https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/us-housing-supply-shortage-crisis-2022/672240/
researchers ran two nationwide surveys of urban and suburban residents and found that 30 to 40 percent of Americans believe, “contrary to basic economic theory and robust empirical evidence,” that if a lot of new housing were built in their region, then rents and home prices would rise. This posture is referred to as “supply skepticism.”
Here's an update on the dirty tricks Creepy Joe Biden is using to drive up the price of gasoline to force you to use less.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-bidens-fossil-fuel-blockade-onshore-drilling-leases-oil-gas-russia-11646409502
Last month a federal judge slapped down the Biden Administration’s inflated “social cost” estimate for greenhouse gas emissions. The Administration’s estimate captured all of the potential harm from carbon emissions globally over three centuries—yes, centuries. They threw in everything from property damage to health harms and war.
Biden officials were furious at the judge’s decision because they planned to use this grossly inflated social cost estimate to support restrictions on fossil fuels—from stricter fuel-economy rules to methane emissions curbs for oil and gas production. Now they can’t, so dozens of rule-makings are stalled.
But here’s the kicker: The White House budget office says the injunction has caused it to halt permitting work on at least 18 wells on federal oil and gas leases in New Mexico and new lease sales. The White House is blaming the judge for what it was already doing or, rather, not doing.
Interior has been slow-rolling oil and gas permits since Mr. Biden took office. A judge last June struck down the President’s leasing ban on federal land and ordered Interior to hold quarterly leases as required by law. Only in November did Interior finally hold an offshore sale. Then green groups sued, and a liberal judge blocked the sales. The Administration hasn’t appealed.
Still, Mr. Biden hasn’t held an onshore lease sale and is the only President in at least two decades not to have done so in a given year. Approvals for new liquefied natural gas terminals and expansions are also sitting at the Department of Energy and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, according to the American Petroleum Institute.
Lehman is the person who actually fired Sabatini.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62471f85d2216812c1b5565e/t/62658b9df119917020046a58/1650822046518/Complaint.pdf
Ruth Lehmann, Ph.D.
25. Dr. Lehmann earned her undergraduate degree and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Tübingen in Germany. Dr. Lehmann was elected as the Director of the Whitehead in 2019 and formally succeeded the prior Director in July 2020.
26. After taking over as the Director of the Whitehead, Dr. Lehmann held a dinner for many of the female investigators and trainees at the Whitehead, including Dr. Knouse. Dr. Lehmann stated during this dinner that she intended to “clean-up” the boys’ club at the Whitehead, or words to that effect.
27. Dr. Lehmann has publicly expressed the view that she believes that there is a lot of “sexism” in science.
28. During a presentation at the Whitehead, Dr. Lehmann shared that she had unsuccessfully tried to “oust” a male professor at a prior employer. Dr. Lehmann’s statements made it clear that she was proud of these efforts and was frustrated she did not succeed.
29. Though Dr. Sabatini supported Dr. Lehmann for the position as Director of the Whitehead, a position that Dr. Sabatini had been asked to consider but had turned down, she expressed animosity and hostility towards him after her appointment.
30. One example of this is an interaction that Dr. Lehmann and Dr. Sabatini had at a Whitehead retreat in the fall of 2019, which Dr. Lehmann attended as a guest before she took over her official duties as Director. During a dinner at the retreat, Dr. Sabatini asked Dr. Lehmann what she thought of the scientific presentations she had seen by Whitehead scientists at the retreat. Instead of responding professionally, Dr. Lehmann stared at Dr. Sabatini and asked in a hostile tone “What? Do you want me to tell you that you gave the best talk?” This comment was so unexpected and upsetting to Dr. Sabatini that he recounted it to several of his faculty colleagues at the Whitehead and other institutions.
https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-people-give-the-homeless-a-place-to-stay/answer/Clare-Farquharson-1
Tracey Wilkinson with her son Pierce Wilkinson
In March 2016, mother-of-two Tracey Wilkinson had seen Aaron Barley shivering and trying to keep warm in a cardboard box outside of her local Tesco. Unable to just walk on by, she offered to drive Aaron to the council offices to help him get a place at a hostel. Although he was now in a hostel, he still had little money or food, so she organised his breakfast and dinner every day.
Sometimes this would be by inviting him over to her home to eat dinner with her family. Aaron said: “I just need somebody to give me a chance. I need somebody to give me a lucky break.” So her husband, Peter Wilkinson, found him a job in his manufacturing firm and he was then able to move into a flat of his own.
Unfortunately, he took drugs and went off the rails. Managers reported high levels of absence and aggressive behaviour. He was let go, which then resulted in him being evicted from his flat. Mr Wilkinson found him asleep on their driveway so the family decided to try and help him again. They organised council housing for him, and paid for his accommodation themselves whilst this was being set up. He was even invited to spend Christmas Day with the family in their home. Afterwards, Aaron wrote Tracey a letter addressed ‘to the mother I never had’.
In March 2017, a year after they had first met, Aaron crept back to the Wilkinson family home. The family’s CCTV showed that he laid in wait for several hours. Mr Wilkinson, as usual, left to take the dog for its morning walk. As usual, the back door was left unlocked (it’s a very safe area (usually)) for this short period of time. This was when Aaron Barley struck. He stabbed Tracey and her 13-year-old son, Pierce, to death. When Peter Wilkinson returned 25 minutes later, he too was violently set upon. Unlike his wife and son, he was lucky enough to survive.
Peter Wilkinson later explained (after a long recovery in hospital): “He said ‘Die, you bastard’ as he stuck the knife into me. I said to him after he’d stabbed me, ‘Aaron we tried to help you’, and he stuck the knife into my stomach and said ‘Die, you bastard’.”
Aaron Barley then stole the family car and crashed it a short distance away, where he was arrested by the police.
This was a major news story immediately.
Lydia Wilkinson, Peter and Tracey’s older child, was away at university. She found out about the tragedy by seeing it in the news, realising that it was in her hometown, and then realising that it was her home that was being pictured! She said she was warned to expect the worst and that for a while it looked like her dad wouldn’t make it and that she would be left completely alone.
Lydia Wilkinson
Peter Wilkinson (right) with his children Pierce and Lydia
To this day the motive remains a mystery. After all, the family had genuinely tried hard to help. However, the week before the killing, the family had decided to stop paying Aaron’s mobile phone bills. It is speculated that this may have been a trigger.
Aaron Barley has shown no remorse. He said his only regret was that he did not succeed in killing the father, Peter Wilkinson.
Aaron Barley
Undoubtedly, he had had a terrible start in life. He was the product of incest. His mother and father were niece and uncle. He spent his childhood in numerous homes. But none of this can excuse the planned cold-blooded murder of those who had tried hardest to help him.
“I wish my wife had never set eyes on him” - Peter Wilkinson.
2008
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_8443.htm
23: NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO.
https://www.salon.com/2021/01/19/who-is-victoria-nuland-a-really-bad-idea-as-a-key-player-in-bidens-foreign-policy-team/
the people of Ukraine have heard of neocon Nuland. Many have even heard the leaked four-minute audio of her saying "Fuck the EU" during a February 2014 phone call with the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt.
During the infamous call on which Nuland and Pyatt appeared to be plotting to replace or undermine elected Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych, Nuland expressed her not-so-diplomatic disgust with the European Union for favoring former heavyweight boxer and austerity champ Vitali Klitschko to take over as prime minister, instead of the U.S. first choice, Artseniy Yatsenyuk, who indeed took power after Yanukovych was ousted about three weeks later.
The "Fuck the EU" call went viral, as an embarrassed State Department, never denying the call's authenticity, blamed the Russians for tapping the phone, much as the NSA has tapped the phones of European allies.
Despite outrage from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, no one fired Nuland, but her potty mouth upstaged the more serious story: the U.S. plot to overthrow Ukraine's elected government — and America's responsibility for a civil war that has killed at least 13,000 people and left Ukraine the poorest country in Europe.
In the process, Nuland, her husband Robert Kagan — co-founder of The Project for a New American Century — and their neocon cronies succeeded in sending U.S.-Russian relations into a dangerous downward spiral from which they have yet to recover.
What's going on here is that the West is leading Ukraine down the primrose path, and the end result is that Ukraine is going to get wrecked. I believe that the policy that I'm advocating, which is neutralizing Ukraine and then building it up economically and getting it out of the competition between Russia on one side and NATO on the other side, is the best thing that could happen to the Ukrainians.
What we're doing is encouraging the Ukrainians to play tough with the Russians. We're encouraging the Ukrainians to think that they will ultimately become part of the West because we will ultimately defeat Putin and we will ultimately get our way. Time is on our side, and of course, the Ukrainians are playing along with this, and the Ukrainians are almost completely unwilling to compromise with the Russians and instead want to pursue a hardline policy.
Well, as I said to you before, if they do that, the end result is that their country is going to be wrecked, and what we're doing is, in effect, encouraging that outcome. I think it would make much more sense for us to neutralize Ukraine and work to create a neutral Ukraine. It would be in our interest to bury this crisis as quickly as possible. It certainly would be in Russia's interest to do so, and most importantly, it would be in Ukraine's interest to put an end to the crisis.
She really nails it.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1512123736408924166.html
The arguments about sex education and book banning and home schooling and CRT and teaching about sexuality and gender identity and curriculum transparency all boil down to this fundamental question: who has the ultimate authority and control over children, parents or the State?
I would venture to say that the majority of parents believe that they have authority and control over their children's lives. The children are their children and they are responsible for teaching the children and caring for the children and providing for the children.
Educating children is outsourced to schools due to practicalities. Even those who send their children to religious schools do so because they want to insure their children are brought up with certain beliefs and the parents do not have the time/ability to home school.
Teachers and school administrators are, in the end, employees of the parents. They exist to provide a service, education, and not to take over the responsibility for the parents. They are there as, at most, an adjunct to how the child is raised, not the primary source of rearing.
In contrast, the education establishment, by and large, sees itself as being the primary, to say nothing of the highest and best, source of training and imputation of moral values for children. Parents are, at most, ancillary figures to be used to buttress views, if needed.
It is the State, vis a vis the education department, who has the most important role to deliver in training children how to be proper citizens. It is the State that guides the children, molds their minds, and, in many cases, provides physical care, including meals to the children
Gonzalo Lira writes:
The Americans sanctioned Russia as hard as they possibly could, openly trying to break the Russian economy. Most of America’s vassal states in the west followed suit.
India and China have not. So the Americans are now threatening India and China with sanctions of their own, unless they join the United States in punishing Russia.
Paradoxically, America’s bullying tactics against both countries will wind up making them the best of friends.
India has exceedingly good relationship with Russia for several decades — they will not jeopardize it because of the Americans. So in retaliation for not doing what they want, the Americans will sanction India. It will be what my friend Alexandra Mercouris calls “the sanctions escalator”: Little by little at first, random officials here and there, and then slowly targeting the entire Indian economy.
Insofar as China is concerned, America has started this “sanctions escalator “, and the Chinese are under no illusions. But for China, Russia is much more important than the United States. China has spent over 25 years deliberately and consciously deepening its relationship with Russia. China views Russia as a primary partner, and will under no circumstances jeopardize that relationship. That’s why China will never sanction Russia. So China will take on American sanctions — but China realizes something crucial:
The United States needs China much more than the other way around.
China and India have had long-standing border disputes. Because of this American pressure, the two countries are now quickly resolving these border issues, especially water rights issues. Both of them realize that, in order to resist American pressure, they must become allied.
So very quickly, a new super alliance will form between Russia, China and India. Iran, which has strong relationships with Russia and blossoming relationships with China, will inevitably join this partnership.
If these four countries decide to cut out the West, Europe will not have gas for electricity and heat, and no customers for its cars and product. And the Americans will discover that no one wants their dollars—so the American financial architecture will completely collapse, and the US will find itself in the biggest depression of its history. (Yes you read right.)
The Americans do not realize that the US needs China/Russia/India far FAR more than the other way around. America's hollowed out industrial base means that it does not produce anything. It needs products from Russia/China/India. And yet it is the United States which is busy alienating precisely those nations that it most needs.
The Americans have broken with the Russians – there is now a sanctions moat between Russia and the West. If the US and Europe does this with China and India, the Westwill sink, their economy completely shattered. And this new Eurasian block will become the literal center of the earth.
Through sheer incompetence, the United States is about to collapse. I am not being hyperbolic, this is what is happening right now. By the end of 2023, there will be catastrophic hyperinflation, over 50% unemployment, mass food shortages, and no gasoline in the United States of America.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/22/hawley-jackson-child-pornography-sentencing-record-00019481
Sen. Josh Hawley on Tuesday questioned Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s sentencing in a 2013 child pornography case where federal guidelines recommended a 10-year term and Jackson gave the defendant three months.
“I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around it,” Hawley (R-Mo.) said to the Supreme Court nominee on the second day of her confirmation hearings. “We’re talking about 8-year-olds, 9-year-olds, 11-year-olds and 12-year-olds.”
In the 2013 case, United States v. Hawkins, Jackson sentenced 18-year-old Wesley Hawkins, who had been in possession of about two dozen child sexual abuse images and videos, to three months in prison, while the prosecution recommended at least two years and the PROTECT Act of 2003 recommended 97 to 121 months.
https://nationalinterest.org/article/the-dangers-of-expansive-realism-551
Between 1989 and 1991, a political miracle occurred. The Soviet regime, steeped in blood and obsessed with total control as it had been throughout most of its history, voluntarily gave up its Warsaw Pact empire, collapsed the Soviet system upon itself, and then acquiesced in its own demise--all with virtually no violence.
https://www.maciverinstitute.com/2022/03/the-hunter-biden-story-was-always-about-joes-corruption/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/28/nato-expansion-war-russia-ukraine
The Clinton administration proposed inviting Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary to become members, and the US Senate approved adding those countries to the North Atlantic Treaty in 1998. It would be the first of several waves of membership expansion.
Even that first stage provoked Russian opposition and anger. In her memoir, Madeleine Albright, Clinton’s secretary of state, concedes that “[Russian president Boris] Yeltsin and his countrymen were strongly opposed to enlargement, seeing it as a strategy for exploiting their vulnerability and moving Europe’s dividing line to the east, leaving them isolated.”
Strobe Talbott, deputy secretary of state, similarly described the Russian attitude. “Many Russians see Nato as a vestige of the cold war, inherently directed against their country. They point out that they have disbanded the Warsaw Pact, their military alliance, and ask why the west should not do the same.” It was an excellent question, and neither the Clinton administration nor its successors provided even a remotely convincing answer.
George Kennan, the intellectual father of America’s containment policy during the cold war, perceptively warned in a May 1998 New York Times interview about what the Senate’s ratification of Nato’s first round of expansion would set in motion. “I think it is the beginning of a new cold war,” Kennan stated. ”I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else.”
He was right, but US and Nato leaders proceeded with new rounds of expansion, including the provocative step of adding the three Baltic republics. Those countries not only had been part of the Soviet Union, but they had also been part of Russia’s empire during the Czarist era. That wave of expansion now had Nato perched on the border of the Russian Federation.
Moscow’s patience with Nato’s ever more intrusive behavior was wearing thin. The last reasonably friendly warning from Russia that the alliance needed to back off came in March 2007, when Putin addressed the annual Munich security conference. “Nato has put its frontline forces on our borders,” Putin complained. Nato expansion “represents a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust. And we have the right to ask: against whom is this expansion intended? And what happened to the assurances our western partners made after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact?”
https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/how-activist-teachers-recruit-kids?s=r
Last month, the California Teachers Association (CTA) held a conference advising teachers on best practices for subverting parents, conservative communities and school principals on issues of gender identity and sexual orientation.
Speakers went so far as to tout their surveillance of students’ Google searches, internet activity, and hallway conversations in order to target sixth graders for personal invitations to LGBTQ clubs, while actively concealing these clubs’ membership rolls from participants’ parents.
what makes for a successful LGBTQ middle school club? What to do about meddlesome parents who don’t want their middle schoolers participating in such a club? What if parents ask a club leader—point blank—if their child is a member?
The advice to those who run middle school LGBTQ clubs is: keep no records, so you can plead ignorance of the membership with the members’ parents. In fact, middle school teacher Kelly Baraki can be heard in the same session describing having named her club “the Equity Club,” and then, “You be You,” rather than the more ubiquitous “GSA.”
Middle school kids, apparently, did not have endless interest in sitting around with their teachers during lunch discussing their sexual orientations and gender identities. “So we started to brainstorm at the end of the 2020 school year, what are we going to do? We got to see some kids in-person at the end of last year, not many but a few. So we started to try and identify kids. When we were doing our virtual learning – we totally stalked what they were doing on Google, when they weren’t doing school work. One of them was googling ‘Trans Day of Visibility.’
And we’re like, ‘Check.’ We’re going to invite that kid when we get back on campus. Whenever they follow the Google Doodle links or whatever, right, we make note of those kids and the things that they bring up with each other in chats or email or whatever,” Baraki can be heard to say. Beyond electronic surveillance of kids’ internet use, “we use our observations of kids in the classroom—conversations that we hear—to personally invite students. Because that’s really the way we kinda get the bodies in the door. Right? They need sort of a little bit of an invitation,” Baraki says in the clip.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/08/we-must-do-everything-possible-avoid-enormously-destructive-war-ukraine
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/ukraines-deadly-gamble
By tying itself to an American administration that had shown itself to be reckless and dangerous, the Ukrainians made a geopolitical blunder that statesmen will study for years to come: A buffer state had staked its future on a distant power that had simply seen it as an instrument to annoy its powerful neighbor with no attachment to any larger strategic concept that it was willing to support.
Russia then lopped off half of the Donbas region on its border and subjected Ukraine to a grinding, eight-year-long war, intended in large part to underline Russian capacity and Ukrainian and American impotence.
Also:
https://popularresistance.org/ukraine-intensifies-shelling-of-donbass-as-western-media-are-silent/
telegraph version
https://telegra.ph/Why-the-Ukraine-Crisis-Is-the-Wests-Fault-02-28
pdf version with roundtable afterwards
https://www.natur.cuni.cz/geografie/socialni-geografie-a-regionalni-rozvoj/studium/doktorske-studium/kolokvium/kolokvium-2013-2014-materialy/ukrajina-a-rusko-mearsheimer-souleimanov.pdf
MEARSHEIMER: Well, the key point here is to remember that it's really what the Russians think. It's not so much what we did or what we think. I mean, again, to go back to Mike McFaul, Mike McFaul's point is that the Russians should have understood that NATO expansion was not directed at them. And my response to that is that what Mike McFaul thinks is largely irrelevant. It's what the Russians think.
The Russians thought that NATO expansion into Ukraine and into Georgia was going to happen, maybe not right away, but over the long term, and they were deeply concerned about that.
Now, there's no question that in 2008, at April 2008, as I said, the Germans and the French were a brake on NATO expansion into Ukraine and Georgia at the Bucharest summit. That's clearly the case. But the Americans were pushing very hard, and that's why, in the final communique from the Bucharest conference, it was said that NATO and -- that Georgia and Ukraine will eventually become part of NATO. That's what the final declaration said.
And the Russians reacted immediately to that. That declaration was never taken off the table. Nobody ever said that NATO expansion was not going to happen. So the Russians had good reason to believe that it would eventually happen. And, by the way, Ukraine has just said -- this happened on August 29th -- that it was going to move to change its non-aligned status and request membership in NATO. And then the NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said that if Ukraine did that and it met the requirements for NATO admission, then Ukraine could become part of NATO. This was just last month.
This is like waving a red flag in front of a bull. So the idea that NATO -- that Ukraine and Georgia becoming part of NATO is not a serious issue is not the way the Russians see it. And if I were a Russian, I would see it the same way. The mere fact that the United States of America remains committed to NATO expansion would scare me greatly.
Eric Coomer, director of product strategy and security for Dominion Voting Systems,
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/magazine/eric-coomer-dominion-election.html
Oltmann said that in his research he found that Coomer had written “vile” anti-Trump Facebook posts. Oltmann proceeded to read from one of those posts, from July 2016, which characterized Donald Trump as “autocratic,” “narcissistic” and a “fascist,” among other, more vulgar insults. “I don’t give a damn if you’re friend, family or random acquaintance,” Oltmann read. Anyone who decided to “pull the lever, mark an oval, touch the screen for that carnival barker ... UNFRIEND ME NOW.” Oltmann displayed a screenshot of the post, which said that the author’s opinions “are not necessarily the thoughts of my employer, though if not, I should probably find another job. Who wants to work for complete morons?”
As Coomer watched the video, though, he felt a second strong emotion: a powerful sense of regret — because the Facebook posts were, in fact, authentic. Why, he thought, hadn’t he just deleted them? Coomer could imagine how his words would sound to just about any Republican, let alone someone already hearing on Fox News that Dominion was switching votes for Biden. He told me that he believed every word of what he said on Facebook, but when colleagues later asked him what he was thinking, he was frank: He had screwed up. At a time when well-funded efforts to sow mistrust in the election were already underway, Coomer had given conspiracy theorists a valuable resource, a grain of sand they could transform into something that had the feel — the false promise — of proof.
On Friday, Nov. 13, the right-wing news outlet the Gateway Pundit, picking up on Oltmann’s podcast, ran a story that mentioned Coomer by name in the headline, included links to videos in which Coomer was talking about election security, and ran a full reprint of the open letter about antifa that he had reposted on Facebook.
While most of that letter was uncontroversial — “Antifa supports and defends the right of all people to live free from oppressive abuse of power” — one line concluded that while nonviolent protest was preferable, “we cannot and will not take responsibility for telling people how they are allowed to be righteously outraged.”
When the only thing the police will say about the victim's death is:
"This was a bad scene"
https://local12.com/news/nation-world/chief-ride-share-mistake-led-to-death-of-college-student-04-01-2019
The man accused of killing a woman who got into his car thinking it was her Uber ride had activated the child locks in his backseat so the doors could only be opened from the outside, police in South Carolina say.
Columbia Police Chief Skip Holbrook also said investigators found the victim's blood in Nathaniel David Rowland's vehicle. Rowland, 24, was arrested and charged in the death of 21-year-old Samantha Josephson, a University of South Carolina student from Robbinsville, New Jersey.
Investigators would not say what they think Rowland did to Josephson from the time she got into his black Chevrolet Impala in Columbia's Five Points entertainment district around 1:30 a.m. Friday until her body was dumped in woods off a dirt road in Clarendon County about 65 miles (105 kilometers) away.
Josephson had numerous wounds to her head, neck, face, upper body, leg and foot, according to arrest warrants released Sunday by the State Law Enforcement Division. The documents didn't say what was used to attack her.
Josephson's blood was found in the trunk and inside Rowland's car along with her cellphone, bleach, window cleaner and cleaning wipes, Holbrook said.
"This was a bad scene," the police chief said at a news conference late Saturday.
The girlfriend will not be prosecuted.
https://www.wtae.com/article/uber-driver-killed-monroeville-man-charged-penn-hills/39127804
Calvin Crew, 22, has been charged with homicide in the death of 38-year-old Christina Spicuzza of Turtle Creek.
21:33:45: Crew produces a firearm from his right side and leans forward toward Spicuzza
21:33:47: Crew places his left hand on Spicuzza's left shoulder
21:33:49: Crew states, "Keep driving"; Crew then places the firearm at the back of Spicuzza's head, with the firearm being in his right hand
21:33:51: Spicuzza reaches up with her right hand and touches the gun. Spicuzza then says, "You've got to be joking"
21:33:55: Crew states, "It's a gun"
21:33:57: Spicuzza states "Come on, I have a family"
21:33:58: Crew states, "I got a family, too, now drive"
Crew's girlfriend told detectives that she was in Swissvale on Feb. 10 when she got a call from Crew asking her to order an Uber for him. She said Crew gave her an address to enter into the ride request.
In another interview with Crew's girlfriend, police said she told them she purchased a 9mm gun at a store in McKeesport and it went missing. She said she never reported the gun missing/stolen.
The criminal complaint also said she told investigators that she had a feeling that Crew had her gun because he was the only person around her. When police went to retrieve the gun box and paperwork from her home, both were missing.
https://www.wltx.com/article/news/local/jonathan-pentland-trial-begins/101-f1d4a608-3658-44b9-9d6f-11eaf285c887
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/10/01/dont-criticize-black-lives-matter-for-provoking-violence-the-civil-rights-movement-did-too/
