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. [...] 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 [...] 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. [...] 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]
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
It is 'very unlikely' that these terrorist acts, perpetrated by a tragic and confused young man, will prompt a bigoted Trump tweet mention.
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The 88 reasons Trump is unfit to serve as President, according to an official Democrats resolution [...] 47. Whereas, on January 27, 2017, President Trump issued an executive order that banned nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States for at least 90 days, banned admission of all refugees for four months, indefinitely blocked refugees from Syria, and contained language prioritizing the admission of nonMuslims from majority Muslim nations;
48. Whereas, on January 31, 2017, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said, ‘‘This is not a travel ban . . . This is not – I repeat, not – a ban on Muslims. . .’’;
49. Whereas, on January 31, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said, ‘‘First of all, it’s not a travel ban.’’;
50. Whereas, on February 3, 2017, U.S. District Court Judge James Robart in the state of Washington blocked implementation of the travel ban nationwide;
51. Whereas, on February 9, 2017, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled against reinstating the travel ban;
52. Whereas, on March 6, 2017, President Trump issued a revised executive order that removed Iraq from the list of nations from which immigration would be temporarily banned, and no longer contained language indefinitely banning Syrian refugees or calling for prioritized admission for non-Muslims fleeing majority Muslim nations;
53. Whereas, on March 15, 2017, U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson in the state of Hawaii blocked implementation of President Trump’s revised executive order, noting that when Mr. Trump was asked during the presidential campaign if he was pulling back from a ‘‘Muslim ban,’’ Mr. Trump said, ‘‘I don’t think it’s a rollback. In fact, you could say it’s an expansion. I‘m looking now at territories. People were so upset when I used the word Muslim. Oh, you can’t use the word Muslim. Remember this. And I’m okay with that, because I’m talking about territory instead of Muslim.’’;
54. Whereas Judge Watson also noted that Senior White House Advisor Stephen Miller had told Fox News that the revised executive order would have the ‘‘same basic policy outcome for the country,’’ and that Rudolph Giuliani had explained the origin of the original executive order by saying, ‘‘When Mr. Trump first announced it, he said ‘Muslim ban.’ He called me up. He said, ‘Put a commission together. Show me the right way to do it legally.’ ’’;
55. Whereas, on May 25, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a preliminary injunction blocking President Trump’s revised executive order, saying it ‘‘drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination.’’;
56. Whereas, on June 5, 2017, President Trump tweeted, ‘‘People, the lawyers and courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN!’’;
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