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2 Cops Pulled From Streets After NYC Father Dies in ‘Choke Hold’
Two New York City police officers have been placed on desk duty after a 43-year-old man died during an arrest in which video of the struggle shows an officer placing him in what the police commissioner said appeared to be a choke hold, the Daily News reports. The department prohibits the use of that hold,…
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46,000 Federal Drug Sentences Could Be Cut
Almost half of the nation’s 100,000 federal drug inmates could spend less time behind bars following a decision Friday by the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the Washington Post reports. In a unanimous vote, the commission decided that 46,000 federal drug offenders in prison are eligible for reduced sentences, the report says. The decision, the Post says,…
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Report: 100 AIDS Conference Delegates Aboard MH17
An estimated 100 delegates en route to the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia, reportedly died aboard downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, according to a statement released Friday by Daniel C. Montoya, deputy executive director of the National Minority AIDS Council. Among those who died was Dutch researcher Joep Lange, a former president of the…
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Rights Groups Condemn Detroit Water Shutoffs
Responding to a widening water crisis in Detroit, the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. on Friday appealed to city officials to place an immediate moratorium on water shutoffs while “a fair, humane and meaningful review process can be evaluated and implemented to help indigent residents.” A letter [pdf]…
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Ind. Teen Allegedly Slayed Flight Attendant in Grisly Robbery Plot
In an eerie robbery plot that ended in murder near a deserted stretch of road in Gary, Ind., a veteran United Airlines flight attendant was viciously beaten, fatally stabbed and stuffed in her car trunk allegedly by her daughter’s boyfriend, the Daily News reports, citing various news outlets and court documents. Damarius Wren, 18, on…
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WeatherNation Hires Meteorologist Fired for Explaining Black Hair
Rhonda Lee, a meteorologist thrust into the national spotlight in 2012 after she was fired from a TV station for responding to a viewer’s racist remarks about her Afro, has a new gig. The Vane reports that Lee announced Friday that she’s been hired as meteorologist by WeatherNation. Lee was fired from the KTBS-TV, an…
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Moms With Guns Founder Shares Obama Post: ‘Where Is an Assassin When You Need One?’
The founder of the Moms With Guns website is under fire for a Facebook photo that she shared of President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Texas. The uproar is not over the image, but what she wrote in the post: “Where is an assasin (sic) when you need one,” according to Liberaland. The post has…
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Rachel Jeantel Blames Self for George Zimmerman Acquittal
Nearly a year after Rachel Jeantel testified at George Zimmerman’s trial in the death of her friend, Trayvon Martin, she told CNN that she wishes she had acted differently on the witness stand. She made the statement in response to a question about whether she blamed herself for Zimmerman’s acquittal. “A little bit,” she answered.…
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Fla. Teen Gets 23 Years in Fatal Shooting of Police Dog
A judge sentenced a 17-year-old Florida boy to 23 years in prison after he and two others broke into the home of a state trooper and shot a retired police dog during a botched burglary, the Palm Beach Post reports. U.S. Circuit Court Judge Robin Rosenberg said the stiff penalty for the teen, Ivins Rosier,…
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Three Charged in Gun Death of N.J. Girl
As hundreds of mourners gathered Friday to grieve the loss of a 12-year-old New Jersey girl who was fatally wounded by a stray bullet over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, three men were charged in the shooting, the Associated Press reports. The girl, Genesis Rincon, was struck in the head about 8:40 p.m. July…
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