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Protests erupt after jury decides NOT to indict officers involved in black man Daniel Prude's death in custody

Black Lives Matter protesters have taken to the streets of Rochester, New York after a jury refused to indict officers whose actions contributed to the death of Daniel Prude from asphyxiation during an arrest last year.

Protesters in Rochester scaled police barricades as they marched down the city streets on Tuesday, venting anger at the grand jury, which effectively exonerated officers who played a role in Prude's death last March.

Demonstrators, some carrying Black Lives Matter flags, chanted "Say his name, Daniel Prude."

Part of the crowd then headed to a police station on Child and Campbell streets.

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The app, dubbed the IATA Travel Pass, is designed to provide government, airlines and air passengers with a streamlined process to ensure there is "accurate information, secure identification and verified data" available to meet all relevant coronavirus restrictions.

The IATA has outlined a timeline for the full rollout of its travel pass, with initial efforts underway at Singapore Airlines while a further 20 airlines are testing the app. More companies are set to start using it in the next few months, the organization said, and it aims to have the full pass ready to go live at the end of March.

At the same meeting, the IATA expressed concerns that the ongoing global restrictions around COVID-19 are still hitting airlines, with its chief economist warning it will likely take longer than planned for companies to be able to stop burning cash and begin rebounding financially.

Some companies have expressed concern that the summer booking period, a popular time for the airline industry, still "remains weak," with reservations currently only at seven percent of pre-pandemic levels. The IATA, which represents some 290 members, has urged governments to provide further financial support to prevent the crisis in the travel industry from getting worse.

The statement from the IATA comes after Europol issued a warning about criminals selling falsified Covid-19 test results to travelers, allowing them to get around the restrictions in place because of the pandemic. In January, the UK's Immigration Service Union told Britain's Sky News that there is no way for border officers to validate Covid-19 tests to ensure they are legitimate.

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Biden is Putting Migrant Kids in Cages And Now AOC Doesn't Care
Joe Biden is re-opening a child migrant detention center, but neither the establishment media nor left-wing politicians appear to care. The response is starkly different from when President Trump operated the detention centers he inherited from the Obama-Biden administration.

The move is said to be a direct result of the relaxation of border enforcement, a stunning admission made in CNN reports.

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Once known for crying at a fence overlooking a parking lot, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has - at the time of publication - said nothing about Biden's new move to "put kids in cages."

National advocacy groups are also silent, and outlets such as the New York Times and CNN have failed to criticize Biden and his regime for re-opening the center and congregating migrant children in close conditions.

Perhaps the most important part of why these centers need to reopen in the first instance is the most important: the relaxation of enforcement. In other words, Joe Biden has signaled for people to come, illegally, into the United States.

When they arrive, he's putting them in detention centers.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki has recast the reopening of one of ex-president Trump's infamous migrant detention centers as a temporary fix for the pandemic, arguing that not locking kids up would be "inhumane."

Psaki was skewered by reporters on Tuesday after the Biden administration reopened a migrant detention facility that had been closed in 2019 under former president Donald Trump.

The press secretary floundered as she attempted to defend Biden's stated policy "not to expel unaccompanied children who arrive at the border" by putting those children back in the "cages" - actually shipping containers - he had so vociferously denounced when they were used by his predecessor.

"This is not kids being kept in cages," Psaki insisted, arguing "this is a facility that was reopened that is going to follow the same standards as other [Department of Health and Human Services] facilities."

"It is not a replication. Certainly not."

Psaki then emphasized that "That's never our intention - of replicating immigration policies of the past administration. But we are in a circumstance where we are not going to expel unaccompanied minors at the border. That would be inhumane."

Her explanation begged the question of which is less humane, given that Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris had rushed to cast Trump's use of the same facilities in 2019 as a "human rights abuse being committed by the United States government."

Harris especially accused Trump of having "pushed policies that's been [sic] about putting babies in cages at the border in the name of security."

Thus caught between a rock and a hard place, Psaki stressed that "there is a pandemic going on," suggesting that justified the reopening of the Texas facility - since the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the kids' final destination, can no longer house as many people due to Covid-19 space restrictions.

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While a handful of Biden supporters had rallied to Psaki's aid on social media, suggesting the shipping-container cells were a step up from "cages" because they offered privacy, they avoided addressing the issue that those facilities had offered the same "privacy" under Trump, back when they were denounced as human rights violations. More clear-eyed Democrats and migrant advocates, on the other hand, slammed the reopening of the 700-child facility as "absolutely against everything Biden promised he was going to do."

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