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Social Media Is Causing Huge Unrest In The World: Now Is The Time For Real Change, A Time To Inspire True Kindness

The social scarring effect of epidemics, such as the Plague of Justinian, the Black Death, and the 1830s cholera pandemic, has been a significant factor in causing social unrest.

International Business Times

Former Houston Officer Wins Legal Victory In Deadly Raid

Former Houston officer Gerald Goines has murder charges dismissed in deadly drug raid case. Families seek justice for victims.

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A child's dream to 'drive' a space shuttle propels him toward a historic NASA mission

Navy Capt. Victor Glover, who spent nearly six months aboard the International Space Station, will be among four astronauts to venture back to the moon for the first time since 1972.

WEKU

‘I wanted to find the humanity in kids seen as scumbags’: George Amponsah on his Scorsese-style thriller

He was obsessed with Scorsese while growing up. Now he’s made his own Mean Streets, about thieves falling into serious crime. The incendiary director talks about riots, police killings and redemption

The Guardian - UK

Florida Legislation Would Ban Civilian Police Oversight Boards

Florida Republicans and police unions insist that toothless civilian oversight boards are still more scrutiny than police deserve.

Reason

Jon Ronson: Why We Went So Crazy During COVID Lockdowns

The Things Fell Apart host explains how a 1988 quack medical concept inspired George Floyd's death in 2020 and how Plandemic rewrote Star Wars.

Reason

Why We Went Crazy During COVID Lockdowns

The Things Fell Apart host Jon Ronson explains how a 1988 quack medical concept inspired George Floyd's death in 2020 and how Plandemic is basically a rewrite of Star Wars.

Reason

Employers' Talking "About Race—Any Race—With a Constant Drumbeat of Essentialist, Deterministic, and Negative Language" Risks Racial Harassment Liability

So a federal district court just held.

Reason

‘More mainstream’: In the UK, push for slavery reparations gains momentum

As PM Sunak refuses to engage, civil society is working harder than ever to remedy historic horrors.

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Prosecutors urge rejection of ex-cop's bid to dismiss civil rights conviction in George Floyd murder

Federal prosecutors have urged a judge to reject former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin’s attempt to overturn his civil rights conviction in the murder of George Floyd

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Supreme Court rejects appeal by ex-officer Tou Thao, who held back crowd as George Floyd lay dying

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to review the federal civil rights conviction of a former Minneapolis police officer who held back a concerned crowd while fellow officers pinned down a dying George Floyd

Fortune

Highest U.S. rookie police salary is in San Francisco at $112,000

Only 26 people graduated from the Californian city’s police academy and entered the force in 2023—down 72% from 2019.

International Business Times

US Cop Jailed For 14 Months Over Death Of Black Man

A white US police officer was sentenced to 14 months in prison Friday over the 2019 death of a young Black man who was put in a police chokehold and injected with ketamine.

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The Guardian - UK

Head of Britain’s police chiefs says force ‘institutionally racist’

Exclusive: Gavin Stephens becomes most senior serving officer to accept discrimination in policing operates at a ‘fundamental level’

Reason

Who Killed Elijah McClain? Mixed Verdicts Reflect a Cascade of Ultimately Fatal Mistakes.

Juries convicted two paramedics and one police officer of criminally negligent homicide but acquitted two other cops.

The Independent UK

Missouri school board that previously rescinded anti-racism resolution drops Black history classes

A conservative-led Missouri school board has voted to drop elective courses on Black history and literature, five months after the same board rescinded an anti-discrimination policy adopted in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd

The Independent UK

California police officer who shot and killed unarmed kneeling man will not face charges

California attorney general said a DoJ investigation found there was not enough evidence to charge officer Jarrett Tonn for the killing of Sean Monterrosa

The Independent UK

California's top prosecutor won't seek charges in 2020 fatal police shooting of Bay Area man

California’s attorney general will not seek criminal charges against a Vallejo police officer who fatally shot a man, even though it turned out the gun he carried was fake

The Independent UK

Black American solidarity with Palestinians is rising and testing longstanding ties to Jewish allies

A growing number of Black Americans see the struggle of Palestinians reflected in their own struggles for racial equality and civil rights

The Independent UK

Confederate memorial to be removed in coming days from Arlington National Cemetery

A Confederate memorial's days at Arlington National Cemetery are numbered

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