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WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama’s chief of staff rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempts to distance himself from his comments rejecting Palestinian statehood, telling an Israel advocacy group Monday that the U.S. can’t just overlook what Netanyahu said on the eve of his re-election.

In a speech to J Street, an Israel advocacy group that is sharply critical of Netanyahu, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough also warned Israel against annexing the West Bank, where Palestinians hope to establish their future state. He said Netanyahu’s prediction that a Palestinian state wouldn’t come about on his watch was “so very troubling” and called into question Netanyahu’s broader commitment to the two-state solution the U.S. and Israel have officially supported for years.

“We cannot simply pretend that these comments were never made,” McDonough said.

McDonough’s critique of the Israeli leader came as both Israelis and Palestinians are closely watching to see how U.S. policy will change in practical terms after Netanyahu’s success in the elections. Obama has said the U.S. must reevaluate its approach to pursuing Mideast peace because of Netanyahu’s comments, and has entertained speculation the U.S. will be less willing to come to Israel’s defense in the United Nations. The U.S. has voted against U.N. resolutions supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state, insisting the matter should be negotiated directly with Israel.

On Monday, Netanyahu apologized to Israel’s Arab citizens for another set of remarks that offended members of the community and drew additional U.S. criticism. Netanyahu said he never intended to offend the country’s Arab-Israeli minority, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether that apology would placate those in Israel and elsewhere who took offense.

Obama’s decision to dispatch his chief of staff to speak to J Street, just days after the election, was perceived as another sign that Obama intends to take a tougher tack toward Netanyahu despite his insistence that the U.S.-Israeli relationship is still strong. Although the group considers itself pro-Israel, it often advocates against the Israeli government’s positions toward Palestinians.

McDonough received a standing ovation when he called out Israel’s government for ongoing construction of settlements in the West Bank. He said Israel cannot control another people forever, warning that such a move would be illegal and would contribute to Israel’s “total isolation” from the international community.

“An occupation that has lasted more than 50 years must end,” McDonough said.

MILWAUKEE (AP) – A white Milwaukee Police officer fired for improperly attempting to frisk a black man before fatally shooting him did the right thing, a former detective told police commissioners Monday during the fifth day of a hearing on whether to reinstate the officer.

Former Milwaukee detective Steven Spingola, who now works with TNT’s “Cold Justice” program, said the officer, Christopher Manney, would have been reckless not to try to pat down Dontre Hamilton.

Spingola noted that Manney told investigators he saw a bulge in Hamilton’s clothing, giving him reasonable suspicion that Hamilton was armed. If Hamilton had simply complied, he would be alive today, Spingola said. He also told the commissioners that he reviewed Manney’s service record at the request of Manney’s attorney and found no indications of any problems with how Manney approached people.

The police department’s attorney, Mark Thomsen, pointed out that Spingola hasn’t worked for the Milwaukee Police Department since 2005 and never worked for the agency’s internal affairs division. He also pointed out that the department’s policies have changed dramatically since Spingola left and Spingola doesn’t know how Manney was taught to approach people.

Thomsen also got Spingola to acknowledge that Manney told investigators that the first time he felt fear was after Hamilton had lunged at him and punched him.

Manney shot the 31-year-old Hamilton in April while responding to a call that Hamilton was sleeping in a downtown park. According to Manney, Hamilton grabbed Manney’s baton and attacked him.

Hamilton had paranoid schizophrenia, but his family has said he wasn’t dangerous.

Prosecutors ruled the shooting was justified, but Chief Ed Flynn fired Manney for trying to frisk Hamilton in the moments before the scuffle. Department investigators contend Manney couldn’t explain why he felt the need to pat him down beyond a general belief that homeless and mentally ill people often carry knives.

Manney, who filed an application for disability retirement two days before he was fired, has asked the Police and Fire Commission to reinstate him. A three-commissioner panel has been hearing testimony on the matter since Thursday.

CASPER, WY (KCWY-DT) – A Wyoming man loves being a car salesman so much, he’s been at it for nearly seven decades!

Derrell Alexander sold is first car in 1949 and he’s still selling at 100 years old!

Ray Bogan was there as he celebrated the birthday milestone.

Jacqueline, a student of Northview Elementary School, shares her love for music and the experience and confidence she’s gained in working with her music teacher, Joelle Barrett on guitar and the recorder.

CHICAGO (AP) – Chicago police officers initiated stop, question and frisk encounters at a much higher rate last summer than their New York City counterparts ever did, and just like with New York’s heavily criticized program, Chicago blacks and other racial minorities were disproportionately targeted, according to a civil liberties group.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois released a report Monday saying it identified more than 250,000 Chicago stop-and-frisk encounters in which there were no arrests from May through August 2014. African-Americans accounted for nearly three-quarters of those stopped, even though they make up about a third of the city’s population. On a per capita basis, Chicago police stopped 93.6 people per 1,000 residents, or more than four times New York’s peak rate of 22.9 stops per 1,000 residents, which happened during the same four-month period of 2011.

“The Chicago Police Department stops a shocking number of innocent people,” said Harvey Grossman, the ACLU’s legal director. “And just like New York, we see that African Americans are singled out for these searches.”

People were far more likely to be stopped in predominantly black communities and blacks were more likely to be the target of stops in predominantly white neighborhoods, the study found. For example, African-Americans accounted for 15 percent of the stops in the Jefferson Park area, even though they made up just one percent of its population.

The ACLU said it also found that police gave no “legally sufficient reason” for initiating many of the stops. It said it examined a random sampling of “contact cards,” which officers are required to fill out whenever they make such a stop. On half the cards, the officers didn’t state a reason for the stop, and in some cases, they stated that they stopped someone for a reason that wasn’t related to suspected criminal activity.

Grossman said the information that was on the cards was woefully inadequate, and the cards didn’t indicate that a person had been frisked, which the ACLU researchers can only assume happened.

The department didn’t immediately respond to messages asking for comment Monday, but department spokesman Martin Maloney  told the Chicago Tribune that the department prohibits the illegal practice of racial profiling and has taken steps to improve the training of officers on the issue.  But the use of contact cards has dramatically increased since Superintendent Garry McCarthy started running the department in 2011.

The department, which has reported a significant drop in crime around the city in recent years, has made it clear that the cards are a key component of its crime fighting strategy, saying they help track gang members and make arrests.

Late last year, prosecutors said information from contact cards showed that two days before the 2013 shooting death of a high school honor student, Hadiya Pendleton, the two suspects were in the white Nissan that served as the getaway car.

Grossman said he’s not surprised that the department relies so heavily on the stop-and-frisk policy. The superintendent spent the bulk of his career in the NYPD and he was the police chief in Newark, New Jersey, before coming to Chicago in 2011.

The policy has come under fire in both cities.

In New York, a federal judge determined the NYPD policy was sometimes discriminating against minorities. And in Newark, the department was placed under a federal monitor after the U.S. Department of Justice found that during a period that included McCarthy’s time running the department, 75 percent of pedestrian stops were made without constitutionally adequate reasons and in the city where blacks make up 54 percent of the population, they accounted for 85 percent of those stops.

“There is no question the superintendent endorses stop and frisk. … It is part of the fabric of McCarthy’s policing,” Grossman said.

Photos of St. Lawrence Seminary in Mt. Calvary on March 23, 2015.

MILAN (AP) – Italy’s highest court this week takes up the Amanda Knox case for the second time as a parallel trial-by-social media rages online, with partisans on both sides seeking to shape public opinion over a murder case that has polarized observers in three nations.

While the Internet advocacy and sparring over the Knox trial details – on blogs, forums and most vociferously on Twitter – have no bearing on the real court case, observers and participants say it does have a role in shaping public opinion, particularly in the United States, where the exchanges are most acerbic.

And public opinion could eventually have some bearing, if a confirmed guilty verdict requires Knox to serve a sentence and Italy seeks to extradite her.

“This has become their life, and both sides are desperate to win any way they can. Even if that is in the court of public opinion, they will take that win,” said Laurie Levenson, a law professor who directs the center for legal advocacy at Loyola Law School. “Everyone has woken up and realized that the law is not etched in stone. It is in the eye of the beholder and they are trying to influence that.”

The Italian Court of Cassation on Wednesday is expected to rule on Knox’s and her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito’s appeals to their guilty verdicts in British student Meredith Kercher’s 2007 killing, issued last year by a Florence appeals court that sentenced Knox to 28 ½ years and Sollecito to 25 years.

Both had been found guilty by a trial court in Perugia, then freed after a Perugia appellate court overturned the convictions, only to find themselves back in an appellate court after the high court vacated the acquittals in a harsh rebuke of the Perugia chief appellate judge’s reasoning.

Knox, who spent four years in jail during the investigation and after her lower court conviction, remains free in the United States. She has vowed never to return willingly to Italy. If her conviction is upheld now or in future decisions, any decision on her extradition will include a political component that could, in some part, be swayed by public opinion.

“She would need a groundswell of support to at least stave off the (U.S.) government from moving forward” on any extradition request from Italy, said Levenson.

Eugene McLaughlin, a professor of criminology at the City of University London who is studying the early days of British media coverage, calls the case one of the first examples of “trial by social media,” one that put the photogenic U.S. defendant at the center of attention, eclipsing the victim in most accounts.

“The case is almost beyond legal adjudication,” McLaughlin said. “No matter if Amanda Knox or Raffaele Sollecito are found guilty or not guilty, it has taken on an after-life of its own.’

The protracted online battle took root in the Paleolithic era of social media, when tabloids plumbed Knox’s MySpace page for early photos of a smiling and carefree student, wisps of hair blowing from beneath a rolled knit cap, picking up on the “Foxy Knoxy” moniker.

To the British tabloids, the University of Washington student was a she-wolf bent on seduction.  The image they portrayed of a deceptively wholesome American roommate with a taste for adventure took hold in the public imagination after the young lovers were filmed embracing outside the crime scene and shopping for lingerie days after the murder.

McLaughlin said Knox was assumed guilty in the British press in the early days of coverage, an impression that solidified when Italian police leaked that she had confessed – a confession she later said was forced.

“Certainly in the British media, among key newspapers, she was guilty way before they got near any sort of court,” McLaughlin said.

In the United States, the story was different.  Knox’s parents were frequent guests on U.S. TV networks and Knox’s image was closely managed by family spokesman David Marriott’s PR firm. The company set about disputing what it saw as misconceptions about Knox spawned in the British tabloids and the Italian media in the months after her arrest – a task that eventually landed Knox a reported $4 million book deal.

Sollecito, for his part, has responded to requests to speak with non-Italian traditional news outlets that he will grant interviews only in exchange for money.

It was in this PR breach the social media engagement ramped up, with blogs, discussion groups, wiki sites and Twitter exchanges on complex Italian court opinions and expert testimony on DNA evidence.

One of the latest hashtag battles is being waged by Knox supporters against Sollecito, seeking a boycott of donations to his legal defense fund until he clarifies whether his high court defense strategy amounts to a sellout of Knox. But over the months and years, the hashtag battles have also fought over minute details of the DNA evidence and tussled over highly technical forensic documents, which McLaughlin said can be open to multiple interpretations.

This trial-by-social media- conducted in English and unburdened by the weight of law – is being carried out by largely by trial watchers with no direct connection to either the victim or the defendants.

“It was like a big whodunit, and I like puzzles,” said Edward McCall, the online alias of the founder of the Murder of Meredith Kercher wiki, one of among a dozen mostly U.S.-based sites on both sides actively monitoring the case. McCall, who says the site is close to achieving its goal of posting translations of all court documents and transcripts, asked not to use his real name to protect himself and family members from harassment.

McCall said he was motivated by a desire to confront the pro-Knox PR he felt was prevalent in the U.S. discussion, and that he was now seeing language from his articles seeping into the discussion.

As well-meaning as the sites are, the Kercher family lawyer, Francesco Maresca, said translating complex court documents for an English-speaking audience had little value for readers who don’t know have the Italian law knowledge to interpret them properly.

“These trials are very difficult. It is not that everyone can play lawyer. If your knowledge is average, these are very technical questions,” Maresca said. “And after that, it slides into gossip.”

JERUSALEM (AP) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has apologized to Israel’s Arab citizens for remarks he made during last week’s parliament election and which offended members of the community.

Netanyahu, whose Likud Party won re-election in the vote, met with members of the Arab community at the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem on Monday and apologized.

He says he knows his “comments last week offended some Israeli citizens and offended members of the Israeli-Arab community.”

Netanyahu says: “This was never my intent. I apologize for this.”

Netanyahu drew accusations of racism in Israel, especially from its Arab minority, and a White House rebuke when, just a few hours before polling stations were to close across the country, he warned that Arab citizens were voting “in droves.”

NEW YORK (AP) – The singer Taylor Swift, Microsoft Corp. Harvard University are among those buying up .porn and .adult Web suffixes as a pre-emptive move before those domain names become available this summer.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, is making Internet address suffixes beyond the usual .com or .org available for people and businesses to use. While some are in Chinese or other languages besides English, others could include the likes of .music, .app or, of course, .porn.

To check what brands, groups and celebrities have bought their domain names, visit icmregistry.com/domaincheck . According to the site, Microsoft has bought not only Microsoft.porn but Office.porn and Office.adult as well.

Representatives for Taylor Swift, Microsoft and Harvard could not immediately be reached for comment.

PHOENIX (AP) – The NFL will not block any games from local television during the 2015 season.

The league said Monday that team owners voted for a one-year suspension of the long-standing blackout policy for the preseason and regular season. There were no blackouts last season, because the minimum number of tickets were sold for every game, and only two blackouts in 2013.

Still, the experiment is a huge step for the NFL, whose blackout policy dates back decades. With low ticket sales in cities such as Jacksonville, Oakland and San Diego, the league is taking a bit of a gamble for 2015.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – Kansas farmers are paying for genetic research to figure out exactly why some people struggle to digest wheat.

The hard science is aimed at developing new varieties of wheat at a time when the gluten-free industry is worth nearly a billion dollars a year in the U.S. alone.

The Kansas Wheat Commission is spending $200,000 for the first two years of the project, which is meant to identify everything in wheat’s DNA sequences that can trigger a reaction in people suffering from celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder in which eating even tiny amounts of gluten – comprised of numerous, complex proteins that gives dough its elasticity and some flavor to baked goods – can damage the small intestine.

The only known treatment for celiac disease is a gluten-free diet free of any foods that contain wheat, rye, and barley.

Graphic shows U.S. retail sales of gluten-free foods, 2010 through 2014 and projected sales through 2019.

“If you know you are producing a crop that is not tolerated well by people, then it’s the right thing to do,” said the project’s lead researcher, Chris Miller, senior director of research for Engrain, a Kansas company that makes products to enhance the nutrition and appearance of products made by the milling and cereal industry.

Though celiac disease is four to five times more common now than 50 years ago, only about 1 percent of the world’s population is believed to suffer from it, and just a fraction have been diagnosed. But the gluten-free food business has skyrocketed in the last five years, driven in part by non-celiac sufferers who believe they are intolerant to gluten and look for such products as a healthier alternative.

Sales of gluten-free snacks, crackers, pasta, bread and other products reached $973 million in the U.S. in 2014, up from $810 million the previous year, according to a January report by the consumer research firm Packaged Facts, which analyzed the sales of hundreds of explicitly labeled and marketed gluten-free products and brands at supermarkets, drugstores, and mass merchandisers.

Understanding the causes of celiac disease and gluten intolerance is the goal of a lot of research around the world; Some focuses on human diagnosis and treatment, and others have identified about 20 of the protein fragments in wheat that causes celiac reactions.

But no one has identified all of them, or bred a variety of wheat that is safe for celiac sufferers to eat.

“We are hoping to be one of the first to establish this comprehensive screening of reactive proteins in wheat,” Miller said.

The research began in July at the Wheat Innovation Center in Manhattan, Kansas, and remains in its early stages, with researchers extracting proteins from seeds of various varieties of wheat. A later step will be combining the proteins with antibodies produced by the human immune system to test for reactions.

He also plans to examine the wild relatives of wheat as well as modern varieties, and will tap into a Kansas wheat variety repository that dates back to the 1900s in hopes of finding a variety – perhaps one that fell out of favor among commercial farmers – that might already be low in reactivity for celiac sufferers.

Researchers hope to use that variety to develop a gluten-free wheat using traditional breeding methods.

An expert on celiac disease who reviewed Miller’s plan online worries that it may prove “too simplistic,” and fail to identify all the toxic sequences that can trigger a celiac reaction.

Armin Alaedini, assistant professor of medical sciences at Columbia University and a researcher at the New York-based school’s Celiac Disease Center, said the project may end up with a less toxic wheat product that isn’t completely safe for all celiac disease patients.

“After all this effort, this product that is coming out … is unlikely to be superior in terms of nutritional value or baking properties and taste to the gluten-free products that are already on the market,” Alaedini said.

The medical advisory board for the Celiac Disease Foundation, a nonprofit based in Woodland Hills, California, could not reach a consensus on the viability of Miller’s research.

But the organization’s CEO, Marilyn Geller, is encouraged.

Her son had been sick his entire life before being diagnosed with celiac disease at age 15, Geller said, and his father also was later diagnosed. Since the disorder is genetic, her grandchildren will be at risk of getting it.

If these research efforts can keep celiac disease in the public eye, more doctors will be aware of it and more federal research dollars may flow, she said.

Many people with the disease would like to “eat actual wheat, with the properties of wheat that make the bread nice and fluffy,” she said.

“The idea of having a variety of wheat that they could eat that has those wonderful wheat-like properties would certainly be very interesting for them.”

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – Gov. Bobby Jindal will wait until the state legislative session ends in June before announcing whether he’ll enter the 2016 presidential race.

The Republican governor’s chief political adviser, Timmy Teepell, said Monday that Jindal wants to stay focused on the final session of his term before deciding about the White House bid.

The legislative session begins April 13. Lawmakers must wrap up their work by June 11.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz launched the first major campaign of the presidential election cycle Monday. Other GOP candidates are expected to follow within weeks.

Jindal appears certain to run, making regular appearances in the key campaign state of Iowa and continuing a heavy travel schedule around the country, speaking about federal issues. But his poll numbers lag well behind other expected Republican contenders.

MADISON (AP) – The University of Wisconsin System will no longer cover the cost of a dual-enrollment program for high school students to earn college credit.

The Wisconsin State Journal reports school districts were told by UW System President Ray Cross that they would have to pay for the program next year. The system is facing $300 million in budget cuts in Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed budget.

The program, which was approved by lawmakers two years ago, allows students to get college credit for high school courses that match classes at UW campuses. About 7,400 students take part in the program.

At first, the UW System charged parents tuition for the dual-enrollment program, but the state’s attorney general ruled in 2014 the system couldn’t do that. The system said it would provide $1 million in “stopgap” funding for the program this school year.

In the long-term, Cross said that the UW System would advocate for legislative changes that would allow for parents to pay tuition.

Cross said districts, which typically partner with one UW System campus, can negotiate lower tuition costs. The Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District negotiated a rate of about $30 for each credit with UW-Oshkosh, amounting to a cost of $70,000.

“We had already decided that if something didn’t change, we would be unable to offer this option for students next year because the cost would have been at least $350,000,” Middleton district spokesman Perry Hibner said.

Lower negotiated rates aren’t guaranteed beyond this year, Cross said in a letter to school districts.

State Sen. Paul Farrow, R-Pewaukee, said he’s considering drafting a bill that would create a pool of funds for school districts to offset costs of the dual-enrollment program. He said the program can help students transition into college.

“It gives a kid an incentive to continue (at those campuses) and keep moving forward with their degree,” Farrow said.

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PHOENIX (AP) – An Arizona woman who spent more than two decades on death row in her 4-year-old son’s killing was exonerated Monday, bringing an end to a controversial case that relied almost entirely on the work of a detective with a long history of misconduct.

Debra Milke hugged her supporters and sobbed as she left the courtroom, where a judge formally dismissed the case less than a week after prosecutors lost their final appeal. In a brief hearing, Judge Rosa Mroz also allowed Milke, who has been free on bond since 2013, to have her electronic-monitoring ankle bracelet removed.

Milke emerged from a conference room a short time later without the device.

“It feels good,” Milke said, pulling up one pant leg to show her unencumbered ankle.

Milke was convicted of murder in 1990 in the death of her son, Christopher. Authorities say Milke dressed him in his favorite outfit and told him he was going to see Santa Claus at a mall in December 1989. He was then taken into the desert near Phoenix by two men and shot in the back of the head.

Authorities say Milke’s motive was that she didn’t want the child anymore and didn’t want him to live with his father. Milke has maintained her innocence and denied that she confessed to the killing. The two men who led her child to his death were convicted of murder but refused to testify against Milke.

An appeals court overturned Milke’s conviction in 2013, ruling that prosecutors failed to disclose a detective’s history of misconduct. Her conviction was based entirely on a confession Milke gave to the now-discredited detective, Armando Saldate.

Multiple court rulings in other cases said the now-retired officer either lied under oath or violated suspects’ rights during interrogations.

In a scathing 2013 opinion, a federal appeals court leveled harsh criticism over the case.

“No civilized system of justice should have to depend on such flimsy evidence,” the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said.

Michael Kimerer, one of Milke’s attorneys, said Monday that he was still in disbelief that “a long, long journey with so many ups and downs” ended with his client’s freedom.

“She was innocent. It was all based upon a police officer that just totally lied,” Kimerer said outside court. “To see her free today and totally free and exonerated, it’s an unbelievable feeling – just unbelievable.”

Saldate has said he would not testify at any retrial, citing fears of potential federal charges based on the 9th Circuit’s accusations of misconduct. Both county and federal authorities have said they don’t intend to seek charges against the detective based on any accusations leveled by the federal appeals court.

Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery last week called the decision not to let the case be retried “a dark day for Arizona’s criminal justice system.”

Milke filed a lawsuit earlier this month against the city of Phoenix, Maricopa County and numerous individuals. She alleges authorities violated her civil rights. She also contends she was denied a fair trial and was a victim of malicious prosecution.

Maria Endries is a Mishicot High School Senior in the Youth Apprenticeship Program.

Maria describes getting her CNA certification and how her teachers put students first.
The Portfolio Program’s objective is to provide an individualized learning plan for every student.
Students are encouraged to find a career path which they are passionate about; classes are matched to their interests.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is highlighting private-sector efforts to encourage more students from underrepresented groups to pursue education in science, technology, engineering and math.

At the White House Science Fair on Monday, Obama announced more than $240 million in pledges to boost the study of those fields, known as STEM. This year’s fair is focused on diversity.

Obama said the new commitments have brought total financial and material support for these programs to $1 billion.

“It’s not enough for our country just to be proud of you. We’ve got to support you,” Obama said.

The pledges the president announced include a $150 million philanthropic effort to encourage promising early-career scientists to stay on track and a $90 million campaign to expand STEM opportunities to underrepresented youth, such as minorities and girls.

More than 100 colleges and universities have committed to training 20,000 engineers. A coalition of CEOs also has promised to expand high-quality STEM education programs to an additional 1.5 million students this year.

Obama launched “Educate to Innovate,” his effort to encourage the study of science, technology, engineering and math, in 2009.

More than 35 student teams showed their projects at the White House Science Fair, including exhibits on algae, spinal implants, keystroke security and a page turner made out of Legos.

Obama said the fair is one of the most fun events held annually at the White House. “Every year I walk out smarter than when I walked in,” Obama said.

 

MADISON (AP) – The Wisconsin Department of Justice plans to hand its final reports on what led up to a white Madison Police officer killing an unarmed biracial man to prosecutors this week.

Tony Robinson (Submitted photo)

DOJ spokeswoman Anne Schwartz says the agency plans to hand its reports to Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne on Friday. She says the reports won’t be made public until Ozanne decides whether to file charges.

Attorney General Brad Schimel has said DOJ won’t make a charging recommendation. Ozanne said Monday that he won’t know how long it may take to make a decision until he has all the reports.

Kenny shot 19-year-old Tony Robinson in an apartment house stairwell on March 6. Kenny was responding to calls that Robinson had attacked two people and was running in traffic.