Tuesday Evening Reading - Mental Health in Muncie, Neanderthals, State Swaps & Better Angels

Not until 4 pm, I ate dinner before starting on the e-mail. I read a little, and I crashed Firefox twice. Two hours later, I am writing this post.

 Mental Health in Muncie: ‘I’ll kill every last one of you’: Indiana man charged with impersonating a DEA agent, intimidation with a toy gun.

The officer approached Ring, MPD said, but the man said police “had no right to speak to him” because he was a DEA agent.

When asked for identification confirming he was, in fact, a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration, officers said Ring demanded they “call the United States Air Force” to verify his credentials.

Instead, officers ordered Ring to get on the ground and drop his backpack. Despite still insisting that he was with the DEA, officers said Ring complied and was then handcuffed. During a subsequent patdown, MPD said officers found a pocket knife on Ring. 

While being detained, officers reported that Ring “maintained he was an active DEA agent.” However, a search of his name in the system revealed Ring had an active warrant out of Muncie City Court. 

Justice for Neanderthals! What the debate about our long-dead cousins reveals about us 

State Swaps: Don’t like your state’s politics? Just move the state line 

More than two-thirds of native Hoosiers stay in Indiana (Because we hope to swap for better parts of other states?)

Better Angels: One Suburb’s Attempt to Build an Integrated Community

 Republicans are finding out that John Fetterman punches back(Fetterman is a hoot.)

Now, I am going to work on my stories and MW's database.

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