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No. 1 Georgia rallies from 10 down to beat Missouri 26-22
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The 2 most essential traits that Georgia coach Kirby Sensible seeks in his workforce are composure and resiliency, and the top-ranked Bulldogs wanted to depend on each to rally previous Missouri on Saturday night time.
Or, as Sensible put it: “We needed to OD on these.”
Saved out of the tip zone till the fourth quarter and dealing with a 10-point deficit, the Bulldogs acquired their run sport going simply in time to keep away from the upset. Kendall Milton completed off one lengthy drive with a landing, then Daijun Edwards acquired into the tip zone with simply over 4 minutes to go, lifting the Bulldogs to a 26-22 victory.
“They performed actually bodily and actually onerous and whipped us up entrance, however I’m actually happy with us,” Sensible stated. “We at all times speak about rising to the aggressive nature of the chance and we did that tonight.”
The Bulldogs (5-0, 2-0 SEC) trailed nearly your complete method earlier than lastly fixing the red-zone woes that compelled Jack Podlesny into kicking 4 subject targets. Quarterback Stetson Bennett additionally struggled all night time towards the blitzing Missouri protection, however the chief of the defending nationwide champions nonetheless wound up with 312 yards passing and no interceptions.
“It felt like an SEC sport within the fourth quarter that we needed to win,” Bennett stated afterward. “They’ve pleasure too. They count on to win too. And so they performed onerous, too.”
Brady Cook dinner had 192 yards passing and a landing for the Tigers (2-3, 0-2), who’ve by no means overwhelmed a top-ranked workforce in 17 tries. However in addition they struggled to succeed in the tip zone towards one of many nation’s finest defenses, forcing Harrison Mevis into kicking 5 subject targets one week after he missed a possible game-winner in an additional time loss at Auburn.
“We have been self-inflicted wounds away from successful that sport,” Tigers coach Eli Drinkwitz stated.
Georgia riled up the Tigers lengthy earlier than kickoff when a number of of them walked by their pregame drills, and Bulldogs defensive deal with Jalen Carter and Missouri’s Darius Robinson needed to be bodily separated.
The Tigers carried their angst proper into the sport. Their rebuilt protection behind coordinator Blake Baker compelled an early fumble and bunch of punts, and Missouri capitalized on the nice subject place. Mevis made the primary of his subject targets to place the Bulldogs of their first gap of the season.
They wound up spending the remainder of the night time digging out of it.
Benefiting from breakdowns by Georgia’s top-ranked scoring protection, Cook dinner discovered Dominic Lovett for a 36-yard achieve, then acquired 6-foot-6 tight finish Tyler Stephens to make a slick one-handed seize for a walk-in landing and 10-0 lead.
After one other fumble by the Bulldogs, Mevis added a 49-yarder to increase the Tigers’ benefit.
“We knew we have been going to get the whole lot they’d,” Georgia middle Sedrick Van Pran stated.
The Bulldogs lastly acquired on the rating board on Podlesny’s 40-yard subject objective, solely to look at Division II switch Cody Schrader rip off a 63-yard run on the Tigers’ subsequent possession. He was lastly tackled on the objective line, and the Bulldogs made a much-needed stand, however Mevis nonetheless added a chip-shot subject objective to revive the 16-3 lead.
Even when the Bulldogs efficiently faked a subject objective late within the first half solely to accept one anyway, then needed to kick one other after a 16-play drive that took up half the third quarter.
The groups traded subject targets once more to make it 19-12 heading into the fourth quarter, and Mevis added a 54-yarder to increase the result in 22-12 with 14 minutes to go.
Bennett started discovering holes within the Missouri protection, main Georgia on a 75-yard drive that Milton completed with a 1-yard run. After the Tigers have been compelled to punt — thanks partly to a private foul penalty on proper guard Mitchell Walters — the Bulldogs swiftly moved 68 yards for the go-ahead landing.
“This workforce bonded tonight,” Sensible stated. “Don’t get me incorrect: We’ve an extended solution to go. However the resiliency that they confirmed tonight made me proud.”
FILLING IN
Tykee Smith began on the STAR place within the Georgia protection after starter Javon Bullard was arrested early Sunday and charged with seven misdemeanors, together with driving drunk. Bullard didn’t make the journey.
HALL OF FAMER
Missouri honored former coach Gary Pinkel, who shall be inducted into the Faculty Soccer Corridor of Fame in December. He is also being inducted into the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletics Corridor of Fame.
THE TAKEAWAY
Georgia had three turnovers, quite a few drops and loads of penalties in a lackluster win over Kent State final week. The Bulldogs needed to overcome lots of the identical miscues towards the Tigers, together with a pair of misplaced fumbles early within the sport.
Missouri did the whole lot proper for greater than three quarters Saturday night time. However penalties at essential moments ruined a pair of drives, and a protection that had triggered Georgia suits your complete method lastly confirmed cracks when it mattered probably the most.
UP NEXT
Georgia: The Bulldogs return residence to face Auburn subsequent Saturday.
Missouri: The Tigers go to Florida subsequent Saturday.
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The Torture-Murder of Othel Moore Jr. and Missouri’s Concentration Camp Prisons
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Four Missouri prison cops were charged Friday with murder, and a fifth with involuntary manslaughter, in the December execution of Othel Moore Jr., a 38-year-old brother at Jefferson City Correctional Center.
The prison cops restrained Othel with a full-body torture contraption, covered him with a hood and a mask, and repeatedly attacked him with chemical weapons. Witnesses reported Moore pleading for his life.
An Eyewitness Describes the Gang-Style Torture Execution, Causing Surge of Terror Throughout MO Prisons
“I never watched anybody die before,” Jordan Seller, a former prisoner at the facility who was an eyewitness to Moore’s murder told CNN.
The nightmarish horror began with what was supposed to be a routine cell search on the maximum-security block. “They come in like a hundred deep, and that’s barely an exaggeration,” Seller recounted. “They try to pull everybody out as fast as they can, search the cells as fast as they can, and get out.”
Seller and his cellmate had already been pulled out and put back in their cell when they saw the commotion around Moore’s cell. “The cell was surrounded by COs,” he said. Moore was begging for his life, saying he had a medical lay-in and needed two pairs of handcuffs to ease the tension on his shoulders.
An attorney for Moore’s family, Andrew Stroth, has said Moore had blood coming out of his ears and nose.
“Immediately he’s jumping, hopping, and you can hear him screaming, ‘Help! I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe, take it off. I can’t breathe. I’m allergic to mace. I need help.’ And then it gets worse and worse,” Seller described. “He’s jumping up and down, shaking. Slowly, his screams are getting weaker and weaker. I believe I watched him die before they even took him out of the wing.”
“That brought on such a fear. The realization that these people can kill me, and there’s nothing I can do about it,” said Seller.
“From our perspective, it’s George Floyd 3.0, in prison,” the civil rights attorney representing the Moore family told KOMU 8 on Friday. “We’re demanding release of all the video.”
What is CERT? The State-Sanctioned Gang That Carried Out the Torture Killing
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The officers who killed Othel Moore Jr. were part of a so-called “Corrections Emergency Response Team (CERT),” which I will instead refer to as a Prison Terror Squad (PTS). PTS are tactically trained prison cops that operate like a prison-specific SWAT team.
During mass searches, they swarm in overwhelming numbers, often hundreds deep, descending upon unarmed and helpless prisoners in the dead of night. They claim to maintain order; but their true purpose is to instill terror, inflict asymmetrical violence, and assert domination.
CERT’s presence implies violence, creating a culture of constant terror within the prison system.
Prison or Concentration Facility? MO State-Sanctioned Killings Reach Unprecedented Rates
In 2024, the Missouri so-called Department of Corrections saw a sharp increase to a staggering 13 deaths per month, an increase from the last several years’ average of 11 per month.
These executions must be understood as acts of terror intended to strike sustained fear, domination, and control over the general populace of incarcerated comrades. The number of brothers who died while in custody last year was over 150—that’s about five times the number of United States soldiers killed in 2022.
Abolition Now: The Only Just Response
Any institution that regularly allows, enables, and even incentivizes such brutish, horrifying violence against humans—trapping them in cages, herding them, shocking them with shock gloves, spraying them with chemical weapons, asphyxiating and strangling them, depriving them of essential medical needs, infringing on their human rights, keeping them in sweltering heat over 100 degrees in the height of summer, beating and torturing—are not rehabilitation centers; they are concentration facilities.
It is incumbent upon all of us to see the horror of what happened to Othel not as a happenstance or aberration but, as the Missouri Justice Coalition described, “usual and commonplace” for MO prisons to act in this way.
This is not reformable. We must stand in solidarity with our comrades on the inside and demand abolition now!
The department’s own investigation and the firing of ten individuals involved in the incident are mere smokescreens to cover the fact these facilities are far closer to concentration camps than they are rehabilitative institutions.
Missouri
Omaha metro residents weather flood as Missouri crests
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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – The National Weather Service said the Missouri River crested at just under 33 feet Saturday morning.
So far, the Pottawattamie County Emergency Management Agency reported no updates in flood-related efforts since then.
They told 6 News their overnight crews encouraged several people to get out of the floodwater near the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge.
They weren’t alone.
Council Bluffs Police said they received a report of three people paddling upstream in a canoe beneath the pedestrian bridge.
Elsewhere, after this week’s high winds, the Omaha and Lincoln affiliates of the nonprofit group Rapid Response cut down and cleared out tree limbs for residents in the Florence neighborhood.
“They were a true blessing,” Lita Craddick said. “I was so amazed. I was so uplifted and I was overwhelmed almost.”
Craddick said she was faced with having to get estimates and not knowing what homeowner’s insurance would cover.
That was before Rapid Response swooped in.
“Such a blessing,” Craddick said. “I was just totally in shock. I’m like, ‘No way.’”
Rapid Response teams are still helping clean up debris from April’s tornadoes, and they’re planning to help out with flood cleanup after the waters go down.
But it was important for them to help Florence homeowners Saturday.
“We talk to so many people, have so much work to do, so many jobs to do,” said Beth Sorensen, director of the Lincoln affiliate. “So we have to kind of prioritize which ones we’re going to do first. And in this neighborhood, with all these limbs on roofs and things, this was the priority today.”
Rapid Response said it’s badly in need of volunteers, including experienced chainsaw and skid-steer loader operators.
If you would like to help out, click here.
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Sandra Hemme spent 43 years wrongfully imprisoned. Missouri would pay little if she is freed
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After serving 43 years in prison for a murder case hinged on things she said as a psychiatric patient, Sandra Hemme could be cleared of the killing and freed in less than three weeks, by July 14.
For that, Missouri state law promises $100 a day for each day of her life lost to prison on a wrongful conviction. For Hemme, who was first convicted in 1981 for the 1980 killing, that’s roughly $1.6 million.
Some critics say that’s too little for 43 years. If her case had been in federal court, she would be in line for about a third more. In Kansas, nearly twice as much. In Texas, the money would have been more than doubled.
Livingston County Circuit Judge Ryan Horsman ruled in mid-June that the state must free Hemme unless prosecutors retried her in the next 30 days. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said shortly after the ruling that his appeals division would look into whether to challenge the judge’s decision.
The judge ruled that prosecutors presented no forensic evidence or motive linking Hemme to the killing of library worker Patricia Jeschke in St. Joseph, Missouri, in November 1980.
Rather, the case relied on what she said in a psychiatric ward in a St. Joseph hospital. At the time, she said conflicting and impossible things. At one point, she claimed to see a man commit the killing, but he was in another city at the time. At other times, she said she knew about the murder because of extrasensory perception. Two weeks into talks with detectives, she said she thought she stabbed Jeschke with a hunting knife, but she wasn’t sure.
Hemme’s lawyers accuse a now-discredited police officer of her murder. In a rare departure from its policy a year ago, the attorney general’s office didn’t object to a hearing to explore a wrongful-conviction claim.
If she’s cleared, Hemme’s case would mark the longest known wrongful conviction of a woman in U.S. history.
Her compensation for those years in jail will not be a record.
Caps on wrongful-conviction compensation vary widely across the country. In federal cases, the limit is $50,000 for every year someone’s wrongly held in prison plus $100,000 for every year on death row.
In Washington, D.C., the cap is $200,000 a year. Connecticut pays as much as $131,506. Nevada has a sliding scale that pays $100,000 a year on cases of 20 years or more.
Kansas pays $65,000 for each year. In more than a dozen other states, the rate runs from $50,000 to $80,000. Of states that set limits or promise compensation, Missouri’s $36,500 a year is low.
The National Registry of Exonerations counts 54 people convicted of crimes in Missouri who have been exonerated since 1989. Only nine of them got payouts from the state. Missouri is the only state that gives wrongly imprisoned inmates compensation if they were proved not guilty by DNA analysis.
Gov. Mike Parson vetoed a bill in 2023 that could have provided inmates proven not guilty with a larger compensation up to $179 a day, allowed prosecutors to seek judicial review of past cases and created a state special unit to help prosecutors with investigating cases.
This story was originally published by The Beacon, a fellow member of the KC Media Collective.
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