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Lyft Driver Suffers Unprovoked Attack; Needs Help

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Tuesday August 08, 2017 · 5:59 PM PDT

2017/08/08 · 17:59

Photo of Tenicia Bennett, the Lyft driver attacked. Courtesy CBS Los Angeles

Hi everyone. My name is Constance and I have been a Daily Kos member for a few years. I just rarely post comments. Yesterday, I heard about a Lyft driver named Tenicia Bennett who was attacked recently by two complete strangers. Tenicia claims that she was at a gas station, when a woman at the gas station got out of her car and attacked her for no reason. The driver of the car also attacked Tenicia. Tenicia claims that in addition to the attack, the two women also stole her rent money and cell phone. She has set up a gofundme page to help pay her rent.

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I have donated $40.00 to Tenicia’s go fund me account. If anyone else would like to donate, I am sure that she would appreciate it. Tenicia is asking for $1,600 to replace the money that stolen. She is a single mother of an infant and she said that money was going towards her rent.

www.gofundme.com/...

NYPD Officers Hogtie a Live Man & Put Him In A Body Bag

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Tuesday March 29, 2016 · 4:32 PM PDT

2016/03/29 · 16:32

I have been a member of Daily Kos for a while but I comment seldom. But when I came across the video that I posted below, I just knew that I had to share it with people. On March 18, 2016 a man named Johnell Muhammad was questioned by police for not paying his subway fare. The cops claim that he assaulted them and needing to find a way to safely take him into custody, Muhammad was escorted out of the station, placed face first on the ground, had his hands and feet bound and was then placed face down inside a large ‘body’ bag to further subdue him. According to the police, Muhammad’s feet and hands being bound were not enough to prevent him from hurting himself or someone else. I have been thinking about this video since I first saw it on Sunday and I just don’t understand how not paying a $2.75 subway fare escalated to this point.

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The Gothamist did some follow up on this case and according to a hospital employee that was interviewed, the EDP, or Emotionally Disturbed Persons bags that was used here are used quite regularly under certain circumstances. However, the hospital employee claimed to have never seen a person’s entire head be placed inside the bag like what happened to Muhammad.

In case you are wondering what happened to Muhammad, he was kept in the bag for 20 minutes while waiting for an ambulance and then taken to a hospital and then from the hospital, Muhammad was taken to the Manhattan Detention Complex and booked on numerous charges.

New NBC/Marist Polls Tonight

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Thursday October 25, 2012 · 12:17 PM PDT

2012/10/25 · 12:17

I don't know if anyone is aware but new NBC/WSJ/Marist polls of Colorado and Nevada are going to be released tonight at 6:30. Hopefully they'll be good for the president.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/

Also remember that pollsters got some senate races with large latino populations wrong per Nate Silver

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/...

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