“And you know what the DA’s Office told me?” she added. “Oh, you should be happy that he stayed in custody for two years.”
Published: Nov. 15, 2023 at 5:05 PM CST|Updated: 13 hours ago
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – A Madison mom is wondering how a man got out of jail after he almost killed her daughter and two grandkids. That same man is accused of shooting Jillian Ludwig, a Belmont freshman who died last week after she was shot in the head at an Edgehill park.
It was on Dickerson Pike, Metro Nashville police said Shaquille Taylor shot at Shayla Workman who was driving her two kids in the back seat two years ago.
“I got a call from the friend that she was dropping off telling me ‘Mama, they are shooting at Shayla, they are shooting at Shayla,’” said Nakeda Kirby. “And you could hear the shots. I could hear the shots. My heart dropped.”
Kirby is Workman’s mom. She said the damage, two bullet holes in the car, happened in broad daylight. Her daughter and grandkids now have PTSD from the incident. Taylor was charged with aggravated assault and was in custody for two years but was let go before his trial after a doctor deemed him incompetent.
Commentary: Never Again Is Now
“The time for good hearted people to declare Never Again is now, more than ever.”
After the Holocaust, the vast majority of the world stood together and declared, “Never Again.”
The evil perpetrated by Hitler, which included the genocidal and horrific murdering of over 6 million Jews, would never be allowed to happen again.
Never again would Jews around the world be subject to that evil, an evil so heinous that words on a page cannot truly nor accurately describe.
On October 7th, the terrorist group Hamas perpetrated a heinous attack on Israel, the worst mass murdering of Jews since the Holocaust.
American citizens were counted amongst the victims and are among the hostages.
The Tennessee Faith and Freedom Coalition is proud to stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters and we unequivocally support Israel’s right to exist and defend itself in the manner it chooses.
No nation nor group should dare interfere in Israel’s fight to simply exist.
Mind you, in spite of all the evil perpetrated on Israel and Jews as a people, the nation of Israel has been the kindest nation in the history of the world to the people trying to systematically destroy it.
Israel gives its enemies advance warning when it is about to conduct a military strike, hoping to minimize collateral civilian damage. Hamas uses civilians as human shields, not allowing them to leave those areas.
It is Hamas, as well as their terrorist sponsor Iran, that is the aggressor and the victimizer.
Sadly, the Biden Administration merely gives lip service to defending Israel and Jews, while they and the United Nations indirectly fund terrorism through a variety of means.
The last several weeks in Nashville, other parts of Tennessee, and all over the world have shown a disturbing amount of support for terrorist victimizers from sympathizers and Marxist groups.
A plurality of young people polled on college campuses support Hamas. This is highly concerning.
The time for good hearted people to declare Never Again is now, more than ever.
Even a sick and evil U.S. congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib, promoted and defended the usage of the chant, “from the river to the sea,” which is a universal call for the extermination of all Jewish life from the land of Israel.
Instances of antisemitism in the United States have risen at least 300 percent since October 7th, depending on the source of information.
In Tennessee, we are fortunate to have leaders like U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn, U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty, Governor Bill Lee, Congressman David Kustoff, Congressman Andy Ogles, State Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, State House Majority Leader William Lamberth, Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs, and other great conservative elected officials have been friends to Israel and the Jewish people.
The Speaker of the Tennessee Senate Randy McNally and House Speaker Cameron Sexton recently issued a proclamation of solidarity with Israel and a condemnation of Hamas. That proclamation was supported by the vast majority of the Tennessee General Assembly.
However, we need more groups and average citizens to condemn antisemitism from every corner of society.
We believe the time to loudly reaffirm Never Again is now.
Military recovers bodies of two Israeli hostages in area of Gaza’s Shifa Hospital
Yehudit Weiss was undergoing cancer treatment at time of Oct. 7 attack, when her husband was murdered; Cpl. Noa Marciano served at overrun IDF base, her death confirmed on Monday
By EMANUEL FABIAN and TOI STAFF16 November 2023, 11:24 pmUpdated: Today, 2:03 pm
The bodies of two Israeli hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 were recovered Thursday by the Israel Defense Forces from the area of Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip, the military said.
On Thursday evening, the Israel Defense Forces said troops had located the body of Yehudit Weiss in a building near the medical center’s compound. On Friday morning, the IDF said it had also recovered the body of Cpl. Noa Marciano a day earlier from another building adjacent to Shifa, three days after announcing she had been killed in Hamas captivity.
The IDF said troops from the 7th Armored Brigade’s 603rd Battalion found Weiss’s body, along with military equipment, including assault rifles and RPGs, belonging to the Hamas terrorists who had held her captive.
To our sorrow, Yehudit was murdered by the terrorists in the Gaza Strip. And we didn’t get to her in time,” IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said in his daily press briefing on Thursday evening. He did not specify when she was killed.
Her body was brought into Israel for identification, following which the military and police notified Weiss’s family of her death.
Cruz and Ogles seek to block forced use of ‘preferred pronouns’ across federal agencies
EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are leading a bill that would block federal agencies from requiring employees and contractors to use the “preferred pronouns” of their employees.
The bill, titled the Safeguarding Honest Speech Act, comes after the Department of Health and Human Services issued its “Gender Identity and Non-Discrimination Guidance,” which says that “all employees should be addressed [by] the names and pronouns they use to describe themselves.”
Ogles and Cruz’s bill would block funds from being used to implement such rules that require employees or contractors to use “another person’s preferred pronouns if they are incompatible with such a person’s sex” or “a name other than a person’s legal name when referring to such a person.”
“Can you imagine getting reprimanded or fired from your job for not using an individual’s ‘preferred pronouns’?” Ogles said in a statement. “Unfortunately, that is exactly what the Biden regime has imposed in its latest guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services. The radical Left is actively coercing the speech of individuals — all in service of a delusional woke agenda.”
“Preferred pronouns” are a set of pronouns that someone uses to reflect that person’s own gender identity.
According to the Pew Research Center, 5.1% of adults over 30 and 1.6% of all adults identify as transgender or nonbinary, meaning someone who identifies with more than one gender, no gender, or has a fluctuating gender identity. Thus likely using different pronouns than their sex at birth.
But, over the years, Republicans, both nationally and at the state level, have introduced legislation to try and prohibit or limit the usage of “preferred pronouns” on public documents and in the workplace or to make it more difficult for people to transition from one gender to another, calling it “radical gender ideology.”
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Curtis Johnson won’t seek re-election to state House next year
Published November 7, 2023 | By Erik Schelzig
Rep. Curtis Johnson (R-Clarksville) announced Tuesday he won’t seek an 11th term in the state House. Johnson, 71, currently serves as deputy speaker and was previously speaker pro tem from 2013 to 2018. He was first elected to the House in 2004.
“I make this announcement with a profound sense of gratitude to the people of Montgomery County who have backed me in 10 successive campaigns over the past two decades. I am incredibly thankful for their support, friendship, and kindness,” Johnson said in a statement. “My service to the people of this district has been one of the greatest honors of my life. I will greatly miss the many friends and colleagues who have partnered with me during this time to strengthen our local communities and make Tennessee a better place to live.”
