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Over time, since first sending journalists to Saigon in or about 1964, such as NBC’s Garrick Utley, foreign wars in which America has had boots on the ground have increasingly become an intimate part of our lives here, stateside.[i] We have become accustomed to the macabre, unsanitized reality that is military conflict. During the last 50-plus years, television and advances in video technology have served to personalize what was once a remote story of failure or success, victory or defeat. Now we are subjected to the gruesome images of dead children mangled by the explosive blast of a nearby bomb hit. We witness in real-time the emaciated faces of prisoners or the displaced, and we see the destruction of whole cities after a scorched-earth campaign. War is no longer simply a feel-good nationalist inspiration that underscores the power of your country’s defense system: It is real! It is in your face. It has palpable consequences.
George Floyd’s murder, Harris County, Tex., public defender Allison Mathis submitted a posthumous pardon request in a Texas court.
Floyd was convicted in February 2004 for selling $10 worth of drugs. He served 10 months in jail after pleading guilty.
In the application, Mathis said the pardon filed because the arresting officer in Floyd s case manufactured the existence of confidential informants to bolster his cases against innocent defendants.
According to ABC News, Mathis claims that Gerald Goines, the arresting officer, also made up a confidential informant in Floyd’s case, and “no one bothered to question the word of a veteran cop against that of a previously-convicted Black man.”
Apr 26, 2021
Sacramento s County District Attorney has announces her bid for Attorney General on Monday. Schubert would run against Democrat Rob Bonta, who was sworn in Friday as California s first Filipino Attorney General. Schubert became district attorney in 2014 and has around 30 years of law enforcement experience. Most recently, she gained national fame for convicting Golden State Killer Joesph James DeAngelo. Schubert has been a long time Republican who recently changed to a no party affiliation.
MADISON - Attorney General Josh Kaul on Tuesday announced an investigation into clergy sexual abuse across Wisconsin, saying the review will help survivors heal and provide greater accountability for perpetrators.
The probe, which USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin first reported Thursday, will be led by the state Department of Justice and focus on abuse allegations against Catholic clergy and other faith leaders many of which date back decades and involve religious officials who are now dead.
Wisconsin is home to five dioceses, including the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and religious orders such as the Norbertines in De Pere. I would like to say to survivors of clergy and faith leader abuse: We hear you. We know how important this is, Kaul said at a news conference outside the state Capitol in Madison.