“When I heard those gunshots, I didn’t think anything of it because in this neighborhood everyone has guns. Every weekend you hear shots.
People shoot in their backyards, after they drink alcohol, men take out guns at house parties and shoot the ground.”
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Twenty years ago today, Tim McLaughlin’s flag was seen by millions and stood for victory in Iraq. Now, it's tucked away in his basement -- and the Marine veteran struggles with the painful memories it evokes, via
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The court officers very much did not hold the door for Trump when he walked past the pool cameras
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U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden has sentenced 30 people in Jan. 6 cases and gone below what government lawyers have asked for 28 times, including for man who attacked police, shining strobes in eyes and hitting them with baton
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What spurred the covid baby boom? points to government stimulus payments and work-from-home policies for women in white collar jobs.
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New: City of Philadelphia to pay nearly $10 million to settle class-action lawsuit over police misconduct during social justice protests in 2020
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Nice piece in by about the parallel and contrasting worlds we live in as Asian Americans—joy & wonder, shock & horror. I talked to him about going from Oscars delight to mourning the Monterey Park shooting victims with POTUS.
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Prosecutors believe they could charge as many as 1,200 more people in the Jan. 6 investigation, which is only about halfway done, via
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In a historic decision aimed at accuracy & reconciliation, said it would drop the use of “internment” in most cases to describe the mass incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry during WWII (I see you ❤️🧿🪬)
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Federal officials can't find $7,000 in golf clubs former Japan PM gave Trump during bilateral summits in 2017/18, per & washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/ Reminder that Abe also gave prez-elect Trump a $3,800 gold-colored driver during 2016 meeting at Trump Tower.
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At least 25 states are enforcing laws that have eased removal of books from schools, blocked some lessons on race/gender/sexuality, restricted rights of transgender students and cost teachers jobs. Yet few legal challenges have emerged.
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The emotional outpouring among Asian Americans on Oscar night reflected a feeling that their community had, at long last, been validated at the highest levels of pop culture. But the achievement came at a fraught moment in the Asian American experience.
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DOJ today announced three separate convictions/sentencings of law enforcement officials — a former New Orleans police office, a former Georgia sheriff and a former Kentucky federal prison official — for assaults and civil rights violations.
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Among those who greeted Pres. Biden on tarmac at LA airport ahead of Monterey Park event is Brandon Tsay who disarmed the mass shooter at his family’s dance studio in January, per White House pool.
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The man convicted of killing eight people by driving a truck on a New York City bike path in 2017 will serve life in prison as punishment, after a federal jury could not reach a unanimous decision on whether to sentence him to death.
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New: Hate crimes in U.S. rose to highest-ever level in 2021, FBI says. “We have hit an inflection point in this decade in regards to hate crimes that we haven’t seen since modern data collection began,” says
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FBI reports 746 hate crimes targeting people of Asian descent in 2021, up from 279 in 2020 and more than double any single year since agency began tracking stats in 1990.
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FBI used the 9,065 number in a background call for reporters but the report on FBI website shows a total of 10,840 hate crimes in 2021, which would far surpass all-time high since fed gov started collecting the data in 1990.
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Hate crimes across the country rose by 11.6 percent in 2021, reaching the second-highest level in three decades, per FBI. Agency tallied 9,065 bias-motivated crimes — incl. increases in those targeting racial minorities, religious groups and gay community — the most since 2001.
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Mississippi man gets 42 years in federal prison for burning a cross in yard to intimidate Black family.
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Seven major takeaways from DOJ’s scathing two-year investigation into Louisville’s police force, via
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Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg (D), who took office in January, apologizes to community for years of police misconduct: "To those people who have been harmed: on behalf of our city government, I’m sorry. You deserved better."
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Breaking: The Louisville Metro Police Department engaged in systemic civil rights abuses and excessive force misconduct in the years leading up to the 2020 police killing of Breonna Taylor, Justice Dept. finds
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Beating of White man in Hawaii results in federal hate crime sentencings for attackers, nine years later
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Fatal police shootings rose again in 2022, up every year since 2017 and 10 percent since 2020. via
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DOJ moves quickly to charge man with hate crimes for alleged targeted shooting of two Jewish men leaving synagogues in Los Angeles this week.
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Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro--who as state AG supported death penalty in some cases, incl for alleged Tree of Life synagogue shooter Robert Bowers--calls on state legislature to abolish it. Sets up contrast with DOJ, which is seeking death for Bowers in fed case.
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DA Flynn says if Gendron gets life sentence in federal case, he's likely to spend the rest of his days in federal prison system, which has more resources to "house him in an appropriate environment."
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DA John Flynn says he believes the only reason Gendron apologized in court was "to save his life in federal court." Suggests apology was not sincere... Flynn won't comment on whether he thinks Gendron will face capital case from feds. "I have no input on that at all."
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Eerie County DA Flynn says Gendron likely will be transferred to federal custody tomorrow for duration of the federal case. He also says man who rushed Gendron in courtroom will not be charged with any violations.
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A number of prominent, Black-led civil rights groups, long opposed to capital punishment, saying it disproportionally targets racial minorities, remain opposed to death penalty in Gendron's case.
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Couple more points of context for feds. Family members have been split over death penalty:
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Gendron still faces federal hate crime and firearm charges. DOJ is deliberating over whether to pursue capital punishment for him at a time when Merrick Garland has a moratorium on federal executions.
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Judge Susan Eagan sentences Payton Gendron to life in prison in Buffalo mass shooting. “There is no place for you and your ignorant, hateful ideology. There can be no mercy for you. No second chances...You will never see the light of day as a free man ever again.”
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Payton Gendron reads written statement apologizing to victims of the Buffalo mass shooting. Says he "acted out of hate" but doesn't want any white supremacists "to be inspired by me." Family member screams out, "He don't mean none of that shit!"
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The testimony from the victims' family is extremely painful and emotional. Barbara Massey, whose sister Katherine Massey was among those Gendron killed, tells him she wants to choke him and rushes at him. Officers rush to intervene while escorting Gendron out.
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Wayne Jones tells Gendron he watched video of him shooting his mother, Celestine Chaney: "I don’t wish the death penalty on you. I wish they keep you alive so you have to suffer with the thought of what you did for the rest of your life." (Gendron will get life on state charges.)
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With Gendron in the courtroom, Kimberly Salter, whose husband Aaron, a former police officer who was working as a security guard at Tops, says she wore red for the blood that was shed during mass shooting and black because she is still grieving. "You will reap what you sow."
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