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Man Wearing Pro-Gun T-shirt Thrown Out of Voting Booth

Election officials ejected a man from a voting booth in Texas because he was wearing a Second Amendment t-shirt.

Chris Driskill was prevented from voting at the Waller County Courthouse on Tuesday after officials claimed he was violating Texas Election Code section 85.036, which states that “a person may not electioneer for or against any candidate, measure, or political party” in or within 100 feet of a voting location.

“I heard a gentleman’s voice over my shoulder say ‘he can’t vote with that shirt on. You’ll have to either turn it inside out our you’ll have to leave,’” Driskill told KVUE.

The officials used the election law to throw Driskill out of the voting booth even though the shirt simply stated “Second Amendment – 1789 – America’s Original Homeland Security” on the front without any mention of a political candidate or proposition.

This is simply an attack on free speech through the color of law.

More to come as this story develops.

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Retired Cop Shoots Fellow Moviegoer to Death Over Texting and a Thrown Bag of Popcorn

Chad Oulson was texting his toddler when the argument that ended his life started. Will his shooter claim he was "standing his ground?"

A 71-year-old retired police officer man in has been charged with second-degree murder after shooting another man to death over the latter"s texting in a movie theater. 

Curtis Reeves, the armed retired officer, became enraged when Chad Oulson would not stop texting, despite a request to do so. The argument escalated into a  shouting match and Oulson purportedly threw his bag of popcorn at Reeves, who promptly removed his .380 caliber gun from his pants pocket and fired one fatal shot into the man"s chest. Oulson"s wife, who attempted to shield her husband"s chest from the bullet with her hand, was also injured. 

The movie playing throughout the real-life carnage was “Lone Survivor,” about Navy SEALS in Afghanistan. 

Oulson was immediately taken to a Tampa-area hospital, where he died shortly after arrival.

Charles Cummings, a retired combat Marine in Vietnam, who witnessed the shooting with his son expressed his horrified bewilderment to the Associated Press. 

“I can"t believe people would bring a pistol, a gun, to a movie theater,” he said. “I can"t believe they would argue and fight and shoot one another over popcorn. Over a cellphone.” 

Also according to AP, Reeves told detectives after he was arrested that Oulson struck him in the face with an unknown object, and that he “was in fear of being attacked.” 

Defense attorneys are now speculating whether Reeves will be able to invoke Florida"s “Stand your ground” law in his defense, the infamous statute used to defend, and ultimately acquit George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin. 

“Stand your ground does not limit it to just fear of death, stand your ground permits you to use deadly force if you think you"re abou tto suffer bodily harm,” said well known defense attorney Stephen Romine to KSDK. 

The next step in the case, say criminal law experts, will likely be the defense filing a stand your ground motion, at which point the judge will decide if the defense can be used. 

 

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Bananas thrown at Italy"s first black minister Cecile Kyenge

• Cecile Kyenge has been the target of death threats and racist antics


• She became Italy’s first black government minister in April


• The minister of integration was born in Congo and moved to Italy in the 1980s


• The far-right group Forza Nuova claims responsibility for the latest stunt

(CNN) — The racist taunts against Italy’s first black minister, Cecile Kyenge, took another ugly turn over the weekend when someone hurled bananas at her during a rally.

Kyenge is Italy’s minister of integration. And her appointment three months ago has not sat well with right-wing radicals whose racial slurs and antics have overshadowed her tenure.

The banana incident is just the latest.

It took place in the town of Cervia where Kyenge was speaking to supporters Friday.

Police have yet to find the person who hurled the bananas.

They fell short of the stage, landing between the first and second row of spectators, Italy’s ANSA news agency erported.

As she has with the other incidents, Kyenge shrugged off the episode.

In a Twitter post, she called it a sad waste of food when so many people are dying of hunger.

Kyenge, who was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, moved to Italy in the 1980s to study medicine. She became an Italian citizen and is an ophthalmologist in Modena.

While her ascent to a top government position reflects the success of immigrants, it also has stoked the flames of nativism.

Ominous mannequins

Just before Kyenge arrived for the rally, a group smeared blood-red paint and anti-immigrant messages onto mannequins.

“Immigration kills,” read signs attached to the dummies.

The far-right political group Forza Nuova (“New Force”) claimed responsibility for the mannequins.

The scene was also littered with fliers that said Italy’s future growth depends on “protecting the Italian identity,” according to ANSA.

Insults from other politicians

Two weeks ago, Italian Senator Roberto Calderoli likened Kyenge to an orangutan. Calderoli, a member of the anti-immigration Northern League party, made the remarks at a political rally.

“I love animals — bears and wolves, as everyone knows — but when I see the pictures of Kyenge, I cannot but think of, even if I’m not saying she is one, the features of an orangutan,” he was quoted as saying.

After his comments were published, Calderoli said “if I’ve offended her, I apologize.”

“It was a joke, a comment in a joking way. There was nothing particularly against her,” he said. “It was just my impression. … It is all very well that she be a minister, but in her own country. Given that this government needs to govern Italy, I hope that it is done by Italians.”

Kyenge responded diplomatically, saying Calderoli “does not need to ask forgiveness to me, but he should rather reflect on the political and institutional role that he carries. It is on this that he needs to make a profound reflection also to then apologize.”

“Also, he must go beyond putting everything on a personal level,” she added. “I think the time has come for us to study the problem of communication.”

Death threats

Kyenge has also received death threats before visiting an area where the Northern League is powerful.

A local politician recently said on Facebook that Kyenge should be raped so she can understand the pain felt by victims of crime, which some politicians blame on immigrants.

She’s been called a “Congolese monkey,” “Zulu” and “the black anti-Italian.” One Northern League official said “she seems like a great housekeeper,” but “not a government minister.”

Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta appealed to Northern League leader Roberto Maroni to “close this chapter right away.

CNN’s Livia Borghese and Hada Messia contributed to this report.

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