Friday, July 22 top stories
It is Friday, July 22. Here are today’s top stories.
Witnesses: Trump never called for help during Capitol attack
During the Jan 6. Committee hearing last night, witnesses testified that former President Donald Trump, while he was in the White House as the U.S. Capitol was under attack, did not make a single phone call to law enforcement or national security officials for three hours. Trump was watching the attack unfold on television.
The Jan 6. House Committee said this was a “dereliction of duty” — that Trump chose not to act.
The hearing last night also showed that members of Vice President Mike Pence’s Secret Service detail feared for their lives during the Capitol attack and contacted their families to say goodbye.
The committee said they would hold more hearings in September.
U.S. Congressman attacked at NY campaign event
U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R), who is the Republican candidate for New York governor, was speaking at an event near Rochester when a man walked up to him and tried to stab him with a small weapon.
Zeldin was able to grab his arm and others subdued the attacker. He was later charged with attempted assault.
Bo Jackson donated $170k for funerals of Uvalde victims
Bo Jackson, who was a college football star in the 80’s before playing in both the NFL and the MLB, was identified as the anonymous donor who paid for the funerals of the 19 children and two teachers who died in the Uvalde elementary school massacre.
Jackson told NBC Sports that he has no personal connection to the city but has driven through Uvalde many times on his way to visit a friend’s ranch. He said he was moved to give after the loss of so many children.
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Man killed after sinkhole opens under swimming pool
In Israel, a man was killed in a freak incident at a swimming pool when a sinkhole opened underneath it, sucking the man down to his death. The man was with his co-workers at a work event. Witnesses said the pool’s water level suddenly started receding and that there was a vortex.
The sinkhole was over 40 feet deep. It took rescue teams over four hours to pull out his body.
A couple who owns the property were arrested on suspicion of causing death by negligence.
Unvaccinated young adult contracts polio in New York
AP News reported that “an unvaccinated young adult from New York recently contracted polio, the first U.S. case in nearly a decade…”
The patient “had developed paralysis” after experiencing symptoms a month ago.
A virus expert told AP that “Most Americans are vaccinated against polio, but this should serve as a wake-up call to the unvaccinated.”
Health officials suspect that the patient got the virus from someone who had a “live vaccine” with the polio virus in it. These types of “live vaccines” are not available in the U.S. but are available in other countries.
AP said polio was once one of the nation’s most feared diseases in the 1940’s and 1950’s, with annual outbreaks causing thousands of cases of paralysis. When vaccines were developed and rolled out, polio was eliminated by 1979. But the virus has made several appearances from time to time.
Former Minneapolis cop sentenced 2.5 years
Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane, who was one of four cops who was involved in George Floyd’s murder, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for violating Floyd’s civil rights in a federal case.
CBS News explained that “Lane, along with former officers J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao, were found guilty of federal civil rights offenses in February.” Lane is the first to be sentenced. Lane still faces a sentence on a state charge of aiding and abetting manslaughter.
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis officer who kneeled on Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes, is currently serving a prison sentence of about 22 years.
That is all the top stories for this week. Have a good weekend and stay with the light.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/20/politics/what-we-learned-trump-187-minutes/index.html
https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-panel-hearing-3e3dc618ed8cee37147cf6a792c0c0fa
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pence-secret-service-jan-6-capitol-fear-lives/
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/21/1112866046/zeldin-attack-republican-ny-governor-candidate
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-62265898
https://apnews.com/article/polio-case-new-york-4c1e2512145a1d897982f27507259d83
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/thomas-lane-sentence-george-floyd-death-civil-rights/