A police officer in Ohio was trying to shoot a family dog that was charging toward him, but missed and hit a 4-year-old girl instead, the Columbus Dispatch reports.
The little girl, identified as Ava Ellis, was hit in the right leg on Friday and taken to Children's Hospital, where she is expected to make a full recovery, the paper reports. The officer, who was not named, was following up on a hit-and-run case when he was flagged down by a woman who said her sister had cut herself.
"He went to see what was going on, and when he got close to the doorway, a dog charged at him," police spokeswoman Denise Alex-Bouzounis told the Columbus Dispatch. "He fired a shot to hold the dog back, missed the dog and accidentally struck the 4 year old in the leg."
The incident happened in Whitehall, a small city just outside Columbus.
The woman he went to check on, Andrea Ellis, was taken to the hospital as well for the cut.
Neighbors told the Dispatch the family owns two dogs that can't get out of the house because they wear shock collars.
Former President Donald Trump declared that he had a "very good day" after his attorney, Todd Blanche, cross-examined Michael Cohen in a Manhattan hush money trial on Tuesday.
Following the first day of Blanche's cross-examination of Cohen, Trump spoke to reporters outside the courtroom.
"As you know, I'm under a gag order, so I can't really answer those very simple questions that you're asking," he complained. "I'm under a gag order. Nobody's actually seen anything like it."
"And today, we had a very, I think, a very good day in court," the former president continued. "You see what's happening. And you'll have to report it because I can't talk about it too much."
Republicans flocked to a Lower Manhattan courthouse Tuesday as a show of solidarity with former President Donald Trump as he attends his criminal hush money trial, now in its fourth week.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, and Florida Rep. Cory Mills held a presser outside 100 Centre Street — all sporting dark blue suits, white collared shirts and red ties in a styled effort to pay their respects to the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee.
Isaiah Swift noticed the Trumpian uniform, writing: "All wearing the same tie. Interesting."
"Another edition of ‘Who wants to be VP’ reaches an excruciating climax," read an X post by Jezzytgl.
@asphyxious2 was blunt about the obvious fashion statement, tweeting: "Is that the ‘stand in court with the criminal leader of our party’ standard uniform they are all wearing?"
On MSNBC, Nicolle Wallace called the uniform "clownish."
Former prosecutor Andrew Weissmann added it reminded him of mob cases.
"There is not an organized crime case that I have ever done ... the main witness goes on and you know what you see in the back of the courtroom? The defendant's buddies, which are associatss and soldiers in the crime family, just as a show of support."
Burgum called the case and the way it's being tried a tragedy of justice.
"And of course we know from the polls that have come out even from The New York Times and Rasmussen Interactive — President Trump is leading all over the country," Burgum, a rising contender to be selected to his presidential ticket as Trump's Vice President.
"The conclusion you can reach from that is the American people have already acquitted Donald Trump because of the things that they're concerned about — inflation crime, the border, the economy — all of these things President Trump is leading by huge double digits versus Joe Biden."
He continued, "And the sooner this sham trial can be concluded the sooner the president can get back to campaigning about the issues that matter to them."
Also paying tribute was House Speaker Mike Johnson (though it appears he
didn't get the red tie memo that the others wore).
“This is a man who is clearly on a mission for personal revenge,” Johnson said taking aim at the 45th president's former fixer and attorney Michael Cohen who was on his third day of questioning in court on Tuesday. “He is someone who has a history of perjury. No one should believe a word he says in there.”
Former President Donald Trump's ally Rudy Giuliani could face contempt of court if he doesn't accept service of his indictment in Arizona soon.
According to The Washington Post, "A team of prosecutors and investigators for Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) has made multiple attempts to serve Giuliani a summons — essentially a formal notice that he has been criminally charged here and must appear before a judge May 21, said Richie Taylor, a spokesperson for the office.
"A person close to Giuliani said Tuesday that he keeps a busy schedule and that the April 24 indictment hasn’t slowed him down. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Giuliani’s activities."
Per the report, investigators working for Arizona traveled to New York City to try to serve the indictment at Giuliani's New York apartment, from where he had recently streamed content, but the person at the reception desk refused to accept the papers to give to Giuliani.
Giuliani is one of several Trump associates indicted as part of the fake electors investigation in Arizona. Indicted alongside him were Trump lawyers John Eastman, Christina Bobb and Jenna Ellis, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and GOP strategists Mike Roman and Boris Epshteyn.
This comes after Giuliani was also charged as part of the Georgia election racketeering case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a case where Trump himself was also charged. That is currently on hold as a state appeals court reviews an ethics hearing that allowed Willis to remain in charge of the case.
In addition to the criminal charges, Giuliani also faces a $148 million judgment for defaming a pair of election workers in Georgia, which has led to him declaring bankruptcy. In an added sting, he has reportedly been dropped by his accountant in the middle of those proceedings.
