Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century.
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Charlie Kirk was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct.
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like fuck anyone saying this has nothing to do with the canucks and we should just ignore it. this is his son. this was reported by @rwesthead TODAY. forgive me for not being able to completely separate the two in my mind.
so now both of the men who facilitated the cover up of the assault of a player for over a decade are back beingemployed by nhl teams. just burn it all down this league is beyond saving
The fact Joel Quenneville is going to be back behind an NHL bench shows you how deeply rotten the league is. They care nothing for their players, for safety, or for the harmful human impact beyond the game. Nothing professional about this choice. Completely shameful. #NHL
crazy concept but i think if you have to do an extensive background check specific to a sexual assault cover-up you should maybe just look for a different candidate
John Doe/Black Ace 1's lawyers at Romanucci & Blandin put out a statement about Joel Quenneville's hiring:
“We are deeply troubled to hear about the hiring of Coach Q by another NHL team this week, despite his complicity in the Blackhawks’ clubhouse regarding sexual abuse of a player and now active litigation about sexual abuse of another player by a staff member. The leadership expected of a Head Coach and the decency expected as a human being should have guided him to protect these players at all costs. We hope and expect his new team will hold him and the entire management team to the highest standards of conduct and not sacrifice player well-being for winning.”
The Jenner & Block report that investigated the sexual assault that occurred in 2010 when Joel Quenneville was head coach of the Chicago Blackhawks is available online. Page 38 is where “what the team knew” begins.
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tw: sex assault
very cool that in the midst of a high profile rape trial involving numerous nhlers, 50% of the western conference gms were members of the 2010 blackhawks front office and quenneville gets hired.
par for the course for a league with no sex assault policy!
A refresher for those who don’t remember:
Quenneville actively worked to cover up the rape of one of his players, and then lied about his involvement right up until he was exposed. He wrote a glowing eval of the rapist afterward, who then went on to rape a child.
Washington Capitals forward Taylor Raddysh, reading from a statement he gave to an investigator in July 2018, testified that he heard “all the noise and stuff like that” coming from outside his hotel room early in the morning on June 19, 2018.
A Crown attorney asked Raddysh if the noise was coming from Michael McLeod’s hotel room next door.
Raddysh: “Yeah for sure there was talking and chattering… Hooting and hollering kind of thing.”
UCLA just sent riot police to beat up students who were screening a movie about how schools like UCLA sent riot police to beat up students supporting Palestine, on the one-year anniversary of UCLA calling riot police to beat up students supporting Palestine.
“who wants to be in a 3 way quick. 209- mikey.”
Crown attorney Heather Donkers told a court this is the text message Michael McLeod sent to his Team Canada teammates that set the stage for an hours-long alleged group sexual assault.
Donkers said that days after the incident in June 2018, players connected on a team group chat “making sure they all said the same thing to investigators.”