we know who shot drew. ryan took the stand this week. he insisted alexis put him on the stand. he just knew he could save willow.
instead, by exploding at michael while on the stand, ryan made it all the more likely that willow would be found guilty.
having nothing else to do, alexis told willow she was going to call her to the stand, that it was their only hope willow did a great job ... lying.
throughout the episode, as she gave testimony, we would see her flashing back on what actually happened. in the last bit of testimony, we see someone in ryan's home while he's looking at a photo of willow and talking about how happy that they are going to be ... we see the camera go slowly up the legs to the face and it's ... willow.
i can't believe it.
but if you think she's going to get away with it ...
remember'twinkle twinkle'? the ringtone that triana (portia's daughter) and her boyfriend heard at the shooting? they had argued over going to the police ornot. what they did instead was get gioto go over to michael's son. gio and the kid are going to play a video game which gives gio the excuse to use the kid's phone to call michael.
michael testified that he did not shoot ryan, that he was there but at the last minute left because his son called and he didn't pick up the phone but just hearing the ringtone made him realize it wasn't worth it.
so gio calls michael and the ringtone is ... the kid's voice.
gio and the kid are done playing the game and gio goes to get some cookies for them from the kitchen. the kid picks up his phone and dials willow. she is in the court room where the judge has dismissed for the day with closing arguments to be made the next day (which could be 2 weeks on general hospital or could be our tomorrow). she, her mother, alexis and ryan are talking.
trina and her boyfriend are disappointed they still don't know who's ringtone they heard when ... twinkle twinkle little star' and they watch willow answer her phone.
renee nicole good was shot dead by ice gestapo member jonathan ross yesterday. lawrence o'donnell breaks down the latest developments.
let's close with c.i.'s 'The Snapshot:'
A former neighbor in Kansas told CNN affiliates KCTV and KMBC Good and her family “were lovely.”
She is “a neighbor who, you know, is not a terrorist. Not an extremist,” Joan Rose told KMBC. “That was just a mom who loved her kids, loved her spouse.”
“They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do,” the woman says through sobs in the footage,
with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to
videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the woman cries.
“We have a 6-year-old at school,” she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. “We’re new here,” the distraught woman says in despair.
The actions are also not all that surprising considering who gets hired by ICE and who provides purported oversight of ICE. Who gets hired? The lowest of the low. Charles P. Pierce (ESQUIRE) pull quoted from an NBC NEWS report and this might be the most disturbing part of that report:
Nearly half of new recruits who’ve arrived for training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center over the past three months were later sent home because they couldn’t pass the written exam, according to the data. The academic requirement includes an exam in which officers are allowed to consult their textbooks and notes at the end of a legal course on the Immigration and Nationality Act and the Fourth Amendment, which outlines when officers can and can’t conduct searches and seizures.
"Oh my goodness! They almost hired those people!"
No, that's not it. It's that they hired the others -- those 'trained' people who required an open book final exam. They weren't expected or required to know the law. You see that reflected in their conduct repeatedly.
Not just with regards to their attack on the US citizen and Iraq War veteran George Retes, but on people all across the country. They are a lawless body that terrorizes in the streets of America.
They terrorize pregnant women. They terrorize the challenged and/or disabled. Who is safe on the streets of America when ICE is let loose? Children? They're tear gassing children. When they're not zip-tying them.
And there is no oversight.
They're a department of liars led by the lying Homeland Secuirty Secretary Kristi Noem.
Tricia, like Kristi, is a repeat offender when it comes to lying to the American people. Nicole Charky-Chami (RAW STORY) notes:
And here's where the media keeps failing us. Homeland Security officials have been caught in one lie after another. It's so bad that judges can't really take their claims seriously at this point. But the media too often repeats claims regarding ICE without noting the long pattern of lies from them this year.
We were all taught about the little boy who cried wolf. You don't lie because you'll be known as a liar and the time will come when you need to be believed but you're known as a liar.
A lesson we're taught as children is too much for ICE and the officials over ICE to grasp. That might be shocking if we hadn't already addressed the relaxed 'standards' when it comes to hiring ICE agents.
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (IL-02) announced plans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem following the fatal shooting by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.
“Secretary Kristi Noem is an incompetent leader, a disgrace to our democracy, and I am impeaching her for obstruction of justice, violation of public trust, and self-dealing. Secretary Noem wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area, and now, her rogue ICE agents have unleashed that same destruction in Minneapolis, fatally shooting Renee Nicole Good,” said Rep. Kelly. “From Chicago to Charlotte to Los Angeles to Minneapolis, Secretary Noem is violating the Constitution while ruining—and ending—lives, and separating families. It’s one thing to be incompetent and dangerous, but it’s impeachable to break the rule of law. I told my constituents and Chicagoans that I would fight against Secretary Noem’s agenda. This is me fighting back.”
Rep. Kelly will file three articles of impeachment against Secretary Noem:
- Obstruction of Congress: Secretary Noem willfully obstructed Congressional oversight and withheld Congressionally appropriated funds in violation of her constitutional oath and federal law.
- Violation of Public Trust: Secretary Noem compromised public safety, violated due process of American citizens, and directed unconstitutional actions.
- Self-Dealing: Secretary Noem abused her office for personal benefit and steered federal dollars to associates.