“If Bryan Cutler wants to be Speaker, he’s going to be Speaker,” said Rep. Greg Rothman, R-Camp Hill, during a break in Wednesday’s action at the Capitol. “That’s his decision.”
San Diego defies calls to ‘defund the police,’ but it ‘won’t be business as usual’ in California’s second-largest city
“This is about systemic, generational issues that we must acknowledge and address, and those won’t be solved overnight with a single budget vote,” Mayor Kevin Faulconer told USA TODAY in a statement on Tuesday. “We’re going to keep funding our police department but it won’t be business as usual.”
Barr says familiar names among those DOJ is investigating in Durham probe, calls findings ‘very troubling’
“I think before the election, I think we’re concerned about the motive force behind the very aggressive investigation that was launched into the Trump campaign without, you know, with a very thin, slender reed as a basis for it,” Barr told Baier. “It seemed that the bureau was sort of spring-loaded at the end of July to drive in there and investigate a campaign.”
Managers, Encourage Your Team to Take Time Off
“we trust you, take care of what you need to” to “take some of your allotted vacation time” to “we need all hands on deck right now and we can figure out time off later.”
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Community policing is an alternative to the “Broken Windows” style policing that cracks down hard on minor infractions, flooding neighborhoods with police enforcement.
“The idea was, after you flood these neighborhoods, you also flood them with social welfare programs,” Lawson said. “We got the flood of police, but we never got the flood of social welfare, so we ended up having these kind of occupation zones where the police are acting like an occupying army.”
The armed white men who terrorized Philadelphia’s Black Lives Matter supporters
One of the men was recorded ripping up a protester’s Black Lives Matter sign while yelling homophobic slurs. A producer for WHYY, the local public radio station, tweeted that he was beaten up after trying to film the group. A few men were spotted with rifles.
Myka Stauffer and the Aggressively Inspirational World of “Adoption Influencers”
The Stauffers have been pilloried online. Critics offered side-by-side stills that appeared to show the family treating Huxley differently from his siblings. They
Evangelical Christians Grapple With Racism As Sin
“Only the Samaritan saw the wounded stranger and acted,” Curry said. “Love, as Jesus teaches, is action like this as well as attitude. It seeks the good, the well-being, and the welfare of others as well as one’s self.”
Troubling videos capture L.A. police violence, aggression amid demonstrations
On Tuesday, footage of a curfew arrest in Hollywood ends with the unarmed arrestee held at gunpoint and pleading for mercy as a police radio squawks with orders for officers to take anyone they see into custody. In L.A. County, sheriff’s deputies in one video appear to shoot pellets out of a moving vehicle at young men on the street, and those in another video punch and knee a young man on the ground in Compton.
Can’t Go Out and Protest? Here’s How to Help From Home
“Not everyone is a front-liner, and that’s OK because we need all types of people,” says Andréa Hudson, an activist and prison abolitionist based in North Carolina. “There are many ways people can help out from their homes, and we need people to do it. We need everyone to show up.”