🏈 Massage So Wrong + Starbucks Union + Napoleon's Shotgun + Bad Bugs

Good morning, Greater Cleveland. If you don't have HBO, we have a few lowlights from the Deshaun Watson story that went live Tuesday on Real Sports. Also in the news:

• Starbucks and Amazon union developments
• A gift from Napoleon leaves the Cleveland Museum of Art
• The spotted lanternfly was spotted in Cleveland

And you only need to spare 5 minutes! — Cheers, Dennis

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Deshaun Watson Accusers Bring Their Stories To Soledad O'Brien

Two women who accused Deshaun Watson of performing unwelcome sexual acts during massages told journalist Soledad O'Brien they were dismayed when the Cleveland Browns gave the quarterback a record-breaking contract that will pay him $230 million. Their comments aired Tuesday night on HBO's Real Sports.

• Ashley Solis said: “It’s just like a big screw you. That's what it feels like. That we don't care. He can run and throw, and that's what we care about.”
• Kyla Hayes said: “I felt like he's being rewarded for bad behavior." She also described for Real Sports viewers what happened during their massage session: “He wanted me to kinda make a V motion in his pelvic area. So go across his stomach to his thighs, back to his stomach. ... I just kept massaging and did what he asked until his penis kept touching me repeatedly as I did it. He was moving his penis back and forth as my hands moved as well.”

Meanwhile, Fox 8 News in Cleveland received exclusive video of several Watson depositions and broadcast them on Tuesday.

• Solis described in her deposition how Watson handled his personal pigskin during a massage which brought her to tears: "He grabbed it, pulled it from under the towel and put it on my hand. I immediately moved my hand and I started crying, I told him I'm ending the session because I'm uncomfortable."
• Lauren Baxley said Watson did not utter threats to her after their session: "... his very presence as a naked man on my table was a threat to me, but he did not give any verbal threats." Watson's attorney pointed out that Baxley texted with Watson 19 times after her alleged indecent incident.

Fox 8 News

2) Starbucks workers in downtown Cleveland voted to unionize Tuesday on a 10-0 vote. Just an hour earlier, workers in a Columbus Starbucks also voted in a union.

• Three more Cleveland stores have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to hold union votes.
• No votes were cast against the union.
• Said barista Joseph Nappi: “I think we all hope that Starbucks negotiates in good faith.”

Cleveland.com

• More Union News: An Amazon worker who was fired after he started a union effort at the North Randall fulfillment center has filed a complaint with the NLRB. Joey Desatnik said 230 fellow workers signed his petition before he was terminated. (cleveland.com; subscriber paywall)

3) The Cleveland Museum of Art returned a piece of Poland's cultural history this month — an ornate hunting shotgun given to Polish Gen. Wincenty Krasiński by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte in the 19th century. The Polish general led troops during the Napoleonic wars.

• The weapon, made by France's gunsmith to the royals, was richly engraved and decorated, and for much of its history was displayed in various private and public Krasiński collections in Poland.
• During the devastation and looting of World War II, however, the weapon was stolen by Nazis after they destroyed a public museum.
• The shotgun resurfaced in 1966 when Rear Admiral David Sinton Ingalls donated it to the Cleveland Museum of Art, which displayed the piece in its Armor Court.

Learn more on Cleveland.com (subscriber paywall) and Art Sherlock

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4) An invasive pest native to China was spotted on West 117th Street in Cleveland last week, report Ohio State University researchers and the Department of Agriculture. Egg masses laid on plants hatch tiny bugs called nymphs, which grow up into the spotted lanternfly. The lanternfly is a threat to trees and other plants.

Buckeye Yard and Garden Online

5) The Ohio State Building and Construction Trades Council, made up of 14 local member councils and more than 100,000 workers, endorsed U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate. The union group has a record of endorsing Republicans so the nod to Ryan was not a shoo-in.

Karen Kasler reports for the Statehouse News Bureau of Ideastream.org

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5 Headlines You Need To See Today

• The woman found guilty of murder last month in the 1993 death of a newborn baby who was found in a trash bag in the woods, known as "Geauga's Child," was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison (3News WKYC)
• Cleveland Cavalier Kevin Love rents out his modern Hamptons beach house and gets an Architectural Digest write-up (Architectural Digest)
• Boys & Girls Clubs set to open eight new sites throughout Northeast Ohio this summer (cleveland.com)
• Cleveland ahead of the curve on pothole patching, grass-cutting, illegal dumping efforts, mayor says (cleveland.com)
• The NBA All-Star Game and its accompanying events and activities brought in close to $250 million in total economic impact for Northeast Ohio (cleveland.com)

3 Things To Do

• Berea's Rib Cook Off & Beer Fest kicks off Friday and runs through Monday, May 30. The food festivities are at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds & Event Center, 19201 East Bagley Road in Berea. Find food, entertainment and ticket price info on the Rib Burn Off website
• Climbing Weekend At Whipp's Ledges. I haven't been to Whipp's Ledges in many years. But a summer Climbing Weekend event sounds like fun! The event takes place July 8-9 and costs just $10. Cleveland Metroparks
• Drink wine!!! Maybe you didn't know Ohio even had a wine industry. California is where American wine is made, right? Well, actually, this is the perfect time to start supporting your local vintner because Wednesday, May 25, is National Wine Day. Did you know there are seven Ohio wine trails? Did you also know Geneva, Ohio, in Ashtabula County, is regarded as the "wine capital of the Midwest"? Faith Marnecheck reports for Patch

Law & Order

• The driver who fired shots at Parma police during a pursuit last summer was sentenced to 21 years in prison (Cleveland 19 News)

Social Notes

• Clint would love your attention as the current longest resident at the Cleveland City Dogs kennel. After arriving in late September as a stray, Clint has now spent three seasons with Cleveland Animal Control and Care. He loves fetch and snuggling. It's far past time this good boi found his furever home, people. (Learn more about him on Facebook)
• Members of the Cleveland Division of Police helped to welcome the Athletes of the Special Olympics as they brought the USA Games Final Leg and Flame of Hope into Cleveland! (Facebook)
• If you think you are finding candy in the forest, the Cleveland Metroparks advises you not to eat it. The wool-sower gall is a product of cypnid gall wasp reproduction. Despite its tasty looking appearance, inside each of those little red spots lives larva of the "plump and juicy gall wasp." (Facebook)

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