TV News LIES

The line down the center of the Rose Goute Creole restaurant on Springfield, Ohio’s South Limestone Street is halfway out the door. It’s been like this ever since former president Donald Trump falsely accused immigrants in Springfield of eating cats and dogs during a televised debate on 10 September.

At the back of the restaurant, kitchen staff scramble to take orders and load plates of herring patties, rice and beans, and barbecued chicken legs on to serving trays. Outside, cars with plates from Georgia, Wisconsin and Indiana – diners who’ve stopped off a nearby highway to show support for the Haitian community – fill the parking lot.

It’s a partly chaotic scene, as Dady Fanfan, a 41-year-old from Plaisance in northern Haiti, stands inside the door, greeting diners as they enter, before slipping away to clear nearby tables.

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At least two students at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania have been suspended from the swim team after a report that a racial slur was scratched onto a student’s body, officials said.

Officials received “a deeply concerning report of a racial slur being scratched on to a student using a plastic or ceramic tool,” officials at the liberal arts school said in a statement last week.

“This is a serious report, which is being actively assessed through the student conduct process,” the college said. “At this point, the students involved are not participating in swim team activities.”

The school declined to release further details, citing the investigation and privacy laws.

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The interim New York City Police Department (NYPD) commissioner said in a statement posted Saturday to the social platform X that federal agents searched his homes and seized materials.

“On Friday, September 20, federal authorities executed search warrants at my residences,” Thomas G. Donlon said in the statement posted to the NYPD’s X account. “They took materials that came into my possession approximately 20 years ago and are unrelated to my work with the New York City Police Department.”

“This is not a department matter, and the department will not be commenting,” the statement continued.

Earlier this month, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) said New York Police Commissioner Edward Caban had resigned, shortly after the FBI seized Caban’s devices in a federal investigation.

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At least four people were killed, more than a dozen were wounded and a search was underway Sunday in Birmingham, Alabama, after a shooting rampage in a crowded entertainment district Saturday night.

Officer Truman Fitzgerald said two men and a woman died at the scene and a fourth died a short time later at a local hospital. First responders rushed some wounded people to hospitals while others began arriving at hospitals around the city on their own, he said.

Fitzgerald said it appeared multiple shooters fired into a crowd but that it was not clear whether they were on foot or in cars. He said the shooting did not appear random and that officers were trying to determine who was targeted. No suspects were in custody.

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The mother of the 14-year-old Georgia student charged in the Apalachee High School shooting that killed four people has been indicted in a domestic violence case involving her mother in 2023, according to reports.

On Monday, a grand jury indicted Marcee Gray, 43, on charges of exploiting and intimidating a disabled person or elderly adult, false imprisonment, criminal damage to property and theft, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Saturday.

The charges are unrelated to the mass shooting her son, Colt, is accused of committing on Sept. 4 that killed teachers Cristina Irimie, 53, and Richard Aspinwall, 39, and students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14. Nine other students were injured in the incident.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation also arrested the teen's father, Colin Gray, on Sept. 5, and prosecutors have charged him with two counts of murder, four counts of involuntary manslaughter and eight counts of child cruelty.

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