In Other News: Judge orders DA to stop distributing explicit images of defendant and wife; police officer helps man break up with his girlfriend

Published 9:29 pm Saturday, March 31, 2018

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Louisiana Democratic exec: We’re not trying to take your guns

Louisiana’s Democratic Party Executive Director Stephen Hadwerk said neither the party nor its chairman wants to repeal the Second Amendment after the party chairman called for repealing that amendment. Party Chairman Karen Carter Peterson, who is also a state senator and a vice chairman of the national Democratic Party, tweeted “Repeal the Second Amendment” accompanying a column by retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens calling for the repeal of that amendment. Peterson refused to answer questions from the media about the tweet. — Monroe News Star

Judge orders DA to stop distributing explicit images of defendant and wife

Texas Judge Matt Johnson has ordered McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna’s office from further distribution of the “private, intimate sexual images” of Cody Ledbetter and his wife taken from Ledbetter’s cellphone after his arrest in May 2015. Ledbetter’s attorney, Paul Looney, called the DA’s actions “revenge porn.” Ledbetter was one of the bikers arrested after a shootout in Waco, but charges against him were later dropped. — Waco Tribune-Herald

Police officer helps man break up with his girlfriend

A man walked into a police station in Ludwigshafen, Germany, with a personal problem: He wanted to break up with his girlfriend but did not know how. A female officer took him aside and proposed several alternative scenarios. “We are willing to advise, but we can not close the deal,” the police reported afterward. “We help everyone, and we always have an open ear for citizens’ concerns.” — USA Today

California politicians seek to blacklist companies with ties to the NRA

California politicians are in a bit of a pickle. They want to impose yet more gun controls, but they’re stuck in a state where firearms are already tightly regulated. Los Angeles City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell, a Democrat, thinks he’s found a way around this problem: an official blacklist of corporations that do business with the National Rifle Association (NRA). O’Farrell has already delayed a vote on renting out a city-owned property to FedEx because the company gives the NRA the same discount rates it offers to all small businesses and associations. Meanwhile, state treasurer and Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Chiang is leading an effort to divest the state’s public pension system, CalPERS — the largest public pension system in the country — from sporting goods stores that sell firearms. — Reason