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Fake Sign Language Interpreter Steals Show At Tampa Press Conference

Derlyn Roberts ‘signs’ at serial killer press conference LMAO

Sign language interpreter delivered confusion at Seminole Heights news conference

TAMPA, Fla. – Hearing impaired people tuning in to a news conference last week about the arrest of a suspected serial killer in southeast Seminole Heights got a message of gibberish as they watched an American Sign Language interpreter.

Derlyn Roberts, 53, stood to Chief Brian Dugan’s right during the Nov. 28 news conference. She was supposed to be providing sign-language interpretation.

In fact, after hearing from people who complained her signing was inaccurate, officials are still trying to figure out what she was doing there.

People who relied on Roberts for important updates on the Seminole Heights killings, say her translation was garbled and sometimes completely inaccurate.

“From what I understand, she knows enough about sign language that she was able to fake it. But it was not accurate, and it was not clear, and that’s a disservice to the deaf community,” said Tampa Police Department spokesperson Steve Hegarty.

It turns out, Roberts wasn’t hired by TPD.

Roberts apparently heard about the news conference and showed up at their door that night to offer her services. Hegarty said he gratefully accepted and allowed her in.

Only after fielding criticism did TPD find out Roberts has a criminal record. It dates back to 2005 for charges, including organized fraud and false imprisonment. She also has a long list of aliases.

Hegarty said they’re looking into allegations that she’s done the same thing to others.

“She has shown up at some funerals and things like that around town in the past and done some signing,” he said.

Hegarty apologized and pointed out the next day the department was back to using Purple, a certified and vetted sign language translation service.

Julie Church, Executive Director at the Family Center on Deafness in Largo, said it’s an ongoing and potentially dangerous problem.

“If they don’t do their job, or the information is inaccurate, then it can be worse than not having an interpreter at all,” Church said.

In 2013, a fake sign-language interpreter marred the memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela.

In September 2017, Manatee County brought in a sign-language interpreter who, instead of informing deaf viewers about Hurricane Irma, mistakenly warned the public about “pizza” and a “bear monster.”

“In Florida, you have to have a license to get your nails done, you have to have a license to get a massage,” Church said. “But, to serve in these critical situations where information is important, anyone can walk in and say ‘I’m an interpreter.’”

Church and others have asked state lawmakers for years to pass a law requiring sign-language interpreters to receive certification.

Currently, there are 13 states with laws in place requiring interpreters to hold state licenses. Florida is not one of them.

Tampa police vow the same thing won’t happen again.

Hegarty said Roberts likely will not face criminal charges because the department did not vet her credentials.

“I don’t know if she was trying to be helpful and just didn’t do a good job,” Hegarty said. “I don’t know if she was trying to put something over on somebody. I have no idea.”

 

See video: http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/seminole-heights/sign-language-interpreter-delivered-confusion-at-seminole-heights-news-conference/496691670

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Florida Man With Magic Hands Claims He Can Turn A Girl Into A Woman

Magic hands? Wonder what powers his hair holds.

PALM BAY, Florida – A 19-year-old man told police that his hands contain energy that can turn a girl into a woman at the Eastern Florida State College, according to the report.

The Palm Bay Police Department received a call at 250 Community College Parkway about an incident between and male and female that occurred on campus near the east pond.

Timothy Joseph Rice was approached by officers about the incident. He agreed to talk with police but had a strange story to tell.

“I grabbed her a**, boobs, and pu**y so I can turn her into a woman,” he told officers.

“He began to say how the energy from his hands would turn this girl into a woman. he does not know this girl, but he saw her sitting alone and wanted to help her out by turning her into a woman,” an officer said.

Rice then stated he asked her multiple times to go with him so he could “fu** her,” but she eventually got up and walked away from him.

Officers then made contact with the victim. She does not know who Rice is, but said he sat down next to her, stating she was beautiful and sexy.

The victim said she slapped his hands multiple times for touching her breasts, buttocks, and her inner thighs, the report said.

After all this, Rice still asked the victim to go with him so that they could “fu**” because he wanted her to be his little “slut.”

The victim then located the Armed Officers that patrol the school and made a complaint. They contacted the Palm Bay Police Department.

Rice was arrested and transported to the Brevard County Jail where he was charged with Battery.

DISCLAIMER: Arrests and mugshots were made public by complaint affidavits, arrest affidavits, and police reports. All persons arrested are innocent until proven guilty.

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Pervert Conyers Quits After New Accuser Says He Fondled Her In Church

New accuser: Conyers ran hand up thigh in church

Washington — Another woman who worked for longtime U.S. Rep. John Conyers is accusing him of touching her inappropriately “by stroking and rubbing my thighs” and appearing naked before her.

Elisa Grubbs, who said she worked for Conyers from 2001-13, claims she also witnessed him touching and stroking the legs and buttocks of Marion Brown, Grubbs’ cousin, and other female employees of the congressman on “multiple occasions.”

“When Rep. Conyers would inappropriately touched me like this, my eyes would pop out and I would be stunned in disbelief,” Grubbs wrote in an affidavit posted on Twitter by Brown’s attorney, Lisa Bloom.

Rep. Conyers: ‘I am retiring today’

Conyers, the longest-serving member of the U.S. House, has repeatedly denied claims he mistreated staffers.

Calls for his resignation reached the highest levels of House leadership last week, as Brown and another accuser went public detailing his alleged misconduct.

Supporters held a rally in Detroit on Monday to call for Conyers to receive “due process” and for critics to stop pressuring him to step down.

 Bloom said Grubbs’ affidavit is the first of several she will release describing allegations that Conyers sexually harassed employees and “covered up complaints.”

“My client Marion Brown asks only for an acknowledgment and apology,” Bloom said on Twitter.

Grubbs described a time that Conyers slid his hand up her skirt while she was sitting next to him in the front row of a church.

She said she was startled and jumped to her feet, exclaiming, “He just ran his hand up my thigh!” — an incident she said was witnessed by other staffers.

On another occasion, she was at Conyers’ home when he emerged from the bathroom naked, she said. Grubbs ran out of the house.

 Grubbs said Conyers referred to her and Brown as “Big Girl Cousins” and would often say, “Those are some big girls.”

“Witnessing Rep. Conyers rub women’s thighs and buttocks and make comments about women’s physical attributes was a regular part of life while working in the office of Rep. Conyers,” Grubbs wrote.

Conyers’ lawyer, Arnold Reed, dismissed the new allegations late Monday.

“With regard to the latest #affidavit just released, this is nothing more than tomfoolery coming from the mouth of Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer and unworthy of further comment,” Reed tweeted.

Bloom had represented Weinstein, the Hollywood producer, against several claims of sexual harassment.

Brown broke a confidentiality agreement to go on NBC’s “Today Show” on Thursday, describing what led her to file a 2014 complaint against her boss, alleging she was fired for refusing his sexual advances.

Conyers settled Brown’s complaint for $27,000 using his taxpayer-funded office budget. Brown has offered to testify before the House Ethics Committee, which is investigating Conyers.

The Detroit News first reported last week that former staffer Deanna Maher said Conyers sexually harassed her, including inappropriately touching her, in three incidents spanning 1997 to 1999. And another former staffer filed a lawsuit in federal court this year alleging sexual harassment by Conyers but later withdrew the complaint to protect the congressman’s reputation.

Grubbs indicated in her affidavit that she’s also willing to testify under oath.

Grubbs attended a fundraiser with Conyers and Brown in 2005 at a Chicago hotel, where she overheard Conyers ask Brown to come to his hotel room because he needed her help with something, she said.

Grubbs said she later picked up her cousin, Brown, at the hotel and that she was “physically shaken and upset,” with red eyes.

“Ms. Brown then proceeded to tell me and my mother that, ‘That SOB just wanted me to have sex with him!” Grubb recalled.

Brown had said on NBC last week that Conyers had invited her to a hotel room in Chicago under the guise of discussing business but was in his underwear when she arrived.

“He asked me to satisfy him sexually,” Brown said. “He pointed to areas of, genital areas of his body, and asked me to, you know, touch it.”

Grubbs said Conyers regularly undressed in front of female employees and, at times, would call staffers in only to emerge from his private bathroom in his underwear.

Grubbs said she complained to Conyers’ chief of staff and to the staff director of the House Judiciary Committee on which Conyers serves.

“Despite my complaints, no action was taken and Rep. Conyers’ inappropriate conduct continued,” Grubbs wrote.

 

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2017/12/05/fourth-conyers-accuser-sex-harassment-claim/108324412/

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Supreme Court Allows Full Enforcement of Trump Travel Ban

Supreme Court allows full enforcement of Trump travel ban

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to fully enforce a ban on travel to the United States by residents of six mostly Muslim countries.

This is not a final ruling on the travel ban: Challenges to the policy are winding through the federal courts, and the justices themselves ultimately are expected to rule on its legality.

But the action indicates that the high court might eventually approve the latest version of the ban, announced by President Donald Trump in September. Lower courts have continued to find problems with the policy.

White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said the White House is “not surprised by today’s Supreme Court decision permitting immediate enforcement of the President’s proclamation limiting travel from countries presenting heightened risks of terrorism.”

Opponents of this and previous versions of the ban say they show a bias against Muslims. They say that was reinforced most recently by Trump’s retweets of anti-Muslim videos.

“President Trump’s anti-Muslim prejudice is no secret. He has repeatedly confirmed it, including just last week on Twitter. It’s unfortunate that the full ban can move forward for now, but this order does not address the merits of our claims,” said Omar Jadwat, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. The ACLU is representing some opponents of the ban.

Just two justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, noted their disagreement with court orders allowing the latest policy to take full effect.

The new policy is not expected to cause the chaos that ensued at airports when Trump rolled out his first ban without warning in January.

The ban applies to travelers from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. Lower courts had said people from those nations with a claim of a “bona fide” relationship with someone in the United States could not be kept out of the country. Grandparents, cousins and other relatives were among those courts said could not be excluded.

The courts were borrowing language the Supreme Court itself came up with last summer to allow partial enforcement of an earlier version of the ban.

Now, those relationships will no longer provide a blanket exemption from the ban, although visa officials can make exceptions on a case-by-case basis.

The justices offered no explanation for their order, but the administration had said that blocking the full ban was causing “irreparable harm” because the policy is based on legitimate national security and foreign policy concerns.

In lawsuits filed in Hawaii and Maryland, federal courts said the updated travel ban violated federal immigration law. The travel policy also applies to travelers from North Korea and to some Venezuelan government officials and their families, but the lawsuits did not challenge those restrictions. Also unaffected are refugees. A temporary ban on refugees expired in October.

All the rulings so far have been on a preliminary basis. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, will be holding arguments on the legality of the ban this week.

David Levine, a University of California Hastings law school professor, said that by allowing the ban to take effect just days before the appeals court arguments, the justices were signaling their view.

“I think it’s tipping the hand of the Supreme Court,” Levine said. “It suggests that from their understanding, the government is more likely to prevail on the merits than we might have thought.”

Both appeals courts are dealing with the issue on an accelerated basis, and the Supreme Court noted it expects those courts to reach decisions “with appropriate dispatch.”

Quick resolution by appellate courts would allow the Supreme Court to hear and decide the issue this term, by the end of June.

 

https://www.apnews.com/b8244def36484dfb93fd958962b7d649/Supreme-Court-allows-full-enforcement-of-Trump-travel-ban

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Filet-O-Fish vs. McNuggets? Brawl at McDonald’s

Two men were caught on video fighting each other in a McDonald’s drive-thru in the Australian city of Geraldton.

Footage of the violent brawl was posted on social media and began circulating online Sunday, The West Australian reports.

Originally posted by Instagram user Jedd Bumbak and shared by the account Brown Cardigan, speculation arose over what the men were fighting about.

“Cunt said Fillet O’Fish [sic] is better than Chicken Nuggets,” Brown Cardigan captioned the post.

Oddly enough, this statement sparked a debate over which of the two classic menu items is better.

“Fillet o fish are about as pleasant as a burning orphanage,” one user wrote.

“Nah fk anyone who thinks little baby chick bone cartilage nuggets are better than fresh organic fillet o fish,” another commented.

Others made their own suggestions of what started the fight.

“That’s how I feel when they tell me the soft serve machine isn’t working,” one user wrote.

“Probs just pissed off that hash browns are now $1.80 instead of a dollar,” suggested another.

This isn’t the first time McDonald’s has been the site of a physical altercation. Last month, two women at a drive-through in Indiana reportedly lunged through the window at the manager who told them they never ordered McNuggets and would have to go through the line again.

See video:  http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/12/04/footage-violent-mcdonalds-brawl-sparks-debate-over-filet-o-fish-vs-mcnuggets.html

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Another Pervert Congressman Revealed To Have Used Sexual Harassment Slush Fund

Another Democrat has been revealed to have used the controversial Congressional “slush fund” in 2006 to cover up sexual harassment allegations — Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York.

What were the accusations?

Meeks was not himself accused of sexual harassment, but a former staffer said that she was harassed by him and his office after she reported sexual harassment by an employee of a donor to the congressman, according to the Daily Caller.

Andrea Payne, then a congressional aide, sued after she was fired for filing a complaint at the Office of Compliance, the agency at the center of the sex predator slush fund controversy.

“This is an action to recover for damages sustained by plaintiff when Rep. Meeks violated her constitutional rights by retaliating against her, and ultimately terminating her employment, because of her sexual assault lawsuit,” said Payne’s attorneys in her subsequent lawsuit.

Payne had filed a lawsuit against a physical therapy clinic where she says an employee had sexually harassed her. The owner of the business was a donor of Meeks and angrily confronted him about the lawsuit, according to the Daily Caller.

Who else benefited from the harassment slush fund?

Democrats Rep. John Conyers (Mich.) and former Rep. Eric Massa (N.Y.) used the same agency to secretly settle accusations of sexual harassment, while Republican Rep. Blake Farenthold (Tex.) also benefited from the office’s services, all at taxpayers’ expense.

Here’s Rep. Meeks discussing John Conyers’ sexual harassment allegations

Meeks discussed the allegations of sexual harassment against Conyers in a segment on MSNBC that has taken on new meaning with the current revelations.

“The two highest forms of claims of discrimination are race and sex/gender, which is reflective of a systemic problem in America we have to address,” Meeks said at the time.

http://www.theblaze.com/?p=1446387