Sheriff’s officials said Jennifer Orey, 36, was shot during a surprise encounter with a deputy in her back yard Sunday night. The bullet first grazed her chest, then went through her arm and ricocheted off her pinky finger.
The incident occurred sometime after 10:25 p.m. as deputies were searching Orey’s neighborhood for a prowler. Someone in a ski mask reportedly had been seen in a driveway on Leigh Avenue.
Orey was at her home a few blocks away when she heard a noise outside, said her brother, James Morgan, who spoke with her in the hospital.
Thinking it might be her ex-husband returning home from work, a pajama-clad Orey went outside.
She told her brother she bumped into someone carrying a flashlight, and at some point identified herself as the homeowner.
The deputy’s gun, aimed at her chest “point blank,” went off as Orey turned to the side.
While we probably haven’t heard all of the details to this story yet, barring a surprising twist in the case, this certainly isn’t looking good for the Sheriff’s Department.
It’s my 3 a.m. nightmare. While we do not collect information about the immigration status of our patients, the fact that they will be uninsured could be taken as ‘code’ for also being undocumented.Alicia Wilson, Executive director for the La Clinica Del Pueblo community clinic in Washington, DC • Discussing an oft-ignored side effect of the Patient Protect and Affordable Care Act during an interview with Reuters. Healthcare officials fear that many of the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States may become more hesitant to seek medical attention following the law’s implementation, and they aren’t the only ones. “We were all aware of it,” says senior Obama healthcare advisor Ezekiel Emmanuel, adding, “It’s a visible consequence that we couldn’t do anything about given the politics of the situation.” source (via • follow)
Unhappy with the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Arizona’s controversial “papers please” law to stand, while throwing out other provisions of the bill, Rep. Luis Gutierrez challenged his fellow lawmakers to pick celebrity immigrants from a lineup that included Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber, Ted Koppel, and even Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Sonia Sotomayor. During his remarks, Gutierrez told colleagues that Arizona’s SB1070 wasn’t just an issue for those who may look like immigrants, but for “every American who cares about freedom.” source
LulzSec goes after Arizona law enforcement: They said they did so because of SB1070, a.k.a. last year’s controversial immigration law. This release, which certainly has shades of Wikileaks, seems like the motherlode compared to some of their other releases — training materials, confidential e-mails, intelligence bulletins and so on — you know, pretty much a primer on how law enforcement conducts itself in the state. Damn. And you thought the CIA hack was a big deal. Compared to this, it’s small potatoes.
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