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altmin said:

Victim died after being shot by armed police in response to synagogue attack​

One of the victims in yesterday’s attack outside a synagogue in north Manchester died after being shot accidentally by an armed officer, police have confirmed.

Chief constable Stephen Watson, of Greater Manchester Police (GMP), said that the attacker Jihad al-Shamie was not in possession of a firearm and that the death was the result of “a tragic and unforeseen consequence of the urgently required action taken by my officers to bring this vicious attack to an end”.

A second member of the public sustained non-life threatening gunshot injuries, he added.

In a statement, he said:
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altmin said:
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‘I use cannabis as medicine’: the US basketball player facing execution in Indonesia over $400 of gummies

Unlike his fellow basketball player, Brittney Griner, Jarred Shaw has received scant attention after being arrested for a drugs offence overseas
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When Jarred Shaw, an American basketball player in Indonesia, stepped down to the lobby in his apartment complex earlier this year to collect a package containing illegally imported cannabis gummies, he thought that the medicine to ease his Crohn’s disease had arrived.

It had – but so too had 10 undercover police officers. A video on social media shows Shaw, wearing a black T-shirt and shorts, shouting for help as the swarm of officers move to apprehend him.


The 35-year-old from Dallas, Texas, is facing the possibility of the death penalty or a long spell behind bars. He was a key member of Prawira Bandung, who won the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL) in 2023, and he has scored more than 1,000 points over three seasons in the country. But now he is languishing in pre-trial detention and is banned for life from the IBL for life.


“I use cannabis as a medicine,” he told the Guardian over the phone from a prison just outside Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, in his first comments to the press since his May arrest. “I have an inflammatory condition called Crohn’s disease that’s incurable. There’s no medicine apart from cannabis that stops my stomach from aching.”

During the off-season Shaw lives in Thailand, where cannabis is subject to more liberal laws. He says he had endured the pain of going without cannabis in previous campaigns in Indonesia but says that health reasons spurred him to import the intercepted supply of 132 gummies this year. “I made a stupid mistake,” he says.

But that mistake should not warrant the death penalty or a long spell in prison, he says. “There’s people telling me I’m about to spend the rest of my life in prison over some edibles,” he says. “I’ve never been through anything like this.” In the first two months after his arrest, he was at “the lowest point in [my] life” and in a “really dark mental place”.
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Those are some ridiculous laws and punishments, but what the hell was he thinking? Maybe he just had no clue, but you would think if he was living there he would have some idea that they have very draconian drug laws. It seems like it’s common knowledge that the drug laws in that part of the world are insane.

I have a family friend who got busted with marijuana in Spain during the Franco regime in the early-70s. He received a fairly lengthy prison sentence. His family had no idea where he was for several months, but when they were able to locate him, they got the US government involved, and he came home.
 
Icky Mettle said:
Those are some ridiculous laws and punishments, but what the hell was he thinking? Maybe he just had no clue, but you would think if he was living there he would have some idea that they have very draconian drug laws. It seems like it’s common knowledge that the drug laws in that part of the world are insane.

I have a family friend who got busted with marijuana in Spain during the Franco regime in the early-70s. He received a fairly lengthy prison sentence. His family had no idea where he was for several months, but when they were able to locate him, they got the US government involved, and he came home.
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Well sadly for him, the state department is on furlough and when it is working, the government is auditioning for a part in the Axis and he is very unwhite.
 
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I literally can't wrap my head around this.

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US House Judiciary’s Charlotte field hearing filled with emotional testimony | The North State Journal

RALEIGH — The U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight held a field hearing Monday in Charlotte on victims of violent crime. The hearing follows the controversy surrounding the August murder of Iryna Zarutska on Charlotte’s light rail system . The hearing was led by subcommittee’s co-chairm
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The subcommittee heard from family members of the victims of violent crime in Charlotte and the surrounding areas, focusing on the pattern of repeat offenders being set free through “lenient pretrial release policies.”

A repeating theme throughout the hearing was the impact of cashless bail, which allows offenders to remain free while awaiting trial.

Witnesses and certain panel members called for reforms, such as restoring secured bail systems, increasing prosecutorial staffing and resources, enhancing victim notification, and better coordination between judicial and law enforcement agencies.

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A sharp divide in political positions emerged as the hearing progressed, with Republicans emphasizing the need for tougher enforcement and accountability, while Democrats focused on funding for judicial staff as well as for mental health programs.

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Woody’s written testimony on bail policies put a focus on repeat offenders failing to reappear before the court, victim notification gaps and “free bail.” He recommended federal and state reforms for bail and mental health while backing the state legislature’s recent attempt to make reforms through Iryna’s Law.

“Iryna’s Law represents exactly the kind of evidence-based policy reform this committee should support and encourage in other jurisdictions facing similar challenges,” said Woody.

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Asher also offered figures and statistics that showed crime in Charlotte was declining. Several members on the hearing panel disagreed with Asher, questioning the way data was compiled leading to misrepresentation and inaccuracy.

Harrigan brought up that the past two months of Charlotte data, during which murders and violent crime had risen, was missing from Asher’s report.

“I think that the data is accurate,” Asher replied. “I understand people’s concerns and the lived experience of many in various communities, but the data shows a clear trend of declining murder and violent crime nationally and in many cities, including Charlotte.”

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Which party has been in control of the NC legislature for 15 years now? Which party has been cutting funding for prosecutorial functions across the state? Which party was in control when the legislature passed cashless bail legislation?

And let's not forget -- Iryna's Law was widely supported on a bipartisan basis before Berger contaminated it at the last minute with death penalty provisions that are likely unconstitutional under both the state and federal constitutions.

I am so sick and tired of Pubs shitting the bed and then blaming the Hazmat unit that comes to clean it up.
 
altmin said:
Not that CBS news wasn't destroyed because of the merger, now they are making it worse

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It's starting to look like this CBS News/Bari Weiss team-up is really going to happen

It's starting to look like this CBS News/Bari Weiss team-up is really going to happen
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From the article.

Her success (without getting into value judgments or throwing shade) has been predicated almost entirely, not on reporting or traditional journalism, but on staking out cultural and political positions and presenting them aggressively and provocatively. Which is, presumably, the point.
 
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