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(11/21/13 10:54pm)
Tempe Police reported the following incidents Thursday:
A 27-year-old Tempe man was arrested Nov. 9 on Mill Avenue and University Drive on suspicion of possession of marijuana, narcotic drugs and prescription drugs, according to a police report.
Officers said a vehicle was traveling southbound on Mill Avenue, and it appeared that the front seat passenger had a glass bottle of beer in his hands.
Officers contacted the man and could smell burning marijuana coming from inside the vehicle, according to the report.
A search revealed a plastic baggie with a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana inside of the driver’s door handle, police said.
The man told officers the marijuana belonged to him but he had a medical marijuana card. When the man gave the officers the card, they discovered it had expired, according to the report. The man kept leaning against a trash can and touching the back of his pants, according to the report. Police said he did this several times and was told to stop and finally had to be physically moved away from the trash can, the report said.
After the man was arrested, police searched the trash can and it was revealed that he had dropped a baggie containing a rock substance that was later confirmed to be cocaine, police reported.
When officers searched the man, they found four Carisoprodol prescription pills in his right front coin pocket, according to the report. Police said he did not have a prescription for the drugs in his possession or the prescription bottle.
The man was transported to Tempe City Jail where he was booked.
Reports compiled by Kelcie Grega.
Reach the reporter at kgrega@asu.edu or follow her on Twitter @KelcieGrega
(11/20/13 5:30pm)
Shaun Attwood came to Phoenix in 1991 from a small industrial town in England with the intent of becoming rich stockbroking.
(11/15/13 12:30am)
Officers said a black BMW was traveling southbound on Mill Avenue, and it appeared that the front seat passenger had a glass bottle of beer in his hands.
(11/14/13 1:40am)
It's all too common to categorize the Roma as criminals, which has caused many to forget that they too were victims of the Holocaust, Nadine Blumer told students Wednesday at the Tempe campus.
“These themes tie into the Roma holocaust,” she said.
Blumer, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center of Advanced Holocaust Studies, is a strong advocate for Roma victim recognition in the Holocaust. Her project is called “From Victim Hierarchies to Memorial Networks: How Germany Remembers the Nazi Genocide of the Roma.”
The Romani are an ethnic group living in Europe. They started arriving from northern India in the late 1300s. Blumer said she would refer to them as “Roma” as opposed to “gypsy,” which is considered politically incorrect.
“Roma is an umbrella term referring to gypsies,” she said. “Nazis labeled the Roma people as gypsies.”
Blumer began the discussion with an image of Romani Rosa, who is a Romani activist, holding up a copy of an International New York Times article about Romani people being accused of kidnapping, but a blood test confirmed the children were biologically related to their parents.
“They were accused of kidnapping, because their children didn’t have Roma characteristics, because they had light skin and blonde hair,” she said. “It is also a stereotype that the Roma people kidnap children.”
The Roma people been called social leeches of the welfare system and have historically been associated with crime, Blumer said.
“Persecution of the Roma has been happening long before Hitler,” she said. “They have been living in Europe since the late middle ages and have always suffered from discrimination and exclusion.”
Germans believed criminal behavior was genetic and associated with the Romani. German hygienists interrogated and tested their physical characteristics, Blumer said.
“They categorized Roma as feeble-minded and incompatible with German blood,” she said. “Intermarriage was banned just as intermarriage between Aryans and Jews was banned.”
During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Germans transported the Roma to internment camps. Their intention was to keep the streets “safe” during the games.
Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler signed an order in 1938 “to pursue a settlement of the Gypsy problems on grounds of race.” Mass deportations to concentration camps began two years later.
They wore triangle-shaped badges sewn to their clothes to indicate they were Roma, just as Jews were forced to wear Stars of David sewn to their clothes.
Blumer said the genocide of the Roma people was not recognized after the Holocaust because people thought that their genocide was the result of combating crime and not racially motivated.
“Nazi’s blurred lines between racial and social categorizations,” she said. “Germany played down the genocide for decades.”Romani activists have slowly been able to reveal the truth to the German government about the genocide and have forged alliances with Jewish organizations.
Blumer said Roma still continue to face discrimination. It is clear that racial stereotypes are still an ongoing problem in Europe.
“There is still optimism for the future,” she said. “In 2012, a memorial to the persecution of Roma in Europe was inaugurated.” Exploratory freshman Reginald Sharman said he came to the discussion, because it was a topic he was interested in but did not know much about.“I ended up learning a lot about the persecution of the Roma people,” he said. “The extent of the persecution was a lot larger than I thought.”Volker Benkert, German language and history lecturer for ASU, said it was very fortunate that Blumer came to ASU.“I’m already very interested in this, because I am very involved with the Holocaust Museum (in Washington D.C.),” he said. “I want to get the ASU community involved in this project.”Reach the reporter at kgrega@asu.edu or follow her on Twitter @KelcieGrega
(11/14/13 12:15am)
Tempe Police reported the following incident Wednesday:A 24-year-old Tempe man was arrested Nov. 8 on the 800 block of South Rural Road on suspicion of aggravated driving under the influence, according to a police report. Officers contacted the man during a vehicle stop when he failed to stay in his lane, the report said.
Police said he had bloodshot eyes and there was a distinct odor of alcohol inside his vehicle, according to the report. When officers asked to see the man's driver's license and vehicle papers, he fumbled with his wallet to locate his ID card and could not find the papers, police said.
Police asked the man if his license was suspended since he only had an ID card and he said it was, according to the report. When asked why it was suspended, the man said it was because of a DUI, police reported.
Police asked the man if he had consumed alcohol that night and he said he had been drinking five “Vegas Bombers,” which he said contained Captain Morgan Rum. The man was slurring his speech, according to the report.
The officers asked the man to step outside his vehicle and he could not stand or balance without swaying and there was a distinct odor of alcohol emitting from his breath, police said. Police asked him if he was drunk and he said he was, according to the report.
The man submitted to Field Sobriety Tests that revealed he was impaired, police reported. The man also had a Breath Alcohol Content of .165 percent, according to the report.
The man’s license had been suspended last year as a result of a DUI conviction. There was a second suspension later that year, and a third suspension earlier this year with an indefinite end date, police reported.
The man was transported to Tempe City Jail where he was booked and held, according to the report. Reach the reporter at kgrega@asu.edu or follow her on Twitter @KelcieGrega
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In 1977, social work freshman Mark Ledingham was diagnosed with brain cancer.
(10/29/13 11:48pm)
CBS anchor Bob Schieffer told ASU students on Tuesday that the road for newspapers is beginning to go uphill, but that doesn't mean the journalism field is dying.
(10/23/13 10:30pm)
Every day, millions of Americans log on to Facebook, spend hours on it every day and use it as an intuitive part of their lives.
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(10/17/13 11:39pm)
Uses of clay for healing and beautiful skin go back to prehistoric times, and many claim that it holds the secret to beautiful skin. Recently, microbiologists at ASU have discovered that clays can potentially treat skin infections.
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Entrepreneurship senior Alex Chandler began experimenting with film when he was in high school, and has gone on to create a theatrical trailer with author Dianne Gardner. (Photo courtesy of Dianne Gardner)
(09/04/13 1:00am)
MindCrowd is using an online test to gain more data on Alzheimer's Disease and come closer to finding a cure. (Photo by Dominic Valente)