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Video: Emerges Showing Police Harshly Interrogating Girlfriend Of Man They Just Killed

A disturbing new video shows how police officers used aggressive interrogation techniques against the girlfriend of John Crawford just moments after they shot him dead inside a Walmart.

Mint Press News Desk
بواسطة Mint Press News Desk
John Crawford III, Tressa Sherrod

Victims family files lawsuit against Cincinnati police CINCINNATI (AP) — The family of a black man fatally shot by a white police officer as he held an air rifle inside a Wal-Mart filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday charging negligence and violation of the man's civil rights. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Dayton against the

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NY State Official Raises Alarm On Charter Schools — And Gets Ignored

A top official in the New York State Comptroller’s Office has urged regulators to require more transparency on charter school finances. The response has been, well, nonexistent.

Marian Wang
بواسطة Marian Wang
Grannis

New York State's First Deputy Comptroller Pete Grannis, shown in April 2010, has contacted regulatory agencies and the mayor's office about charter-school finances and says he has gotten "no response whatsoever." (Photo: Mike Groll/AP) Add another voice to those warning about the lack of financial oversight for charter schools. One of New

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Despite Warnings Of Future War, Obama To Impose New Sanctions On Russia

Instead of negotiations designed to end crisis over status of Ukraine, White House says president will sign quietly passed bill that critics say will solidify new Cold War.

Jon Queally
بواسطة Jon Queally

President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin get up to leave after a meeting in Northern Ireland, Monday, June 17, 2013.  (AP/Evan Vucci) The White House announced late Tuesday that President Obama will sign into a law a provocative, yet largely ignored, bill passed by both chambers of Congress last week that critics say

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Video: What Would The Syrian Refugee Crisis Look Like In Manhattan?

If 1.5 million people had to flee the Big Apple, the world would notice.

Timothy McGrath
بواسطة Timothy McGrath
syria_manhattan

Millions of people have been forced to flee their homes in Syria since the ongoing crisis began in March 2011. Of the refugees, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates that 1.5 million are children. That's nearly the entire population of Manhattan. An exodus of this magnitude is beyond most people's imaginations unless you're

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Killing Of 12-Year Old Boy Shows Stricter Police Vetting Needed

The Cleveland case “underscores the need for better vetting,” said John DeCarlo, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York who has studied hiring practices. “We have to be more aware of red flags.”

Associated Press
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police

Police arrest a demonstrator protesting against the shooting of a 12-year-old boy, who was killed by a police officer in Cleveland. (Mark Duncan/AP) DENVER (AP) — The discovery that a Cleveland officer who shot and killed a 12-year-old boy last month had washed out at another police force highlights what some experts call an unnerving truth

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International Community Rebukes Israel For Violation Of Geneva Convention

Swiss Ambassador Paul Fivat, who chaired the conference, told reporters afterward the declaration is legally binding on all nations that adopted it. Israel and the U.S. didn’t participate.

Associated Press
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Geneva

Swiss Ambassador and chairman Paul Fivat speaks to the media during a press conference following the Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. A declaration adopted by consensus among 126 parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention insists that international humanitarian

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