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Prince George’s County in Maryland reached a $20 million settlement Monday with the family of William Howard Green, who was shot and killed in January while handcuffed inside an officer’s vehicle, CNN reports. “Prince George’s County has reached a settlement agreement with the Green family for $20 million,” County Executive Angela Alsobrooks said at a news conference. […]
Shots were reportedly fired during an armed robbery in front of Patron of the New in New York City on Sunday. According to a report from Tribeca Citizen, the shots occurred at 5:10 p.m. local time on Franklin Street outside the shop, with NYPD officials stating that “four shell casings” were discovered outside. A witness, meanwhile, […]
On Saturday, 40-year-old Tatiana Turner was arrested and charged for driving her car through a pro-Trump group during a clash between protesters and counter-protestors at a Black Lives Matter event outside of Los Angeles (specifically, the suburb of Yorba Linda). As BuzzFeed News points out, footage of the chaos was captured and uploaded onto social […]
A Maryland man will go to jail for hosting parties that defied the governor’s COVID-19 safety guidelines. Police arrested 42-year-old Shawn Marshall Myers in March after he threw two functions in his home, each of which had 50 people present, NBC News reports. Back then, Gov. Larry Hogan had instituted an emergency order that limits […]
A meeting of motorcycle clubs ended in gunfire, which led to one death and several injuries. The Huffington Post reports that around 100 people were gathered at the function inside a building in Waterloo, Iowa when “some kind of confrontation shortly after 3 a.m.,” police chief Joel Fitzgerald said during a press conference. Cops were […]
Hours of body camera footage from Louisville Metro Police Department officers and SWAT team members shed light on the circumstances surrounding Breonna Taylor‘s murder. VICE News obtained footage and documents that have not previously been released on Saturday. The footage was captured by 45 different body cameras and was part of an investigative file compiled by the […]
It appears that consuming black licorice daily can be fatal. CNN reports that a 54-year-old man in Massachusetts died after eating too much of the candy. The man was a construction worker who was generally healthy: he had no history of heart problems, walked his dog regularly, and worked as a construction worker. He also […]
New York reported more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases on Friday, marking the state’s highest single-day tally since early June. Gov. Andrew Cuomo confirmed the unsettling news on Friday when he revealed that out of the nearly 100,000 tests reported on Friday, 1,005 came back positive. That’s about a 1 percent positivity rate, which was slightly higher than […]
An Ohio woman was stunned with a Taser and arrested Wednesday after she refused to wear a face mask at a junior high football game. A video of the incident has since surfaced on social media, showing school resource officer Chris Smith attempting to handcuff the woman as she sat on the bleachers. The woman, identified as […]
An all-girls reform school has shut its doors after a TikTok account helped expose its owners’ alleged abuse. According to a recent NBC News report, 29-year-old Amanda Householder launched @ExposingCircleofHope after receiving a disturbing message about what was allegedly taking place at Circle of Hope Girls’ Ranch—a religious-based boarding school owned by her parents, Boyd and Stephanie Householder. Amanda received the message via Facebook back in […]
