{"id":51543,"date":"2012-01-05T17:16:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T22:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=51543"},"modified":"2012-01-05T19:17:20","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T00:17:20","slug":"rough-weeks-for-15-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/rough-weeks-for-15-year-olds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough weeks for 15-year olds"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Democracy Now!<\/strong><\/a>, last week amidst protests in Bahrain a 15-year-old boy died last week after he was shot in the face with a tear gas canister. This led to further demonstrations to protest his death on Wednesday<\/a>, where Bahraini forces tear-gassed a crowd of peaceful protesters who had approached a line of police officers with their arms outstretched, indicating their peaceful intent. Video footage shows Bahraini forces unleashing large amounts of tear gas into the crowd; a second Bahraini protester died on Monday as a result of excessive tear gas inhalation.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile in Texas:<\/p>\n

A 15-year-old Texas teenager is being held in a Colombian detention center<\/a> after being mistakenly deported by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. Jakadrien Turner, an American citizen, ran away from home in November 2010 at the age of 14 following her parents\u2019 divorce and the death of her grandfather. <\/p>\n

In April, Turner was arrested by authorities in Houston for shoplifting and gave the authorities a fake name. The name happened to belong to an undocumented Colombian immigrant who had warrants for her arrest. Turner, who is African American and does not speak Spanish, was subsequently deported to Colombia despite having her fingerprints taken by ICE officials. Turner\u2019s grandmother used Facebook and the help of Dallas police to track her down. Colombian officials reportedly took Turner into custody at the request of the U.S. embassy, but have so far refused to release her. Some reports have indicated she may be pregnant.<\/p>\n

Also in Texas, a 15-year-old high school student was shot and killed by police on Wednesday after brandishing a pellet gun in the school\u2019s hallway. Police say the victim, Jaime Gonzalez, pointed the weapon at police and ignored repeated commands to drop it. The weapon was found to be a pellet gun, not a handgun, only after the shooting.<\/p>\n

Any thoughts on why 15-year-olds happen to be in the news today? Just coincidence or perhaps a news editor seeing a theme?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Democracy Now!, last week amidst protests in Bahrain a 15-year-old boy died last week after he was shot in the face with a tear gas canister. This led to further demonstrations to protest his death on Wednesday, where Bahraini forces tear-gassed a crowd of peaceful protesters who had approached a line of police … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}