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Padlocked, restrained female ‘vampire’ discovered in 17th-century graveyard
Beware — you’re in for a scare.
The remains of a “female vampire” have been uncovered by archaeologists at a 17th-century graveyard in Pień, Poland.
Professor Dariusz Poliński and a team of researchers from Nicolaus Copernicus University were conducting the dig when they discovered the skeletal remains of the woman, who had been pinned to the ground with a sickle across her throat.
The popular farming tool was commonly used by superstitious Poles in the 1600s to try and restrain a deceased person thought to be a vampire so that they would be unable to return from the dead.
“The sickle was not laid flat but placed on the neck in such a way that if the deceased had tried to get up… the head would have been cut off or injured,” Poliński told the Daily Mail.
The professor also noted that the dead woman had a padlock wrapped around her toe — further strengthening the theory that she was considered a vampire at the time of her death.
Poliński claimed the lock would have been used during the burial process to symbolize “the impossibility of returning.”
The researchers did not disclose the presumed age of the deceased but said a silk cap found on her skull indicates that she was of high social status.
According to Smithsonian magazine, residents across Eastern Europe initially became fearful of vampires in the 11th century, believing that “some people who died would claw their way out of the grave as blood-sucking monsters that terrorized the living.”
By the 17th century, “unusual burial practices became common across Poland in response to a reported outbreak of vampires,” Science Alert reported.
There is still no scholarly consensus around how people came to be classified as “vampires,” but they were often violently executed across various parts of the continent, according to Poliński.
And, even after their deaths, their bodies were further mutilated to make sure they wouldn’t return to wreak havoc on local villagers.
“Other ways to protect against the return of the dead include cutting off the head or legs, placing the deceased face down to bite into the ground, burning them, and smashing them with a stone,” Poliński stated.
The discovery of the “female vampire” in Pień — located in the south of the country — comes seven years after the remains of five other presumed vampires were unearthed in the town of Drawsko, 130 miles away.
All five of those found there had similarly been buried with sickles across their throats.
Meanwhile, back in 2013, The Post reported that archaeologists had uncovered a “vampire gravesite” outside of the town of Gliwice, where multiple skeletons were found decapitated with their severed heads placed near their legs.
J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao: Two ex-officers who restrained George Floyd sentenced to 3 years and 3.5 years in federal prison
Kueng, who held down Floyd’s torso, and Thao, who kept a group of bystanders back, were each convicted in February of violating Floyd’s civil rights and of failing to intervene to stop their colleague Derek Chauvin during the restraint.
With the sentences, all four of the officers who helped restrain Floyd in May 2020 have now been sentenced to prison time.
Thomas Lane, who held down Floyd’s legs, was convicted of one federal charge and sentenced last week to 2.5 years in prison, as Judge Paul A. Magnuson cited Lane’s “minimal role” in the incident. Chauvin, the primary aggressor, pleaded guilty to violating Floyd’s civil rights and of an unrelated civil rights violation and was sentenced to 21 years in prison to be served concurrently with his 22.5-year sentence on state murder charges.
Federal prosecutors had asked the court to sentence Kueng, 28, and Thao, 36, to “significantly more” time than the range applicable to Lane but less time than Chauvin’s sentence. Thao’s defense team asked for a sentence of 2 years, while Kueng’s defense team filed its recommendation under seal.
Kueng declined to make a statement in court. Thao, though, made a lengthy statement to the court, quoting numerous Bible verses and describing how he was “born again” after being jailed.
Courteney Ross, Floyd’s girlfriend, addressed both former officers in court.
“I will never forget you speaking to the onlookers when you said, ‘This is why you don’t do drugs,'” she said to Thao. “No one deserves to be treated as less. That’s not how Floyd treated others.”
Both Kueng and Thao also will be ordered to pay a $200 special assessment and will placed on supervised release for 2 years after serving their prison terms.
In court Wednesday, the judge said that Kueng was a new officer who deferred to the authority of a “much more senior officer.” Magnuson wrote in a court filing last week that Kueng and Thao “each made a tragic misdiagnosis in their assessment” of Floyd.
“The evidence showed that Kueng genuinely thought that Mr. Floyd was suffering from excited delirium with a drug overdose, and Thao genuinely believed that the officers were dealing with a drug overdose with possible excited delirium,” he wrote.
Kristen Clarke, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, said in a statement that all four officers involved in Floyd’s death had been held accountable.
“The federal prosecution of all officers tied to the death of George Floyd should send a clear and powerful message that the Department of Justice will never tolerate the unlawful abuse of power or victimization of Americans by anyone in law enforcement,” she said.
How we got here
The sentencing comes more than two years after Lane, Thao and Kueng were fired and arrested for their actions — or lack thereof — in May 2020 as Chauvin pressed his knee into the neck and back of Floyd, who was handcuffed and lying on his stomach, for more than nine minutes.
Harrowing video of the incident and Floyd’s ignored pleas for help spread widely and launched an international protest movement against police brutality and anti-Black violence.
At their federal trial in February, each of Lane, Kueng and Thao testified in their own defense and highlighted Chauvin’s role in taking charge of the situation.
Kueng told jurors that he deferred to Chauvin on what to do during the arrest because Chauvin was the senior officer on scene with more than 15 years of experience.
Thao told the court he assumed the other officers on the scene were “taking care” of Floyd, and that his role transitioned to crowd and traffic control. When prosecutors asked Thao during cross-examination why he didn’t tell Chauvin to get off Floyd’s neck, he said: “I think I would trust a 19-year veteran to figure it out.”
In addition, Thou and Kueng face a state trial in October on charges of aiding and abetting second-degree unintentional murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. They have pleaded not guilty.
Last month, Lane pleaded guilty in state court to aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. As part of a plea deal, prosecutors and the defense agreed to jointly recommend a sentence of 3 years to be served concurrently with his federal sentence in a federal institution, according to Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office.
CNN’s Brad Parks contributed to this report.
Fiji Restrained Sanctioned Russian Oligarch’s $325M Superyacht
- A Fijian high court has granted an order to restrain a superyacht linked to Suleyman Kerimov.
- But a US warrant to seize the vessel hasn’t yet been registered, a Fiji government spokesperson said.
- Kerimov has been sanctioned by the US, UK, and EU. The EU said he was close to Putin.
A $325 million superyacht linked to sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleyman Kerimov will not be allowed to leave Fiji’s waters after the country’s high court granted a restraining order against the vessel.
The US is seeking to seize the Amadea, which arrived in the Pacific nation on April 13 after an 18-day voyage from Mexico. Fiji’s director of public prosecutions (DPP), Christopher Pryde, filed applications with the high court on Tuesday “seeking orders (i) that the motor yacht Amadea be restrained from leaving Fijian waters until the finalization of an application to register a warrant to seize the property and (ii) that a US warrant to seize the Amadea be registered.”
A spokesperson for Pryde told Insider on Wednesday: “The DPP received an Authority to Proceed from Fiji’s Attorney-General after Fiji received a formal request for mutual legal assistance from the US government.”
The spokesperson said that the high court in Suva, Fiji’s capital, had on Tuesday granted the order to restrain Amadea. They said that “the issue of registration of the US warrant will need to be determined at a later date” with a next court hearing on the matter scheduled for Thursday. Legal ownership of the Amadea was “still subject to investigation,” the spokesperson added.
Western countries have placed sweeping sanctions on Russia after President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into Ukraine. As well as targeting Russian businesses, finances, and industry, the West has been sanctioning Russian elites to put pressure on the country to stop the invasion.
Kerimov, a member of the Russian Federation Council, was sanctioned by the EU and UK on March 15. The EU said that Kerimov is “a member of the inner circle of oligarchs” close to Putin and that he had attended a meeting of oligarchs with Putin at the Kremlin in late February to discuss the impact of Western sanctions.
Kerimov had already been sanctioned by the US in 2018, who said that he had been accused of both money laundering in France and failing to pay 400 million euros ($432 million) in taxes on villas.
Kerimov is worth around $14.3 billion, per estimates from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He owns Nafta Moscow, a financial and industrial group in Russia, and his family owns a controlling stake in Polyus Gold, which claims to be Russia’s biggest gold producer.
France, Italy, and Spain are among the nations seizing assets belonging to sanctioned oligarchs, including their private jets, superyachts, and property. The first yacht to be seized under the latest US sanctions was the $90 million superyacht Tango – believed to belong to sanctioned Russian oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg – which was detained by authorities on the Spanish island of Mallorca on April 4, following a request from the US Department of Justice.
Some Russian elites have been moving their yachts, private jets, and shareholdings – seemingly to avoid sanctions. Kerimov’s vessel, the Amadea, docked in Lautoka, Fiji’s second largest city, on April 13 after sailing from Mexico’s Pacific coast, data from vessel-tracking site Marine Traffic shows. Fiji hasn’t imposed sanctions on Russia.
An official at the National Police Command and Control Centre previously told Reuters that the yacht’s captain had been questioned by police, who said that the vessel had arrived in Fiji without customs clearance.
Kerimov’s son, Said Kerimov, owns the superyacht ICE, thought to be worth around $170 million.
Insider has requested comment from the US Treasury and Department of Justice, as well as the US Embassy in Fiji.
Woman attacks Spirit Airlines flight attendants, gets restrained by passenger, records show
A woman reportedly attacked two flight attendants on a Spirit Airlines flight to Nashville on Saturday night, was restrained by a fellow passenger, and then yelled at police officers to “shoot me” when they arrested her, an arrest affidavit showed.
Airport police arrested a 42-year old female for public intoxication after the flight crew contacted officers on the ground at Nashville International Airport around 7 p.m., according to the affidavit.
The flight took off from Fort Lauderdale at about 6 p.m., according to Spirit Airlines spokesperson Nicole Aguiar and FlightAware, a flight tracking website.
When the plane arrived, members of the crew told officers that she attacked two flight attendants, punching one and pulling the other’s hair.
Aguiar did not comment on details in the affidavit but said law enforcement officers removed “a passenger for unruly behavior.”
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“We do not tolerate aggressive behavior of any kind, and this passenger is no longer welcome on any of our flights,” Aguiar said in an email.
Before the passenger deplaned, another passenger had restrained her feet with zip ties, the affidavit said. She smelled of alcohol, spoke in a slurred manner, and her eyes were bloodshot. She told officers she drank “a lot,” the affidavit said.
After police arrested her, she yelled at the officers on several occasions, using expletives and saying “I didn’t do anything wrong” and “shoot me,” according to the affidavit. The passenger also resisted getting into the police cruiser, including by stiffening her legs to prevent officers from closing the door.
Davidson County Sheriff’s Office jail logs show that she was admitted into jail on Saturday night at 8:40 p.m., but that she was released 6 a.m., Sunday.
“Thank you to our guests who assisted our crew and local law enforcement for their assistance,” Aguiar said in her email. “We will work with the relevant authorities to ensure this individual is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
The affidavit said that the flight crew did not want to press charges against the passenger.
An email from Nashville International Airport spokesperson Kym Gerlock did not offer additional details beyond the information in the affidavit, but Gerlock said “the matter is under investigation.”
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A woman was restrained to her seat on an American Airlines flight last week after allegedly trying to open the plane’s doors and attacking a flight attendant.
American Airlines flight 1774 was en route from Dallas-Fort Worth to Charlotte, North Carolina on July 6 when a traveler “attempted to open the forward boarding door” and “physically assaulted, bit and caused injury to a flight attendant,” American Airlines confirmed to USA TODAY.
The passenger was restrained with “flex cuffs and restraint tape” until the plane landed at Charlotte Douglas International Airport “for the safety and security of other customers and our crew,” the airline said. The flight had 190 customers and six crew members on board.
The passenger was taken to a hospital by emergency personnel.
Elizabeth LaClair, a passenger on the flight, told The Washington Post that the woman “just seemed off and very odd” and that she said she did not want the plane “to fly up anymore.”
“She started getting more and more agitated and very loud, and the man sitting next to her, along with the flight attendants, kindly tried to console her and calm her, but nothing worked,” LaClair said.
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LeClair told The Post that the woman continued to yell obscenities after she was restrained.
A video shared on TikTok also appears to show the woman after she was restrained. She can be seen repeatedly yelling “you” at other passengers as they exited the plane.
This is not the first case of a passenger disrupting a flight this year, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The FAA said last week that it has received more than 3,200 reports of unruly behavior by passengers in 2021, including 2,475 cases of travelers refusing to comply with the federal mask mandate for air travel.
The FAA has sought more than $682,000 in fines against unruly passengers this year.
7 Texas Officers Are Fired in Death of Black Man Restrained in Jail
Seven sheriff’s officers in Collin County, Texas, were fired on Thursday in connection with the death of Marvin D. Scott III, a 26-year-old Black man who died after being restrained at the county jail last month.
“Evidence I have seen confirms that these detention officers violated well-established Sheriff’s Office policies and procedures,” Jim Skinner, the sheriff, said in a statement, adding that an eighth officer had resigned.
The police in Allen, Texas, just north of Dallas, arrested Mr. Scott on a marijuana possession charge on March 14. He had less than two ounces of the drug, according to the authorities — a misdemeanor.
The police said they had taken Mr. Scott to a hospital because he was acting erratically. He was then taken to the county jail, where county officers restrained him and pepper-sprayed him. A spit hood was placed over his head. He died later that night.
Every evening for more than two weeks, members of Mr. Scott’s family have been gathering to protest outside the Collin County Jail, demanding transparency and accountability.
“We want to know, how did my son die?” Mr. Scott’s mother, LaSandra Scott, said at a news conference last week, according to NBC 5. “We want answers.”
Mr. Scott had a schizophrenia diagnosis and sometimes used marijuana as a form of self-medication when his prescription medication did not work well, according to S. Lee Merritt, a lawyer representing the family.
Amy Gruszecki, a forensic pathologist who performed a second autopsy on Mr. Scott after his body was examined by the Collin County medical examiner, said at the news conference that according to her preliminary findings, it was possible that asphyxiation, as well as a physical struggle against his restraint, might have contributed to Mr. Scott’s death.
The county medical examiner did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday. Mr. Merritt said the county’s autopsy results had yet to be released.
The officers who were fired on Thursday had been placed on administrative leave after Mr. Scott’s death. The sheriff’s office opened an internal investigation into the episode, and the Texas Rangers, a state law enforcement agency, is conducting a criminal investigation.
Mr. Merritt said the family was asking for the officers involved to be arrested and for the release of security camera footage from the jail on the night of Mr. Scott’s death.
“They laid Marvin to rest on the 30th, just a couple days ago,” he said. “The family continues to protest every night along with other members of the community.”
The firings in Texas were announced during the trial in Minnesota of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck before Mr. Floyd died on May 25, prompting nationwide protests. Holding law enforcement officers accountable in the United States has long been difficult, in part because of powerful police unions and a legal system that gives wide latitude for officers to use force.
At a March 19 news conference, Sheriff Skinner called Mr. Scott’s death a tragedy and said he had met with Mr. Scott’s relatives.
According to a statement from the Allen Police Department, police officers encountered Mr. Scott on March 14 while responding to a disturbance call at an outlet mall and “were concerned for his safety due to the possible ingestion of drugs.”
Mr. Scott was taken to an emergency room, where he remained for three hours before being released with a physician’s clearance, the police statement said. It added that he had been taken to the Police Headquarters in Allen before being transferred to the Collin County Jail in McKinney.
Sheriff Skinner said that the police had taken Mr. Scott to the county jail shortly before 6:30 p.m. “While in the booking area, Mr. Scott exhibited some strange behavior,” he said. “Several detention officers tried to secure him to the restraint bed, and during the process used O.C. spray once, and also placed a spit mask on his face.”
O.C. spray — its formal name is oleoresin capsicum — can also be referred to as pepper spray. Sheriff Skinner described a spit mask as “a mask that fits over one’s head. It has a net on it in order to keep spittle from being spit on another person.”
The sheriff said that Mr. Scott had become unresponsive around 10:30. He added that the Texas Rangers, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday evening, were examining video footage of the episode.