Virginia governor orders probe of traffic stop Author: Rachel Chason, The Washington Post Updated: 10 hours ago
Print article Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said Sunday that he is directing Virginia State Police to investigate a traffic stop during which two police officers held an Army second lieutenant at gunpoint in the southeastern part of the state. Northam, a Democrat, said the incident - in which body-camera footage shows police pepper-spraying, striking and handcuffing Caron Nazario - “is disturbing and angered me.” Nazario, 27, who is Black and Latino, filed a lawsuit this month against Windsor Officers Joe Gutierrez and Daniel Crocker that alleges excessive force due to racial profiling.
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A reader gives a shoutout to Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-San Antonio, for putting people first in supporting the American Rescue Plan.Chip Somodevilla /TNSShow MoreShow Less
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Readers see a lot of progress for the country with passage of the American Rescue Plan Act, but one says it’s just a start for more permanent policies.Marvin Pfeiffer /Staff PhotographerShow MoreShow Less
Jab not bad at all
Re: “No way to mask the sting of a vaccination,” Friday:
After viewing the front-page picture of a homeless person being given a vaccination I would never get one myself! He is in obvious pain.
Biden administration on track to accept fewer refugees than Trump s, report says
Amy B Wang, The Washington Post
April 11, 2021
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WASHINGTON - Since his days on the campaign trail, President Joe Biden has tried to cast himself as diametrically opposed to Donald Trump when it comes to welcoming refugees into the United States.
Within two weeks of taking office, Biden signed an executive order to rebuild and enhance federal programs to resettle refugees - programs he said had been badly damaged under the Trump administration. Biden also revoked some restrictive immigration policies that Trump had put in place, including ones that sought to bar refugees from some countries. In February, Biden announced that he was raising the annual cap on refugee admissions to 125,000 for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, up from Trump s historically low limit of 15,000.
Prosecution case nears end in ex-cop s trial in Floyd death
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AMY FORLITI, STEVE KARNOWSKI and TAMMY WEBBER, Associated Press
April 12, 2021
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1of8In this image from video, defendant, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, listens as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides Friday, April 9, 2021, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Chauvin is charged in the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd. (Court TV via AP, Pool)APShow MoreShow Less
2of8FILE-In this image from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson questions Dr. Lindsey Thomas, a forensic pathologist, now retired, as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides Friday, April 9, 2021, in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. Chauvin is charged in the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd. Like any defense attorney, Eric Nelson has a broader strategy as he questions witnesses at Derek