The shooting of Chad Read, a Texas Clusterfuck... Some thoughts
]Warming - there's a fatal shooting almost right away. Five minutes in and the graphic violence is over though.]
On November 5th,2021, divorced father Chad Read got into an argument with his ex wife, ex-wife, Christina Read, over visitation. She planned on keeping the kids 3 hours past her court ordered visitation time and Chad was not having it.
This brief but heated argument ended with Chad dead at the hands of his wife's boyfriend, William Kyle Carruth.
Was it self defense or murder? Well, police in Lubbock, Texas has not charged Carruth with anything as of yesterday, and there is an argument for self defense under Texas law.
Links I mentioned (or should have) in the live stream -
This was posted with Chinese writing on different social media. After a couple questions I was able to find that this occurred today in Hong Kong.
Please note that the masked side has many weapons, including telescoping clubs, bear spray and shotguns. These weapons make me think they are CPR related.
Information on the street fight was sparse, when questioned one former Hong Kong resident answered that the masked and armed folks in here were either so-called undercover HK police who had no identification or warrant or written authorization to act in this fashion.
It was also suggested that they might have been plants or agents from the CPR (Chinese People's Republic) sent in to help destablize Hong Kong and delegitimize its rule.
Other questions were not answered but it might be related to this story from Reuters - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-parliament-hongkong/china-set-to-impose-new-hong-kong-security-law-trump-warns-of-strong-u-s-reaction-idUSKBN22X19C
This footage is mine. I am not crediting the person who took or shared the video fearing they might face reprisals in their country.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVkkJQigpXo
[Note: I'm bitching throughout this post. I have no regerts. Ignore the words.]
It's been a weird month.
I got a 30 day ban on FB for sharing a Deep Fake video of Hitler and Stalin singing "Radio Killed the Video Star". It's Marky's site so he can ban who he wants, but I still don't get why he let the offending video sit on a page for 30 days(+/-) before deciding it violated community standards and warranted a long suspension. I'm still in the middle of a 60 day suspension from live streaming on FB.
And speaking of being banned from live streaming on FB, the other day YouTube followed suit. My 11 second promo video for a live stream talking about Medicare for All was banned for violating YT's "spam, deceptive practices and scams” policy. This scotched the planned live stream, in fact no live streaming till mid February and no posting of any videos for another week or so.
I plead guilty for not playing nicely - maybe. But I really don't understand how a discussion of M4A was spammy. I just don't get it at all.
Looking at the new rules on words and thoughts you can use on social media, I worry - not just for me, but for you other malcontents.
Side note - but very important side note: if you ask that companies to stop people from saying mean things you can be sure they will. But you cannot be sure that your own words will not be considered mean. Take note.
Anyhow, I have found LBRY/Odysee (a P2P/crypto type) as a place to post videos.
And as for streaming, I've started a Twitch channel. Knowing how well I work with social media I'm pretty sure my channel will get banned by my third stream, likely for music copyright violations. I’m so sloppy in caring about these things.
Let me wrap this shit up by mentioning I was motivated to to go off like this after finding that while able to post pictures here on Instagram I was not allowed to like any friends' posts. Who makes these fucking rules anyhow?
If you've made it this far - and you haven't - please know that this picture has nothing to do with the post. Also, I am recovering from Covid.
Hope your day goes well.
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Wm. Lowe was a bit odd and rather nice. I was always happy to see him come into the snack shop I managed. While a lot of guys from the long term facility for vets were rattled and had communication issues, Bill was easy to talk to, and like many vets he had his stories.
My guess is that like a lot of old guys, William was not made for this current world. Maybe he'd have been better suited for the more noir times of the late 40's and early 50's.
I miss him.
Caught in quarantine i seem to have a bit of time on my hand and have opted to fill part of it with remasters and reposts of old videos. With any luck they are a bit better than they were.
This video, The Poetry of Wm Lowe, is a re-edited version of something I had up a while back. I've changed the lighting to something more low contrast - an attempted homage the low res TV signals from his youth and the audio stepped up a bit to better capture his voice.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoI_7V1SiMU
I could have finished my taxes, gone for a walk or engaged in some sort of self improvement. But why do that when you can fuck off for an hour or recording and editing a video of a rare, April 2nd snowfall?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUAiqlMZDsM