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The governors of pandemic epicenter New York, New Jersey and Connecticut announced the quarantine on Wednesday, requiring visitors heralding from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, North and South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Washington to quarantine themselves for two weeks upon arriving in the tri-state area.
"This is a smart thing to do," New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy told reporters, reasoning that after taking "our people...through hell and back," the "last thing we need to do right now is subject our folks to another round" of the coronavirus.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed the complaint (PDF) Wednesday on behalf of Robert Williams, a Michigan man who was arrested in January based on a false positive generated by facial recognition software. "At every step, DPD's conduct has been improper," the complaint alleges. "It unthinkingly relied on flawed and racist facial recognition technology without taking reasonable measures to verify the information being provided" as part of a "shoddy and incomplete investigation."
The investigation began when five watches, valued at about $3,800, were stolen from a Shinola luxury retail store in Detroit in October 2018. Investigators reviewed the security footage and identified a suspect: an apparent Black man wearing a baseball cap and a dark jacket. In March 2019, according to the complaint, Detroit police conducted a facial recognition search using an image from the surveillance footage; that search matched the image to Williams' driver's license photo.
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Chief Rabbi of Iran, Yehuda Garami
Chief Rabbi of Iran, Yehuda Garami
Iran is home to as many as 25,000 Jews, not the 8,000-15,000 that is sometimes estimated, and they feel safer in the Islamic Republic than they do in Europe, Rabbi Yehuda Garami, Iran's chief rabbi, has suggested.
"We have total freedom of religion. All the synagogues are open, and Torah classes take place there. We have all sorts of educational institutions too, including elementary and middle schools," Garami said, speaking to Al-Monitor.
According to the rabbi, Jews in Iran are more protected than they are in some European nations, where Jewish communities have been subjected to knife and gun attacks, bombings, death threats and discrimination.
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The statue of Hans Christian Heg
The statue of Hans Christian Heg
Born in Norway in 1829, Heg arrived in the US 11 years later. He later joined the Republican Party and became known as an anti-slavery activist, as well as the leader of an anti-slave catcher militia. Fighting for the Union during the civil war, Heg was fatally wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga, and had a statue erected in his honor in 1924.
That same statue was lashed with chains and torn down by rioters on Tuesday night. After it came crashing to the ground, the figure was unceremoniously rolled to a nearby lake and dumped, as the crowd cheered.
Steve Bing and Bill Clinton
Steve Bing was a longtime friend of the Clintons. According to reports, Mr. Bing donated up to $10 million to the Clinton Foundation.
Both Clinton and Bing were in the past reported to be part of a billionaire clique that included Burkle and Jeffrey Epstein - reported LA Mag.
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The #43 Victory Junction Chevrolet waits in the garage at Talladega Superspeedway on June 22, 2020
The #43 Victory Junction Chevrolet waits in the garage at Talladega Superspeedway on June 22, 2020
NASCAR called for a full investigation after one of Wallace's team members claimed to have discovered a noose in their garage stall at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama on Sunday. The black driver, who never saw the threatening rope himself, said that the incident showed that the sport was struggling with racism. But there may be a simpler and far less racist explanation for the alleged hate crime.
Comment: You see what you want to see, when you're controlled by emotions, fads, and mass hysteria.
A video dug up from 2019 shows garage #4 - the stall used by Wallace's team at Talladega - featured a pull rope with a hand loop, which was almost certainly used to manually operate the garage door. Curiously, a photograph of the same garage stall taken on the day that the alleged noose was discovered shows that the hand loop was missing and had likely been cut from the rope.
Conservative commentator Mark Dice argued that there was a "99.9% chance" that the noose was in fact the garage pull that had been in the carport long before Wallace's team member stumbled upon it. Dice noted that it wasn't uncommon for harmless objects to be misidentified as hate symbols. He pointed to a recent example in which "nooses" found in an Oakland park were later revealed to be exercise aids.
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Police on site at Forbury Gardens in Reading responding to reports of a stabbing
Police on site at Forbury Gardens in Reading responding to reports of a stabbing
Three people are confirmed to have died and another three are seriously injured following the attack in Forbury Gardens in the town centre on Saturday at around 7pm.
A 25-year-old man, from Reading, was arrested near the scene on suspicion of murder after running away, and is currently in custody.
Thames Valley Police said it has launched a murder investigation and is keeping an open mind as to the motive, and although it is not currently treated as a terrorist-related incident it is being supported by colleagues from Counter-Terrorism Command.
Graphic video has appeared on social media of at least two bloodied people being given CPR. Authorities have urged people not to share such content.
Comment: The suspected attacker, Khairi Saadallah, is a Libyan asylum seeker who was known to security services prior to the attack and deemed to be "low risk."
Update (6/24): The UK's security minister has gone on the defensive after the reports of MI5 being aware of the killer, claiming that 25 terrorist plots have been foiled in the last three years by UK security services. That's after Home Secretary Priti Patel said that the attack was the actions of a "lone individual." Patel went on to warn Parliament of the continued threat of more "lone wolf" attacks in the UK.
Neighbors of the killer have described the killer's behavior as erratic and sometimes violent, with potential mental health issues as well. One neighbor described an incident a year ago where Saadallah smashed and threw his TV off his balcony.
A discipline panel at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario ruled in a rare split decision last month that Dr. Farooq Khan should receive no penalty and not have to pay any costs for his discipline proceedings.
In doing so, the majority of the panel rejected a joint submission from both the college's and Khan's lawyers that said the doctor should receive a 12-month suspension and pay $20,550 in costs.
Comment: See also:
- 'Rotten from the top': Sexual harassment 'RAMPANT' at McDonald's, international labor group tells OECD in complaint
- Former state department official charged with sexual assault against 10 yo girl in Prince William County, Virginia
- NY AG reportedly probing NBC News over sexual assault claims
- Biden voted to block creation of Senate office that handles sexual harassment complaints
- UK teacher found guilty on 13 counts of sexual assault, victims were girls as young as 7
- Child sexual abuse is sharply on the rise as Americans ordered to stay at home
- Chicago mayor defends freeing illegal alien accused of child sexual assault
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What actually happened, from the looks of it, is that the Palmer brothers selected a victim based on his race, beat him mercilessly, and then slandered him. They damaged him physically and then tried to ruin his life. If the "hate crime" designation has any meaning, this should fit the bill. Yet, to this point, no hate crime charges have been filed, nor has there been any public discussion about filing them.
Comment: See also:
- Black man beats Macy's white employee over alleged racial slur, store says attack was 'unprovoked'
- Oregon county issues face mask order that exempts non-white people
- Black Lives Matter Melbourne insists white people at protests submit to black people entirely
- Black student erupts over 'too many white people' at UVA multicultural center
- Black man shoots randomly at cars in Ohio suburb, shouting "I don't like white people in my hood"
- Glasgow campaign to change slave owner street names smacks of white saviour complex, patronises black people
Comment: Fake noose media!
Update (6/24): Despite the investigations by the FBI and NASCAR resulting in the conclusion that the rope was simply being used to pull down a garage door, Bubba Wallace continues to deny reality and claim it was a noose. He said that he had never seen a garage pull with a hand loop before. That argument was quickly destroyed: