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Cop gets a five-day unpaid suspension for punching suspect in the genitals

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In what many police accountability critics consider a measly slap on the wrist, Indiana's Evansville Police Department (EPD) suspended one of their own for five days without pay. Sgt. Rob Hahn was caught on police body camera footage punching a handcuffed suspect in his testicles.

EPD spokesman Sgt. Jason Cullum said Sgt. Hahn was called to assist a felony warrant arrest on a suspect who was residing at a local Evansville motel. Cullum said Hahd "did a couple of things that violated our use of force policy." For starters, after handcuffing the suspect, Hahn shoved the suspect's head against the wall.

As the Courier & Press reports:
The encounter started when officers were serving an out-of-county warrant on a man in August at the Arrowhead Motel on North Fares Avenue. Hahn and three patrol officers arrived to arrest the suspect.

When the man did not open his door, the officers went inside the motel room and found him standing in the bathroom on the phone.

Body camera video shows the man was promptly handcuffed. He was not resisting arrest when Hahn shoved and later hit him.

Pistol

Porsche owner charged with attempted murder after shooting homeless man over alleged noise dispute

Porsche owner
© Metro Nashville Police Department
A 26-year-old woman has been charged with attempted murder after shooting a homeless man who allegedly asked her to move her Porsche because she was playing music in the car at 3am.

Gerard Melton, 54, was trying to sleep on the sidewalk in Nashville, Tennessee, when he "became disturbed" by exhaust fumes and loud music coming from Katie Quackenbush's luxury SUV, Metropolitan Nashville Police said.

A heated argument followed, which culminated in Quackenbush allegedly getting out of her vehicle and firing two shots at Melton before getting back into the Porsche and fleeing the scene.

Melton was critically wounded and remains hospitalized at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Padlock

White House on lockdown for second time in two days

White House lockdown
© Alex Rubinstein / RT
The White House has been locked down for the second time this week, due to reports of a suspicious package. Media waiting for the daily press briefing were told to stay indoors.

A suspicious package was found on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place NW, the Secret Service told Sputnik. The intersection is on the northeast corner of the White House complex.

Fire department and police personnel were on the scene, RT America's Alex Rubinstein reported.

Books

Very good reasons why DeVos wants to change Obama-era Title IX policy on sexual assault

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos
© Mike Theiler / ReutersEducation Secretary Betsy DeVos
This week, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos signaled there would be changes to the Title IX policy for sexual assaults on college campuses that began under the Obama administration. It's not meant to protect rapists, but the Left blew a gasket. Some viewed the move as an authoritarian move, while others wished that DeVos herself would be raped. Yeah, some reactions were ugly, but it's not an insane move. It's one that merely stresses due process of law. You know, like what we're all afforded under the U.S. Constitution.

There were a lot of bogus accusations, which led to lives being destroyed. Even women, who denied being assaulted or abused, told their side of the story to college administrators, they were coerced into believing that they were battered women by the administration. It's ludicrous. In one case, a male student had evidence that he was the victim of a sexual assault; the school expelled him anyway. Reason has been documenting the insanity that has occurred on college campuses with these allegations that are serious, but the process in which they've been handled as of late has raised constitutional questions. Also, in some cases where sexual assault was lobbed, the school opted to tell students to mount their own prosecution:

Comment: The New Inquisition: How Title IX "gender equity" denunciations are ruining American campuses


Handcuffs

Members of traveller family sentenced over modern-day slavery camp

Rooney family
© Lincolnshire Police
Several members of a traveller family have been sentenced to jail for running a modern-day slavery camp.

Ten men and one woman belonging to the Rooney family were convicted at Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday for exploiting vulnerable people on a site in Drinsey Nook, Lincolnshire.

Nine members of the family were sentenced to jail for a total of almost 80 years in prison.

The family recruited unemployed, vulnerable, often homeless men from across the country to work for meagre wages in their various businesses.

Almost all of the 18 victims were found to have mental health or drug and/or drink problems.

Comment: "The greatest positive of this case is that so many of the victims have now got their lives back, they've got a real second chance at some peace and happiness and to grow and flourish in their communities - it's very much deserved," Mayo said.

Sadly, the memories still remain.


Che Guevara

Barcelona: 1mn Catalans mark national day with massive pro-independence march

Catalonia independence march
© Ignasi‏/Twitter
Just weeks ahead of a regional independence referendum, nearly one million Catalans staged a massive rally in Barcelona to support the independence vote from Madrid.

On Catalonia's national day, the 'Diada', nearly one million people marched to support the upcoming independence referendum planned for October 1, police said on Twitter.

The rally marked the anniversary of the loss of Catalan independence to Spain in 1714 when Barcelona was captured by troops of Philip V of Spain. Over three hundred years later waving red and yellow striped flags, Catalonians poured onto the streets of their regional capital demanding the return of their autonomy.

Chanting pro-independence slogans, the crowd carried massive 'Si' banners to convince people to vote 'Yes' in the planned referendum despite objections from the central government in Madrid.

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Family

Parents die while trying to save son at volcanic crater near Naples, Italy

Italy crater
© Nina Volare
Two adults and one child from the same family have reportedly been killed at a volcanic park near Naples.

The incident happened at the Campi Flegrei natural reserve in the coastal city of Pozzuoli, with reports suggesting that two of the victims died after trying to rescue their son from a restricted zone.

According to Il Mattino, Massimiliano Carrer and his wife Tiziana were killed trying to reach their 11-year-old son who had fallen near the Solfatara volcanic crater.

Target

A look back: Actor James Woods reported 9/11 'dry-run' activity to FBI

James Woods
On a flight from Boston to Los Angeles, Hollywood star and firebrand conservative James Woods witnessed what the FBI believes was a 'dry-run' for the 9/11 attacks. According to Reuters, Woods "tipped off the FBI about his encounter with four suspicious airline passengers a month before last Tuesday's attacks on America."


Comment: See also: Lawsuit: Saudi Arabia suspected of funding a 'dry run' 2 years prior to 9/11 attacks


Satellite

The CIA secretly collects biometric data

Central Intelligence Agency
The whistleblowing site WikiLeaks recently published a cache of documents that reveal, among other things, the existence of several online programs employed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to gather biometric data collected by the spies' sister agencies.

Using a cyber tool called ExpressLane, the CIA, according to the information dumped by WikiLeaks, infiltrates the various surreptitiously seized and catalogued biometric databases kept by the National Security Agency (NSA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Stop

California-based 9th Circuit restrictions on Trump's refugee ban blocked by US Supreme Court

Trump's travel ban
© Brendan McDermid / ReutersPeople protest against President Donald Trump's travel ban in New York City, U.S., February 1, 2017
The US Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a lower court's ruling which outlined exemptions from the Trump administration's temporary ban on refugees.

The Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court early on Monday to stay the decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which sought to expand the class of refugees that could be admitted to the US.

The California-based 9th Circuit ruled on Thursday that "refugees who have formal assurances from resettlement agencies or are in the US Refugee Admissions Program ("USRAP") through the Lautenberg Amendment" should be allowed in.