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Famous Climber Hospitalized & Injured After Fall Off Yosemite's El Capitan
she's lucky to be alive
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I'll bet her boyfriend ain't got NO fronts from as many hockey pucks she done flung at his ass. Muhfucka all cut up and scarred from skate blades and shit.
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Seattle Internal Affairs Cop Charged In Hookers Sting!
A disgraced Seattle Police captain has been charged for soliciting an undercover cop for a $40 sex act during a vice operation, according to explosive court documents obtained exclusively by RadarOnline.com.
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Strippers allegedly used sex toy on Hunter Biden at NYC’s Hustler Club
One of Hunter Biden’s visits to Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club NYC allegedly sent a staffer scrambling to buy a sex toy so strippers could use it on him.
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Bodycam video shows Greenville deputy shot suspect's mother inside Greer home
Daniel J. Gross, The Greenville NewsPublished 8:48 a.m. ET Dec. 4, 2019 | Updated 3:24 p.m. ET Dec. 4, 2019
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- The footage posted on YouTube shows a deputy confronting a shoplifting suspect.
- After the suspect resisted arrest, his mother moved to him to intervene.
- When the suspect charged toward the deputy, she fired her gun.
- A shot struck the suspect's mother, who remained hospitalized more than a month later.
The mother remains hospitalized a month and a half after the Oct. 20 incident, according to the suspect's attorney.
The deputy did not violate department policy, according to the Sheriff's Office.
The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating the case.
The footage posted on YouTube by the Sheriff's Office Wednesday morning shows the deputy confronting the suspect in front of his mother's home at 522 Cliffview Court.
The suspect, 40-year-old Sean Theodore Kaiser, refused to go into custody and retreated back inside, where the deputy followed.
Kaiser was not armed. He said to the female deputy, "don't touch me" and "I'm stronger than you."
After several minutes of negotiating and attempting to put Kaiser in handcuffs, the footage shows, Kaiser grabbed the deputy's arm, shoved her and put his body on top of her until she broke free a moment later.
The deputy then backed up, drew her firearm and shouted at Kaiser's mother, who had moved in to intervene.
The mother, identified by the suspect's attorney as Dianne Maros, stood with Kaiser and asked the deputy to wait for other deputies to arrive. The deputy shouted "no" several times with her handgun still drawn.
"Back away," she shouted at the mother repeatedly. "Do not tell me what to do."
Kaiser then stood up and charged the deputy when the deputy fired one shot, striking Kaiser's mother, who was standing behind him.
The deputy then fired another round that did not strike anyone, and then she and Kaiser tussled until they both fell on the floor.
An arrest warrant lists Ashley Cure as the deputy involved. Cure did not immediately respond to an email and Facebook message seeking comment. Records obtained from the state Criminal Justice Academy show that Cure's first and only law-enforcement job has been with the Sheriff's Office. She was hired by the agency in September 2018 and completed her basic training in February.
The Sheriff's Office has declined to identify the deputy before SLED completes its investigation of the incident. The deputy was placed on leave following the shooting. The internal affairs investigation, which looks for policy violations, concluded last week, and the deputy was cleared of any wrongdoing, said Lt. Ryan Flood.
She is currently on administrative duty and will assume her regular duties soon, Flood said.
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"She's on admin duty, which is a method we started to implement to help prepare the deputy after going through an experience like that to get back on the road," Flood said.
On the scene after the shooting, while sitting on the floor near the deputy, Kaiser said, "Did you (expletive) hurt my mother? You don't hurt my mother."
The mother sat down on an armchair after being wounded.
Seconds later, another deputy came in the front door of the home, kicked Kaiser and placed him into custody.
"Where's the gun? Does he have a gun?" the second deputy asked before the deputy involved in the shooting said the only gun involved was hers.
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Sean Theodore Kaiser (Photo: Provided/Greenville County Detention Center)
Kaiser's mother is still recovering in a hospital after undergoing at least 10 procedures, said Jake Erwin, a Greenville-based attorney representing Kaiser for his criminal charges.
"There’s lots of bad behavior all over this video, but the reason she's hurt, the reason this poor woman is in the hospital, is because of how the officer acted," Erwin said.
The deputy suffered a concussion and was treated at a hospital, said Capt. Tim Brown of the Sheriff's Office's Office of Professional Standards.
Kaiser was later charged with resisting arrest with assault, assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, and shoplifting. He remains in the Greenville County jail without bond.
"He feels helpless in this situation," Erwin said.
A review of Kaiser's criminal history obtained from SLED shows charges from the Oct. 20 incident are his only criminal offenses in South Carolina.
The investigation into the shooting is ongoing.
The Greenville News has submitted public records requests for the internal affairs investigative file, incident reports and Cure's personnel file.
Erwin, after reviewing the video for the first time Wednesday, said the deputy's actions and escalation led to the shooting of an innocent bystander.
"It is clear to me that this officer, whoever she is, is either new or she’s poorly trained or something, because there is no way she should have escalated that situation the way she did," Erwin said. "The moment that he goes back into house, she calls for backup. She knows backup is coming — why is she continuing to escalate the situation?"
Erwin said Kaiser was clearly having a mental-health crisis when the deputy arrived.
"He is fragile," Erwin said. "This is the exact scenario for what this (mental-health) training is for. It’s exactly to prevent what happened here, where a mental-health crisis escalates into an unnecessarily violent incident."
The shooting was the agency's fifth so far this year. The Sheriff's Office has seen more officer-involved shootings than any other agency across South Carolina in recent years. An investigation by The Greenville News found that deputies in Greenville County handled more than 31 shootings in a 10-year span, averaging about five shootings per year.
Each deputy involved in the other shootings so far this year was cleared of wrongdoing by internal reviews and SLED investigations.
Daniel J. Gross is an investigative watchdog reporter focusing on public safety and law enforcement for The Greenville News. Reach him at dgross@greenvillenews.com or on Twitter @danieljgross.
‘Evil’ parents who raped daughter, 2, and plotted to rape their unborn baby are jailed for life
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Gerrad Coddington, 25, and Christina Nelson-Coddington, 29, of Pauls Valley in Oklahoma, were handed whole life terms for sex crimes against children on Monday. They will never be given the chance to apply for parole. They handcuffed, beat and raped their toddler daughter, and shared twisted plans to do the same to their unborn baby in online messages. The pair were sentenced by Judge Leah Edwards for 29 child sex crimes including rape, child abuse, incest and manufacturing child sex abuse images. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter called the Coddingtons’ crimes the worst he has ever seen.
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Gerrad Coddington, 25, and Christina Nelson-Coddington, 29, of Pauls Valley in Oklahoma, were handed whole life terms for sex crimes against children on Monday. They will never be given the chance to apply for parole. They handcuffed, beat and raped their toddler daughter, and shared twisted plans to do the same to their unborn baby in online messages. The pair were sentenced by Judge Leah Edwards for 29 child sex crimes including rape, child abuse, incest and manufacturing child sex abuse images. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter called the Coddingtons’ crimes the worst he has ever seen.
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I utterly hate shit like this! Let's see how it went down!
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A Tennessee Cop Accused of Searching a Black Man's Anus on the Side of the Road Is Now Facing 44 Criminal Charges
He also allegedly forced a woman he arrested to be baptized.
A young Tennessee cop already facing a barrage of disturbing allegations — including forcing a woman he arrested to be baptized and probing a black man’s anus on the side of the road — was just indicted on 44 criminal counts.
Hamilton County Sheriff’s Deputy Daniel Wilkey, 26, was arrested Tuesday on charges including rape, sexual battery, false imprisonment, extortion, stalking, assault, oppression, and reckless driving, according to court documents.
Wilkey has been on paid administrative leave since July, when dash-camera footage revealed he and his partner had beaten a black man on the side of the road before conducting an invasive body cavity search. That incident, which sparked widespread community outrage, was referred to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation for further review, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press. The resulting findings were referred to the local office of the Hamilton County District Attorney General, which brought Tuesday’s indictment.
The indictment doesn’t fully describe the circumstances surrounding each alleged crime, but the allegations, in part, mirror those featured in at least four lawsuits brought this year against Wilkey for alleged misconduct. Some of the charges mentioned in the indictment — reckless driving and stalking, for example — were not previously mentioned in lawsuits.
The lawsuits were brought by Robin Flores, a local civil rights attorney and former police officer who has agreed to represent several of Wilkey’s alleged victims, some of whom are minors alleging they faced invasive body searches from Wilkey. It’s not clear what happens to those civil lawsuits now that Wilkey is facing criminal charges.
“I want to reassure our community, each and every day the men and women of the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office are to perform their duties in a deliberate, honorable, and professional manner. We are charged to protect this community and its citizens and this is a responsibility I take very seriously,” Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Hammond said in a statement Tuesday night. “My staff and I will continue to follow the steps laid out by Civil Service and cooperate with the District Attorney’s Office throughout the course of this investigation.”
The Hamilton County attorney, meanwhile, did not immediately return a VICE News request for comment on the allegations against a county employee, nor did Wilkey’s personal attorney.
Here are some of the allegations Wilkey is facing:
Forced baptism
Wilkey was indicted on charges of extortion and false imprisonment relating to the February arrest of Shandle Riley. She’s currently suing Hamilton County, Wilkey, and his partner, deputy Jacob Goforth, alleging that her civil rights were violated. Riley is mentioned by name in Tuesday’s indictment.
Riley was on her way to visit her child and had just pulled into the driveway when Wilkey initiated a traffic stop, according to the lawsuit filed in October. Wilkey told Riley he pulled her over because he believed she had methamphetamine, ordered her out of the car, and allegedly began conducting an invasive body search. He also asked her to take off her bra and shake her bra and shirt out.
When he asked her whether she had anything illegal in her car, she mentioned she had a “roach” in her pack of cigarettes but that she didn’t have any other drugs.
It’s at that point that Wilkey allegedly called her a “piece of shit,” according to the lawsuit, and asked her whether she had been “saved” by Jesus Christ. Wilkey allegedly told Riley that he felt “the spirit” compelling him to baptize her, and asked that she go retrieve some towels. If she would agree to be baptized, he would let her off with a criminal citation for the marijuana, according to the lawsuit.
Wilkey allegedly asked that Riley get in her car and follow him to a nearby lake, which Riley felt she couldn’t refuse. Then Wilkey allegedly stripped down to his underwear and led Riley into the water so he could baptize her.
“Plaintiff was shivering uncontrollably, and felt horribly violated,” according to the lawsuit. The other deputy, Goforth, was present but did not participate in the baptism, nor intervene.
Roadside body cavity search
Wilkey was charged Tuesday with rape and obstruction for a July 10 incident that’s not described in detail in the indictment. However, the date of that incident and unlawful arrest matches the date in a lawsuit filed by Flores over the alleged roadside beating and body cavity search of the black man, James Mitchell.
Wilkey allegedly pulled over Mitchell for over-tinted windows, and because he smelled of marijuana, according to the lawsuit against Wilkey, Hamilton County, and Deputy Bobby Brewer. Wilkey ordered Mitchell and his girlfriend out of the vehicle. Wilkey allegedly handcuffed Mitchell and began searching him, at which point Mitchell told Wilkey he had an untreated and large hernia and the search was causing him pain.
Wilkey and Brewer then beat Mitchell with “fists, knees, and feet,” according to the lawsuit. Then they removed Mitchell’s pants, bent him over the hood of his car, and “conducted an anal cavity search” without consent on the side of the road. The female passenger, Mitchell’s girlfriend, of the car was forced to watch, according to the lawsuit, and feared she’d be dealt the same punishment, or that Mitchell would be killed. Instead, he was transported to jail on multiple charges — including resisting arrest — made bail, and went to the hospital for tears in his anus, contusions, and the aggravated hernia, which later required surgery. The charges against him were dismissed.
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Kentucky governor Matt Bevin, on his way out of office, pardoned a man convicted of a brutal home invasion murder after the killer's family raised 20,000 dollars for Bevin's campaign. Guess which house is the killer's and which is the victim's?
This is the home of the man who was murdered by Patrick Brian Baker pretending to be a cop. He knocked on the door, saying "Police, open up!" and when the man inside opened the door, the invader brutally attacked the father of the family and executed him with two gunshots to the head while his children and wife were forced to watch. The killer's family raised 20,000 dollars for Bevin's campaign and Bevin let the killer go free with all of his rights (like the right to own a gun) instantly restored
This is the home of the maniac Patrick Brian Baker who impersonated a cop to break into a man's home and brutally execute him in front of his wife and children. His brother and sister in law raised over 20,000 dollars for Bevin's campaign fund and then paid the governor an additional 4,000 dollars to purchase a full pardon for Baker who now has all of his rights instantly restored, like the right to own firearms. Matt Bevin is so upset that he was voted out of office in the democratic process that he is now letting literal psychopaths free. This is just one murderer he pardoned. Others include a man who chopped off a woman's head to have sex with it while shoving her body into a barrel after she broke up with him and not one, not two, but at least three different child rapists, including a stepfather who violently sodomised his six year old stepdaughter multiple times. Please call everyone in Kentucky politics and media you can think of. Governor Bevin needs to be investigated and brought up on charges of bribery and locked away for these heinous heinous acts and then banished from the commonwealth.
This is the home of the man who was murdered by Patrick Brian Baker pretending to be a cop. He knocked on the door, saying "Police, open up!" and when the man inside opened the door, the invader brutally attacked the father of the family and executed him with two gunshots to the head while his children and wife were forced to watch. The killer's family raised 20,000 dollars for Bevin's campaign and Bevin let the killer go free with all of his rights (like the right to own a gun) instantly restored
This is the home of the maniac Patrick Brian Baker who impersonated a cop to break into a man's home and brutally execute him in front of his wife and children. His brother and sister in law raised over 20,000 dollars for Bevin's campaign fund and then paid the governor an additional 4,000 dollars to purchase a full pardon for Baker who now has all of his rights instantly restored, like the right to own firearms. Matt Bevin is so upset that he was voted out of office in the democratic process that he is now letting literal psychopaths free. This is just one murderer he pardoned. Others include a man who chopped off a woman's head to have sex with it while shoving her body into a barrel after she broke up with him and not one, not two, but at least three different child rapists, including a stepfather who violently sodomised his six year old stepdaughter multiple times. Please call everyone in Kentucky politics and media you can think of. Governor Bevin needs to be investigated and brought up on charges of bribery and locked away for these heinous heinous acts and then banished from the commonwealth.
This is Baker's crib and all it took was 20K?Kentucky governor Matt Bevin, on his way out of office, pardoned a man convicted of a brutal home invasion murder after the killer's family raised 20,000 dollars for Bevin's campaign. Guess which house is the killer's and which is the victim's?
This is the home of the man who was murdered by Patrick Brian Baker pretending to be a cop. He knocked on the door, saying "Police, open up!" and when the man inside opened the door, the invader brutally attacked the father of the family and executed him with two gunshots to the head while his children and wife were forced to watch. The killer's family raised 20,000 dollars for Bevin's campaign and Bevin let the killer go free with all of his rights (like the right to own a gun) instantly restored
This is the home of the maniac Patrick Brian Baker who impersonated a cop to break into a man's home and brutally execute him in front of his wife and children. His brother and sister in law raised over 20,000 dollars for Bevin's campaign fund and then paid the governor an additional 4,000 dollars to purchase a full pardon for Baker who now has all of his rights instantly restored, like the right to own firearms. Matt Bevin is so upset that he was voted out of office in the democratic process that he is now letting literal psychopaths free. This is just one murderer he pardoned. Others include a man who chopped off a woman's head to have sex with it while shoving her body into a barrel after she broke up with him and not one, not two, but at least three different child rapists, including a stepfather who violently sodomised his six year old stepdaughter multiple times. Please call everyone in Kentucky politics and media you can think of. Governor Bevin needs to be investigated and brought up on charges of bribery and locked away for these heinous heinous acts and then banished from the commonwealth.
Bevin should have to pay the family 10x that amount and buy the bullets for his own execution.
Outgoing Kentucky governor pardons man convicted of beheading a woman, stuffing her in a barrel
LEXINGTON, Ky. — It’s not clear if Betty Carnes was killed by asphyxiation or by the eight blows to her head that Delmar Partin delivered with a metal pipe. The coroner couldn’t tell which killed the mother of three first, but it was very clear that her head was then chopped off and placed on her lap in a 55-gallon barrel that was destined for a toxic waste site.
On Monday, departing Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin pardoned and commuted the sentence of Partin, who was convicted of killing her at the factory where they both worked in Barbourville in 1994.
In his order, Bevin said he pardoned Partin because potential DNA evidence had not been tested.
“Given the inability or unwillingness of the state to use existing DNA evidence to either affirm or disprove this conviction, I hearby pardon Mr. Partin for this crime and encourage the state to make every effort to bring final justice to the victim and her family,” Bevin wrote.
The prosecutor on the case, Tom Handy, said he hasn’t been this angry in a long time. He called the governor’s pardon “mystifying.”
“I think its arrogance of one who has a God-like image of himself,” Handy said of Bevin. “And a lack of concern for anybody else.”
The pardon was just one of several controversial pardons and commutations Bevin issued in his final days in office. The list includes several in Handy’s old district, including a teacher, Charles Doug Phelps, who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and tampering with a witness. In his pardon, Bevin called the conviction “long on duration, long on accusation, long on drama and short on evidence.”
The police found photos of minors performing sexual acts on Phelps’ phone.
In the Partin case, Handy painted the picture of a grisly murder, one where no blood was found because Partin used a hook meant for hunting alligators to cut off the blood flow to Carnes’ head.
Partin and Carnes worked together at the Tremco Plant in Barbourville and had been having an affair that she had recently ended.
“He hated her so much and he wanted to punish her with her looking at him before he cut her head off,” Handy said. “The evil is unimaginable.”
Handy said Partin’s defense attorney, Bill Johnson, had never even brought up DNA evidence in his many appeals, which went all the way to the Kentucky Supreme Court.
“I don’t think the governor got the record of a two week trial and read it,” Handy said.
In 2008, Partin asked the Knox County Circuit Court to perform a DNA test on a strand of hair found in Partin’s trash can. His request was denied and that denial was upheld by the Kentucky Court of Appeals.
When the Court of Appeals ruled against testing the DNA evidence, Justice Laurence VanMeter acknowledged that “evidence of Partin’s guilt was circumstantial,” but said the “evidence as a whole was sufficient to uphold the jury’s verdict and the trial court’s denial of a directed verdict.”
VanMeter wrote that that Partin wanted the DNA test on hair found in his kitchen trash, but the jury was already aware the hair in the trash may or may not have belonged to the victim.
Johnson said he couldn’t recall exactly what DNA evidence the governor was referring to in the pardon (he learned of the pardon through a Herald-Leader reporter), but said he was pleased Partin was pardoned. Johnson said Partin was a quiet man who was well behaved in prison and adamant that he did not commit the crime.
“I always had serious doubts in my mind that Delmar had killed her,” Johnson said.
For Handy, the news of the pardon was devastating.
“I called the family last night and we all cried together,” he said.
Bevin’s former chief of staff, Blake Brickman, did not respond to a text message asking if either he or Bevin would comment on the hundreds of pardons and commutations Bevin issued in the final days of his administration, which ended Monday night.
Jackie Steele, the current commonwealth’s attorney in Knox and Laurel counties, cited several other pardons in his jurisdiction that made him unhappy.
One of them was Patrick Baker, who was one of three men convicted of a murder in Knox County in 2014. Baker’s sentence was commuted, but the other two men remain in prison. Baker’s brother and sister-in-law held a fundraiser in 2018 for Bevin that raised $21,500, and personally contributed $4,000.
“This is a travesty of our justice system,” Steele said. “When you have law enforcement and prosecutors and families who sludge through this process … . when they do get justice and he turns around and does something like this? It’s a travesty.”
LEXINGTON, Ky. — It’s not clear if Betty Carnes was killed by asphyxiation or by the eight blows to her head that Delmar Partin delivered with a metal pipe. The coroner couldn’t tell which killed the mother of three first, but it was very clear that her head was then chopped off and placed on her lap in a 55-gallon barrel that was destined for a toxic waste site.
On Monday, departing Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin pardoned and commuted the sentence of Partin, who was convicted of killing her at the factory where they both worked in Barbourville in 1994.
In his order, Bevin said he pardoned Partin because potential DNA evidence had not been tested.
“Given the inability or unwillingness of the state to use existing DNA evidence to either affirm or disprove this conviction, I hearby pardon Mr. Partin for this crime and encourage the state to make every effort to bring final justice to the victim and her family,” Bevin wrote.
The prosecutor on the case, Tom Handy, said he hasn’t been this angry in a long time. He called the governor’s pardon “mystifying.”
“I think its arrogance of one who has a God-like image of himself,” Handy said of Bevin. “And a lack of concern for anybody else.”
The pardon was just one of several controversial pardons and commutations Bevin issued in his final days in office. The list includes several in Handy’s old district, including a teacher, Charles Doug Phelps, who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and tampering with a witness. In his pardon, Bevin called the conviction “long on duration, long on accusation, long on drama and short on evidence.”
The police found photos of minors performing sexual acts on Phelps’ phone.
In the Partin case, Handy painted the picture of a grisly murder, one where no blood was found because Partin used a hook meant for hunting alligators to cut off the blood flow to Carnes’ head.
Partin and Carnes worked together at the Tremco Plant in Barbourville and had been having an affair that she had recently ended.
“He hated her so much and he wanted to punish her with her looking at him before he cut her head off,” Handy said. “The evil is unimaginable.”
Handy said Partin’s defense attorney, Bill Johnson, had never even brought up DNA evidence in his many appeals, which went all the way to the Kentucky Supreme Court.
“I don’t think the governor got the record of a two week trial and read it,” Handy said.
In 2008, Partin asked the Knox County Circuit Court to perform a DNA test on a strand of hair found in Partin’s trash can. His request was denied and that denial was upheld by the Kentucky Court of Appeals.
When the Court of Appeals ruled against testing the DNA evidence, Justice Laurence VanMeter acknowledged that “evidence of Partin’s guilt was circumstantial,” but said the “evidence as a whole was sufficient to uphold the jury’s verdict and the trial court’s denial of a directed verdict.”
VanMeter wrote that that Partin wanted the DNA test on hair found in his kitchen trash, but the jury was already aware the hair in the trash may or may not have belonged to the victim.
Johnson said he couldn’t recall exactly what DNA evidence the governor was referring to in the pardon (he learned of the pardon through a Herald-Leader reporter), but said he was pleased Partin was pardoned. Johnson said Partin was a quiet man who was well behaved in prison and adamant that he did not commit the crime.
“I always had serious doubts in my mind that Delmar had killed her,” Johnson said.
For Handy, the news of the pardon was devastating.
“I called the family last night and we all cried together,” he said.
Bevin’s former chief of staff, Blake Brickman, did not respond to a text message asking if either he or Bevin would comment on the hundreds of pardons and commutations Bevin issued in the final days of his administration, which ended Monday night.
Jackie Steele, the current commonwealth’s attorney in Knox and Laurel counties, cited several other pardons in his jurisdiction that made him unhappy.
One of them was Patrick Baker, who was one of three men convicted of a murder in Knox County in 2014. Baker’s sentence was commuted, but the other two men remain in prison. Baker’s brother and sister-in-law held a fundraiser in 2018 for Bevin that raised $21,500, and personally contributed $4,000.
“This is a travesty of our justice system,” Steele said. “When you have law enforcement and prosecutors and families who sludge through this process … . when they do get justice and he turns around and does something like this? It’s a travesty.”