New York Mets star Yoenis Cespedes said he is opting out of the baseball season for 'COVID-related reasons', hours after sparking panic by not showing up for a game. Cespedes was expected at the Atlanta Braves stadium for Sunday's game, The New York Post reports. It later emerged the player, 34, had left his team's hotel without telling his teammates or management, leaving them to find his room empty. The coronavirus had already forced another change in Major League Baseball's schedule Friday, bringing the league's total to eight teams affected in the first nine days of the season. The game between St. Louis and Milwaukee was postponed after two Cardinals players tested positive for the coronavirus. Two other games scheduled for Friday involving the Marlins, Nationals, Blue Jays and Phillies had already been postponed because of an outbreak among Miami players and two positive tests on Philadelphia's coaching staff.
A group of football players in the Pac-12 conference threatened to opt out of the coming season unless their concerns about competing during the COVID-19 pandemic and other racial and economic issues in college sports are addressed. The players posted a statement and list of demands on The Players' Tribune website and social media with the hashtag #WeAreUnited and sent out a news release to reporters. The release listed the names of 13 Pac-12 players from 10 schools, including Oregon star safety Jevon Holland, and provided a statement from each one. A group of football players in the Pac-12 conference threatened to opt out of the coming season unless their concerns about competing during the COVID-19 pandemic and other racial and economic issues in college sports are addressed. The players posted a statement and list of demands on The Players' Tribune website and social media with the hashtag #WeAreUnited and sent out a news release to reporters.
Portland records deadliest month in 30 years, FOX NEWS reported. At least 15 people were killed in Portland during the month of July, which was the highest number of deadly shootings or stabbings in a single month since the 1980s, according to authorities. Police Chief Chuck Lovell addressed last month's violence which ended on Friday following a 150-round shooting at an apartment building in the city. So far this year, 24 people in Portland have died in homicides. To solve the recent crimes, Lovell said the police bureau pulled officers from an “already diminished patrol” unit to help work on follow-up investigations. He remarked how the bureau was forced to cut its Gun Violence Reduction Team at the direction of the City Council, which has made their job more difficult. The 34-member team was broken up on July 1 following budget cuts to police units that reportedly targeted a disproportionate number of Black people in traffic stops.
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WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT! In Ukraine, a terrorist with grenade took a hostage and was killed by a #SWAT sniper. Later the grenade exploded, the hostage was not injured.
SWAT detained a man who seized a bank branch in the center of Kiev. A man suspected to be armed took a hostage in a bank office in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Monday but has made no demands yet, deputy interior minister Anton Gerashchenko said. Gerashchenko wrote on Facebook that the man came to the bank at midday, told employees there he had a bomb in his backpack and asked them to call police. "Employees of the banking institution left the office while the head of the branch remained there (as hostage). Police have begun negotiations with the terrorist and asked him to surrender," Gerashchenko said. Later he told a local television that the man demanded to give interviews to journalists. It was the third such incident in recent weeks. Last month, an armed man held 13 people captive on a bus for hours before freeing them. He was arrested. On Another man took a senior police officer hostage in central Ukrainian city of Poltava before being shot dead by police on Saturday.
Arkansas BLM hyenas traveled to Zinc, Arkansas, to march on the Ku Klux Klan's Grand Wizard's hometown and compound Sunday. The protest comes just four days after a viral video labeled nearby Harrison, Arkansas, as being 'America's Most Racist Town' and the 'Ku Klux Klan's headquarters.' The KKK's website claims its national headquarters to be in Harrison and that its national director, Thomas Robb, uses at least three post office boxes there, the Springfield News-Leader reported. Sunday's protest was organized by Bridge the Gap NWA and also promoted by Ozarks Hate Watch, drawing Black Lives Matters hyenas from as far away as Branson and Springfield.The protesters met at the Harrison Police Department before traveling in a caravan towards Zinc. Along the road to Zinc, the protesters' caravan passed people holding signs that read 'Turn back,' according to photos shared on Ozarks Hate Watch's Facebook page.
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A Florida man was arrested Saturday after worrying citizens who spotted him walking down a road while waving a gun in one hand and holding an alcoholic beverage in the other. Deputies responded shortly before noon to reports of a man pointing a gun at vehicles driving along a street in Wimauma, about 30 miles southeast of Tampa, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. Deputies said 66-year-old Eric Ricardo Felder was holding and “carelessly waving” a loaded .380 Smith and Wesson revolver in one hand and a Blue Moon beer in the other when they arrived. Felder was taken into custody without incident, the sheriff’s office said. He faces multiple charges, which include felon in possession of a firearm, two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, use of a firearm while intoxicated, improper exhibition of a dangerous weapon, and resisting arrest without violence.