Serial Butt Slasher on the Loose



California Governor, Jerry Brown, signed a bill Thursday July 14th, making his state the first in the nation to teach lessons about the gay and lesbian community in public social studies classes.
Brown, a Democrat, signed the bill requiring public schools to include the contributions of gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual people in social studies curriculum.
When defending the bill against a conservative uproar, Brown stated, âHistory should be honest. This bill revises existing laws that prohibit discrimination in education and ensures that the important contributions of Americans from all backgrounds and all walks of life are included in our history books.
Republican lawmakers and an assortment of churchesâwho oppose the bill because it subjects to students to teachings that parents find objectionableâlabeled the bill as well-intentioned, but horribly conceived.
Although the two sidesâthose supporting the bill and those vehemently against itâface ideological differences, supporters of the law applauded the social evolutionary nature that the bill will inevitably institute.
The billâs primary author, State Senator Mark Leno, hailed the bill, claiming it as a significant step towards social equality and teaching tolerance. Supporters state that the bill will teach students to be more accepting of others, particularly the gay and lesbian communities.
The law, labeled SB48, will require the California Board of Education and its local school districts, to adopt textbooks and other resources that cover the contribution and roles of sexual minorities as soon as the 2013-2014 school year.

Tyrie Davis, aged 17, was heading home from his Manhattan high-school when he smelt something foul. In response to the odor, Davis said aloud, âit smells like doo-doo.â A fairly routine comment; however, was not taken so lightly by a New York police officer, who thought the remark was directed towards him.
Following the comment, Davis claims that a number of officers exited a nearby unmarked van to scold the student and place him under arrest. Davis was then brought to the local police station where he was summoned for disorderly conduct.
The peculiarity of this story did not stop with the arrest. Following Davisâs release (at 3 a.m.), arresting officer, Joseph Murphy and fellow cop, Jose Ocasio, accosted Davis when the teen exited the police station. Seemingly incensed by the comments, Murray and Ocasio, according to the criminal report filed by teenâs mother, struck Davis repeatedly âwith closed fists and kicks.â
The incident, which took place on February 18th of this year, made headlines this week as both Ocasio and Murphy were charged with third-degree assault, harassment and official misconduct. Currently, the two officers await trial.




Melissa
Chesney, a 46 year old Southern California woman, has been sentenced to prison
for five years. Chesney, known as the Botox Bandit, has been charged and
sentence for committing felonies which included burglary, fraud, and identity
theft.
Officials
from the Orange County district attorneyâs office explained that Chesney received
her nickname of the Botox Bandit because she committed fraud in hopes to
undergo in Botox treatments.
Chesney,
during her sentencing, pleaded guilty to 21 felonies, nine of which were counts
of burglary. In 2009, between February and May, Chesney visited numerous salons
in the Orange County area nearly 20 times. While she visited these salons, Chesney
used faked names and fraudulent checks to pay for Botox treatments, skin
treatments, and a variety of body products
While
in court, Chesney also pleaded guilty to burglarizing stores such as Kohlâs,
and a software store.

Arizona State is taking unusual measures to fix the effect that
they are having due to a nationwide shortage of a lethal injection drug. To
increase their supplies, Arizona is looking towards other countries for the
drug.
This option to do so, not only raises questions about the
thoroughness and effectiveness of the drug, but it also allows for the inmates
to be able to challenge the use of the drug that may or may not be inspected by
the U.S Federal inspectors.
Arizona officials have said that they got their lethal injection
drug, sodium thiopental, from Britain. They have done so to continue the rate
of executions; since spring 2010, the executions have been at a slower rate.
Currently there are 35 states in the United States which
legalized executions by lethal injections. The drug used in the lethal injections,
which is from the U.S, is FDA-approved; there are no other FDA-approved drugs
from overseas currently being manufactured. Many prosecutors have said that since the
delay of executions, the public has lost faith in the criminal justice system.
Soon
after the signing of the new Arizona immigration law, Senate Bill (SB)
1070, in April 2010, protests were reporting breaking out against the
legislation, which puts new enforcement measures in the hands of state
law-enforcement authorities against illegal immigration. According to
reports issued from the Capitol as Governor Jan Brewer was affixing her
signature to the Arizona immigration law, some 1500 demonstrators had
assembled, either in support or opposition, and did not hesitate to make
their views known as the merits of a piece of legislation which has
been both championed and denounced.
The
Arizona immigration law breakout of protests led, in some cases, to
arrests, as with the disorderly conducts charges pressed against nine
people, all college students. They had affixed themselves to the stateâs
old Capitol building to symbolize the oppressive detentions which they
asserted would result from the passage of the Arizona immigration law.
The Arizona immigration law breakout of protests also included public
declarations of opposition from recognized community leaders, from both
within and without Arizona, and from such various areas as activists,
political officeholders, and religious leaders. The Arizona immigration
law breakout of protests was encouraged, for one, when Los Angeles
Cardinal Roger Mahoney compared the then-proposed, now-implemented
legislation to âRussian Communistâ and âGerman Naziâ tactics, raising
the specter of a âpolice stateâ being created by SB 1070, an assertion
hotly disputed by the lawâs supporters in the legislature and throughout
the state. Clarence Dupnik, Sheriff of Pima County, also criticized the
immigration law.
Katrina
law reforms and initiatives have been launched since the 2005 hurricane
devastated much of the Gulf Coast area of the United States, notably
including the city of New Orleans. As such, Katrina law efforts have
been passed into effect in the form of the creation of the Gulf
Opportunity Zone, as well as other tax measures intended to encourage
economic activity in the area. Katrina law measures have thus aimed at
restoring quality of life for areas which, in some cases, have
historically been noted for high degrees of poverty and social
deprivation, even preceding the particularly harmful of Hurricane
Katrina. Supporters of such Katrina law initiatives have raised
concerns, however, in the context of heavy Democratic losses in
Congress, incurred in the November 2010 elections. Democratic
legislators had hoped to pass through extensions for the Katrina law
provisions, but even prior to the partyâs reversals of fortune, had been
preventing from doing so by Republican figures.
Recommendations
for the continued enforcement of Katrina law provisions have also been
launched by Housing Authority of New Orleans head David Gilmore, who
announced that tax credit extensions would be necessary for his agency
to carry out planned projects for residential, low-income construction.
In general, the continued maintenance of Katrina law measures is
believed to have been threatened by an anti-spending mood currently seen
throughout the country, and tied to high budget deficits. The continued
need for Katrina law measures has also been tied to the fall in credit
available during the economic recession.