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“Their first question, ‘Do you have drugs or weapons in the car?’ Granted, I’m a big Black guy with ‘locks and the first thing they see, I’m just suspicious. But, as I was telling the guys, I got to make it home to my family,” he said. “I can’t be another case where some officer have his knee on my neck, choking me out. So, my biggest thing is making it back home, regardless.”

On Tuesday, Porter County Sheriff Detective Dan Alonzo walked the jury in John Silva’s trial through the department’s evidence collection from Kerner’s grandparents’ home March 2 and March 3, 2019. Silva, 20, of Hamlet was charged May 22, 2020, with two felony counts of aiding, inducing or causing murder in the perpetration of a robbery and two felony counts of aiding, inducing or causing attempted robbery in connection with the Feb. 25, 2019, deaths of Molley Lanham, 19, of St. John, and Thomas Grill, 18, of Cedar Lake.

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There is still plenty of irrationality in the market, and some startups still burn huge piles of money in search of growth. But as these companies mature, they seem to be discovering the benefits of financial discipline. Uber lost only $108 million in the first quarter of 2021 — a change partially attributable to the sale of its autonomous driving unit, and a vast improvement, believe it or not, over the same quarter last year, when it lost $3 billion. aBoth Uber and Lyft have pledged to become profitable on an adjusted basis this year. Lime, Bird’s main electric scooter competitor, turned its first quarterly profit last year, and Bird — which recently filed to go public through an SPAC at a $2.3 billion valuation — has projected better economics in the years ahead.

“If you start to look at the fact that it took us from Friday all the way to Wednesday afternoon the following (to resume operations), and we already started to see pandemonium going on in the markets, people doing unsafe things like filling garbage bags full of gasoline or people fist-fighting in line at the fuel pump, the concern would be what would happen if it had stretched on beyond that amount of time,” Blount said.