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San Francisco prosecutor charges deputy in hospital assault: report

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The San Francisco District Attorney's office charged a sheriff's deputy on Friday for allegedly attacking a hospital patient and covering it up with a false police report, according to officials and local media.

District Attorney George GascÃ³n said in a statement on Twitter that his office charged officer Michael Lewelling with assault and perjury in connection with the incident at San Francisco General Hospital.

The attorney's office could not be immediately reached for comment or to provide additional details.

The San Francisco Chronicle newspaper reported that the patient was sleeping in the hospital's emergency room as Lewelling, 33, walked toward him early on Nov. 3 and started talking to him.

The man attempted to walk away as Lewelling grabbed his collar, knocked away the man's cane, choked him, and arrested him, the paper said citing the attorney's office.

The paper reported that Lewelling then wrote in a police report that the man first attacked him, a claim that was contradicted by hospital surveillance video reviewed by prosecutors.

"The fact that a sheriff's deputy allegedly battered a patient at San Francisco General Hospital is unnerving," District Attorney George GascÃ³n said, according to the Chronicle.

"What's worse is that he's also alleged to have perjured himself on a police report, unforgivable conduct that led to the arrest of the innocent victim," he added.

The San Francisco County Sheriff's Department could not be immediately reached for comment, but told the Chronicle in a statement that it "is committed to holding its employees accountable for their conduct."

(Reporting by Curtis Skinner)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/san-francisco-prosecutor-charges-deputy-hospital-assault-report-110152212.html
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Dec 20, 2014 12:29:32 PM

Viking's Choice: Cretin, 'Ghost Of Teeth And Hair'

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How's this for an opening line? "Gross. They say I ate you in the womb, that Mom had no room." After eight years of other projects, members joining Repulsion on tour, and vocalist/guitarist Marissa Martinez-Hoadley's sex-reassignment process, Cretin has crawled back out of its delightfully gore-obsessed grindcore hole for Stranger and the pit-baiting song "Ghost Of Teeth And Hair."

Cretin makes no apologies for its allegiances to the grind and death-metal fathers of nasty — Carcass, Repulsion and Autopsy — heard here in a ferocious chug-a-lug that hits like a steel-toe boot to the shins. By contrast, new member Elizabeth Schall's (Dreaming Dead) guitar solo is atonally acrobatic, but you can almost hear her grin as Matt Widener blasts the twin-eating-twin track wide open with a bass solo that channels Mike Watt in a spastic mood.

Stranger comes out Dec. 9 on Relapse Records.

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Make calls, use Siri through your Mac with Connect

Connect for Mac is a new app that lets you place phone calls, organize your contacts, and even use Siri when your phone is connected to your Mac. Using Bluetooth, Connect connects to your phone and presents a simple dial pad with a sidebar on the left. The upper right corner of the app will display the current signal strength and battery charge of your phone. Type a phone number or the name of your contact to dial, though you can also initiate calls from the contact list. You can organize your contacts, including favorites, and view your call history.

You can also use Siri, speaking through your Mac's microphone. The audio output will come through your Mac's speakers. However, you will not be able to use Siri while the screen is locked if you have a password enabled, including Touch ID for those with an iPhone 5s.

You can buy Connect from the Mac App Store right now for $2.99.