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Hochul signs 10 bills
tightening gun limitsNew York Gov. Kathy Hochul
(D) signed a package of 10 gun
bills Monday in response to
several mass shootings in recent
weeks, including one in Buffalo
that claimed the lives of 10
people.
The regulations would, among
other things, ban anyone under
the age of 21 from buying a
semiautomatic rifle in the state.
On May 14, a shooter killed 10
people in a grocery store in a
predominantly Black
neighborhood in Buffalo with a
semiautomatic rifle. Days later, a
gunman killed 21 people,
including 19 children, in an
elementary school in Uvalde,
Tex.
The 10 bills Hochul signed
into law were passed quickly by
New York’s Democratic-led
statehouse. The measures ask for
a review and strengthening of
the state’s red-flag laws, which
prevent individuals who show
signs of being a threat to
themselves or others from
purchasing or possessing a
firearm, and ban body armor
sales except to those in select
professions.
Hochul, who faces several
Democratic challengers June 28
in the state’s gubernatorial
primary, said she hopes
lawmakers in Washington follow
New York’s lead.
— Mariana AlfaroOKLAHOMA
Federal judge allows
lethal-injection drugsA federal judge in Oklahoma
on Monday ruled that the state’s
three-drug lethal-injection
method is constitutional, paving
the way for the state to request
execution dates for more than
two dozen death row inmates
who were plaintiffs in the case.Judge Stephen Friot’s ruling
followed a six-day federal trial
earlier this year in which
attorneys for 28 death row
inmates argued that the first of
the three drugs, the sedative
midazolam, is not adequate to
render an inmate unable to feel
pain and creates a risk of severe
pain and suffering that violates
the Constitution’s Eighth
Amendment prohibiting cruel
and unusual punishment.Jennifer Moreno, one of the
attorneys for the death row
inmates, said they are still
assessing their options for an
appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the 10th Circuit in Denver.
Oklahoma resumed lethal
injections in October with the
execution of John Grant, who
convulsed on the gurney and
vomited before being declared
dead. Since then, three more
executions have been carried outwithout noticeable
complications.
— Associated PressMINNESOTA
Trial of 2 ex-officers
in Floyd case delayedThe judge overseeing the
remaining case against two
former Minneapolis police
officers charged in George
Floyd’s killing ordered Monday
that the trial be delayed until
January in hopes that some
additional time will improve
prospects for a fair trial.
Tou Thao and J. Alexander
Kueng were due to go on trial
next week on charges of aiding
and abetting both second-degree
murder and second-degree
manslaughter in the May 2020
death of Floyd. But Hennepin
County Judge Peter Cahill
ordered t hat the trial be delayed
until Jan. 5.
Cahill denied a defense
motion for a change of venue,
which was requested because of
the extensive publicity in the
case. But he said media reports
and recent events surrounding
connected cases have created “a
reasonable likelihood of an
unfair trial” if it were to begin
next week.
Cahill cited the May 18 guilty
plea by Thao and Keung’s co-
defendant, former officer Thomas
Lane. He also cited the February
convictions of Thao, Kueng and
Lane on federal charges of
violating Floyd’s civil rights.
— Associated PressDIGEST
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children, and hospitalized one child in Flint, Mich.BY SALVADOR RIZZO
A Kansas-born woman who led
an all-female brigade for the Islam-
ic State in Syria is likely to plead
guilty to federal charges Tuesda y,
according to a court docket.
Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, was
charged with conspiring to provide
material support for terrorism in
2019 by federal prosecutors in the
Eastern District of Virginia and tak-
en into U.S. custody in January. She
is being held at the Alexandria De-
tention Center, and the deadline for
prosecutors to file an indictment is
next week.
A brief entry in Fluke-Ekren’s
criminal case on Monday says a
“plea agreement hearing” has been
scheduled for Tuesday before U.S.
District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema.
It is not clear to what charges Fluke-
Ekren may plead guilty, and such
agreements can collapse before
they are finalized in court.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. at-
torney’s of fice declined to com-
ment. An attorney for Fluke-Ekren
did not immediately respond to a
request for comment.
The charges against Fluke-
Ekren are unusual; women make
up only a small fraction of those
charged by U.S. prosecutors with
supporting the Islamic State, and
Fluke-Ekren was alleged to have
held an unusually high position.
Witnesses described Fluke-
Ekren as an Islamic State member
with various responsibilities whowas fluent in several languages and
discussed ideas for a mass-casualty
attack on U.S. soil, according to
court documents filed by prosecu-
tors.
“Fluke-Ekren translated her ex-
tremist beliefs into action by serv-
ing as the appointed leader and
organizer of an Islamic State mili-
tary battalion, directly training
women and children in the use of
AK-47 assault rifles, grenades, and
suicide belts to support the Islamic
State’s murderous aims,” First As-
sistant U.S. Attorney Raj Parekh
wrote in a detention memo in Janu-
ary.She is accused of helping female
members of the Islamic State pre-
pare for a K urdish siege of Raqqa,
Syria, by training them in martial
arts and packing “go bags” of rifles
and other weapons, according to
court documents.
Fluke-Ekren moved to Egypt in
2008, then wound up in Syria,
where, by prosecutors’ account, she
hosted new Islamic State recruits
and helped organize services in Is-
lamic State-controlled Raqqa. Au-
thorities say her second husband
traveled with her and became a
sniper trainer for the Islamic State;
he later died in an air strike.Docket: Guilty plea likely in ISIS case
ALEXANDRIA SHERIFF'S OFFICE
Allison Fluke-Ekren, a 42-year-old born in Kansas, is accused of
training women and children in Syria to fight for the Islamic State.
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