/05/21/ceb3410e-397a-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html [with comments]
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Trump to propose big cuts to safety-net in new budget, slashing Medicaid and opening door to other limits
May 21, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-to-propose-big-cuts-to-safety-net-in-new-budget-this-week/2017/05/21/62c01f44-3e34-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html [with embedded video, and (approaching 5,000) comments]
Huge cuts to food stamps part of Trump’s budget proposal
May 21, 2017
https://www.apnews.com/1045fc89ff994896be212cc1d07cb5d2/Huge-cuts-to-food-stamps-part-of-Trump's-budget-proposal
Trump’s first budget: Why attention must be paid to it
By Jared Bernstein
May 22, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/22/trumps-first-budget-why-attention-must-be-paid-to-it/ [with comments]
The GOP’s biggest budget lies: Take these down, and progressives will start to win
Debt isn't a big problem and it's not caused by social spending — and Republicans aren't better economic managers
May 21, 2017
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/21/the-gops-biggest-budget-lies-take-these-down-and-progressives-will-start-to-win/ [with comments]
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May 21, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/05/21/protesting-notre-dame-students-walk-out-of-mike-pences-commencement-speech/ [with embedded videos, and comments]
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Authorities investigating whether U.-Md. stabbing death was a hate crime
Bowie State student Richard Collins who was stabbed to death at UMd. Family photo.
May 21, 2017
The FBI is assisting in the murder investigation of a Bowie State University student to determine whether his stabbing death was a hate crime, authorities said Sunday.
A 22-year-old University of Maryland student has been charged in Saturday’s deadly knife attack that left Richard W. Collins III, 23, dead.
Sean Christopher Urbanski, of Severna Park, Md., was charged with first- and second-degree murder and first-degree assault in what police called a “totally unprovoked” attack.
He is being held without bond.
Urbanski is white and Collins is African American. Authorities said the hate crime investigation stems from Urbanski’s involvement in an online Facebook group that posts racist and other inflammatory material. The FBI is providing “technical support” to help determine if this was a hate crime, FBI special agent Gordon Johnson said at a news conference Sunday night.
Collins had been visiting the College Park campus when the incident occurred, and authorities said surveillance cameras captured the attack. Police said Collins was with two friends, waiting for an Uber along Regents Drive near Montgomery Hall about 3 a.m.
U-Md. Police Chief David B. Mitchell said Collins and his friends watched as Urbanski approached the group. Urbanski said “step left, step left if you know what’s best for you.” Collins said “no.” Urbanski attacked.
Collins was stabbed in the chest. He died at a hospital.
[...]
U-Md., along with other schools in Washington region, has been the scene of other racially charged incidents in recent months, including at least three cases in which white supremacist fliers were found on the College Park campus. “It is your civic duty to report any and all illegal aliens,” one flier said. “They are criminals. America is a white nation.”
[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/university-of-maryland-student-charged-in-deadly-stabbing-on-campus/2017/05/21/053b5f68-3e30-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html [with comments]
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[Black Female] Georgetown professor confronts white nationalist Richard Spencer at the gym — which terminates his membership
Richard Spencer.
May 21, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/georgetown-professor-confronts-white-nationalist-richard-spencer-at-the-gym--which-terminates-his-membership/2017/05/21/d3ff6512-3e51-11e7-8c25-44d09ff5a4a8_story.html [with comments]
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A millionaire, a hotel maid and an arrest after the inauguration for sex abuse
John Joseph Boswell, the chief executive of a barrel manufacturing company, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor sexual abuse for groping a maid at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington.
May 21, 2017
He was a millionaire, in Washington to toast President Trump’s inauguration.
She was a maid, tasked with cleaning rooms that cost more in a few days than her monthly rent.
On Jan. 19, as the nation’s capital swelled with tourists and protesters, the millionaire and the maid met on the 10th floor of the Mayflower Hotel downtown, in Room 1065.
As she made his bed, he approached from behind and began rubbing her buttocks, according to a police report.
“This is very nice stuff,” he said, according to the report. “I like that!”
]...]
Perhaps the only thing unusual about what happened in Room 1065 was that the man was arrested.
John Joseph Boswell pleaded guilty last month to misdemeanor sexual abuse in D.C. Superior Court. He was sentenced to 10 days incarceration and six months probation, although the jail time was suspended.
The maid declined to comment. The Washington Post generally does not name victims of sexual assault.
In an interview with The Post, Boswell maintained his innocence.
“I patted her on the lower back,” said Boswell, 70, who is married and has three young children. “It was just a friendly gesture.”
The prosecutor in the case saw things differently.
“He took advantage of [her] while she was working, vulnerable, and alone,” Vivian Kim, an assistant U.S. attorney, wrote in an email to Boswell’s attorney.
Two different Americas collided at the Mayflower that afternoon.
The woman is an African immigrant who cleans strangers’ rooms for $20 an hour.
Boswell is the chief executive of Independent Stave Company, the world’s largest wine-and-whiskey barrel manufacturer. He lives in a 14,000-square-foot, $7 million mansion in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., 20 miles from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/at-mar-a-lago-the-star-power-of-the-presidency-helps-charities--and-trump--make-more-money/2017/05/13/e6bf6782-34ca-11e7-b412-62beef8121f7_story.html ] estate.
Boswell — who has contributed more than $120,000 to Republican candidates and conservative groups over the past 25 years — wasn’t always a Trump backer. In the 2016 presidential election, he supported Ben Carson and Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.). But by the time of Trump’s inauguration, Boswell had embraced the new president and booked a room at the Mayflower.
On the morning of Jan. 19 — the day before the inauguration — the maid commuted from her modest apartment in Riverdale, Md., to the historic hotel, with its gilded ballrooms and crystal chandeliers.
It was about 2 p.m. when she entered Boswell’s room, and he began touching her.
She froze and, in shock, apologized to him, according to the police report. “Sorry sir,” she said. “Sorry sir!”
When another maid emerged from the bathroom, Boswell “immediately moved,” the report said. The first maid rushed out of the room, shaking, and told her co-worker that she would have to clean it by herself.
As the second maid attempted to make the bed, Boswell approached her, too, and “placed his hand on the top of her shoulder” until she ordered him to sit down, according to the police report.
Neither woman reported the incident. But the next day, when a co-worker told a manager what had happened, police were called.
At 6:20 p.m. — as the parade for the newly sworn-in president was winding down and supporters and protesters were still clashing in the District’s streets — police knocked on Boswell’s hotel room door. When he stepped out, the maid identified him to officers, and he was arrested.
He was jailed alongside more than 200 protesters [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/protesters-bring-shouts-skirmishes-and-shutdowns-to-inauguration-celebration/2017/01/20/00ea4c72-df11-11e6-acdf-14da832ae861_story.html ], including black-clad anarchists [ https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/protesters-who-destroyed-property-on-inauguration-day-part-of-well-organized-group/2017/01/21/096678c8-dfeb-11e6-ad42-f3375f271c9c_story.html ] accused of smashing Starbucks windows and torching a limousine.
When he was released the following afternoon, Boswell emerged from the D.C. Superior courthouse — less than a mile from where Trump had been sworn in — wearing a green flannel shirt, jeans and glasses.
At first, the crowd cheered, mistaking him for a protester. Then someone who had been in court when Boswell was charged shouted that he was a “sex offender.” Protesters began throwing things at him. An orange slice struck Boswell in the head.
“Well, that wasn’t very nice,” he told a Post reporter, wiping the fruit from his forehead before walking back toward his hotel.
Boswell’s attorney, Bernard Grimm, pushed prosecutors to grant his client a deferred sentencing agreement, or DSA, under which Boswell would have admitted guilt but then, after a short period of good behavior, could have withdrawn his guilty plea
Kim refused, pointing out that Boswell “could have potentially faced an additional charge based on similar conduct with another hotel employee the same day.”
On April 11, Boswell pleaded guilty. Court documents show that Boswell earns $600,000 a month, but Judge Michael Ryan ordered him to pay $50 into the crime victims compensation fund — one-fifth of the maximum penalty for the offense.
The judge and the prosecutor also agreed that Boswell could travel overseas while on probation. Last month, he was allowed to fly to the Bahamas. At the end of this month, he is scheduled to spend two weeks in the Dominican Republic for a family reunion.
Meanwhile his victim was so frightened by a visit from Boswell’s defense team to her apartment that she moved, said a co-worker, who spoke to The Post on the condition of anonymity.
Although the two women still work together at the Mayflower, they don’t talk about what happened in Room 1065.
“Whenever she would talk about it,” her co-worker said, “she would cry.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-millionaire-a-hotel-maid-and-an-arrest-after-inauguration/2017/05/21/ceb3410e-397a-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html [with comments]
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Trump to propose big cuts to safety-net in new budget, slashing Medicaid and opening door to other limits
May 21, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-to-propose-big-cuts-to-safety-net-in-new-budget-this-week/2017/05/21/62c01f44-3e34-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html [with embedded video, and (approaching 5,000) comments]
Huge cuts to food stamps part of Trump’s budget proposal
May 21, 2017
https://www.apnews.com/1045fc89ff994896be212cc1d07cb5d2/Huge-cuts-to-food-stamps-part-of-Trump's-budget-proposal
Trump’s first budget: Why attention must be paid to it
By Jared Bernstein
May 22, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/22/trumps-first-budget-why-attention-must-be-paid-to-it/ [with comments]
The GOP’s biggest budget lies: Take these down, and progressives will start to win
Debt isn't a big problem and it's not caused by social spending — and Republicans aren't better economic managers
May 21, 2017
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/21/the-gops-biggest-budget-lies-take-these-down-and-progressives-will-start-to-win/ [with comments]
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Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
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upon the Right of Election, 1790
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