Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
As part of an ongoing investigation into the death of 21-year-old Matthew Ajibade while in custody at the Chatham County Jail in Georgia, a graphic video was shown in court on Friday, which NBC News has obtained, of police officers using a stun gun on Ajibade in the groin while he is restrained to a chair. Ajibade was arrested on a…
4-year-old Ava Ellis in a family portrait. [Inside Edition] Newly-released audio illustrates a Columbus, Ohio family’s confusion and terror after a local police officer accidentally shot a then-4-year-old girl while being asked to help the girl’s mother. Note: the video below plays automatically. The audio, aired on Inside Edition, depicts the June 19 incident involving…
An Idaho school was placed on lockdown after a student threatened to “kill all the girls” because none of them would send him nude photos. A 15-year-old boy was charged with one count each of threatening violence at a school and telephone harassment in connection with the threats — which spread quickly across social media…
On Wednesday, a jury in Sacramento, California, found Matthew Keys, former social media editor at Reuters and an ex-employee of KTXL Fox 40, guilty of computer hacking under the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act. In 2010, Keys posted login credentials to the Tribune Company content management system (CMS) to a chatroom run by Anonymous, resulting…
Matthew Keys’ fate is out of his hands. Possibly for the next several decades. Keys, a self-made meteor who’d rocketed to significant heights in the social media news desk firmament, was arrested in March of 2013 in connection with a December 2010 hack of the LA Times website, a hack he’d actually reported for Reuters….
Matthew Keys, the Twitter power user who made a name for himself as the former deputy social media editor at Reuters, has been found guilty of three criminal counts in federal court. He faces 25 years in prison for facilitating the defacement of the LA Times’ website. http://gawker.com/reuters-fired-… Keys was indicted in 2013 after being…
Despite what Donald Trump and many other politicians have told you, the major threat to America isn’t Muslim extremism. In fact, statistics show that the real danger lies with domestic extremists who aren’t of the Muslim faith. The New York Times reported back in June that since Sept. 11, 2001, almost twice as many people have died at…
It may have been a direct warning. It may have been just a coincidence. And regardless of which scenario is true, the fact we can’t yet be sure should tell you plenty already about the horrifying subculture of murderously angry young men out there. As law enforcement and the press scrambled for information in the…
What if the future of law enforcement doesn’t involve faster, more forceful responses to crime—but rather, a surefire way to predict it? Hitachi, the Japanese tech giant that makes everything from elevators to security systems, seems to have faith in the latter. It announced today (Sept. 29) that it’s developed a robust new technology that…
Over the course of the day we’ve had a handful of readers write in to ask or demand that we not report the name of the shooter, Chris Harper Mercer, in the Oregon school massacre. As the massacres continue, an increasing number of people think that we should expunge the names of the offenders both…