Does a mask mandate have any parallels to Nazi Germany? One Louisiana lawmaker releases a video that is raising eyebrows. Kevin Barnhart has the story.
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The 2019 national champion LSU Tigers have their rings. Jeff Palermo reports each player, coach and staff member received three rings for their role in the perfect season…
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Oil City Representative Danny McCormick denounces masking mandates in a video posted to Facebook. In the clip, McCormick compares mask-wearing to Nazi Germany, the mark of the beast, eludes to the possibility of implanted tracking chips in the future, and brandishes a chainsaw,
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Shreveport becomes the latest municipality to enact a mask mandate where anyone inside of a business needs to be wearing a face covering. McCormick says a mask mandate is a gateway to other government efforts of overreach.
McCormick says the video is a call to action and now is the time to push back before it is too late.
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31-year-old Erroll Johnson was shot dead in Monroe this morning by State Police troopers trying to apprehend him after allegedly firing at officers on two different occasions in the past few days.
State Police Master Trooper Michael Reichardt says the first incident occurred Sunday when officers attempted to pull over Johnson, leading to a car chase.
Reichardt says troopers and local law enforcement later tracked Johnson to a motel in Monroe around 1 AM this morning.
Johnson was pronounced dead on the scene.
Reichardt says troopers attempted to convince Johnson to surrender peacefully before the shooting started.
No troopers or other law enforcement were injured during either Sunday’s or this morning’s incidents.
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The 2019 LSU national championship football team is supporting new bling as they’ve received their rings for completing a perfect season. Special assistant to head coach Ed Orgeron, Derek Ponamsky, says each player and member of the staff received three rings to commemorate an historic season
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On the rings you can see the slogans “Hold That Tiger,” “One team, one heartbeat” and Ponamsky says on the inside of the national championship ring is the LSU standard of performance…
Ponamsky says the team received the rings during a team meeting where they saw a video message from the players on LSU’s three previous national title teams and then Coach O told the guys look under your seat
For the players and coaches who are no longer with the program, they had their rings shipped to them.
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Colorado State University updates their 2020 Atlantic hurricane season forecast, increasing the predicted number of this season’s named storms from 19 to 20. CSU forecaster Jhordanne Jones says while we’ve seen smaller storms pop up so far, the season’s peak may pack a bigger punch.
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So far there have been five named storms and there’s a potential a sixth named storm will form off the coast of the Carolinas.
Jones says the bumped up forecast comes as the result of several factors, including above average sea surface temps in the north Atlantic.
Jones says there has also been no development of an El Nino that would suppress hurricane activity.
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The CSU team is also calling for nine hurricanes and four major hurricanes.