The American South
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic or intimate partner violence, please contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline by calling 1-800-799-SAFE (7233), visiting www.thehotline.org or texting LOVEIS to 22522.
Deep in south Louisiana, a state that bills itself as Sportsman’s Paradise, Valerie Martinez-Jordan readily admits that “we like our guns down here.”
That doesn’t stop Martinez-Jordan, a lieutenant with the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office, from taking guns from the hands of domestic abusers in this rural corner of the state.
One day it was two. One week it was 10. In one instance, a man told the judge he had only three guns. Instead, the department confiscated 22.
Welcome back to A Pod of Their Own, a show by the women of Amazin’ Avenue where we talk all things Mets, social justice issues in baseball, and normalize female voices in the sports podcasting space.
This week, we went live on Facebook and started things off with surprising our listeners with Maggie Wiggin’s triumphant return to the podcast! We began the show with a quick chat about the latest Mets rumors and the relatively slow free agent market.
Next, we did another Insomnia Cookies tasting, answering your questions from Facebook between bites.
In the light of the recent discourse surrounding Hall of Fame balloting, we announced another fundraising effort call it a “mini Dollars4Dingers” for victims of domestic violence. Anyone who makes a donation in any amount to the National Domestic Violence Hotline or your local women’s shelter/domestic violence charity of choice and sends us your receipt (via Twitter DM to @apodoftheirown or via email to aa.apodoftheirown@gmai
Police officer, and former Bellator fighter, John Hawk sentenced to probation for breaking woman’s nose
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19 News veteran MMA fighter, and Cleveland police officer, John Hawk, 41, has been sentenced to two years of probation over an assault that took place in early 2020. Hawk, who has been a member of the Cleveland Division of Police since 2018, fought three times for Bellator in his 18-fight pro MMA career.
Hawk was originally charged with first-degree misdemeanour assault and abduction, but the abduction charge was dropped and the assault downgraded to second-degree misdemeanour assault in exchange for a guilty plea. As part of the plea deal Hawk also agreed to permanently surrender his peace officer certification.