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  1. 2 hours ago

    Cops handcuffed a 9-year-old girl, forced her into a patrol car as she screamed for her father, and pepper sprayed her in Rochester, New York.

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    3 hours ago

    Trailer here, all the movies here: FREE, no sign up no nothin just watch.

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  3. 3 hours ago

    According to the LAPD, shutting down a massive vaccination site in the middle of a pandemic isn't illegal.

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    “It shows the NYPD can massively reduce drug arrests and the sky does not fall in. We are not seeing the increase in trouble on the streets that the doom-mongers were predicting." via

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    Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her closest allies were detained in a military coup.

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  6. 4 hours ago

    “This is a moral and management failure of the highest order,” mayoral candidate Scott Stringer said, adding that systemic racism is “plaguing our vaccination program.”

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  7. 4 hours ago

    Black people make up 24% of NYC's population, but only make up 11% of adults in the city who’ve received a coronavirus vaccine, according to available racial data.

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    historic day for drug reform. personal possession of all drugs is now decriminalized in Oregon, a measure that's expected to reduce the racial disparity in low-level drug arrests by 95 percent:

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  9. 5 hours ago

    Oregon has become the first U.S. jurisdiction to decriminalize possession of small amounts of all drugs effective today.

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    It's the worst political violence seen in El Salvador in decades.

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    New York City has dramatically reduced street-level drug arrests over the past decade —and the sky did not fall in via via

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  12. 6 hours ago

    Trump’s entire impeachment legal team bailed on him over the weekend. His two new recruits have some history with Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Cosby.

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  13. 6 hours ago

    Harvard is apologizing for possessing the remains of 15 people who may have been enslaved.

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    7 hours ago

    I looked at data for New York over 10 yrs and found a massive fall in people being criminalised for low level possession and dealing offences, for all drugs. The sky has not fallen. Could this city show the way forward? via

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  15. 6 hours ago

    NYC saw an 86% fall in the number of low-level drug convictions that have led to jail or prison, from 15,484 in 2009 to 2,144 in 2019:

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  16. 6 hours ago

    Arrests for drug possession and low-level drug selling in NYC tumbled from 107,848 in 2009 to 22,969 in 2019:

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  17. 6 hours ago

    It’s a policy driven largely by a concerted fightback by New Yorkers against a long track record of racially-biased, overzealous drug policing.

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  18. 7 hours ago

    NEW: New York City has dramatically scaled back its war on drugs over the past decade, with the number of street drug busts plummeting by 80 percent, according to data compiled for VICE News.

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    Jan 31

    Vice Unveils Feature Docs For Suroosh Alvi-Curated Online Site, Kicks Off With ‘The Toxic Pigs of Fukushima’ via

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    Jan 31

    Some incredible films to watch here: 👏🏼👏🏼 to the team who’s worked incredibly hard to make this happen: Brett, Brian

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