Month: June 2019

A mother saved her five year old son from a mountain lion attack in Colorado.

The attack occurred Friday night. The mother, who is yet to be identified, ran outside when she heard screams. Her five year old son had been playing with an older brother when a mountain lion arrived.

“[She] was able to physically remove her son from the mountain lion,” reported Alex Burchetta, spokesperson for the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office. “[She] had to physically remove the lion’s paws from her son’s face.”

She received minor injuries to her hands and legs as a result of the altercation. Her son suffered injuries to his face head and neck, but the Aspen Valley Hospital reported that he was in fair condition.

The boy was transferred to a hospital in Denver, Colorado. The mother has been released from the hospital.

“[The increase in mountain lion sightings is] likely due to a growing human population encroaching on lion habitat in conjunction with a robust lion population in the state,” explained Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

According to the CPW, such lion attacks are rarely aimed at humans. Statistically there have been less than a dozen humans killed by mountain lions in North America over the last 100 years.

“Most of the attacks were by young lions, perhaps forced out to hunt on their own and not yet living in established areas,” continued Colorado Parks and Wildlife. “Young lions may key in on easy prey, like pets and small children.”

The company, Just Add a Kid felt the full force of the internet when they placed a T-shirt with a monkey print with a cardboard cutout headpiece of a child of African descent. Twitter went to a stand still when someone uploaded the photo.

The company quickly came to the defense of their line saying that it was misunderstood and taken out of context. “We are looking into all the situations that led to this little incident, ” said Co-creator Lowell Cohen. “We are looking at the vendor; we are speaking to the employees.”

The company makes children’s clothes says that their concept is to make think they can be anyone and anything. The T-shirts are animated animals, professions and people doing different activities. They place the cardboard cutout of children from various descents, but in no way did they authorize the placing of the child cut out of African heritage with the monkey.

“The head shots on our hangers are intended to show the different cultures of our happy customer, and are distributed separately from the clothes,” said Lowell Cohen. “This this case one of our retailers paired a particular hanger with the T-shirt not considering how it may affect customers.”

The organization has declined to mention the name of the retail shop or its location fearing action from angry customers. He did try and distance the company by saying that the cut out hangers and the clothes are sent separately, and it is up to the retailer to hang them as they please.

Diamond Reynolds streams live footage of her boyfriend being shot on Facebook. The boyfriend is seen leaning back in the driver seat, breathing heavily in pain. Diamond is holding up her phone saying that her boyfriend told the cop that he was licensed and that he had a firearm, but he was only reaching for his license.

The officer tells him to put his hands up, and as he did, the police shot him four times. The lady kept pleading with the cop throughout the video telling him that her boyfriend was licensed and that he did say to him that he had a firearm.

The police’s face is not seen, but you can hear his agitated voice as he tells the woman not to move her hands. “He let the officer know that he had a firearm, and he was reaching for his wallet and the police just shot him in his arm,” says Reynolds in her broadcast. “Please don’t tell me this, Lord. Please, Jesus, don’t tell me that he’s gone. Please, officer, don’t tell me that you just did this to him. You shot four bullets into him, sir. He was just getting his license and registration, sir.”

The most disturbing bit about the video is that the couple was with their daughter, and she experienced every grisly moment of her dad being shot and her mother being arrested and taken to the station. She is heard several times in the background as the mom is being arrested, telling the police to let her go with her mother to the back of the patrol car.