The Latest on a Wisconsin shooting that killed a firefighter in Appleton and left another guy useless
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Authorities in Wisconsin have recognized a man who they say exchanged gunfire with police this week, leading to his loss of life and that of a firefighter.
In Wausau, Ruben Houston, where the challenge of a clinical name to a bus close to downtown Appleton on Wednesday afternoon. Police say Houston became handled by emergency personnel, but after he walked far from the bus, the incident escalated, and pictures were fired.
Appleton firefighter Mitchell Lundgaard changed into shot and killed.
Court records display that Houston was charged in Fond du Lac County last month with medication ownership with intent to promote. He turned into unfastened on bond when Wednesday’s events spread out.
Houston also turned charged with disorderly conduct and battery in Marathon County. Both the one’s costs had been dismissed in January.
Fire departments beyond Appleton support that town’s firefighters who have misplaced a comrade in a shooting at a transit center.
The Neenah-Menasha Fire and Rescue Department despatched peer counselors to Appleton fireplace stations and are helping staff them as the nearby firefighters attend meetings related to the death of colleague Mitchell Lundgaard.
The 36-yr-antique firefighter were killed, and others were injured in a shooting at Valley Transit in downtown Appleton Wednesday.
Post-Crescent Media says Green Bay Fire Chief David Litton and the department’s union president went to Appleton to assist local firefighters. The Appleton Fire Department chaplain becomes busy supporting Lundgaard’s family, so Green Bay also despatched its chaplain to Appleton.
Lundgaard is the first Appleton firefighter in 86 years to die inside the line of obligation.
The dust jacket of Michael Massing’s The Fix summarizes his thesis in formidable pink letters: “Under the Nixon Administration, America Had an Effective Drug Policy. WE SHOULD RESTORE IT. (Nixon Was Right).” That is a quite outstanding declare to make concerning management that won workplace in large element thru the “Southern Strategy” that had at its heart Nixon’s declaration of a “War on Drugs” and whose guidelines created the cocaine epidemic that precipitated such a lot of new issues a decade later. At most, I could agree that the Nixon administration’s pursuit of an essentially terrible coverage covered a few worthwhile efforts which have been devalued by using each subsequent administration.
This changed into not because Nixon or his closest advisers had been proper approximately drug coverage however because Nixon changed into greater inquisitive about foreign policy troubles and his benign neglect of home policy allowed some of the fantastic trends to blossom inside the midst of the mire of incompetence and corruption that characterized his presidency.
Perceptively concluding that “guidelines being formulated in Washington these days undergo little relation to what’s taking location on the road,” Massing attempts to depict the real results of drug coverage at the street level. Unfortunately, he doesn’t rely on the epidemiologic proof or read the careful analyses conducted using researchers like myself who’ve systematically examined what is without a doubt taking region on the street. Instead, he relies on the journalist’s ordinary — and usually misleading — device of dramatic anecdotes.
Massing’s anecdotal case is presented through the tales of Raphael Flores and Yvonne Hamilton. Flores runs Hot Line Cares, a drop-in middle for addicts in Spanish Harlem. Hot Line Cares, which Flores based in 1970, is basically only a cramped workplace in of an in any other case abandoned tenement wherein Flores, and his group of workers recommend and help addicts who need to get into remedy. Given the fragmented state of drug abuse treatment in New York City and most different American communities, it is no smooth undertaking to attach addicts with suitable care and even tougher to attach them with good enough aftercare. Massing writes, “If a Holiday Inn is full, it’ll at the least name the Ramada down the road to look if it has a vacancy. Not so two treatment packages.”
