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Former Alabama trooper shoots Democratic district attorney in the face in ambush

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In a strange and gruesome incident, Greg Griggers, the district attorney for Alabama’s 17th Judicial Circuit, was shot in the face by a former Alabama state trooper early Thursday afternoon, reports AL.com.

The former state trooper, identified as Steve Smith, was shot to death by law enforcement at the scene.

“Griggers got shot in the face and they killed the ex-state trooper who shot him,” Michael Jackson, another DA, told AL.com Thursday afternoon.

“They say he’s going to recover,” Jackson said. “I got an investigator going down there [to Demopolis] right now, and they’re going to give me updates.”

WVUA 23 in Tuscaloosa reported that Griggers had been ambushed waiting in his car. Smith fired several rounds from a shotgun just after 12:45 p.m. on the main street of downtown Demopolis, Marengo County’s largest city.

Griggers was hospitalized after the attack but was released Thursday afternoon.

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The motive for the shooting is unclear. Griggers, a Democrat, has served as district attorney since January 2003.

“It’s very, very shocking,” said Capt. Jason Roberts with Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s State Bureau of Investigation told Tuscaloosa News.

“We’re very early in this investigation,” he said. “All we know at this point is that the district attorney was fired upon in an ambush-style shooting and we will be investigating it as an independent investigation.”

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Maryland school calls cops on young black student for playing with ‘toy money’

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Maryland resident Tiffany Kelly is outraged after a local school called the police on her 10-year-old son for playing with play money, reported The Giro.

Kelly said that school officials called the police after her son was seen passing out the play money on the school bus.

"On May 14, 2019, my son took play money to school (purchased from Amazon). He is excited about money and learning to count 'his money.' In an attempt for socialization, something he struggles with, he passed it out on the school bus to his peers. The money has bright pink Asian symbols on the front and back, along with dotted lines, so that it can be distinguished as play money," Kelly wrote on a petition platform for the case.

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House Oversight Committee votes to hold Bill Barr and Wilbur Ross in contempt for stonewalling Census investigation

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On Wednesday, the House Oversight Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for their refusal to cooperate with the investigation into how the Trump administration is rigging the 2020 Census against Democrats and people of color.

In a statement prior to the vote, a spokesperson for House Oversight chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said that the Justice Department and the Commerce Department "have made no commitment or counter-offer regarding any of the critical documents in our subpoenas."

The Trump administration invoked executive privilege over the Census documents ahead of the vote.

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REVEALED: Feds have classified info suggesting Chinese espionage operation targeted Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club

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A new court filing this week suggests that federal law enforcement officials have classified information about a Chinese espionage operation that nearly succeeded in infiltrating President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club.

The Miami Herald reports that "federal prosecutors have disclosed they are developing a potential national security case against Yujing Zhang, the 33-year-old Chinese woman charged with unlawfully entering Mar-a-Lago with a stash of electronic equipment."

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