In Other News: Son found guilty of killing rich father; NYC bans word ‘alien’

Published 1:33 pm Saturday, September 28, 2019

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Princeton grad gets maximum sentence in killing of hedge-fund father

The killing gripped New York City when it was first reported. A Princeton graduate with movie star looks was accused of entering his hedge fund father’s tony NYC apartment and fatally shooting him. His mother — whom he asked to get him a Coca-Cola from a store — found her husband’s body in his bedroom. The trial was never about who pulled the trigger; it was about whether or not Thomas Gilbert Jr., was aware of his actions at the time of the shooting. On Friday, a state judge in Manhattan ruled against the killer and sentenced him to the maximum sentence allowed: 30 years to life. Prosecutors said Gilbert knew what he was doing and “threw the ultimate tantrum” after having his allowance slashed. — Fox News

Chinese influence on display at UN as US decries human rights abuses

As the U.N.’s General Assembly rumbled on this week, a small group of silent protesters meditated across the avenue, surrounded by banners that called for the end to “forced organ harvesting” in China. Knelt down, eyes closed and each with a single arm raised across their chests in meditative postures, the members of Falun Gong — a banned Chinese spiritual movement that has been subjected to a brutal crackdown in the already bloody history of China’s communist regime — called on the U.N. to call out President Xi Jinping’s “appalling” human rights record. Reports of torture, murder and the harvesting of organs of Falun Gong advocates have continued to surface. The government has said it has used executed prisoners’ organs in the past but has since stopped. — Fox News

Who wants to leave California? Young voters can’t afford housing, and conservatives feel alienated

Young voters were especially likely to cite unaffordable housing as a reason for leaving, according to the latest latest UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll conducted for the Los Angeles Times. But a different group, conservatives, also frequently suggested they wanted to leave — and for a very different reason: They feel alienated from the state’s political culture. Republicans and conservative voters were nearly three times as likely to have seriously considered moving as their Democratic or liberal counterparts — 40% compared with 14%, the poll found. The conservative voters mentioned taxes and California’s political climate as a reason for leaving more frequently than they cited housing. — Los Angeles Times

City bans calling someone an ‘illegal alien’ out of hate

It’s now against the law in New York City to threaten someone with a call to immigration authorities or refer to them as an “illegal alien” when motivated by hate. The restrictions — violations of which are punishable by fines of up to $250,000 per offense — are outlined in a 29-page directive released by City Hall’s Commission on Human Rights. “‘Alien’ — used in many laws to refer to a ‘noncitizen’ person — is a term that may carry negative connotations and dehumanize immigrants, marking them as ‘other,’” reads one passage of the memo. “The use of certain language, including ‘illegal alien’ and ‘illegals,’ with the intent to demean, humiliate, or offend a person or persons constitutes discrimination.” — New York Post