Blood stains are still visible on the sidewalk at the corner of Flower Street and Palm Drive, where a Bakersfield man struggled with as many as nine officers and later died this week. Original post on bakersfield.net Comments on reddit.com
Chinese authorities seize 20,000 tonnes of illegal meat products and detains gang passing off fox, mink and rat as mutton Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
DENVER (MarketWatch) — Melvin Willis, a 22-year-old activist from Richmond, Calif., attempted something Tuesday that not even the U.S. attorney general dares to do: Place the CEO of a giant bank Original post on marketwatch.com Comments on reddit.com
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian security forces thwarted a plot to blow up a rail line between Canada and the United States and will announce arrests on Monday afternoon, police and intelligence agencies Original post on reuters.com Comments on reddit.com
Amid a frenzy of reporting on Wednesday that a suspect had been arrested in the Boston Marathon bombing case, NBC News stood out as the only network reporting that no arrest had been made. In the face of increasing evidence that they were incorrect, NBC News stuck to their guns and insisted that there had been no arrest. Within minutes, it became clear that NBC News was the only network to get the story right – no arrest had been made in the Boston bombing case. Original post on mediaite.com Comments on reddit.com
(AP) — Four Omaha police officers have been fired following allegations they used excessive force, including punching a restrained suspect, during an arrest that was secretly recorded, the police chief announced Friday. Family members say police knocked over a woman in a wheelchair inside the home and confiscated a camera from Juaquez Johnson that he had been using to record his brother’s arrest. Original post on sfgate.com Comments on reddit.com
From Yahoo! News: STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Two Ohio teens accused of making online threats against a rape victim are scheduled for their first court appearance. Original post on yahoo.com Comments on reddit.com
Police in Stockholm were surprised on Monday to find that a man they had arrested for buying sex from a prostitute was the duty prosecutor to whom they were obliged to report the crime. Original post on thelocal.se Comments on reddit.com
A York County public defender is calling the November use of a stun gun by Rock Hill police officers on a 62-year-old homeless man outrageous and characterizing it as police brutality. Original post on heraldonline.com Comments on reddit.com
If you want to make sure police don’t search your phone without a warrant, ensure it’s password protected, the ruling suggests. Original post on thestar.com Comments on reddit.com
Based on a massive data set unique to Houston, a newly published study from scientists at Rice University has found a direct correlation between out-of-hospital heart attacks and levels of air pollution and ozone. Researchers at Rice University in Houston have found a direct correlation betwe Original post on scitechdaily.com Comments on reddit.com
From the blog The Sideshow: A professional skateboarder is potentially facing jail time after uploading a video that purports to show him skating at an astounding 68 mph through the middle of traffic. South African skater Decio Lourenco faces the charges after Cape Town city officials say his high-speed skating actually triggered a speed camera. The speed limit in the [...] Original post on yahoo.com Comments on reddit.com
A Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area won a trial Friday in his lawsuit seeking $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge Original post on wired.com Comments on reddit.com
A Moga woman’s story of her kidnapping from Chandigarh and dumping in Bhatinda after gangrape in a moving car has turned out to false. Bharat Khanna and Ashpuneet Kaur Sandhu report. Original post on hindustantimes.com Comments on reddit.com
Mega, the new file sharing service from Kim Dotcom, has passed 1 million users, according to Kim Dotcom who spoke at the launch of the service at his mansion in New Zealand today. We’re… Original post on thenextweb.com Comments on reddit.com
Police in India’s northern Punjab state say they have arrested six men in another gang rape of a bus passenger, four weeks after a deadly attack on a student on a bus in New Delhi. Original post on cbc.ca Comments on reddit.com
The department suspects that the men repeatedly used the threat of jail to get women into their unmarked car and drove them to secluded areas to perform sexual acts. Original post on latimes.com Comments on reddit.com
A former trooper of the year with the Utah Highway Patrol is accused of falsifying dozens of arrests on charges of driving under the influence during her 10-year career. Original post on nytimes.com Comments on reddit.com
A woman is accused of posing as the aunt of a little boy killed in the Newtown school shooting as soliciting funds to pay for a funeral. Original post on nbcconnecticut.com Comments on reddit.com
The Palestinian Authority is currently looking into the possibility of filing a complaint to the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israel for arresting 900 Palestinian children in 2012. In taking such an action, Palestine will be using its newly-acquired rights as an observer state at the United Nations, said Eissa Karakea, Palestinian Minister of Detainees’ Affairs. “We need to use the newly gained state status to take measures against Israel for its crimes especially the arrest, detention, and abuse of Palestinian children, let alone trying them before military courts,” he told Original post on alarabiya.net Comments on reddit.com
From Yahoo! News: FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) – A U.S. Army private facing court-martial on suspicion of leaking secret documents to the WikiLeaks website testified on Thursday he was confined to a Original post on yahoo.com Comments on reddit.com
Soldier allegedly behind WikiLeaks documents leak to be called as a witness Tuesday in first public statement since 2010 Original post on guardian.co.uk Comments on reddit.com
A homeless man spent the night in jail Sunday after police arrested him for charging his cellphone in a public picnic shelter at Gillespie Park. Original post on tribune.com Comments on reddit.com
The mass arrests of Occupy Chicago demonstrators that city leaders praised as a model for respecting protesters’ rights were ruled unconstitutional Thursday by a Cook County judge. Original post on chicagotribune.com Comments on reddit.com
Brazil ordered the arrest of a Google executive for not removing a Web video. Original post on washingtonpost.com Comments on reddit.com
In a move that’s set the blogging world alight, Sweden has pledged to give Cambodia $60 million for ‘democratic development’. Some think the timing of the deal – right on the heels of Pirate Bay co-founder Warg’s arrest – is no coincidence. Original post on rt.com Comments on reddit.com
A man says he was beaten up at his own apartment complex by an off-duty reserve officer, and police are now investigating Original post on abclocal.go.com Comments on reddit.com
