#restraining orders

[odinsblog]

T/W femicide, domestic violence, death

Dora Howell filed her lawsuit in 2011, where she described in painstaking detail the abuse she suffered at the hands of an ex-boyfriend beginning in 2008.

She stated that police violated the Domestic Violence Intervention Act by not arresting Andre Gaskin, against whom Howell had EIGHT orders of protection.

Dora first reported abuse at the hands of Andre Gaskin in 2008 when she was pregnant with their child. She lived on the floor below him in a building in Brooklyn.

She stated that he threw her to the floor and kicked her stomach, causing her to bleed and require hospitalization.

In response, Howell filed an order of protection against Gaskin.

Between September and November 2008, Dora called the police NINE times to say that Gaskin was violating that order by contacting her, showing up at her door and assaulting her.

Each time police arrived, Dora would show them the order of protection.

Instead of arresting Gaskin, police would say they would remove him from the premises; yet each time they allowed him to go back to his apartment upstairs.

One night, Andre Gaskin used a metal pipe to bang on Dora Howell’s door, breaking the lock in an attempt to force his way inside.

Instead of arresting Gaskin, police asked Howell, “Why don’t you move? Why don’t you go stay somewhere else if this keeps happening?”— and made demands, saying they’d arrest Howell if she called them again.

Weeks later, Dora called police several times to report that Andre Gaskin was breaking the protective order.

On the first occasion, Officers Mosely-Lawrence and Meran responded and waited until Gaskins uncle picked him up.

The following morning, as Dora was about to enter her apartment, she heard Gaskin inside.

Gaskin was speaking on the phone in Howell’s apartment, arranging for someone to assault and rob her.

Dora recorded him through the door, left the building, and called 911 from outside, explaining what she had overheard and recorded.

According to Dora, Gaskin’s uncle “is something . . . I don’t know if he’s a detective.” Dora testified that the uncle came around “all the time,” always dressed in a suit, was known to the responding officers, and that Gaskin was treated specially because the officers knew his uncle and treated him deferentially.

According to court documents, officers have not disputed those facts.

A week later, Andre Gaskin dragged Dora Howell by her hair up the stairs and into his apartment.

There, he physically assaulted her.

When she went to the window to yell for police to help, Gaskin said, “You want help? I’ll send you for help,”before throwing her outside of his THIRD floor apartment window.

When Andre Gaskin threw Dora Howell out of his third floor apartment building, she landed on a wheelchair ramp leading to her building.

Her knee, pelvis and hip were broken, and her spine was fractured.

She stayed in the hospital for over a month, undergoing multiple surgeries.

Dora Howell sued the city and the two officers alleging negligence in 2011. The state Supreme Court ordered the city to produce the officers for deposition THREE times, each time they failed to comply with the courts order.

Instead, in 2012 they filed to dismiss the complaint.

In August 2009, Andre Gaskin was arrested for the assault and for his violations of the orders of protection. He pleaded guilty to charges of assault and criminal contempt in April 2010.

👉🏿 https://gothamist.com/news/she-called-nypd-about-domestic-violence-for-years-they-found-her-dead-in-a-basement

👉🏿 https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/8516085/dora-howell-v-city-of-new-york/

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal law that prohibits people subjected to domestic violence restraining orders from having firearms, taking a step back from its recent endorsement of a broad right to possess a gun.

The court on an 8-1 vote ruled in favor of the Biden administration, which was defending the law — one of several federal gun restrictions currently facing legal challenges.

The ruling indicates that some longstanding gun laws are likely to survive despite the court's 2022 decision that expanded gun rights by finding for the first time that there is a right to bear arms outside the home under the Constitution's Second Amendment.

Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that since the United States was founded "our nation's firearm laws have included provisions preventing individuals who threaten physical harm to others from misusing firearms."

The provision at issue in the case "fits comfortably within this tradition," he added.

In reaching its conclusion, the court did not embrace some of the arguments made by the Biden administration in defense of the law, including that the government can disarm people who are not "responsible."

Although the vote was lopsided, with only conservative Justice Clarence Thomas dissenting, the ruling nevertheless exposed divisions among the justices on the gun rights issue, with five justices writing separate concurring opinions explaining their views.

The 2022 decision, in a case called New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, said gun restrictions had to be analyzed based on a historical understanding of the right to bear arms. As such, the decision raised questions about many existing gun restrictions that gun rights activists say are not anchored in historical tradition.

One of those other laws, which bars users of illegal drugs from possessing firearms, has drawn scrutiny in part because Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, has been charged with violating it and has mounted a constitutional challenge.

The three liberal justices on the conservative-majority court were all in the majority while making it clear they disagree with the 2022 ruling.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was appointed by President Joe Biden after that decision was issued, said the new case "highlights the apparent difficulty faced by judges on the ground" in deciding which gun laws should be upheld in light of the earlier ruling.

The case before the justices concerned Zackey Rahimi, a Texas man whose partner obtained a restraining order against him in February 2020. He argued that he cannot be prosecuted under the federal gun possession restriction in light of what the Supreme Court concluded.

Rahimi’s ex-partner, with whom he shares a child, obtained a restraining order after an incident in an Arlington, Texas, parking lot in 2019. Rahimi allegedly knocked the woman to the ground, dragged her to his car and pushed her inside, causing her to knock her head on the dashboard, prosecutors said in court papers. He also allegedly fired a shot from his gun in the direction of a witness.

Even while the protective order was in place, Rahimi was implicated in a series of shootings, including one in which he allegedly fired bullets into a house using an AR-15 rifle, prosecutors allege.

Rahimi faces state charges in the domestic assault and a separate assault against a different woman. But the case before the justices concerns his separate prosecution by the Justice Department for violating the federal gun possession law.

Rahimi ultimately pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six years in prison.

The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals applied the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in Rahimi’s case and concluded last year that the law “fails to pass constitutional muster.”

[jahmeelahlamb]

When you have a restraining order placed on you because he abused you.Did you really abuse me in the RO report? That is public knowledge! They didn't tell you? They told me. Charmed and all. Post it. Broward County courts are wild.

Jahmeelah Lamb

[independentjournalism]

"Domestic Disturbance Leads to Arrest: Mishawaka Police Apprehend Robert Kronberger"

This morning, at approximately 10:10 AM, the Mishawaka Police Department responded to a distress call from a residence regarding a domestic disturbance. The caller, seeking assistance, reported a harrowing encounter involving an individual against whom she had a protective order: Robert Kronberger. According to the distraught caller, Kronberger arrived at the residence, despite the existing…

[theminecraftbee]

i think that the funniest thing about the swedishbeans saga so far is picturing it from joel's point of view because. okay. imagine. you are joel smallishbeans. you are new to this whole hermitcraft thing. you've met iskall like, twice, and he's been kind of weird every time, but you're kind of weird back so you guess it's fine or whatever. you leave for vacation. you come back. someone has sent you dozens of unsolicited love letters and as much as you joke about etho it's probably not him. you find out it's iskall. you go to confront him to figure out hey, what the hell is this about? he gives a dramatic speech about you being in love and having left a sign on a prank you didn't do (and didn't actually leave) with a kiss on it, and how that means you're in love. you're just like. nah, man, i don't... know you? i have a wife. the man wails about how you're an awful person who has been leading him on, a terrible trickster. you aren't entirely certain what you had to do with any of this. you get home. he's mailed you bad breakup poetry now and declared that he's moved on but you haven't. you're still vaguely confused as to what has happened. then he invites you back to his house to build a statue of yourself so that he quote "doesn't need you anymore". i cannot emphasize enough you have talked to this man like twice. gem accuses you of being in a love spider's web and you honestly can't say she's wrong you're just confused about why everyone thinks this is in any way your fault,

[ddarker-dreams]

one thing i refuse to do is write a man who is normal about his partner. he must be frothing at the mouth, hissing at anyone who approaches them like a rabid raccoon, daydreaming about them 24/7 or what's the point?

there is none. go feral or go home

[suchananewsblog]

Keanu Reeves granted restraining order against ‘stalker’ who claims to be his relative

Keanu Reeves has been granted a temporary restraining order against a man who claims that he is related to the actor. “The Matrix” star’s lawyer, Matthew Rosengart, submitted paperwork to a Los Angeles court on Tuesday to seek protection for Reeves and his partner, Alexandra Grant, against a man they claim has “been harassing them for months,” according to TMZ. Bryan Keith Dixon, the 38-year-old…

[laddercat]

*panting, limping, pale, eye bags, huge armpit sweat stains, missing a limb*

so side order is great right

[phantoms-world-and-more]

The JL are terrified of jazz

So jazz started working in Arkham and immediately got a reputation

She was patient and kind and gave answers to problems people didn't know they had and was just the best psychologist Arkham had ever seen

She also got a reputation for not being messed with after she used the Fenton-anti-creep-stick on Scarecrow after he tried to attack her

At first, Batman was suspicious but after all the background checks and passed all evaluations so he left her be with a light monitoring

The problems started when the JL needed a physiologist and Batman recommended Miss Fenton

At first, Batman showed up asking for her to leave Arkham and work for the JL, he thought she'd jump at the chance to get away from Arkham...

He was wrong...

After a few months, the patients at Arkham were getting better but the JL need a good phycologist so Batman is still pestering jazz about it

Batman is going full paranoid stalker mode, harassing her at work and constantly sending requests for her to transfer to the JL

The only reason she's not been forced to quit is that everyone (guards, prisoners fellow psychiatrists everyone) in Arkham would rather fight than loose her

But things got to a whole other level when Jazz gets a call from her brother asking why a vigilante is calling him and asking him to convince her to transfer

When she sees him next she goes off, yelling and screaming at him for his behaviour and actions

There's a full 20 minutes of jazz just physio-analysing him, calling him obsessive, paranoid, requires closure, OCD, ODD, inconsiderate, and a whole lot of less friendly things

Everyone is scared because Miss Fenton has never even cursed at anything and now she's going off on THE BATMAN

Their terrified

Someone records it and goes viral everyone in the JL see it and thought it was funny...

Until she requested a meeting with them...

They get in the room and see Miss Fenton, her younger brother and a lawyer

Jazz then proceed to yell at every member of the JL, she called all of them enabling lazy, irresponsible children pretending to be adults

Superman tries to get her to be quiet so he can talk and her brother fucking hits him with a tazer! The scary part is he couldn't use his powers after ("don't worry you'll get your powers back in 24 hours, this is just so you'll listen")

So Jazz spends the next 10 minutes calling all the JL out on allllll their BS

After she's done her lawyer gets up and hands out pieces of paper to everyone

:what are these

: a restraining order

[dizzybizz]

trailblazer makes a wikihow on how to become a raccoon

they commission gepard to do the art

[shellshooked]

there’s enough brainrot abt this au to write like a book series so I thought i would finally introduce it properly,, so here goes NOTHING !!

image descriptions:

jedi knight (botw) zelda conversating with padawan ahsoka tano strolling through the jedi temple on coruscant

there’s a firm reason the jedi council never allow commander link (botw) and general anakin skywalker on the same missions during the clone wars

general zelda and link (tp) of the rebel cell referred to as the twilight squadron debriefing their next attack towards the empire

jedi padawan link (ww) and his pirate best friend tetra have no idea what they’re about to face up against when his clone captain suddenly aims his blaster in their direction, claiming to execute the unknown directive of order 66..

[junglejim4322]

I don’t think people realize the amount of stalking situations where the police reaction is literally “hm maybe we’ll do something if they kill you but until then have you considered moving?”

[petitesmafia]

nvm Chuuya stay where you are i don't want you to go home...there's some bullshit brewing back in yokohama STAY WHERE YOU ARE!!

[quibbs]

i'm gettin a lot of asks and comments right now regarding my last post and i wanna make a proper response in time, but as for right now, i'll just say thank you so much everyone for your empathy and your kindness. thank you so much for sharing your own stories regarding being stalked and harrassed. thank you for the sweet asks and comments, thank you everyone so so much. thank you for listening to me and reminding me that i'm not alone. my stalkers tried so, so, so hard to isolate and control me and i'm not okay, but i'm finally starting to feel like i might be okay one day. thank you thank you thank you and thank you again

[royaltea000]

Every letter addressed to Jonah Magnus just sounds like several men of good high standing who he’s tricked into giving him their knowledge money and affections realizing that they’ve fallen for a succubus but they can’t find it in them to hate him too hard- like do you know what I mean??? I know it’s just the old timey way of speaking but every statement just sounds like “please my evil twink, I beseech you!” Like this is why I can only imagine him as like very Dorian Gray-esque in my head. Please someone tell me I’m not crazy for thinking this that’s literally their evil bbg that’s sucked them for all they’re worth and thrown em away

[avephelis]

sometimes i think about niklaus's deals with albatrio and im forever baffled by his whorish tendencies like oooh gillion twirling his hair you're sooo submissive to destiny oh jay you're so smart let me wear my slutty pirate outfit and lean back pussy out. whatever the fuck was going on when he showed up in just robes swirling a glass of wine and then showed chip his drapes and gave him a tramp stamp. girl leave them alone. get a job. i don't like him.