Friday, May 28 top stories
It is Friday, May 28. Here are today’s top stories.
The majority of Senate Republicans used a filibuster to block a proposal to create a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Axios said Republicans fear the commission could be used as a weapon to damage them politically ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
Democrats criticized Republicans for seeming to minimize the deadly attack against Congress and accused them of covering up Donald Trump’s Big Lie.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) said the Department of Justice is already deep into a massive criminal investigation.
About two weeks ago in Montana a tribal councilwoman named Silver Little Eagle was attacked at a hotel in Billings. There is controversy because the Billings Police Department hasn’t made any charges or arrests.
Little Eagle is on the Northern Cheyenne Nation tribal council. Her family said she was left for dead in the attack and that it was a “painful reminder that Montana has the highest number of cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in the country.”
Police said Little Eagle was with a 31-year-old man at the hotel and that he was assaulted as well.
Police said they have identified two women, ages 25 and 27, as persons of interest, explaining that one of them had a partner family member associated with the 31-year-old man.
Little Eagle’s car was also stolen and later found by police.
Fox News reported that the gunman who killed nine people at a San Jose rail yard was to attend a workplace disciplinary hearing over racist remarks he made about co-workers on the day of the shooting on Wednesday. That may mean the gunman chose to shoot and kill his co-workers rather than deal with the meeting.
However, the gunman, Samuel Cassidy, appeared to have a deeper history with violent ideas. Fox News said five years ago, he was detained by U.S. customs authorities for carrying books about terrorism and notes about how much he hated his workplace, the VTA.
I mentioned yesterday that five out of the nine victims were people of color and that witnesses said he targeted certain people that he wanted to kill while letting others go.
There was a vigil for the nine victims last night at the San Jose City Hall. Family members gave emotional speeches. Here is a clip from ABC 7 News.
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In this year alone, there have been at least 14 incidents of mass shootings where at least four people were murdered. Look at this map from the New York Times.
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It feels like there are more mass shootings this year because we’re coming back from the coronavirus pandemic, but the New York Times said researchers found that the shootings never stopped, they were just not as public.
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A Maine man named Tony Bennett was arrested because he wouldn’t stop cleaning up trash at the back property of a Walmart store adjacent to a river. Bennett explained to local news that he was angry about seeing trash like face masks or empty Walmart bags spread out on a riverbank and getting into the water, tried to call managers with no results, and decided to go to the property himself to clean it up. Walmart employees called the police, and an officer showed up to get Bennett to leave. There were no arrests or charges. Bennett said he loves Maine and its water and he refused to let corporate Walmart s*** all over Oxford County. He recommended Walmart to build a 10-foot-high fence between its property and the river.
In Barcelona, Spain, a 39-year-old man was found dead and upside down inside of a large statue of a stegosaurus. Police said the man likely dropped his phone inside of the statue and tried to get inside to retrieve it, but fell inside and became trapped upside down. The man’s family reported him missing and nobody knew where he was until a father and son noticed an odor coming from the statue and saw the man’s decomposing body through a crack in the statue’s leg.
Firefighters cut open the statue’s leg and recovered the body, which was inside for about two days. The dinosaur statue has been removed.
That is all the top stories for this week. Have a good weekend and stay with the light.
Silver Little Eagle:https://abcnews.go.com/US/native-councilwoman-montana-assaulted-left-dead-family/story?id=77939059
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10165710323995604&set=a.10150798014405604
https://nypost.com/2021/05/26/montana-tribal-councilwoman-badly-beaten-inside-hotel-room/
Vigil: https://abc7news.com/vta-shooting-san-jose-rail-yard-victims-victim-names/10706139/
Dinosaur: https://www.fox13news.com/news/body-of-missing-man-found-inside-dinosaur-statue