Death by Cop: Newly-released video reveals that Louisiana state troopers lied when they said that black motorist Ronald Greene died of injuries in 2019 when he crashed after a brief chase.

  It’s a case that adds to the horror stories of black Americans at the hands of police.

  The troopers’ body camera video shows that the 49-year-old Greene survived the crash unhurt, but was jolted with a stun gun and thrown to the ground as he screamed “I’m sorry” and “I’m scared.” The troopers had tried to stop Green for a minor traffic violation and he led them on a chase.

  Forty-six minutes of video footage show that Greene was put in a chokehold and punched in the facealthough he was not resisting. One trooper drags Greene by handcuffs on his ankles as he lay on the ground.

  Greene was face down for nine minutes bleeding and moaning before he was loaded unresponsive into an ambulance. One trooper can be heard saying, “Choked him and everything else, trying to get him under control.”

  The autopsy report provides a vague cause of death saying Greene died of “cocaine induced agitated delirium complicated by motor vehicle collision, physical struggle, inflicted head injury, and restraint.” 

  One of the troopers involved is being fired for using excessive force in a different case and another died in a crash. Greene’s death is under investigation by the FBI and Greene’s family has filed a wrongful death suit.

Viral News: The official toll is about 3.4 million, but the World Health Organization says six to eight million people may have died from Covid-19 or related causes since the start of the pandemic. 

  It’s an assessment arrived at by subtracting the number of Covid deaths from the total number of world deaths then comparing that to the statistically predictable number of deaths before the pandemic. 

  India this past Wednesday set a world record for Covid deaths in a day – 4,500. The US previously set the record at 4,400 on January 2^nd. Here in the US, 589,224 people have died of Covid-19 compared to 295,525 in India, which has nearly 1.4 billion people. 

Horrific Hour: As the cease fire continues to hold between Gaza and Israel, NY Times reporter Iyad Abuheweila, who grew up in Gaza and reports from there, writes that, “I’ve never endured a longer or more horrific hour than I did beginning at about 6 a.m. on May 12.”

  Abuheweila describes a difficult night of sporadic explosions and outgoing rockets. Early in the morning he was talking to a friend on the phone who said,  “Maybe this is the quiet before the storm.”

  The reporter wrote, “I wish he hadn’t said that. Moments later, Gaza erupted with the most violent and powerful explosions of my life. It felt like blast waves were hitting my face and body. It felt like our neighborhood was under attack. I staggered to my window to look outside. I got scared — Israel was lashing out, striking randomly and everywhere.” 

  He lives in a house with his parents and siblings. He wrote, “We moved from one room to another, debating whether this or that room was safer, whether the courtyard was too close to the street. There was no basement, no bomb shelter.

  Abuheweila’s 23-year-old brother Asaad said, “We have no option but to die.” 

Abuheweila’s  wrote, “Ayman, the youngest, said he wanted to run away to a safer place. But my mother said no. ‘Where are you going to go?’ she said. ‘There are no safer places. There is no safer place. Die with me.’”

Wild About Harry: Britain’s Prince Harry said he’s struggled with his mental health as a member of the royal family admitting that he used alcohol and drugs to cope with personal trauma.

  “I was willing to drink, I was willing to take drugs, willing to try and do the things that made me feel less like I was feeling,” he said in a newly released interview. He said he struggled for years with grief over the death of his mother, Princess Diana.

  Harry spoke for a mental health documentary series co-produced with Oprah Winfrey. The prince said he had been “all over the place, mentally” in addressing the death of his mother, who was killed in a car crash in 1997.

  “I would probably drink a week’s worth in one day on a Friday or a Saturday night and I would find myself drinking not because I was enjoying it but because I was trying to mask something,” the 36-year-old said. 

  He said, “I thought my family would help but every single ask, request, warning, whatever it is, just got met with total silence or total neglect.”

Tabloid News: One of the challengers to Wyoming Republican Liz Cheney’s seat in Congress is a state senator who admits that he got a 14-year-old girl pregnant when he was 18. They were married, had a child, divorced and his ex committed suicide at age 20.

  State Sen. Anthony Bouchard in a Facebook livestream also critiqued his son, the product of that union, saying “he’s made some wrong choices in his life” and “I certainly don’t approve” of “some of the things that he’s got going on in his life.”

  Then Bouchard lamented to the Star-Tribune newspaper that “dirty politics” are “why good people don’t run for office,” then vowed to stay in the primary race. He said, “Bring it on.” 

Peace Upon You: Furthering Republican denial of the seriousness of the January 6th Capitol insurrection, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson said on Fox News Thursday night that “By and large it was a peaceful protest.” 

  California Democrat Eric Swalwell tweeted in response, “By and large it was a peaceful air show over Pearl Harbor”

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