Day: July 9, 2024
Milwaukee — The Rev. Al Sharpton is scheduled deliver a eulogy for a Black man who died last month after being pinned to the ground by hotel security guards in Milwaukee, his office said Tuesday.
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The death of Dvontaye Mitchell has drawn comparisons to the murder of George Floyd, a Black man killed in 2020 after a white police officer in Minneapolis knelt on his neck.
Sharpton, a longtime activist and leader who serves on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, said in a news release that he’ll speak at Mitchell’s funeral Thursday. The Republican National Convention opens just days later, on July 15, and law enforcement agencies are bracing for political protests around the convention arena in Wisconsin’s biggest city.
Sharpton said convention-goers need to know about Mitchell’s death.
“We cannot watch Dvontaye Mitchell’s murder be washed out by the RNC coming to town, where they will solidify a nominee whose view of justice is pure brute force,” Sharpton said, referring to former President Donald Trump.
Mitchell, 43, died on June 30 at the Hyatt Regency after four security guards held him down on his stomach, media outlets have reported. Police have said Mitchell entered the hotel, caused a disturbance and fought with the guards as they were escorting him out.
Mitchell’s family has hired civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represented Floyd’s family. His death spurred worldwide protests against racial violence and police brutality.
It’s unclear why Mitchell was at the hotel or what happened before the guards pinned him down. The Milwaukee County medical examiner’s initial report said Mitchell was homeless, but his family told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that’s not correct. Sharpton said in a news release announcing his Milwaukee visit that Mitchell’s mother said her son was suffering a “mental health episode.”
Police officials were still investigating Mitchell’s death on Tuesday, the Journal Sentinel reported. The police department responded to an Associated Press request for an update by emailing a statement saying that an unidentified individual had fought with security guards at the hotel on June 30 and was unresponsive when officers arrived.
The medical examiner’s office has said the preliminary cause of death was homicide but the cause remains under investigation. No one had been charged criminally as of Tuesday.
A spokesperson for Aimbridge Hospitality, which runs the Hyatt Regency in Milwaukee, told the Washington Post that the company extends its condolences to Mitchell’s family and supports the ongoing investigation.
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- The FBI is looking into sexual assault accusations against brothers Tal, Alon, and Oren Alexander.
- FBI agents are looking into accusations that span two decades, The Wall Street Journal reported.
- The Alexander brothers have denied all claims made against them.
Famous luxury real estate brothers well-known in New York and Miami are facing an FBI probe following multiple accusations of sexual assault, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Women who say they’ve been assaulted by real estate brothers Tal and Oren Alexander, along with their brother Alon, have spoken to FBI agents in the past few weeks, the Journal reported, citing a document and people familiar with the matter. The Journal reported that the agents are investigating accusations from the Alexanders’ high school years and the two decades since.
Attorneys for the brothers have denied the multiple accusations of sexual assault.
In a statement to the Journal, a lawyer for Oren and Alon said that they were “unaware of any basis for an FBI inquiry into our clients’ conduct. A lawyer for Tal told Business Insider that they “expect that anyone who investigates these matters will determine what we have— that Tal has done nothing wrong.”
Attorneys for Oren and Alon did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI. The FBI declined to confirm or deny the probe’s existence to Business Insider.
All three Alexander brothers have been accused of sexual assault over the past few months in civil lawsuits.
A June lawsuit filed by a woman named Angelica Parker claims that Tal and Alon raped her at a Manhattan apartment in 2012 while Oren watched. In March, two women filed civil lawsuits accusing Alon and Oren of rape.
The lawsuits were filed under New York’s Adult Survivor’s Act, which allows people to sue for sexual assault after the statute of limitations has passed.
Evan Torgan, who represents the two women in the March lawsuit, told the Journal that two dozen other women approached him with accusations of assault after they filed the suit.
Torgan did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI. An attorney for Parker declined to comment.
Five more women also came forward and told the Journal that they were sexually assaulted by Oren Alexander.
All three brothers have denied all claims made against them.
Oren and Tal are real estate agents connected to some of the country’s most expensive sales — including a $240 million New York apartment sold to Ken Griffin that holds the record for the most expensive home ever sold in the US. The brothers also cofounded the luxury real-estate brokerage Official.
Alon is an executive at his family’s private security firm, Kent Security.
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Rudy Giuliani, long ago praised as “America’s Mayor” for his leadership in New York City during the September 11 attacks, has seen himself fall from grace after latching himself on to Donald Trump. Now disbarred and facing a morass of legal and financial liability, Giuliani is back trying to help solve problems — though this time it’s a bit different.
Giuliani is helping MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who shares Giuliani’s tight embrace of Trump’s conspiracy theories, solve a problem. With Steve Bannon now in prison, Giuliani is helping Lindell by accepting a job offer as a replacement host on his FrankSpeech platform. In case you’re not familiar, this is a place that claims that “Americans are craving news and information that is not filtered through the radical worldview of today’s liberal media intelligentsia, or deep state actors.”
Lindell announced Giuliani’s new role with his typical bluster, proudly exclaiming “We hired him… He’s on my network now.” The role offers Giuliani an income along with a desperate belief that he can stay relevant and wanted on the airwaves despite what has been happening to him, even as he continues circling the drain.
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Lindell explained to Newsweek that he hired Giuliani after he was “cancelled” in May by WABC Radio for lying about the 2020 presidential election while hosting a daily show. Lindell also revealed that Giuliani will now be hosting a daily show throughout this week on FrankSpeech.
Giuliani’s latest chapter is more of the same—yet another stark reminder of how pathetically far he has fallen. As he embarks on this new venture, Giuliani succeeds only in positioning himself even further away from his once-respectable reputation.
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