Civil rights group seeks Justice Department investigation of Mario Gonzalezâs death in police custody
By Andre Torrez article
Alameda police officers try to revive Mario Gonzalez of Oakland after police restrained him, prone on the ground. April 19, 2021
ALAMEDA, Calif. - The nation’s oldest Latino civil rights organization has sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, asking that the FBI investigate the in-custody police death of Mario Gonzalez.
On Friday, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) issued a press release with an excerpt of their letter. They say they expect local law enforcement, City of Alameda and the Alameda County district attorney’s office investigations to focus on the police use of force.
‘We as an Army failed to protect Vanessa Guillén’: Report confirms soldier sexually harassed before her death
‘We as an Army failed to protect Vanessa Guillén’: Report confirms soldier sexually harassed before her death
Communication missteps allowed the man accused of killing Guillén to flee; 13 officers and noncommissioned officers being disciplined in the case.
Dozens of people participated in a vigil outside Dallas City Hall to demand justice for the killing of Vanessa Guillén.(Omar Vega / Especial para Al Día)
Updated at 7:49 p.m. with a quote from Sen. Cruz’s spokesperson.
More than a year after she was killed, the Army confirmed Friday that Vanessa Guillén was sexually harassed by a supervisor, but not by the soldier who the Army believes killed her.
Tonnes of toxic waste collected from British municipal dumps is being sent illegally to Africa in flagrant breach of this country’s obligation to ensure its rapidly growing mountain of defunct televisions, computers and gadgets are disposed of safely.
Hundreds of thousands of discarded items, which under British law must be dismantled or recycled by specialist contractors, are being packaged into cargo containers and shipped to countries such as Nigeria and Ghana, where they are stripped of their raw metals by young men and children working on poisoned waste dumps.
In a joint investigation by
The Independent, Sky News, and Greenpeace, a television that had been broken beyond repair was tracked to an electronics market in Lagos, Nigeria, after being left at a civic amenity site in Basingstoke run by Hampshire Country Council. Under environmental protection laws It was classified as hazardous waste and should never have left the UK.
The Ninth Circuit expressed impatience with the EPA’s continued delay in deciding whether to ban chlorpyrifos, which scientists say can harm young children’s development.
A farmworker gathers sweet potatoes in Mechanicsville, Virginia. Sweet potatoes are one of many crops that chlorpyrifos is used on. (Lance Cheun/USDA via Courthouse News)
(CN) Aiming to conclude a 14-year regulatory saga, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency must find that residual amounts of a pesticide are completely safe for babies in utero, else completely ban it.
In a 2-1 majority, the Ninth Circuit panel held that the EPA delayed in making a decision on chlorpyrifos, which studies have shown to be harmful to the health of infants and developing children.
Family, volunteers continue to search southwest Houston for any sign of Erica Hernandez
Search for missing Houston mother continues
The search for a missing Houston mother of three continues one week later. FOX 26 Reporter Maria Salazar speaks with the family of Erica Hernandez.
Houston - It s been exactly a week since 3 Houston children including a 3-year-old last saw their mother.
The family of Erica Hernandez spent the day in southwest Houston searching for any sign of the 40-year-old woman. Her family and investigators also have not seen found any of her belongings including her car. We re right here on the corner of 288 and Reed at the Valero gas station, said Rafael Hernandez, Erica s brother. We re going to search the Reed road area. This is her way home.