Sunday, A Miscellany

 I did get to my pretrial detention journal. There were a couple of other drafts started.

I took a 30-minute bike ride around the neighborhood. It was not a grand performance.

No naps. 

There was a walk to McClure's for Coke.

No phone calls, no visitors.

CC has been on my mind. A week ago, she told me I had blown my chance, and I decided she was just too addled for continued contact. There is in the Psalms a verse or two about the violent being caught in a circle. She is also caught in a circle, for all her not being violent. She is more vindictive than violent. Perhaps here is where my life-long problem with patience has been a (sometimes) boon: when I am bored, I do not go back and repeat myself. I have a habit of not putting up with activities or with people where I do not see the sense of wasting my time. There is much that has been attributed to me that never seemed worth the investment of time. After reading the Psalms, I saw support for my own ideas about not going back over ground already traveled. I put it this way now: riding a carousel gets one nowhere.

Some links to reading today and maybe yesterday: 

On the Refugee Stories That Begin Where Casablanca Ends

NEVER TOO OLD TO GROW UP: A CONVERSATION WITH ALINA BRONSKY 

 How Literature Lasts (and Popular Myths of Popularity): On what books remain, fade, or return 

Dylan: the lyrics and the music – Can you please crawl out your window 

Those who think Marlowe co-wrote plays with Shakespeare may Kyd themselves 

Who was Christopher Marlowe? 

Torture and the Drama of Emergency: Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare... 

 

Union organizer says CANPACK hiring Chileans rather than Hoosiers

 Efforts to organize workers at CANPACK have led to charges that the company is hiring people from the South American country of Chile rather than from Delaware County.

A protest demonstration outside the plant last Tuesday featured local Democratic Party candidates, including Jeff Robinson, city council president and Muncie mayoral candidate.

But the company denies the accusations and says it is continuing to hire Hoosiers for the factory at Fuson and Cowan roads. The plant manufactures aluminum beverage cans.

Vance Smith, an organizer with Teamsters Local 135, told The Star Press this week that CANPACK hired 32 employees from Chile and the hiring came after efforts to organize workers started. He went on to say that hiring of local workers has been frozen and the company is not living up to an agreement to hire local people first.

 Federal prosecutors want a Muncie police officer awaiting trial for obstruction of justice jailed following his driving-while-intoxicated arrest in Kokomo.

 In the federal case, Corey Posey is accused of filing a false report in 2018 after fellow officer Chase Winkle physically assaulted an arrestee.

The 31-year-old Posey — free on his own recognizance since being indicted by a federal grand jury in April 2021 — stood trial on the federal count of obstruction of justice last month, but a mistrial was declared when jurors were unable to agree on a verdict.

He is scheduled to stand trial a second time, in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, beginning Sept. 11.

Ex-Muncie police officer gets 6 months for filing false report on Winkle 

Another ex-colleague of Chase Winkle is going to prison for filing a false report about the former Muncie police officer's physical abuse of an arrestee.

Dalton Kurtz — who admitted he had provided an inaccurate account of Winkle's interactions with a 17-year-old detainee in June 2018 — was sentenced Friday, in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, to six months in federal prison.

The 33-year-old Kurtz — who resigned from his job as a city police officer in 2021 — had pleaded guilty to "misprision of felony."

After his release from prison, Kurtz will spend a year on supervised release, including two months on home detention, U.S. District Court Judge James Sweeney II ruled.

I am going to spend the end of the day watching Mystery on PBS and reading Roberto Bolano.

Have a good one.

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