La. Cop Killed by Probationer: A Louisiana detective was fatally shot during a pedestrian stop on Wednesday in what the Jefferson Parish Sheriff called "a cold-blooded murder." Phil Helsel of NBC News reports that Detective David F. Michel, Jr. was shot once in the back and two additional times at point-blank range as he fell by Jerman Neveaux, 19, who is currently in custody. Neveaux confessed to killing the officer because he was on probation and did not want to go back to jail for possessing a firearm. Michel had been with the sheriff's office since 2007.
AR High Court Upholds Lethal Injection Secrecy Law: In a 4-3 decision Thursday, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that the state can continue to administer lethal injections to death row inmates without supplying them with information about the manufacturer, seller or any other information about the drugs, reversing a lower court ruling. Claudia Lauer of the AP reports that the ruling stems from a challenge to the state's secrecy law by a group of inmates, who argued that it is unconstitutional to have such laws because the lack of disclosure of the information deprives inmates' assurance that the punishment would not be cruel and unusual. Arkansas currently has eight pending executions, though it has not been made clear when the state will be able to resume executions. It has been over a decade since the state carried out an execution.
SCOTUS Deadlocks on Obama's Deportation Amnesty: The U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked in 4-4 vote Thursday on President Obama's deportation amnesty, leaving in place a lower court's ruling that blocked the White House from shielding millions of illegal immigrants from deportation. Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times reports that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Obama's program broke immigration law, and many agreed that the president attempted to subvert the Constitution. Obama's program, announced in 2014, would have applied to as many as five million illegal immigrants who either came to the U.S. as children or who have children that are citizens or legal residents, granting them three-year stays of deportation, work permits, Social Security numbers and other taxpayer benefits.
AR High Court Upholds Lethal Injection Secrecy Law: In a 4-3 decision Thursday, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that the state can continue to administer lethal injections to death row inmates without supplying them with information about the manufacturer, seller or any other information about the drugs, reversing a lower court ruling. Claudia Lauer of the AP reports that the ruling stems from a challenge to the state's secrecy law by a group of inmates, who argued that it is unconstitutional to have such laws because the lack of disclosure of the information deprives inmates' assurance that the punishment would not be cruel and unusual. Arkansas currently has eight pending executions, though it has not been made clear when the state will be able to resume executions. It has been over a decade since the state carried out an execution.
SCOTUS Deadlocks on Obama's Deportation Amnesty: The U.S. Supreme Court deadlocked in 4-4 vote Thursday on President Obama's deportation amnesty, leaving in place a lower court's ruling that blocked the White House from shielding millions of illegal immigrants from deportation. Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times reports that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Obama's program broke immigration law, and many agreed that the president attempted to subvert the Constitution. Obama's program, announced in 2014, would have applied to as many as five million illegal immigrants who either came to the U.S. as children or who have children that are citizens or legal residents, granting them three-year stays of deportation, work permits, Social Security numbers and other taxpayer benefits.
La. Cop Killed by Probationer: :
This is the reasoning of a selfish, cultivator of scum:
"I know my child didn't do this," Yvette Neveaux, 52 said of the moment deputies came to her house. "But I knew I had to hold it in because they're not going to feel sympathy for me …”
Authorities said Jerman Neveaux, 19, shot the deputy three times during a pedestrian stop. Michel was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Sheriff Newell Normand said that (deputy David Michel Jr.) attempted to search Neveaux … But Neveaux "immediately flipped around" and fired a shot into
the clavicle area, [then] "As (Michel) was going down, Neveaux was going
down with the gun and fired two [more] shots in his back,".
'More of a follower'
Jerman Neveaux returned to his native New Orleans … His mother, frustrated with his disobedience, hoped the move would help rid him of friends she thought were
a bad influence, Neveaux said.
In New Orleans, however, Jerman Neveaux's behavior continued. He was arrested Feb. 9 for possessing a stolen firearm .. and pleaded guilty last week to a misdemeanor charge of possessing stolen things ..
"We tried telling him, the road he was going down, following these guys he was
with, was not the right path for him," she said. Neveaux said her grandson was unemployed, but she was talking to neighbors and friends about trying to
find him a job …
'The wrong person'
The Sheriff's Office also relied on testimony of five independent witnesses, Sheriff Normand said.
"They grabbed the wrong person," Yvette Neveaux said of the accusations against her grandson. "When something like this goes on, everybody wants to say this is
the person. Jerman is not that boy."
-JPSO Deputy David Michel's wife called him after shooting, he never answered. …
-His wife was at lunch at the Chick-fil-A restaurant on Manhattan Boulevard,
-about 1-1/2 miles from where Michel was shot. When she saw the JPSO
-units barrelling down the street, she tried to reach him, spokesman Col.
-John Fortunato said, in vain.
~Adamakis