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Contributed photo by Bradley County Sheriff s Office / Bradley County Sheriff s Office K-9 Joker got to go home last week after undergoing an MRI and CAT scan. Joker was shot Sept. 22 during a foot pursuit near Interstate 75 s exit 20. A Cleveland, Tennessee, lawmaker wants killing, attempting to kill or injuring a law enforcement K-9 to be a felony in Tennessee and has introduced legislation that could be dubbed Joker s Law if it passes the General Assembly.Rep. Mark Hall, R-Cleveland, said Tuesday in a telephone interview that he drafted t adidas originals uomo he bill during the House s recent special session on COVID-19 legislation to make killing or injuri chanclas yeezy ng a police K-9 a Class B felony, making it punishable by eight to 30 years in prison and up to a $25,000 fine. The measure would also include horses used by police.Hall said the proposed legislation is called Joker s Law, named for Bradley County Sheriff s Office K-9 Joker, who was shot during a pursuit of theft suspects on Sept. 22. Hall s legislation hasn t been assigned a House bill number yet, but he thinks it could become a model for the rest of the nation.Current law doesn t move the needle in a positive way, and I think this will. A Class B felony will certainly send a message not only to cr adidas campus shoes iminals in Tennessee but throughout the country, Hall said, calling the proposal pretty aggressive legislation, while it doesn t raise assaulting a K-9 to the same level as a human. READ MORE Nsdy Tennessee Republicans large and in charge of Legislature
BRETT ZONGKER, Associated PressWASHINGTON - A third-generation stone carver is engraving more than a dozen quotations from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in stanley website to the memorial that will honor the slain civil rights leader on the National Mall.For Nicholas Benson, 46, of Newport, R.I., such work is a family tradition. His father carved inscriptions for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, his grandfather carved inscriptions for the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington, Va., and Benson made in stanley cups scriptions for the World War II Memorial.Still, the King memorial has special significance for the calligrapher who won a $500,000 genius grant last year from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for preserving an artistic tradition with a family owned shop that was established in 1705 - one of the longest continuously running businesses in the nation. These are probably some of the finest words that I will ever carve in stone, Benson said at the memorial site Wednesday.A 450-foot in stanley canada scription wall will feature 14 quotations arcing behind a 30-foot-tall statue of King. The quotations were chosen in 2004 by a group of scholars led by Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. under the themes of love, hope, democracy and justice, said executive architect Ed Jackson Jr.Benson and his team are hand carving 2,085 letters for the quotations. Each letter takes about an hour to complete. Benson expects to finish the project by the end of June.Much of the construction already is finished, though
Contributed photo by Bradley County Sheriff s Office / Bradley County Sheriff s Office K-9 Joker got to go home last week after undergoing an MRI and CAT scan. Joker was shot Sept. 22 during a foot pursuit near Interstate 75 s exit 20. A Cleveland, Tennessee, lawmaker wants killing, attempting to kill or injuring a law enforcement K-9 to be a felony in Tennessee and has introduced legislation that could be dubbed Joker s Law if it passes the General Assembly.Rep. Mark Hall, R-Cleveland, said Tuesday in a telephone interview that he drafted t adidas originals uomo he bill during the House s recent special session on COVID-19 legislation to make killing or injuri chanclas yeezy ng a police K-9 a Class B felony, making it punishable by eight to 30 years in prison and up to a $25,000 fine. The measure would also include horses used by police.Hall said the proposed legislation is called Joker s Law, named for Bradley County Sheriff s Office K-9 Joker, who was shot during a pursuit of theft suspects on Sept. 22. Hall s legislation hasn t been assigned a House bill number yet, but he thinks it could become a model for the rest of the nation.Current law doesn t move the needle in a positive way, and I think this will. A Class B felony will certainly send a message not only to cr adidas campus shoes iminals in Tennessee but throughout the country, Hall said, calling the proposal pretty aggressive legislation, while it doesn t raise assaulting a K-9 to the same level as a human. READ MORE Nsdy Tennessee Republicans large and in charge of Legislature
BRETT ZONGKER, Associated PressWASHINGTON - A third-generation stone carver is engraving more than a dozen quotations from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in stanley website to the memorial that will honor the slain civil rights leader on the National Mall.For Nicholas Benson, 46, of Newport, R.I., such work is a family tradition. His father carved inscriptions for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, his grandfather carved inscriptions for the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington, Va., and Benson made in stanley cups scriptions for the World War II Memorial.Still, the King memorial has special significance for the calligrapher who won a $500,000 genius grant last year from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for preserving an artistic tradition with a family owned shop that was established in 1705 - one of the longest continuously running businesses in the nation. These are probably some of the finest words that I will ever carve in stone, Benson said at the memorial site Wednesday.A 450-foot in stanley canada scription wall will feature 14 quotations arcing behind a 30-foot-tall statue of King. The quotations were chosen in 2004 by a group of scholars led by Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. under the themes of love, hope, democracy and justice, said executive architect Ed Jackson Jr.Benson and his team are hand carving 2,085 letters for the quotations. Each letter takes about an hour to complete. Benson expects to finish the project by the end of June.Much of the construction already is finished, though
