“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.”
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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.
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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
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“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.
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“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.”
Bald men at higher risk of severe case of Covid-19, research finds
This raises the possibility that treatments suppressing these hormones, such as those used for baldness as well as diseases like prostate cancer, could be used to slow the virus down, giving patients time to fight it off.
Former co-worker of George Floyd and Derek Chauvin claims they ‘bumped heads’ in the past
“They bumped heads,” Pinney said, adding, “It has a lot to do with Derek being extremely aggressive within the club with some of the patrons, which was an issue.” “Is there any doubt in your mind that Derek Chauvin knew George Floyd?” CBS correspondent Jeff Pegues asked. “No, he knew him,” Pinney replied. “How well did he know him?” “I’d say pretty well.”
Republicans tried to “both sides” police violence after testimony from George Floyd’s brother
“I do want to know, though, when I think about all of this is that, my brother wore a uniform and he wore that uniform proudly — I’m wondering where is the outrage for a fallen officer that also happens to be African American?”