July 29, 2019
By Benyamin Cohen
As with most things in life, it all started with a Google search. (click here)
Armstrong Williams, a Michigan-based businessman and owner of a local NBC affiliate, was on a trip in Washington, D.C. He had just attended an event at the Israeli embassy and was sifting through the gift bag. Inside, he saw a blue bottle with a Watergen logo on it.
Being from Flint, a city that's been dealing with a contaminated water crisis since 2014, the 57-year-old Williams was intrigued. He started googling "Watergen" as he was leaving the event. What he discovered was that the Israeli-founded company had invented a device that makes clean drinking water out of thin air. This is how the technology works:
Thankfully, Williams looked up from his phone to briefly contemplate what he had just learned. In that moment, on display outside the embassy was an actual Watergen machine.
"I knew exactly what it looked like, because I started doing research on it on my phone," Williams recalled to From The Grapevine. "I walked up and there was this guy with a beard and he invited me to taste the water. What he didn't realize was I'd just been looking for something to support Flint that would be a game changer. It was a spiritual moment."
Williams' discussion with Yehuda Kaploun, the president of Watergen USA, on that fateful day in May is already bearing fruit. Williams, who is also a nationally syndicated TV and radio host, donated $75,000 to have a Watergen machine shipped to Flint for the local community to use. "You've taken people who've had hopelessness that the solution would be resolved and given them hope with a very practical solution," Kaploun said....
Friday, August 02, 2019
Did I hear that right? Trump is calling out the violence in USA cities as opposed to Afghanistan? Really? You mean like when High School young people are slaughtered with military-style weapons, that violence?
You mean the kind of violence caused because assault weapons are unregulated in the USA? That violence? The violence that results from people with ideologies that aren't based in reality? That violence. The kind of violence that is based in White Nationalist/Supremacist ideology? That violence?
I don't think THAT VIOLENCE is owned by the Democrats!
You mean the kind of violence caused because assault weapons are unregulated in the USA? That violence? The violence that results from people with ideologies that aren't based in reality? That violence. The kind of violence that is based in White Nationalist/Supremacist ideology? That violence?
I don't think THAT VIOLENCE is owned by the Democrats!
The Republicans aren't sending their best.
Eric Garner should not have even been approached.
There are all kinds of economies in any city. Selling individual cigarettes because people can't afford to buy a pack themselves should NEVER have been illegal. This is ridiculous. Mr. Garner was a good father and husband. His children were achieving in their schooling to improve their futures. Those values were instilled by their parents. In looking to Mr. Garner's children his values are easily known.
Mr. Garner was not selling drugs or any other highly dangerous substance. Smoking cigarettes is still legal in the USA. "Buddy do you have a light? Do you have an extra cigarette?" That is begging. Mr. Garner provided a little more dignity to the idea of needing a smoke. Mr. Garner did nothing illegal and was a friend to others that came to him for his service.
Enough of this mess. Decriminalize selling single cigarettes in the name of
Mr. Eric Garner. I can't believe police actually waste their time on this. In the case of Mr. Garner, it wasn't even one cop, it was a half dozen of them. None of them pulled the police away from a chokehold, either. That is called complicity.
Decriminalize the ability to sell single cigarettes in an informal setting.
I can't believe this has been an issue for FIVE YEARS!
March 5, 2019
By Michael Schlosser
As a result of the death of Eric Garner in 2014 (click here) during an encounter with police officers, and the scrutiny that ensued, there has been significant controversy over police officers using chokeholds when attempting to detain suspects. After unlawfully selling cigarettes, Garner, an African-American man, died in Staten Island during an attempted arrest by New York City police officers on July 17, 2014. Video footage of the arrest showed the arm of Officer Daniel Pantaleo on Garner's neck prior to the latter's death, which occurred during the scuffle. On December 3 of that same year, a grand jury elected not to indict Pantaleo, and after investigation, the FBI agreed with this decision.
The decision not to indict Pantaleo raised great public outrage and prompted demonstrations across the United States, especially in the African-American community. This put a lot of pressure on legislators to "do something" to remedy what many believed was the murder of an African-American man by a police officer. State and federal legislators began to introduce and enact state and federal laws specific to the use of chokeholds by police officers. Previously, something as specific as a chokehold or neck restraint would be regulated through departmental policy and procedures, and the proper use of these techniques would be supported through rigorous training. However, agencies and officers are now afraid to put an arm around the neck of an active resister or aggressive assailant, and using such a technique is reserved for deadly force situations alone. As a result, it is important to define the term "chokehold" more precisely, in order to comprehend that it is a broad term that refers to a variety of actions. Only then can we define the use, benefits, and dangers of the chokehold.
There is much confusion surrounding what exactly a chokehold entails, in part because of its expansive meaning, and as such I can understand the lack of comprehension to a certain extent.
There are so many terms used to convey the act of grabbing someone around the neck, and multiple methods involved in the performance of this maneuver. Terms from both martial arts and police practice include: rear naked choke, wind choke, air choke, tracheal choke, true choke, push choke, choke hold, vascular neck restraint, lateral vascular neck restraint, blood choke, bilateral carotid compression, strangle hold, and sleeper hold....
Mr. Garner was not selling drugs or any other highly dangerous substance. Smoking cigarettes is still legal in the USA. "Buddy do you have a light? Do you have an extra cigarette?" That is begging. Mr. Garner provided a little more dignity to the idea of needing a smoke. Mr. Garner did nothing illegal and was a friend to others that came to him for his service.
Enough of this mess. Decriminalize selling single cigarettes in the name of
Mr. Eric Garner. I can't believe police actually waste their time on this. In the case of Mr. Garner, it wasn't even one cop, it was a half dozen of them. None of them pulled the police away from a chokehold, either. That is called complicity.
Decriminalize the ability to sell single cigarettes in an informal setting.
I can't believe this has been an issue for FIVE YEARS!
By Michael Schlosser
As a result of the death of Eric Garner in 2014 (click here) during an encounter with police officers, and the scrutiny that ensued, there has been significant controversy over police officers using chokeholds when attempting to detain suspects. After unlawfully selling cigarettes, Garner, an African-American man, died in Staten Island during an attempted arrest by New York City police officers on July 17, 2014. Video footage of the arrest showed the arm of Officer Daniel Pantaleo on Garner's neck prior to the latter's death, which occurred during the scuffle. On December 3 of that same year, a grand jury elected not to indict Pantaleo, and after investigation, the FBI agreed with this decision.
The decision not to indict Pantaleo raised great public outrage and prompted demonstrations across the United States, especially in the African-American community. This put a lot of pressure on legislators to "do something" to remedy what many believed was the murder of an African-American man by a police officer. State and federal legislators began to introduce and enact state and federal laws specific to the use of chokeholds by police officers. Previously, something as specific as a chokehold or neck restraint would be regulated through departmental policy and procedures, and the proper use of these techniques would be supported through rigorous training. However, agencies and officers are now afraid to put an arm around the neck of an active resister or aggressive assailant, and using such a technique is reserved for deadly force situations alone. As a result, it is important to define the term "chokehold" more precisely, in order to comprehend that it is a broad term that refers to a variety of actions. Only then can we define the use, benefits, and dangers of the chokehold.
There is much confusion surrounding what exactly a chokehold entails, in part because of its expansive meaning, and as such I can understand the lack of comprehension to a certain extent.
There are so many terms used to convey the act of grabbing someone around the neck, and multiple methods involved in the performance of this maneuver. Terms from both martial arts and police practice include: rear naked choke, wind choke, air choke, tracheal choke, true choke, push choke, choke hold, vascular neck restraint, lateral vascular neck restraint, blood choke, bilateral carotid compression, strangle hold, and sleeper hold....
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