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Video: Officer Accidentally Fired a Gun at Columbia University, N.Y.P.D. Says
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Officer Accidentally Fired a Gun at Columbia University, N.Y.P.D. Says
The police said a sergeant unintentionally fired his gun into an empty room of Hamilton Hall while officers were removing pro-Palestinian protesters from the building.
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While clearing an unoccupied, vacant area of the building on the first floor, one E.S.U. member, a sergeant, did unintentionally discharge one round from his firearm. The sergeant was attempting to assist other officers in gaining entry to a locked office to make sure there was no one hiding inside. The team gained access to the office and found that there was nobody inside. In this case, the bullet landed on the floor of the office and didn’t travel anywhere else, so it was apparent that it had struck no one. At no time were any police officers, members of the public or any protesters in danger. This was purely unintentional. The sergeant at the time was trying to clear an area, an unknown location, that was dark. So he moved. He made the decision to transition his firearm from his dominant hand to his non-dominant hand so he could better try to gain access to the office. With that, he unintentionally pulled the trigger of his weapon and discharged the firearm. Moving forward, we we will obviously counsel the officer and send him to retraining and reevaluate him.
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Video: Jury Hears Tape of Trump and Cohen Discussing Hush-Money Deal
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Transcript of Trump Manhattan Trial, April 25, 2024
D. Pecker Direct/Steinglass
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Cohen a willingness to sell Mr. Trump the rights to Karen
McDougal’s story, the lifetime rights?
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Yes.
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Tell us about that?
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I told Michael Cohen that I would sign
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I would sign
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the rights over to
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I would sign the rights. And he asked
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me, it’s $150,000?
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I said, look, I said, you know, Karen is going to be
writing for the various magazines and visual sites. She is
going to appear on a couple of covers of the magazines. I
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value that at $25,000. So, I will retain, $25,000 as editorial
expenses, and I will bill you for the lifetime rights for
$125,000.
So, did you value the portion of the contract, the
$150,000 you had paid to that AMI had paid to Karen
McDougal, did you value the lifetime rights at $125,000?
Yes, I did.
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And was that the price that you were willing to sell
the lifetime rights to Michael Cohen on behalf of Donald Trump
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for?
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Yes.
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Did you discuss the timing of the assignment of
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Michael Cohen wanted the contract done, yesterday, and
this is going towards the end of September. So, I facilitated
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