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    Busted Internal Practitioners

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    Kate Briquelet

    Grand Supreme Fist 07.30.157:50 PM ET
    Georgia Sheriff Used Taxpayer Money for Four-Day Tai Chi Classes
    A Georgia sheriff, who is already facing charges in an accidental shooting, used taxpayer funds to attend a thousand-dollar tai chi class.

    Two months ago, Clayton County lawman Victor Hill accidentally shot his friend, real-estate agent Gwenevere McCord, inside a model home. Now a grand jury will decide charges in the case, a local prosecutor announced Thursday.

    ‪Hill, 50, was charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct in the May 3 shooting in Lawrenceville. At the time, investigators claimed Hill was dodging authorities and refused to make a statement. McCord, who was shot in the stomach and severely injured, later told cops that the sheriff was practicing “police tactics.”

    But the jam hasn’t kept Hill—who calls himself the “Crime Fighter” and flashes the bat signal in campaign ads—from bankrolling his superhero fantasy on the taxpayer’s dime. In recent weeks, he’s traveled to Alabama and Wisconsin for tai chi workshops.

    ‪An Atlanta TV station tailed Hill when he drove 200 miles to Athens, Alabama in his county-issued Camaro this month. The four-day class cost $1,000 but was among his cheaper expenses—which also include jaunts to a Mississippi resort and casino and $2,000 worth of commemorative coins with Hill’s moniker and a Batman logo, 11Alive reported.

    Steffan de Graffenried, owner of WuDang Martial Arts, said Hill contacted him about the workshop because he wanted to see if tai chi, or taiji, would benefit his deputies. The Chinese martial arts and exercise course was taught by world-touring Sifu Adam Mizner.

    “Victor felt taiji would be a better fit for his officers given the situation around the country with police-involved violence,” de Graffenried told The Daily Beast. “He wanted a more gentle way to deal with people that’s just as effective.”

    De Graffenried said Hill was the only law enforcement officer among the taiji enthusiasts at the workshop. “We did love having Victor here,” the martial-arts master added. “He is a super guy. I can see why he’s so well-liked in Clayton County.”

    “He was very excited about everything,” de Graffenried said. “Every time I worked with him on a particular drill, he was like, ‘Wow, this is so cool. I never thought this could really happen.’”

    ‪After the workshop ended, Hill handed out sheriff’s badges with a Batman emblem on the back, de Graffenried said.

    The sheriff enjoyed the martial arts session so much, he signed up for Sifu Mizner’s next four-day stop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to relearn the techniques. A July 19 Facebook photo shows him posing with the class at Everyday T'ai Chi Ch'uan.

    It’s unclear how much the Milwaukee trip cost and whether the county footed the bill.

    After the workshop ended, Hill handed out sheriff’s badges with a Batman emblem on the back.

    Still, government watchdogs weren’t amused by the excursions. Common Cause Georgia’s Ryan Splitlog said the Alabama workshop was only one of the sheriff’s dubious expenses and perks, which include three county-issued vehicles: a black Chevy Camaro, Tahoe and Suburban.

    “Victor Hill has had a laundry list of questionable activity,” Splitlog told The Daily Beast. “With the freak shooting and all this wasteful spending, it makes you question whether he should be Clayton County sheriff.”

    De Graffenried, however, said his workshop is a public benefit.

    “The more money they can spend toward this kind of thing is going to be more helpful for everybody involved,” he said. “Not only the citizens, who won’t be getting beat up by policemen, but the policemen, who will be calmer more pleasant people to be around.”

    “We all want that, don’t we?” de Graffenried added.

    For his part, Hill appears to be playing it cool after the shooting, which cast the national spotlight on his department.

    ‪McCord, who lost her spleen, one kidney and part of her large intestine, posed for a photo at Hill’s office. He posted the image on his Facebook page and wrote, “Gwenevere Mccord, 20 year Clayton County resident, realtor, and supporter of the Sheriff stopped by to say hi to the ‘Crime fighter’ today!”

    Hill, who has a three-foot-high Batman statue in his office, has been a local celebrity since taking office in 2005.

    He has survived a 32-count racketeering indictment in 2012 for his alleged use of county-issued credit cards, as well as a $7-million settlement—paid for by taxpayers—for firing 27 deputies on his first day. (He famously installed snipers on the county jail roof in case the canned cops sought revenge.)

    The Bruce Wayne acolyte once told Atlanta Magazine, “My favorite thing as a kid was to play cops and robbers …. What we play as kids, ultimately, we end up playing on the stage of life for real.”

    Hill did not return messages left at his office. His attorney, Mike Puglise, deferred all questions to the district attorney.

    “It would be improper for us to make a comment at this time out of respect for the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s office investigation,” Puglise said in an e-mail.

    Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter said in a statement Thursday that presenting Hill’s case to a grand jury is “the best course of action.”

    Under state law, officers charged with a crime while performing official duties are entitled to have their cases presented to a grand jury.

    ‪It’s unclear whether Hill, who drove a county-owned vehicle to the model home, was actually on duty, but Porter told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution he was playing it safe.
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    Slightly OT

    slow news day

    Armed robber strikes at spa in Bear
    Adam Duvernay, The News Journal Published 12:27 p.m. ET Jan. 17, 2018 | Updated 1:06 p.m. ET Jan. 17, 2018


    (Photo: Ivan Bliznetsov, Getty Images/iStockphoto)

    A spa in Bear was robbed Tuesday afternoon, state police reported Wednesday.

    A man entered the Tai Chi Spa, at 1231 Quintilio Dr., and approached a 60-year-old employee inside the store with a gun, police said. He demanded money from the register, and she turned it over.

    The man fled, police said, and no one was hurt.

    Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to contact state police at (302) 365-8566.
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    Yuen Ming-kuen

    We don't have a 'Busted Taoists' thread (yet ) so I'm posting this in Busted Internal Practitioners and copying it to Exorcism.

    Taoist monk molested mother and her 15-year-old daughter to ‘purge them of evil spirits’, Hong Kong court hears
    District Court hears Yuen Ming-kuen told women he had special healing powers to negotiate with spirits which included touching their breasts and genitals
    Deputy district judge Terence Wai slammed ‘ridiculous stories’ and convicted Yuen of six counts of indecent assault and one of assault occasioning actual bodily harm
    Jasmine Siu
    Published: 7:33pm, 3 May, 2019


    Yuen Ming-kuen kept his eyes closed the judge recounted how he had used various excuses to assault the mother on six occasions in seven months before groping her 15-year-old daughter. Photo: Jasmine Siu

    A self-proclaimed Taoist monk in Hong Kong molested a mother and her daughter to exorcise evil spirits, a court was told on Friday.
    Yuen Ming-kuen, 57, told the women he had special healing powers to negotiate with spirits and purge them through religious rituals that included touching their breasts and genitals.
    Security guard Yuen also struck the mother’s head repeatedly during what he called a “fight with evil spirits possessing the woman”, the District Court heard.
    The man claimed he had learned such methods from an arhat – a person who has reached nirvana – in his dreams.
    But deputy district judge Terence Wai found these to be “ridiculous stories” and convicted Yuen of six counts of indecent assault and one of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
    “The defendant was a dishonest man,” Wai said. “His acts were all part of a scam.”
    Yuen kept his eyes closed as Wai recounted how he had used various excuses to assault the mother on six occasions in seven months before groping her daughter, 15, while she slept on March 29, 2017 to “check whether she had been infected by poison” found in corpses.
    Neither women could be identified for legal reasons.
    The court heard Yuen was first introduced to the mother on August 26, 2016 when her friends arranged for a Taoist monk to visit her flat because she had complained about it being haunted.
    Yuen said he sensed evil spirits in the house and sealed the premises before groping the woman, claiming her breasts and vagina were harbouring spirits and harmful beads produced by the spirits raping her.
    Two similar treatments were performed on September 3 and 23, during which Yuen reported seeing the ghost of an unborn child troubling the woman since she had an abortion.
    On all three occasions, Yuen said he had obtained consent to touch the woman during his HK$7,500 therapy.


    The District Court heard Yuen Ming-kuen was first introduced to the mother in August 2016 when her friends arranged for a Taoist monk to visit her flat because she had complained about it being haunted. Photo: Nora Tam

    The victim paid HK$2,500 in total to Yuen, as she did not have enough money.
    But he also groped the woman’s breasts without her consent on other occasions because he claimed he did not want the spirits to hear his plan and she was in too much pain for him to delay treatment.
    Dr Lee Yiu-fai, an abbot of Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple summoned by the prosecution, said Taoist rituals would never involve sex or physical contact, and explained Buddhist practices were even stricter.
    The judge also observed on Friday the mother’s health had worsened since Yuen began his treatment and concluded she had only “reluctantly acquiesced” to the physical touching because she felt helpless.
    He acquitted Yuen of one other count of indecent assault since the mother had failed to give consistent details on what happened.
    In mitigation, defence counsel Paul Wu argued neither victim had mentioned any psychological trauma as a result of his client’s assault and urged the judge not to call for impact assessment.
    The judge disagreed.
    Wai also found it necessary to assess Yuen’s psychological condition, considering he had openly assaulted the women while others were in the room.
    Further mitigation, pending these assessments, will be heard on June 13 before Yuen is sentenced on the following day.
    Indecent assault is punishable by 10 years’ imprisonment.
    This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: ‘Exorcism’ monk guilty of molesting pair
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    ttt 4 2020!

    I omitted the rest of the report to focus on the item of interest.

    Unexpected tai chi: Brookline Police log



    Monday, March 2

    Police requested on Beacon Street: At 1:26 p.m. police were called to a medical office, where a patient was doing tai chi in the waiting room, unresponsive to questions and refusing to leave when asked. Police rendered assistance.
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