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R Venkateshwarlu, who had actually been missing out on for two years, was seen in the video filmed under a flyover 2,000 km (1,242 miles) away from his home in Telangana.
A friend signaled the household who then contacted police in the northern state of Punjab to assist reunite them.
” My dad fell asleep and the truck driver didn’t know he was there.
The family were reunited after 2 years.
Alone on an unfamiliar roadway, Mr Venkateshwarlu wanted to hitchhike house, and ultimately discovered another truck ready to provide him a trip. Lots of hours later on, he understood the automobile was taking a trip in the opposite direction.
That motorist dropped him off in Ludhiana, a big commercial city far away in the northern state of Punjab. Mr Venkateshwarlu ended up surviving on food contributions from locals. His communication issues were intensified by the truth he doesn’t comprehend Punjabi.
His household, meanwhile, looked for him with the aid of local cops in Telangana – however drew a blank.
It was a lucky twist of fate.
Since India went into lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19, Punjab police constable Ajaib Singh had actually been going around Ludhiana to contribute food and necessary products to migrant workers and the poor.
His TikTok channel, which has more than 800,000 followers, functions videos of charitable acts throughout the lockdown.
In among his videos published in March, Mr Singh is seen dispersing food to people living under a flyover in Ludhiana.
In Telangana, a good friend of Mr Peddiraju who viewed the video thought he identified Mr Venkateshwarlu in it and informed his family.
They connected with the Ludhiana cops who then located Mr Venkateshwarlu and got him on the phone to his child.
Authorities suggested he go and see his daddy once the lockdown was over.
Within a week, he was in Ludhiana with his daddy.
” This is the very first time that our daddy stayed away from us for this long.
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The Trump family is extremely online today, and they’re all over the place with their messaging.
On Friday morning, Twitter hid another one of Donald Trump’s tweets and slapped a warning label on it. Trump’s statement about the protests over the death of George Floyd — which included the phrase, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” — violated the site’s rules about glorifying violence, and many horrified users agreed. (For background, that phrase was first spoken in 1967 by Miami police chief, Walter Headley, when explaining that his force “didn’t mind being accused of police brutality.”)
This is part of an ongoing fight between the social media platforms and the president, who yesterday signed an executive order intended to intimidate these companies against getting in the way of him spreading (often false) information to his followers.
After Twitter took action against Trump’s tweet on Friday morning, the official White House Twitter account re-tweeted the president’s words. (Twitter eventually censored that tweet as well.) But as Trump’s unpresidential, divisive messages came under fire, his family members logged on and tried to do their best to clean up his mess.
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It’s rare to see the majority of the Trump family commenting online at the same time, but on Friday Melania, Ivanka, Donald Trump Jr., Eric, and even Lara shared their thoughts on the chaos that’s unfolding in Minnesota and Twitter’s actions against the president.
The tweets, however, all carried fairly inconsistent messages.
Melania called for peace and offered her deepest condolences to George Floyd’s family. She also asked that we focus on “peace, prayers & healing” as a nation, which directly contradicts her husband’s call to send the National Guard to Minnesota and use violence if necessary to get the situation under control.
Our country allows for peaceful protests, but there is no reason for violence. I’ve seen our citizens unify & take care of one another through COVID19 & we can’t stop now. My deepest condolences to the family of George Floyd. As a nation, let’s focus on peace, prayers & healing.
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) May 29, 2020
Ivanka chose not to address the protests at all. She simply said the people in Minneapolis “are hurting for a reason” and that her heart goes out to Floyd’s family and all hurting Americans.
“Justice is how we heal,” she wrote — providing a stark contrast in tone to her father’s tweets.
People in Minneapolis are hurting for a reason. Justice is how we heal.
My heart goes out to George Floyd‘s family and all Americans who are hurting.— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) May 29, 2020
Meanwhile, Donald Trump Jr., spent much of the morning trying to disparage Joe Biden, Ilhan Omar, and Jack Dorsey. But he did take some time to address the protests.
What happened to George Floyd was disgusting. He should be alive today & I’m praying for his family
People are right to be angry, but there’s never an excuse for the type of violent riots unfolding now
No American should ever have to watch their own community burn to the ground https://t.co/b7Q0kljGW4
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) May 29, 2020
Eric Trump also took shots at Joe Biden and came for Twitter on Friday morning, and Lara Trump said that although a murder was committed, other crimes are now also taking place in Minnesota.
Aside from the outward facing bias of @Twitter, there is hardly a single influential conservative on this platform who doesn’t believe their account has been negatively manipulated & influenced behind the scenes. I’m thrilled to see @realDonaldTrump take decisive action.
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) May 29, 2020
Looting is not protesting. Burning down local homes and businesses is not protesting. How sad that the memory of #GeorgeFloyd has been lost in all of this.
— Lara Trump (@LaraLeaTrump) May 29, 2020
Illegal and should absolutely be prosecuted to the full extent of the law:
Murder And as a reminder, also illegal:
Theft and arson— Lara Trump (@LaraLeaTrump) May 29, 2020
It’s really striking to see that Trump and several of his family members seem more concerned with taking down Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that dealing with the devastating events in Minneapolis, a deadly pandemic, and an unfolding economic crisis. But the president seems to be leaning in.
Since the social platform fact-checked one of Trump’s tweets about mail-in ballots earlier this week, he’s been firing off unhinged rants and accusing Twitter of trying to stifle free speech.
Even today, as the people continue to mourn the loss of George Floyd and plead for justice, Trump is bashing Twitter on Twitter. So is the White House account.
Twitter is doing nothing about all of the lies & propaganda being put out by China or the Radical Left Democrat Party. They have targeted Republicans, Conservatives & the President of the United States. Section 230 should be revoked by Congress. Until then, it will be regulated!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 29, 2020
REVOKE 230!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 29, 2020
This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence. However, @Twitter has determined that it will allow terrorists, dictators, and foreign propagandists to abuse its platform. pic.twitter.com/5Qi0m66Vnh
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 29, 2020
The President did not glorify violence. He clearly condemned it.@Jack and Twitter’s biased, bad-faith “fact-checkers” have made it clear: Twitter is a publisher, not a platform. https://t.co/lTm3Pxxaqg
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 29, 2020
In times of deep sorrow and nationwide distress, this is not what a president’s Twitter account should look like. Americans should be able to count on the president and those associated with the White House to — at the very least — not further divide the nation or incite violence.
Floyd household autopsy might help implicated cop’s defense, legal professionals say
( Reuters) – An independent autopsy that discovered George Floyd died exclusively from asphyxiation might actually bolster the defense of the former Minneapolis law enforcement officer charged with killing him, legal specialists said.
FILE IMAGE: Terrence Floyd visits the site near where his sibling George was taken in Minneapolis authorities custody and later on died, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. June 1,2020 REUTERS/Eric Miller/File Picture
The autopsy launched on Monday stated Floyd’s death, which triggered nationwide protests, was a murder which he had no underlying medical conditions.
Later Monday, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner launched information of its autopsy findings that also said Floyd’s death was a homicide triggered by asphyxiation however that he had possible underlying health conditions and intoxicants in his body that might have been contributing consider his death.
On the surface area, the independent autopsy would appear to boost the prosecution’s case against Derek Chauvin, the policeman who knelt on Floyd’s neck for numerous minutes prior to he died last week.
But legal experts said it might do the opposite by creating confusion in the mind of the jury.
” It will become part of the defense strategy to state they can’t even get the cause of death right,” said Gerald Lefcourt, a criminal defense lawyer.
The independent report was gotten ready for the Floyd household by Dr. Allecia Wilson of the University of Michigan and Dr. Michael Baden, who has dealt with numerous prominent murder cases.
Graphic video footage revealed Chauvin, who is white, pushing his knee into Floyd’s neck. Floyd, a 46- year-old black male, gasped for air and consistently groaned: “Please, I can’t breathe,” while onlookers screamed at cops to let him up.
Chauvin was charged on Friday with third-degree murder and murder. He has been fired from the Minneapolis cops department.
The video reignited a profusion of rage that civil liberties activists stated has actually long simmered in cities throughout the nation over consistent racial bias in the U.S. criminal justice system.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who is leading the prosecution, is not obliged to use the independent autopsy or present it as proof at trial.
Dan Alonso, a former chief assistant district lawyer in Manhattan, said the prosecution “would not be doing their job if they ignored it.”
Former district attorneys and defense lawyer informed Reuters that Chauvin faced an extremely hard case offered the strong video proof.
If prosecutors introduce the independent report, the defense could take on the clashing autopsies to produce concerns in the jury’s mind about the cause of death.
SUBMIT PHOTO: A cyclist passes a poster showing previous Minneapolis law enforcement officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd, as protesters march during a rally against the death of Floyd, in Denver, Colorado, U.S., Might 31,2020 REUTERS/Alyson Mcclaran/File Photo
Under U.S. law, district attorneys should prove guilt beyond an affordable doubt.
Introducing the report would also allow the defense team to cross-examine Baden and utilize his long history of operate in celeb trials to cast him as a hired gun, according to defense attorneys.
” This report developed a lot of ammo for a defense group to use in a criminal case or a subsequent civil case,” said Paul Callan, a previous New york city district attorney.
Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware; Editing by Noeleen Walder and Peter Cooney
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