[Magdalen] Prayer Request

[Grace Cangialosi]

Oh, man!
I just don’t have any words left...

> On Jul 19, 2018, at 11:58 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Pubbies,
> 
> I made an oopsy here. Carlos is Boogie's friend's older brother. He is
> already in Mexico at the behest of his parents, where he has been picked up
> by and is playing on, a pro soccer team. (As Boogie said, "There goes OUR
> soccer team!" Carlos would have been a senior this year, but the Mexican
> school system is different) Boogie's friend's name is--wait for the
> irony--Jesus.
> 
> Also include in prayers for those who don't feel safe in this country my
> friend Tracy, who had a horrifying encounter with police night before last
> in Indiana. Tracy is a slender blonde white woman. She was going to pick up
> her partner at work and suddenly found herself being blue-lighted by police
> on a dark road. As we women are taught to do, she called dispatch and told
> them she was driving to a well-lit place, which happened to be her
> partner's place of work, just a few hundred yards away. She pulled into the
> driveway there and they sere pointing guns at her, screaming for her to get
> out with her hands up and walk backward towards them. She said they even
> screamed at her for turning her head to see where she was going. They held
> guns on her the whole time and searched her car (without a warrant, saying
> they didn't need one "because ehe had left the door open". ?????? Searched
> her, patted her down thoroughly, asked her if she had any drugs or weapons,
> asked for her whereabouts, etc. Only then did they ask for her ID!
> Meanwhile the plant manager had called for her partner to come out, saying
> it was an emergence (I guess all he say was the blue lights) and when he
> came out the police pointed guns at him and told him to get back inside,
> then asked Tracy if he was "involved in the crime". She asked what crime
> and only then was told that her car matched the description of one used in
> a crime; however the one they were looking for had Indianapolis plates and
> hers are Terre Haute. Since it was end of shift other people had come out
> so one of her partner's friends apparently video'd the whole thing. Tracy
> had also left her phone on connected to dispatch and it connects by
> Bluetooth to her car radio, so she has a record of that. She said she is
> just glad she hadn't already picked up her partner and his friends because
> the friends are black..."Can you just imagine???" she said to me yesterday.
> Anyway, the police, with very bad grace and seeming quite disappointed,
> charged her with failure to stop for an officer because she drove to a
> lighted area. Well, what reasonable woman doesn't?  She's called her lawyer
> and will fight that every inch of the way.
> /end of rant
> 
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 7:51 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> This is such a tragedy...and a travesty! We are losing our soul...
>> 
>> Prayers for Boogie and for Carlos and his family.
>> 
>>> On Jul 18, 2018, at 7:24 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> My grandson Jonathan-called-Boogie was going to be visiting this weekend
>>> but he's not. He would have been but for two things. The first is that
>>> instead of a sleepover cam lasting 3 days, the football coaches elected
>> to
>>> cancel that (at the last minute, no less) and just have practice for the
>>> entire week. He would have skipped practice on Friday and come up anyway
>>> but for one big thing, which is what this prayer request concerns.
>>> 
>>> Boogie's friend Carlos and his family are moving. They are going back to
>>> Mexico. Immediately. Like next week. His parents are in the country
>> legally
>>> and have been for a number of years, but they no longer feel safe here.
>> The
>>> kids are having a party for Carlos Saturday night, and Boogie doesn't
>> want
>>> to miss it and I can't say I blame him. We've rescheduled the visit for a
>>> weekend in September when the football team has an off weekend
>>> 
>>> Please pray for Carlos and his family and all others, citizens and
>>> non-citizens, who no longer feel safe in our country.
>>