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Social media users criticize Hillary Clinton’s new State Department photo, writing, “You should be in jail.”

One person posted a picture of late U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, who died in the Benghazi terror attack along with three other Americans.
This week, when the official State Department picture of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was shown, people on social media made fun of it.

Several well-known accounts on X made fun of the picture and criticized Clinton for the honor, pointing out that four U.S. officials were killed in a terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, while Clinton was in charge of the State Department.

The official presentation took place at the State Department offices in Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Current Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave Clinton the honor.
During the event, the painting was taken down, showing a picture of Clinton standing in a green dress in front of an American flag.

When Clinton smiled and laughed when he saw the picture for the first time, the crowd cheered.

Later, X got the picture from the 67th Secretary of State. She wrote in the post’s description, “Today, I was pleased to return to the @StateDept and help @SecBlinken reveal my official picture as the 67th Secretary of State. We’re happy to share it with the people of the United States right here, in case you can’t make it to offices in Foggy Bottom soon.”

In a later post, the former Democratic presidential candidate talked about her first days in the job: “When I walked into the State Department as Secretary fourteen years ago, I knew that having the honor to lead the State Department and USAID would be a singular challenge and a unique chance to do good in the world. It was all of that and more.”

“I’m very proud of everything we’ve done, and I’m thankful to everyone at the Department for working so hard to make sure peace, growth, and wealth happen all over the world. Clinton said, “They continue to make me and our country proud.”
But X users made fun of the former top U.S. official because of the picture.
Co-founder of the Federalist Sean Davis replied to Clinton’s post with a picture of late U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in the attack along with three other Americans.

Eric Spracklen, a digital expert and conservative X user, said, “The American people, on the other hand, were unhappy to see it.
In response to Clinton’s tweet, the official account for the House Judiciary Committee sent a picture of the city of Benghazi.
In response to Clinton’s tweet, the official account for the House Judiciary Committee sent a picture of the city of Benghazi.

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$10,000 Rewards for Information Ieading to Indianapolis Jail Release of Alleged Murderer.

According to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, Kevin Mason was “mistakenly released” from an adult detention center in Marion County on September 13, two days after his arrest, “due to a faulty records review” by staff. The sheriff’s office has initiated a manhunt for Mason and is asking the public for help in finding him.

The sheriff, Col. James Martin, claimed during a press conference on Tuesday that it was still uncertain whether the suspect was still in the county.

Mason was seized on three outstanding Minnesota warrants, including one for murder in connection with a shooting in Minneapolis in 2021, according to the sheriff’s office in Indiana on September 11. Martin added that the other warrants were for suspected parole violations and weapons possession.

Martin maintains that the prisoner was released when a clerk in the Marion County sheriff’s office accidentally erased two holds from the offender’s file in an attempt to correct duplicate bookings. The colonel alleges that the next day, a clerk in Minnesota released the last hold on Mason’s file, oblivious to the previous day’s error.

Two inmate records clerks who had a part in his release, according to Martin, have been fired, and an internal investigation is ongoing.

This is very inappropriate and should not have happened. Mason, according to Martin, should not have been released from custody.

As soon as the blunder was discovered, “shortly after” Mason’s release, officials launched a “round-the-clock” manhunt, according to Martin.

Marion County Sheriff Kerry Forestal announced the arrest of Mason’s girlfriend on charges of helping a criminal at a news conference on Wednesday.

“We’ve been tracking that girlfriend since,” Forestal said, referring to Mason’s ex-girlfriend, whom he had called for a ride after being released from jail. “She has not cooperated,” the sheriff said of their efforts to contact her.

According to prison records, the lady was still being held without bond as of early Thursday. A counsel or a court date were not mentioned.

Mason’s search has began following a big manhunt in Pennsylvania that gained global attention. Danilo Cavalcante, a convicted killer, escaped from a Pennsylvania county jail on August 31 by “crab-walking” up to the roof and evading hundreds of officers for more than two weeks before being captured in the woods.

The sheriff’s office announced on Friday that the investigation has been transferred to the US Marshals Service, which aided in the search for Cavalcante. According to the sheriff’s office, authorities in countries where Mason is suspected of having links have been informed.

Marion County Sheriff Kerry Forestal: “As a former U.S. Marshal, I have a personal understanding of the extensive tools our federal partners have.” I have no doubt that Kevin Mason will be arrested by one of the 56 regional task forces, which nabbed nearly 76,000 fugitives in 2022.

Martin told reporters that the sheriff’s office delayed announcing Mason’s unintentional release for six days in order to maintain a “tactical advantage.”

“We have used this time as the quietness of the situation to not further run him underground and send him running further than what we wanted him to,” Martin continued.

Mason, according to Martin, has “local ties to Indianapolis” and has been residing there since the Minnesota murder for which he has been arrested.

The colonel highlighted investigators’ concern that Mason may have departed the area after being freed from jail, maybe with the help of unknown persons.

He has evidently managed to evade capture since 2021. And we think he’s great at it,” Martin added.

The sheriff’s department has issued a public call for anyone with information on Mason’s whereabouts to come forward.

Mason, who weighs 205 pounds and is roughly 5 feet 9 inches tall, has a cross tattoo beneath his right eye and the initials “SUB” inked across his chest.

While assuring the public that “we do not have any information that leads us to believe that the public is in any immediate danger at this time,” Martin advised the public to “not approach Mr. Mason in any form or fashion.”

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Danelo Cavalcante, in the opinion of the Brazilian prosecutor, fled from jail in Pennsylvania to be tried in ‘lenient’ Brazil.

Cavalcante is serving a life sentence in the US for killing someone. He is also accused of killing a man in Brazil, where he can’t get a life term.
The judge in charge of Danelo Cavalcante’s murder case in Brazil said he thought the convicted killer was on his way to his home country when he escaped from a jail in Pennsylvania last month.

Cavalcante was caught on Wednesday after being on the run for almost two weeks. He had left Brazil in 2018 after reportedly killing a guy who owed him money. Rafael Pinto Alamy, the state prosecutor for Tocantins, told The Associated Press on Thursday that his sentence in Brazil for killing his girlfriend in 2021 will be much lighter than the life term he got in the U.S. for the same crime.

Alamy said, “I thought he wanted to run away to Brazil.” “He would have to follow the much less strict rules of the prison here.”

If he is found guilty in Brazil, Cavalcante could spend up to 30 years in jail. Since Brazil does not have life sentences, he could get out after about 12 years if he is good.
In Brazil, Cavalcante is accused of killing 20-year-old Valter Jnior Moreira dos Reis on November 5, 2017. He is said to have shot him five times outside a restaurant in Figueiropolis, a small rural town in the state of Tocantins. A witness told police that after the killing, Cavalcante yelled at his car and drove away.

According to a police report seen by The Associated Press, the victim’s sister later told police she thought Cavalcante attacked him because he owed money for damage he did to a car.

The AP said that Brazilian authorities started looking into Cavalcante and a judge ordered his arrest within a week, but the police never found him.
A Brazilian TV show called Fantastico that looks into crimes said that Cavalcante went to Braslia in January 2018. It’s not clear if he used his own ID to travel, but Alamy said that he was only on the run in the state of Tocantins until June 2018, when he was added to a national warrant information system.

In Brazil, Cavalcante has a court date on Oct. 11 for the case, which is likely to go to a jury “probably next year,” according to his lawyer Magnus Lourenco and Alamy.

Lourenco also said that the October date might be pushed back because he doesn’t know if Cavalcante will know about it in time.

Similarly to how the American media covered Cavalcante’s escape and eventual capture, the Brazilian press also covered the story, and his eventual capture was on the front page of many Brazilian newspapers.