The trials and indictments keep rolling at Lost Society
Update 8/10 - Nwatu was found Not Guilty on both assault charges today. According to one in-the-courtroom source, 'It did not help that both victims were - to put it politely - already hammered when Nwatu assaulted them.' Next up - A trial on the false paperwork charge, followed by a one-way trip back home to Nigeria.
It's been a few weeks since BD posted any news about Lost Society. And then boom, here it comes in buckets.
Our favorite deportee-to-be, Brightman Nwatu, is at this very moment sitting in a courtroom at the Crowley Courthouse, on trial for two counts of assault from incidents that took place in June 2009. When the crap hit the fan and he was arrested a few months ago, the outstanding warrants were among all the cases filed. According to DPD Incident Report 171388W, Nwatu is accused of violently ejecting a 52 year old woman out of Lost Society. And moments later, states DPD Incident Report 171385W, he hit another female in the eye, causing severe damage. And in two weeks, he'll be back in court on the charges of filing of false paperwork to the TABC.
Are hyperlocal news sites replacing newspapers?
By Gary Moskowitz / Time Magazine
All politics may be local, but apparently not enough journalism is. As newspapers keep cutting back on staff and printing skimpier editions, journalists, entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens have responded by creating websites to cover the local news they feel is going underreported — like the serious windstorm that hit Tracy Record's Seattle neighborhood in 2006. "Every day we break stories," says Record, the editor and primary reporter for West Seattle Blog, a site she and her husband created as an information hub after the storm. "In the past hour, I learned a major parks project is being delayed because of drainage trouble and just broke that on our site." She also covers car crashes, crime, council meetings, bake sales and walkathons for the 70,000 or so Seattle residents who live west of the Duwamish River. "If they were able to get the local news they needed elsewhere, we wouldn't have wound up doing this," says Record.
Should videotaping the police really be a crime?
By Adam Cohen / Time.com
Anthony Graber, a Maryland Air National Guard staff sergeant, faces up to 16 years in prison. His crime? He videotaped his March encounter with a state trooper who pulled him over for speeding on a motorcycle. Then Graber put the video — which could put the officer in a bad light — up on YouTube.
It doesn't sound like much. But Graber is not the only person being slapped down by the long arm of the law for the simple act of videotaping the police in a public place. Prosecutors across the U.S. claim the videotaping violates wiretap laws — a stretch, to put it mildly.
Hunt presents plan for Lower Greenville, swears it won't be West Village redux
Daniel Rodrigue/Dallas Observer Unfair Park
Last night, more than 100 folks packed into the dining room at Vickery Towers "senior living community" for a standing-room-only public meeting on the proposed plans to rezone Lowest Lower Greenville Avenue as a Planned Development District -- a plan opposed by the Lowest Lower Greenville Avenue Business Association, the Greenville Avenue Restaurant Association and the Barking Dog himself.
