Our community is being rocked by the tragedy of Rio Allred. Rio is a 12-year-old girl who took her own life after she was relentlessly bullied after she came down with alopecia and began losing her hair.
Elkhart Community Schools knew about the bullying and did nothing to intervene on Rio’s behalf, that we are aware of.
Marla Godette is a mental health professional who was at Rio’s candlelight vigil. She offers advice to parents who might have the same thing happening to their child at school. Advice that most parents don’t know and most schools don’t want you to know.
To learn more about Rio and the light she brought into the world, please go here:
All of these years later and the media and activists are still pushing the debunked narrative that Pulse Nightclub was targeted because it was a gay club.
A group trying to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Michigan is suing after an elections board said it didn’t collect enough valid voter signatures to qualify for a statewide November vote.
Latino activists, including a Mizzou official, scolded the mostly white gathering for ignoring racial issues. That led one attendee to fume on Facebook that the organizers had invented a “race issue” out of a “homophobic attack” by gunman Omar Mateen.
Remember the Pop-Tart gun kid? He was 7 years old when he was suspended for chewing his breakfast (not actually a Pop-Tart, as it turned out) into the shape of a weapon and pretending to fire it at his classmates. Now he’s 11, and Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Ronald A. Silkworth just upheld his suspension.
A former co-worker of Omar Mateen repeatedly warned the security company where he worked that Mateen was unhinged. Daniel Gilroy says the company did nothing and even told him, “We have to be careful because he’s a Muslim.”
In fact, he made the perfect argument against this kind of pervasive infringement on due process rights last year when questioning a Dept. of Homeland Security official about the “No-fly list.”
Abell added that they thought the man was “very suspicious,” so they called the localFBI office in West Palm Beach and reported the incident. But they didn’t have the man’s name, since no sale was made, and the only surveillance footage they had was grainy.
