The debate over the use of lethal force against fleeing suspects continues Ash-har Quraishi
The fatal shooting of a 42-year-old Black man driving away from police in North Carolina has sparked renewed debate over what’s known as the ‘fleeing felon doctrine.’
Two weeks ago, Andrew Brown Jr., who started driving away from sheriff’s deputies in North Charleston was shot dead.
Police say they were trying to execute an arrest warrant on felony drug charges when he allegedly fled.
“There are so many circumstances where officers fire at or into a moving vehicle and it s just not a good idea,” said Sharon Fairley, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
The debate over the use of lethal force against fleeing suspects continues
and last updated 2021-05-06 16:11:07-04
CHICAGO, IL â The fatal shooting of a 42-year-old Black man driving away from police in North Carolina has sparked renewed debate over whatâs known as the âfleeing felon doctrine.â
Two weeks ago, Andrew Brown Jr., who started driving away from sheriffâs deputies in North Charleston was shot dead.
Police say they were trying to execute an arrest warrant on felony drug charges when he allegedly fled.
âThere are so many circumstances where officers fire at or into a moving vehicle and it s just not a good idea,â said Sharon Fairley, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
You may not recognize the term
dark patterns, but you’ve probably seen enough manipulative interfaces to get the idea. A user experience in a site, app, or gadget is constructed to herd customers into following a company’s dictates, even if those will cost people their money or data. Now one of Washington’s consumer regulators is asking how the public sector could address this private-sector plague.
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At the Federal Trade Commission’s “Bringing Dark Patterns to Light” online workshop April 29, speakers uniformly denounced these deceptive interfaces in apps, services, and sites. “We increasingly see companies using dark patterns to manipulate consumers into giving up their data,” acting FTC Chair Rebecca Kelly Slaughter said as she opened the online event.
Six to receive honorary degrees from Washington University
Two Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients, gun safety activist, former senator, medical researcher and legal historian being recognized
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Washington University in St. Louis will award six honorary degrees during the university’s Commencement ceremonies, May 20-21.
The university also will bestow academic degrees on approximately 3,200 members of the Class of 2021 during its 160th Commencement.
National Basketball Association great and social justice advocate
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will deliver theCommencement address and receive an honorary doctor of humanities degree.
The other honorary degree recipients and their degrees are:
Christopher S. “Kit” Bond, the former U.S. senator who earned a reputation over his 40 years of distinguished public service as a skilled statesman able to build coalitions and effectively work across party lines, doctor of laws;
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Workers evacuate a patient from a hospital outside Mumbai after a fire there killed 13 COVID-19 patients on April 23. An extreme surge in coronavirus infections has overwhelmed India’s healthcare system.
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The second wave of COVID-19 in India continues to set world records as the number of new cases topped 400,000 on May 1, 2021. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), India now accounts for 1 in every 3 new cases of COVID-19.
The crisis has hospitals around the country past capacity; shortages of medical workers and oxygen have left many sick people to die without ever receiving treatment. The sudden, extreme surge took the world by surprise, and now experts everywhere are trying to understand why this catastrophe happened and what can be done to stop it.