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UNCOVERED: Mike king - The Untold Story

Jasmine Crockett ‘incredibly alarmed’ after Dallas police shooting proves threat was closer than she could have known

She had a felon in her security detail.

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Dallas Police Confirm Man Killed in Standoff Worked for Rep. Jasmine Crockett Under False Identity

Diamon Mazairre Robinson had posed as a federal officer under the "Specialty Dignitary Police," a nonexistent agency for which he created identification cards, officials said. He worked providing security services for Crockett for "years."

Latin Times

Rep. Jasmine Crockett confirms security team member killed by Dallas police in standoff

Diamon Mazairre Robinson impersonated a federal agent and had two active felony warrants for years, officials say, but was hired by Crockett and police agencies under an alias.

The Texas Tribune

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Fugitive fake cop killed by SWAT team previously worked security for Jasmine Crockett: report

Suspect was reportedly photographed standing near the congresswoman at public events and during her recent Senate campaign

The Independent UK

Wanted fugitive killed by Dallas police reportedly worked as security guard for Jasmine Crockett: Report

A man known as Mike King, who provided security for US Rep. Jasmine Crockett and managed off-duty police work, was killed by Dallas police. Authorities stated he was wanted for impersonating an officer and barricaded himself in a vehicle. King's alleged use of aliases and a criminal history have raised…

The Times of India

Officers at 'Alligator Alcatraz' Wore Grim Reaper Patches on Their Uniforms, Fired Guard Says

To determine whether guards inside the facility were actually wearing the patch, the Miami Herald contacted a detainee who had recently been released. During a phone interview, he said he recognized the emblem immediately.

Latin Times

‘I’ll never know where I’m from’: plight of the adopted children of Bangladesh’s Birangona women

Thousands of children born to victims of rape during Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971 were adopted by foreign families. Now, many want to discover their roots

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“Pop music didn’t offer enough open space for improvisation… there was no way we were going to play a tune the same way twice”: How Soft Machine pioneered the Canterbury scene

By the time debut album The Soft Machine was released in 1968, they’d already split up - but its impact changed everything

Louder

Gray Promotes Matt Moran To Senior Managing VP

Matt Jaquint, Mike King also get expanded roles

Broadcasting & Cable

King’s life just won’t stay in the past

New book by Chicago writer Jonathan Eig resonates as the Right wages a “War on Woke.”

Chicago Sun-Times

A Broadcast Coup review – a wry #MeToo comedy with all too familiar characters

Melanie Tait draws from her own broadcast background in this witty study of a misbehaving radio host and his cut-throat nemesis – though not all the jokes land

The Guardian - AU

On MLK Day, don’t shortchange the message

With civil rights and its history in peril, the upcoming biography, “King: A Life,” is a groundbreaking book by Chicagoan Jonathan Eig.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sound engineer Mike King, dead at 85, was there for radio’s glory days, including the glorious ‘Chickenman’

CHICAGO — Many years ago, sitting in his office high atop the Wrigley Building, Mike King was telling me about the many people he had worked with in his long career as a sound engineer — a star-studded crowd that included Jonathan Winters, Burgess Meredith, Bob Newhart, Ellen Barkin, Dionne…

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