What officials say caused Abdul Akbar to collapse and die in Wayne County Jail is nothing but a "cover up" according to Akbar's daughter, who is suing the county and two sheriff's sergeants for $25 million in a wrongful death case.

Nine days before his sudden death, a confrontation with guards left 59-year-old, mentally-ill Abdul Akbar hospitalized for two nights. Malikah Akbar and her lawyer David Robinson say that altercation was the true cause, but investigations by the Wayne County Sheriff's Office, Wayne County Prosecutor's Office, and the Detroit Police Homicide Unit all found no criminal wrongdoing by the guards.

Wayne County Medical Examiner Dr. Carl Schmidt's autopsy report made it official: Natural causes related to heart disease were the culprit.Robinson and Akbar will make the case that a brain injury induced by guards is what ended Abdul Akbar's life.

Abdul was less than a month into his nine-month sentence for breaking and entering when, on October 23, 2014, he caused a scene that led guards to use physical force to restrain him. Reportedly, he was upset that he had woken up late and missed breakfast, and before a clerk could arrange for food to be brought to him, he grabbed her desktop computer and monitor and smashed them to the ground. When Abdul climbed on a dining table, the jail clerk buzzed for emergency help and guards pulled him down to handcuff him.

That encounter, which took place at about 5 o'clock in the morning, and the immediate aftermath may or may not be on video. Robinson suspects there is video that hasn't been released, but for now what is available is video of a languid Abdul Akbar being dragged by his arms face down along a 107-foot hallway into an elevator."No, I know it is not" the correct way to move prisoners, a commanding officer quoted as Captain Seegars said in the jail's Internal Affairs report.

According to information from the girl's mother, with whom she appealed to mass media, on August 8 Grekov detained them at a checkpoint when the two of them fled by car from shelled Lugansk. The reason for detention was the participation of the former husband of the woman and the father of the child in combat operations on the side of the LPR.

Open-carry is legal in Colorado, so a 911 call about a gun-toting man doesn't automatically warrant an emergency response. As it was Halloween when a woman called it in, the situation was deemed less of a threat. Moments later, tragedy struck.

Naomi Bettis called 911 a second time when a man with a long, black rifle shot and killed a man riding a bike.

"I don't think [the police] probably thought it was an emergency until I made the second call, and that's when I said, 'That guy I just called you about, he just shot somebody,'" Bettis told The Washington Post.

One man is dead and another is accused of fatally stabbing him — all over a piece of chicken.

Reinaldo Cardoso Rivera, 38, of Houston was charged late last week with murder in connection with the Friday death of Darwin Perez Gonzalez, 34, of Houston.

Five men had been making dinner and drinking in an apartment in western Houston. But police said Rivera became angry when Gonzalez took the last piece of chicken.

An argument escalated into a fist fight that was taken out into the parking lot of the complex. Rivera then stabbed Gonzalez and fled the scene with the knife, police said.

Rivera later returned to the scene and admitted to police that he had stabbed Gonzalez. Rivera, whose case file says he is not a U.S. citizen, was arrested, charged and is being held in Harris County jail on $200,000 bond.

His next court date is Dec. 16.

"I just felt that a human life taken over a piece of chicken is ridiculous," neighbor John McDonald told KPRC-TV, Houston.

Hundreds of protesters are expected to flood the streets of central London on Wednesday as Egyptian president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi arrives at Downing Street to meet with Prime Minister David Cameron.

The meeting will go ahead despite mounting criticism of Egyptian human rights abuses and mass death sentences.

Since Sisi's visit was first announced in June, a day after an Egyptian court handed the deposed president, Mohammed Morsi, a death sentence, critics have questioned why Cameron would invite a "blood-soaked dictator" to the UK.

European leaders and the White House do not exactly see eye to eye on a number of issues, particularly when it comes to Russia, but there is a major change in this dynamic: European officials and media have lately started blaming Barack Obama directly for what they see as bad decision-making on the part of the US president.

"For years, Europe treated Mr. Obama as virtually untouchable, an off-limits symbol of positive change in America," journalist John Vinocur asserted. In 2008, the Old World was infatuated with a young US senator and his message of change that all could contribute to and should definitely believe in.

Seven years and many unfulfilled promises later this affair is apparently over and "the continent is growing disenchanted with Barack Obama," Vinocur noted. Moreover, "there is a willingness in Europe to place blame on [the US president] himself."

Thousands of extra police officers and rigid public order rules will be brought into Westminster on Thursday night over fears the London leg of the global "Million Mask March" against austerity and state surveillance could spill over into civil unrest.

Organized by the global activist network Anonymous, the march has become an annual event. Last year's protest saw scuffles between police and activists, who wore the distinctive Guy Fawkes masks adopted as the movement's motif.

The Metropolitan Police claims demonstrators will target particular businesses and may cause damage to property.

It says it has briefed potentially targeted firms and has promised a "significant policing operation."

A Christian high school principal is being criticized for an op-ed where he says dress codes imposed on young women help protect the "gift" of their virginity, which should be preserved for their "one and only."

The piece, published in MLive by Jim Bazen, principal of Plymouth Christian High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan, suggests women and girls can't understand the "more visual" male mind so they need dress codes demanding modesty from them.

"The only way you can help young men not treat young ladies as sex objects is by telling the young ladies to cover up! A young man will not think of a respectfully dressed young woman as a 'sex object' but is more likely to see her for who she is," Brazen writes. "A young man may have no intention to lust, yet when an immodestly dressed girl passes him in the hall, he will think sexual thoughts."

The notion that women are responsible for the actions of men by dressing a certain way has been discredited as victim blaming.

"This idiot should be fired immediately. We don't need [misogynistic] creeps like him punishing young women because he can't control his libido, and doesn't ask the parents of the boys to simply treat girls with respect," one commenter wrote. "What about DEMANDING the boys do so? What about having classroom time teaching our young men that women ARE NOT OBJECTS to be oogled at by male students and teachers."

Famed film director Quentin Tarantino did not walk back any of his comments regarding police killings despite persistent rumors he would apologize publicly in the face of boycott threats by police unions. "What I said was the truth," he said.

Ten days after making brief remarks at an anti-police brutality march, Tarantino gave The Los Angeles Times his first public statement. "All cops are not murderers. I never said that. I never even implied that," said the director of Django Unchained.

Taking part in the Rise Up October protest against police brutality, in New York City's Washington Square Park on October 24, Tarantino told the crowd: "I wanna give my time to the families, however, I do just wanna say, what am I doin' here? I'm doin' here, because I am a human being with a conscience. And when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers. Now I wanna give my time to the families. Thank you very much."


The National Association of Police Officers, a lobbying organization representing 241,000 law enforcement officers and over 2,000 police units, as well as 11,000 retired cops and some 100,000 others indirectly associated individuals, took offense to the "murderers" characterization.

A plane has crash-landed near South Sudan's airport shortly after taking off. The aircraft had seven passengers and five Russian crewmembers on board, but only two people survived, local media reports.

The eyewitness saw aircraft lying across the White Nile River, Reuters reports. According to the local radio station's Twitter feed, the crash occurred around 800 meters from Juba airport.

A woman and seven children are among the victims, the National Courier reported.

The plane was headed to Paloich in the Upper Nile region, a source told the local National Courier media outlet.