Texas sheriff says it’s unlikely border agents were attacked
December 1, 2017 by admin
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A Texas sheriff who was among the first people to reach two badly injured U.S. Border Patrol agents said he thinks they may have been sideswiped accidentally by a tractor-trailer, not attacked, as President Donald Trump and some others have suggested.
The injured agents were found the night of Nov. 18 along a culvert next to Interstate 10 near Van Horn, which is about 110 miles southeast of El Paso and about 30 miles from the border with Mexico.
Agent Rogelio Martinez succumbed to traumatic head injuries and broken bones. His partner, who has not been identified, was seriously injured and hospitalized for several days. The agent has no memory of what happened that night.
Culberson County Sheriff Oscar Carrillo said he thinks a tractor-trailer may have accidentally sideswiped the pair, The Dallas Morning News reported.
I-10 is a heavily traveled route for truck drivers and accidents regularly occur, some due to wind drafts and others from drivers overcorrecting after drifting across lanes, Carrillo said.
“From the beginning we were radioed to assist in the incident as an injury, not an assault,” Carrillo told the newspaper. “That’s the way it was communicated to us.
“If this was an assault, believe me, as sheriff, I’d be the first one out there emphasizing safety in our community and with our deputies, pairing them up,” he added.
It’s not clear why Martinez and his partner were along the highway and U.S. Customs and Border Protection only said in a statement that they “were responding to activity.”
A Border Patrol union, the National Border Patrol Council, has said the pair was attacked and struck with a rock or rocks.
President Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott also have said the two were attacked, with Trump using the incident to renew his call for a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie Jr. in the FBI’s El Paso office said last week that investigators were treating the incident as a “potential assault,” but they could not rule out other scenarios.
Federal officials have released few details about the circumstances leading to their injuries.
The FBI announced Thursday a $45,000 reward for information leading to solving the mystery surrounding Martinez’s death and a new digital billboard campaign to promote the reward. It is asking for statements from anyone who drove through Van Horn between 10 p.m. and midnight on Nov. 18.
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Beastie Boys’ Adam Horovitz believes sexual misconduct allegations about his father
December 1, 2017 by admin
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Nine women have come forward to accuse playwright Israel Horovitz of sexual misconduct, the New York Times reported Thursday.
Jocelyn Meinhardt was 19 in the summer of 1989 when she joined Horovitz in a fellowship at the Gloucester Stage Company in Massachusetts. Meinhardt had known him already, as his son, Adam Horovitz of Beastie Boys fame, was her high school boyfriend. In the New York Times report, Meinhardt claimed Israel drove her to his family home, where he began to kiss and fondle her. He then allegedly led her to his bedroom, where she claimed he raped her.
A then-16-year-old au pair, Frédérique Giffard, for the Horovitz family also came forward and claimed he groped her breasts and placed her hand on his erect penis.
Seven more women reported acts of sexual misconduct by the playwright, who has written works such as “The Indian Wants the Bronx,” “Park Your Car in Harvard Yard” and “Out of the Mouths of Babes.” Maia Ermansons, 21 when her experience occurred last year, detailed her story online, claiming he “pulled me onto his lap and licked my lips and tried sticking his tongue in my mouth several times.”
He allegedly told her, “No great woman has ever become great by being a good girl.” Israel left her a voicemail a few months later, apologizing for the “terrible, terrible misunderstanding.” She saved it.
The Gloucester theater cut ties with Horovitz last week after learning of Ermansons’ allegations.
“I apologize to the brave women who came forward in 1992 and 1993 but were not listened to,” Elizabeth Neumeier, the Gloucester board’s current president, also said in a statement. “We are individually and collectively appalled by the allegations, both old and new.”
Israel, now 78, responded to the allegations, saying that though he has “a different memory of some of these events, I apologize with all my heart to any woman who has ever felt compromised by my actions, and to my family and friends who have put their trust in me. To hear that I have caused pain is profoundly upsetting, as is the idea that I might have crossed a line with anyone who considered me a mentor.”
Adam, better known to his fans as Ad-Rock, released a statement supporting the nine women who have raised allegations against his father.
“I believe the allegations against my father are true,” he told the Times, “and I stand behind the women that made them.”