Leebrick-Stryker Blog 3101

By Ned Leebrick-Stryker More than 200 people have been arrested after a right-wing protest calling for another Russian Revolution in Moscow, the New York Times reported. The arrests were at Manezh Square, which is adjacent to the Kremlin. The protestors are suspected of planning to firebomb administrative building, according to ABC.  Artpodgotovka, the group protesting, was declared an extremist group by a Russian court last week. 

 By Ned Leebrick-Stryker A man opened fire inside of a church in a small South Texas town of Sutherland Springs Sunday, wounding 20 and killing 26 people in the deadliest mass shooting in the state's history, according to the governor.  The shooter has been identified as 26-year-old Devin Kelley of San Antonio, according to the New York Times.  President Trump tweeted he was monitoring the situation, the Star Tribune said. 

Carter Page, an adviser to the Trump presidential campaign, met Russian government officials during a 2016 trip to Moscow, according to testimony Page gave to the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday. Page was a foreign policy advisor to Mr. Trump, the New York Times reports.  Page confirmed the meetings in an interview on Friday evening, according to t he Star Tribune.  “I had a very brief hello to a couple of people. That was it,” Page said. 

By Ned Leebrick-Stryker Six have been arrested Friday by authorities after a week long investigation into synthetic marijuana, K2,  the Star Tribune said.  The identities of two of the suspects have been released, according to WCCO :    38-year-old Melissa Moe of St. Paul and 47-year-old Eric Renfro of Minneapolis. The six arrests were made in connection to at least 125 K2 overdoses, authorities said. 

By Ned Leebrick-Stryker An Anoka County jury acquitted a Blaine teacher after he was accused of molesting a child, the Star Tribune reported.  Kenneth Sonnenfeld Jr., 54,  was charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct  last year after a student,10,  of Johnsville Elementary accused him of touching her inappropriately in class from 2014 to 2015.  Sonnenfeld pleaded not guilty to the single charge of second-degree criminal sexual conduct in May this year, KSTP said. 

In my analysis of obituaries, I looked at CNN's obit of Fats Domino, a famous, piano-playing, rock-n'-roller. The interesting thing about this obit was that the author chose to almost solely focus on his music and on his influence to other artists. There wasn't too much on who he was as a person. To me, that makes sense. When you think of Fats Domino, you think of songs like "Ain't that a shame" or "Walking to New Orleans." If I were working on this obit, I probably would have done the same thing. This might be a sophomoric comparison, but if you were writing an obituary for Hitler, you probably wouldn't care to mention how much he loved his grandmother or his love of bratwurst. You would mention and focus on all of the pain and death he spread. In the same sense, people will remember Domino's music more than his love for Italian food. It just makes sense to have a singular focus in an obit.

Thousands attended a rally for unity in Barcelona after Catalonia was stripped of its autonomy for declaring independence, according to the BBC.  This rally happened days after  Spain's government took control of Catalan institutions. The event’s slogan was “We are all Catalonia. Common sense for coexistence” according to the Guardian.