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NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby was charged Wednesday with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home 12 years ago — the first criminal charges brought against the comedian out of the torrent of allegations that destroyed his good-guy image as America’s Dad. The case sets the stage for perhaps the biggest Hollywood…
The family of Tamir Rice is lashing out against the criminal justice system after a grand jury declined Monday to indict the police officer who shot the 12-year-old at a park in Cleveland in November 2014. Rice’s family has argued the non-indictment in the case, in which a black child was killed by a white police…
The Netflix documentary series “Making a Murderer” reexamines a murder case that the filmmakers believed to be potentially biased against the defendant. As the popularity of the series exploded over the past week, angry commenters and trolls have turned their anger toward the law enforcement and prosecution team featured in the series. The 10-episode series follows the…
Sorry, kid, but you had to die Shocking no one but disgusting everyone whose heart isn’t made of dog vomit, a grand jury has determined Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann was justified in shooting a 12-year-old black child dead in November 2014. Thus, after more than a year of investigation, Loehmann — whose daddy said…
A grand jury declined Monday to indict the rookie police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in a Cleveland park in November, 2014. In yet another racially charged case in which a black youth was killed by a white officer, the grand jury refused to indict either of the two officers involved in…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year and a winter of discontent, a season of police bullhorns and Christmas lights. Demonstrators protesting police shootings of black men confronted last-minute holiday shoppers and travelers in California and the Midwest this week, seeing the crowds as an opportunity to draw attention to their cause. In Chicago…
The family of a man shot and killed by police in suburban Atlanta denied on Wednesday that he pointed a gun at an officer. At a press conference, a sobbing Cynthia Daniels said her husband, Bobby Daniels, “would never, ever point a gun at an officer.” (Reuters) Douglas County sheriff’s deputies got the call around…
cache hit 563:single/related:4861a39a1ee11a645b43759d829fff5a empty The founding editor of Business Insider UK, Jim Edwards, had a bank delete two of his tweets today. In an e-mail, Bank of America told Edwards that his tweets violated the bank’s copyright and that if he kept it up, they’d see to it that his Twitter account was deleted. “Investment banks…
David Rosen / Flickr, CCThis isn’t me, obviously. It just feels like me.I had an annoying surprise this weekend: an email from a bank telling me that Twitter had deleted two of my tweets for copyright violations. The email also contained a threat: If I continued to violate the bank’s rights, my Twitter account would be…
“Aaaaaaaaand Hillary just terrified everyone with an internet connection,” whistleblower Edward Snowden tweeted Saturday night, during the third Democratic presidential debate. Aaaaaaaaand Hillary just terrified everyone with an internet connection. #DemDebate — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) December 20, 2015 Snowden, who worked for a private contractor with the National Security Agency (NSA), leaked documents in 2013…