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Riverside County Deputy Isaiah Cordero mourned by community, colleagues after he was slain by suspected killer William Shae McKay
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KABC) — Community members and fellow law enforcement colleagues are mourning the loss of Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Isaiah Cordero, who was killed in the line of duty.
Loved ones brought flowers and candles in Cordero’s memory to a growing memorial for the beloved deputy at the Jurupa Valley Sheriff’s Station on Friday – many giving each other hugs as they shed tears.
Area resident Alicia Caloca remembered Cordero as a joyful person, who always smiled and looked happy.
The beloved deputy, 32, was shot and killed Thursday in the line of duty during a traffic stop. He had pulled over a pickup truck just before 2 p.m. in Jurupa Valley. As he approached the vehicle, the driver pulled a gun and shot him, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said at a Thursday evening news conference.
A witness called 911 and residents tried to help Cordero until paramedics arrived but he was pronounced dead at a hospital.
A massive manhunt then began for the shooter, who spotted in San Bernardino County, sparking a chase on freeways through both counties. A spike strip disabled two rear wheels but the truck kept going, the sheriff said.
News video showed dozens of California Highway Patrol and Sheriff’s Department vehicles, including an armored SWAT vehicle, chasing the truck.
On the 15 Freeway in Norco, the truck finally became disabled, losing an axle, and crashed, Bianco said.
“At the conclusion of the pursuit, the suspect fired rounds at deputies” with a handgun and they shot back, killing him, Bianco said.
The suspect, William Shae McKay, 44, of San Bernardino County, had a long and violent criminal history stretching back to before 2000 that included kidnapping, robbery and multiple arrests for assault with a deadly weapon, including a 2021 police chase in which a California Highway Patrol dog was stabbed, allegedly by an accomplice of McKay, the sheriff said.
William Shae McKay, 44, of San Bernardino County, is seen in a previous booking photo released by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.
According to Bianco, McKay had been convicted of a “third strike” offense last year that should have put him in state prison for 25 years to life, but a San Bernardino County judge lowered his bail, allowing his release, and later released him following an arrest for failing to appear at his sentencing.
“He should have been immediately sentenced to 25 years to life,” Bianco said. “We would not be here today if the judge had done her job.” Bianco said.
Caloca, who brought flowers Friday morning to the Jurupa Valley Sheriff’s Station to honor Cordero, believes the deputy’s death did not have to happen.
“This could have been prevented. It just kind of makes you more angry and a little bit more upset about how the system can be,” she said.
El Monte police officers delivered breakfast to the Jurupa Valley Sheriff’s Station. They understand this community’s pain.
“I felt like my heart dropped,” said Ruben Quintana with El Monte Police.
Back in June, El Monte Police Sgt. Michael Paredes and Officer Joseph Santana were gunned down at a motel while a investigating a crime.
“My heart goes out to them. If I had a magic wand, I would wave it and rewind time. But unfortunately life doesn’t work that way. All I can do is offer my support in any way that I can,” Quintana said. “We grieve and mourn with them.”
Cordero was a motorcycle officer assigned to Jurupa Valley, a city that contracts with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department for policing services.
Cordero joined the 4,000-member strong department as a corrections deputy, worked in local jails, became a sworn deputy in 2018 and completed motor school to become a motorcycle deputy in September, Bianco said.
Cordero “learned from his mother the value of serving and helping others” and his goal at the department was always to become a motor deputy, Bianco said.
“He was naturally drawn to law enforcement and certainly embodied our motto of service above self,” Bianco said. “He was a jokester around the station and all of our deputies considered him their little brother.”
Several hours after the shooting, dozens of motorcycle officers and patrol cars escorted a hearse transporting the deputy’s flag-draped casket from the hospital to the county coroner’s office.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Queen Elizabeth II mourned by Britain and world at funeral
By DANICA KIRKA, MIKE CORDER and SAMYA KULLAB
LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom and the world bade farewell to Queen Elizabeth II on Monday with a state funeral that drew presidents and kings, princes and prime ministers — and crowds in the streets of London and at Windsor Castle — to honor a monarch whose 70-year reign defined an age.
In a country known for pomp and pageantry, the first state funeral since Winston Churchill’s was filled with spectacle: Before the service, a bell tolled 96 times — once a minute for each year of Elizabeth’s life. Then, 142 Royal Navy sailors used ropes to draw the gun carriage carrying her flag-draped coffin to Westminster Abbey, where pallbearers carried it inside and about 2,000 people ranging from world leaders to health care workers gathered to mourn.
The trappings of state and monarchy abounded: The coffin was draped with the Royal Standard and atop it was the Imperial State Crown, sparkling with almost 3,000 diamonds, and the sovereign’s orb and scepter.
But the personal was also present: The coffin was followed into the church by generations of Elizabeth’s descendants, including King Charles III, heir to the throne Prince William and 9-year-old George, who is second in line. On a wreath atop the coffin, a handwritten note read, “In loving and devoted memory,” and was signed Charles R — for Rex, or king.
“Here, where Queen Elizabeth was married and crowned, we gather from across the nation, from the Commonwealth, and from the nations of the world, to mourn our loss, to remember her long life of selfless service, and in sure confidence to commit her to the mercy of God our maker and redeemer,” the dean of the medieval abbey, David Hoyle, told the mourners.
The service ended with two minutes of silence observed across the United Kingdom, after which the attendees sang the national anthem, now titled “God Save the King.”
The day began early when the doors of Parliament’s 900-year-old Westminster Hall were closed to mourners after hundreds of thousands had filed in front of her coffin.
Monday was declared a public holiday in honor of Elizabeth, who died Sept. 8 — and hundreds of thousands of people descended on central London to witness history. They jammed sidewalks to watch the coffin wend its way through the streets of the capital after the service. As the procession passed Buckingham Palace, the queen’s official residence in the city, staff stood outside, some bowing and curtseying.
Mark Elliott, 53, who traveled from the Lake District in northern England with his wife and two children to watch the procession, got up at 1:30 a.m. to stake out a good viewing location near the palace.
“I know we don’t know the queen, but she’s been our head of state for 70 years, you feel as though you know her, you feel as though she’s part of the family. It is kind of moving,” he said.
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said in his sermon at Westminster Abbey that “few leaders receive the outpouring of love we have seen” for the queen.
More people lined the route the hearse took from the capital to Windsor Castle, and many tossed flowers at the cortege as it passed. Millions more tuned into the funeral live, and crowds flocked to parks and public spaces across the U.K. to watch it on screens. Even the Google doodle turned a respectful black for the day.
As the coffin arrived at the castle, there were poignant reminders of her love of animals: A groom stood at the roadside with one of her ponies, Emma, and another member of staff held the leashes of two of her beloved corgis, Sandy and Muick.
During the committal ceremony in St. George’s Chapel on the castle grounds, Dean of Windsor David Conner praised Elizabeth for her “life of unstinting service” to the nation but also her “kindness, concern and reassuring care for her family and friends and neighbors.”
Then the crown and the orb and scepter were removed from atop the coffin and placed on the altar — separating them from the queen for the last time. Her coffin was lowered into the royal vault through an opening in the chapel’s floor. Charles looked weary and emotional as mourners sang the national anthem.
At a private family service, the queen was later laid to rest with her husband, Prince Philip.
The mourners at Westminster Abbey included U.S. President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron, all of the living former British prime ministers and European royalty.
In Japan, whose Emperor Naruhito also attended, several people sipped beer and watched the service at The Aldgate British pub in Tokyo’s fashionable Shibuya district.
“The queen had an especially long history in a country that boasts a long history, and so she deserves deep respect,” said one of them, Tomotaka Hosokawa.
The global outpouring of sympathy touched the king, who on the eve of the funeral, issued a message of thanks to people in the U.K. and around the world, saying he and his wife, Camilla, the queen consort, have been “moved beyond measure” by the large numbers of people who have turned out to pay their respects.
Jilly Fitzgerald, who was in Windsor, said there was a sense of community among the mourners as they prepared to wait hours to see the procession carrying the queen’s coffin.
“It’s good to be with all the people who are all feeling the same. It’s like a big family because everyone feels that … the queen was part of their family,” she said.
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Kullab reported from Windsor, England. Associated Press journalists Sylvia Hui and Jill Lawless in London and David Keyton in Windsor contributed.
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Gorbachev mourned as rare world leader but some still bitter
BERLIN (AP) — The passing of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and for many the man who restored democracy to then-communist-ruled European nations, was mourned Wednesday as the loss of a rare leader who changed the world and for a time gave hope for peace among the superpowers.
But the man who died at age 91 on Tuesday was also reviled by many countrymen who blamed him for the 1991 implosion of the Soviet Union and its diminution as a superpower. The Russian nation that emerged from its Soviet past shrank in size as 15 new nations were created.
The loss of pride and power also eventually led to the rise of Vladimir Putin, who has tried for the past quarter-century to restore Russia to its former glory and beyond.
“After decades of brutal political repression, he embraced democratic reforms. He believed in glasnost and perestroika – openness and restructuring – not as mere slogans, but as the path forward for the people of the Soviet Union after so many years of isolation and deprivation” President Joe Biden said.
He added that “these were the acts of a rare leader – one with the imagination to see that a different future was possible and the courage to risk his entire career to achieve it. The result was a safer world and greater freedom for millions of people.”
Gorbachev won the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Cold War but although widely feted abroad, he was a pariah at home.
Putin acknowledged that Gorbachev had “a deep impact on the course of world history.”
“He led the country during difficult and dramatic changes, amid large-scale foreign policy, economic and social challenges,” Putin said in a short telegram sending his condolences to Gorbachev’s family.
Gorbachev “realized that reforms were necessary and tried to offer his solutions to the acute problems,” Putin said.
Reactions from Russian officials and lawmakers were overall mixed. They applauded Gorbachev for his part in ending the Cold War but censured him for the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Oleg Morozov, a member of the main Kremlin party, United Russia, said Gorbachev should have “repented” for mistakes that went against Russia’s interests.
“He was a willing or an unwilling co-author of the unfair world order that our soldiers are now fighting on the battlefield,” Morozov said, in a reference to the current war in Ukraine.
World leaders paid tribute to a man some described as a great and brave leader.
Outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that “in a time of Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, his tireless commitment to opening up Soviet society remains an example to us all.”
French President Emmanuel Macron described Gorbachev as “a man of peace whose choices opened up a path of liberty for Russians. His commitment to peace in Europe changed our shared history.”
German leaders praised Gorbachev for paving the way for their country’s reunification.
“We will not forget that perestroika made it possible to try to establish democracy in Russia and that democracy and freedom became possible in Europe, that Germany could be united and the Iron Curtain disappeared,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz told reporters.
However, Scholz also pointed out that Gorbachev died at a time when many of his achievements have been destroyed.
“We know that he died at a time when not only democracy in Russia has failed — there is no other way to describe the current situation there — but also Russia and Russian President Putin are drawing new trenches in Europe and have started a horrible war against a neighboring country, Ukraine,” he said.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who was part of the Spanish government when the Iron Curtain fell, remembered Gorbachev as a man who “sent a wind of freedom through Russian society. He tried to change the communist system from inside, which became impossible.”
Others in Europe challenged positive recollections of Gorbachev.
Gabrielius Landsbergis, the son of Vytautas Landsbergis who led Lithuania’s independence movement in the early 1990s, tweeted that “Lithuanians will not glorify Gorbachev.”
Memories are still fresh in the Baltic country of Jan. 13, 1991, when hundreds of Lithuanians headed to the television tower in Vilnius to oppose Soviet troops deployed to crush the country’s bid to restore its independence. In the clashes that followed, 14 civilians were killed and over 140 were injured. Moscow recognized Lithuania’s independence in August that year.
“We will never forget the simple fact that his army murdered civilians to prolong his regime’s occupation of our country. His soldiers fired on our unarmed protesters and crushed them under his tanks. That is how we will remember him,” Landsbergis wrote.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Gorbachev “a one-of-a kind statesman who changed the course of history” and “did more than any other individual to bring about the peaceful end of the Cold War.”
“The world has lost a towering global leader, committed multilateralist, and tireless advocate for peace,” the U.N. chief said in a statement.
Gorbachev’s contemporaries pointed to the end of the Cold War as one of his achievements.
“Mikhail Gorbachev played a critical role in the peaceful end to the Cold War. At home, he was a figure of historical importance, but not in the way he intended,” said Robert M. Gates, who headed the CIA from 1991 to 1993 and later became U.S. defense secretary.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog called Gorbachev “one of the 20th century’s most extraordinary figures. He was a brave and visionary leader, who shaped our world in ways previously thought unimaginable.”
In Asia, he was remembered as a leader with the courage to bring change.
China’s government recognized Gorbachev’s role in healing relations between Moscow and Beijing. Gorbachev had been an inspiration to reformist thinkers in China during the late 1980s, and his visit to Beijing in 1989 marked a watershed in relations between the sides.
“Mr. Gorbachev made positive contributions to the normalization of relations between China and the Soviet Union. We mourn his passing and extend our sympathies to his family,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said.
However, China’s Communist Party leaders also regard Gorbachev’s liberal approach as a fatal display of weakness and his moves toward peaceful coexistence with the West as a form of surrender.
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Quinn reported from Bangkok. AP journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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Ivana Trump mourned at New York funeral
Funeral goers gathered at St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church to remember the noted socialite. Former President Trump entered the church through a side entrance, and their children and their partners — Donald Trump Jr. and his fiancee, Kimberly Guilfoyle; Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner; and Eric and Lara Trump — were also in attendance.
Ivana Trump’s three children, as well as Dennis Basso, a fashion designer and longtime friend of Trump, delivered eulogies, a source familiar with the service told CNN.
Former first lady Melania Trump also attended Wednesday’s funeral for her husband’s first wife, a person with knowledge of her schedule told CNN. The person confirmed that Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump’s daughter from his second marriage to Marla Maples, was present at the New York City service.
Ivana Trump died last week at age 73 due to “blunt impact injuries” to the torso, authorities have said.
Raised in communist Czechoslovakia, Ivana Trump partnered with Donald Trump on some of his most prominent real estate projects. The two divorced in 1992 in the aftermath of his tabloid affair with Maples.
When the couple finally settled, Ivana Trump walked away with $14 million, in addition to other perks like a massive mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut. She married and divorced twice more while maintaining a jet-setting, globetrotting lifestyle.
She once cited her “freedom” and “perfect life” as reasons for turning down an offer to serve as the ambassador to her native Czech Republic.
“I was just offered to be the American ambassador to Czech Republic — and Donald told me. He said, ‘Ivana, if you want it, I give it to you,'” Trump told “CBS Sunday Morning” in 2017. “But I like my freedom. I like to do what I want to do, go wherever I want to go, with whomever I want to go. And I can afford my lifestyle.”
“OK, why would I go and say bye-bye to Miami in the winter, bye-bye to Saint-Tropez in the summer and bye-bye to spring and fall in New York?” she continued. “I have a perfect life.”
The former President announced his ex-wife’s death on Truth Social, remembering her in a post as “a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life.”
“Her pride and joy were her three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. She was so proud of them, as we were all so proud of her. Rest In Peace, Ivana!” the post read.
Her children, too, paid public tribute, with Ivanka Trump tweeting that her late mother “was brilliant, charming, passionate and wickedly funny,” adding: “She lived life to the fullest — never forgoing an opportunity to laugh and dance. I will miss her forever and will keep her memory alive in our hearts always.”
Eric Trump wrote in part on Instagram that his mother was “a force in business, a world-class athlete, a radiant beauty, and caring mother and friend.”
Zach Erdem, a New York restaurant owner and longtime friend, told CNN he was glad to have “so many memories” with her. “All she wanted is, like everyone, to live their life peacefully and be themselves,” he said.
Ivana Trump, Erdem added, “was just a peaceful woman.”
This story has been updated with additional developments Wednesday.
CNN’s Gabby Orr and Kate Bennett contributed to this report.
NYPD officer Jason Rivera mourned by hundreds in Harlem vigil
Hundreds gathered for a somber vigil outside the NYPD’s 32nd precinct in Harlem Saturday evening, one day after a crazed gunman killed one officer and critically injured another.
The vigil came after a rookie Officer Jason Rivera, 22, was killed and his partner Officer Wilbert Mora, 27, was critically injured when they were shot by a man in apartment after responding to a domestic incident.
“He was always smiling, a friendly guy,” Officer Victor Guzman of the 32nd precinct said of Rivera. “He was young, 22 years old. It’s a lot.”
Rivera and Guzman went through the police academy together, Guzman told The Post.
“When I’m going through everyone’s academy pictures, he was a very cheerful guy, always smiling. Always happy,” Guzman said.
The crowd spilled out into the street, with some holding candles and others signs of support for the department. A nearby tree was wrapped in a blue ribbon and decorated with red, white and blue candles and bouquets of flowers.
A police officer from the 115th precinct Queens said he felt it was his duty to attend the evening’s vigil.
“It’s a fellow police officer. It’s the right thing to do. It’s a time to come together.”
The crowd of mourners included NYPD officers and local leaders Mayor Eric Adams and New York State Attorney General Letitia James.
An emotional Adams told the crowd the city was in a “battle” with a small number of people looking to “hold the city hostage with violence.”
”We know some would say 95 percent of the city is good. I say 99 percent of the city is good. Let’s weed out that 1 percent,” Adams said.
Since the new year began, five NYPD officers have been shot on the job.
“We are not going to be intimidated by those who believe we should look down on the men and women who put on their bulletproof vests, stand on street corners protecting children and families as though they should be ashamed of the occupation that they are holding in the city,” Adams said.
“They are not ashamed. I was not ashamed to wear that uniform and they are not going to be ashamed to wear that uniform. I have the backs of my police officers.”
As he did at a press conference outside of Harlem Hospital on Friday night, the mayor pleaded to the federal government to help stop the flow of guns into the city.
Adams’ Chief advisor, Chaplain Ingrid Lewis Martin, told The Post the city has to “do better” against gun violence.
“He went to help a mother who cried out because her son was being violent towards her. He ended up losing his life so now his mother and family mourn,” he said.
“When we know that our children have guns, it’s our obligation to let the police know. When we know our neighbors have guns, it’s our obligation to let the police know.”
Rivera, who grew up in Inwood and joined the force in 2020, said that wanted to join the NYPD to “better the relationship between the community and the police,” he wrote in a letter obtained by The Post. He was the first in his family, who are immigrants, to become a member of the department.
Rivera, Mora and a third officer responded to a domestic disturbance call around 6:15 p.m. on Friday night from a woman who said she needed help with her son.
Authorities said Lashawn McNeil, 47, allegedly swung open a door in the apartment at 119 West 135th St. and opened fire on Rivera and Mora when they approached the bedroom he was in.
A third officer shot McNeil in the head and arm as the alleged shooter tried to flee. McNeil was in critical condition at Harlem Hospital on Saturday, police said.
‘Devastated’: 15 Fire Victims Are Mourned at Bronx Service
A line of black hearses began pulling up outside the doors of the Islamic Cultural Center in the Bronx just after 10 a.m. on Sunday. They maneuvered past throngs of distraught mourners who had flocked to the mosque to say a final goodbye to friends, children, parents and cousins killed in a fire that took the lives of 17 members of a close-knit Gambian community.
Indoors, women consoled each other in a second-floor prayer space as the men gathered downstairs. Outside, two tents were filled with families and hundreds of their neighbors watching the funeral service on a livestream.
Aminata Sillah, 42, had arrived early. She laid a blue prayer rug on the ground in the frigid morning air, tugging anxiously at her boots.
Her aunt, Fatoumata Drammeh, was among those who died on Jan. 9 when an electric heater set off the fire and acrid smoke filled the apartment building on East 181st Street, suffocating people as they tried to flee the 19-story complex. It was the city’s deadliest blaze in decades.
Ms. Drammeh’s three children were among the eight children who died and among the 15 people being honored during Sunday’s communal funeral service.
“I’m devastated,” Ms. Sillah said.
The crowds were so tightly packed and the mosque so overflowing with mourners that the imam had to shout again and again into the microphone, asking people to clear the path for the coffins and reminding congregants of fire hazards. On the first floor, male mourners squeezed back against the walls.
Then the 15 coffins came in, draped in black velvet cloth and held aloft by more than two dozen men. Each had different golden embroidery at the hem. Among the adult-sized coffins were six much smaller ones.
As one was brought down gently onto the carpeted ground, Haji Dukuray sighed heavily, his eyes puffy. He had lost his nephew, Haji; his nephew’s wife, Haja; and their three young children, Fatoumata, 5; Mariam, 11; and Mustapha, 12.
“All this innocence, these young kids,” Mr. Dukuray, 60, said. “They have no business being here.”
Elected officials including Mayor Eric Adams; the state attorney general, Letitia James; and Senator Chuck Schumer sat in the front row in front of the caskets at the packed funeral service.
Sheikh Musa Drammeh, the leader of the Islamic Cultural Center, didn’t hold back his anger, and his voice rose sharply as he directed his words to them.
“If these people lived in Midtown Manhattan, this wouldn’t have happened. They would not have needed space heaters. The conditions in which they lived in the Bronx caused their death,” he said, turning toward the officials and adding: “Mr. Mayor, you heard? Mr. Schumer, you heard?”
“We are No. 1 for everything bad” in the Bronx, he said, as the crowd agreed loudly. “They will never achieve the American dream because they lived in the Bronx. Their families will never see them again because they lived in the Bronx. We are having this funeral today because they lived in the Bronx.”
Mr. Adams rose and said that the families had his commitment as the mayor to give them support.
“What is happening here in the Bronx, it is what is happening across our city, where the communities with Black, brown and immigrant people are,” he said. “It’s time to end those inequalities so we don’t have our babies and our families torn apart by tragedy. The American dream for too many burned in that fire.”
As the service was held, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced $2 million in state funding to assist tenants with replacing lost or damaged personal belongings and with rent, relocation and loss of income because of the death of a family member.
During the service, Imam Musa Kabba said he was struggling to control his emotions as he listed the names of families — Dukuray, Drammeh, Jambang, Konteh, Tunkara, Toure — decimated by the blaze.
“When the Lord asks for something, we have no choice but to agree,” he said, adding, “I’m trying to control myself.”
Family members started to quietly sob.
“My heart is done,” said Yahya Sankara, 33, who lost his sister and two nephews.
Bob Saget Mourned By ‘Full House’ Cast, Comedians At Funeral
Bob Saget was mourned Friday during a Los Angeles funeral service attended by his Full House costars and numerous other Hollywood celebrities.
According to TMZ, hundreds gathered at Mt. Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills to honor the late comedian, who died suddenly on Jan. 9 at the age of 65.
Full House actresses Jodie Sweetin, Candace Cameron Bure and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, who played Saget’s daughters in the beloved long-running sitcom, were all in attendance, while co-stars John Stamos and Dave Coulier served as pallbearers during the ceremony.
“Bob was the most loving, compassionate and generous man,” the Olsen twins said in a statement to Rolling Stone following Saget’s death. “We are deeply saddened that he is no longer with us but know that he will continue to be by our side to guide us as gracefully as he always has. We are thinking of his daughters, wife and family and are sending our condolences.”
“I am broken. I am gutted. I am in complete and utter shock,” Stamos wrote on Twitter Sunday. “I will never ever have another friend like him. I love you so much Bobby.”
Other guests at Saget’s funeral included John Mayer, Dave Chappelle, Kathy Griffin, Chris Rock, Seth Green, Norman Lear, Jeff Ross and Judd Apatow, according to TMZ.
While Saget’s wholesome stints as the widowed Danny Tanner on Full House and the host of America’s Funniest Home Videos made him a household name, it was ultimately Saget’s penchant for raunchy, ribald humor that endeared him to a generation of comics — including Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson.
“Bob Saget was one of the nicest men on the planet,” Davidson wrote in a letter posted to social media. “When I was younger and several times throughout our friendship he helped me get through some rough mental health stuff.”
Saget was found unresponsive in his hotel room on Sunday at the Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes. Authorities pronounced him dead at the scene. The incident remains under investigation, but officials say there is no evidence drug use or foul play contributed to Saget’s death.
UK PM Johnson’s staff partied as queen mourned death of husband
LONDON, Jan 14 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s authority took yet another hit on Friday after revelations that his staff had partied in Downing Street as Queen Elizabeth mourned her husband, at a time when mixing indoors was banned.
Johnson is facing the gravest crisis of his premiership following news of a series of social gatherings at his residence during COVID-19 lockdowns, some held at times when ordinary people could not bid farewell in person to dying relatives.
After building a political career out of flouting accepted norms, Johnson is now under growing pressure from some of his own lawmakers to quit due to apparent rule-breaking at Downing Street.
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The Daily Telegraph said two other drinks parties were held inside Downing Street on April 16, 2021, when social gatherings indoors and outdoors were limited. Johnson was at his Chequers country residence that day, the paper said.
Such was the revelry in Downing Street, the newspaper said, that staff went to a nearby supermarket to buy a suitcase of alcohol, used a laptop to play music and a swing used by the prime minister’s young son was broken.
The next day, Queen Elizabeth bade farewell to Prince Philip, her husband of 73 years, following his death aged 99.
Dressed in black and in a white trimmed black face mask, the 95-year-old Elizabeth cut a poignant figure as she sat alone, in strict compliance with coronavirus rules, during the funeral service for Philip at Windsor Castle.
‘LEAVE THE STAGE’
Opponents have called for Johnson, 57, to resign, casting him as a charlatan who demanded the British people follow some of the most onerous rules in peacetime history while his own staff partied.
A small but growing number in his own Conservative Party have echoed those calls, fearing it will do lasting damage to its electoral prospects.
“Sadly, the Prime Minister’s position has become untenable,” said Conservative lawmaker Andrew Bridgen, a former Johnson supporter. “The time is right to leave the stage.”
Johnson has given a variety of explanations of the parties, ranging from denials that any rules were broken to expressing understanding for the public anger at apparent hypocrisy at the heart of the British state.
Foreign minister Liz Truss said “real mistakes” were made, but added: “… we need to look at the overall position we’re in as a country, the fact that he (Johnson) has delivered Brexit, that we are recovering from COVID… He has apologised.”
“I think we now need to move on and talk about how we are going to sort out issues,” she told broadcasters on Friday.
To trigger a leadership challenge, 54 of the 360 Conservative members of parliament must write letters of no confidence to the chairman of the party’s “1922 Committee”.
The Telegraph said as many as 30 such letters had been submitted.
Johnson faces a tough year ahead: beyond COVID, inflation is soaring, energy bills are spiking, taxation will rise in April and his party faces local elections in May.
One of the April 2021 parties was a leaving event for James Slack, a former director of communications at Downing Street, who on Friday apologised “for the anger and hurt caused”.
Slack, now deputy editor of the tabloid Sun newspaper, said in a statement to PA Media that the gathering “should not have happened at the time that it did”.
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11-year-old boy shot, killed identified; mourned by loved ones
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Family and friends gathered Saturday to remember an 11-year-old boy who was shot and killed on Friday as Philadelphia police continue to look for the shooter.
Police say 11-year-old Harley Belance, who was shot and killed in the city’s Oxford Circle section, was riding a scooter with a friend.
On Saturday, dozens gathered at the scene, and balloons were released in his memory.
In the crowd was Suzanne Hatcher, who says Harley was her son’s best friend.
“We’re numb. We’re numb. Too young. He’s a baby. Should’ve never happened,” said Hatcher.
Police say Harley and a 14-year-old friend were riding a scooter on the 1500 block of McKinley Street Friday just before 7:00 p.m. when shots were fired.
Harley was shot in the neck and killed, officials say.
His friend was shot in the arm and ankle and is in stable condition.
Officials say a man was seen firing shots from the 1400 block of McKinley Street.
At the vigil, people called for the rampant gun violence to stop.
“When it happens, guess who’s left to clean up the mess? The women in our community. So for every young man that’s here, I want you to sit back and take a good look at your life,” said Terence Harrell, who runs the @nogunzone social media account dedicated to highlighting the toll of gun violence in Philadelphia.
Harley, was described as a vibrant young man who loved hanging out with his friends.
Action News spoke with a family friend who didn’t want to be identified.
“His personality has always been so open and bright. And so to see him like this, to hear this news, it is insane. My heart is crushed,” she said.
Police say it’s unclear if Harley and his friend were the intended targets of this shooting.
So far, no arrests have been made.
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