Well, it felt sort of inevitable. NBC’s beloved cop comedy
Brooklyn Nine-Nine will be coming back, but it won’t be the triumphant return its many fans had been looking forward to. Instead, the Andy Samberg-led series will cap its run with an abbreviated eighth season one that likely won’t be dropping until later in the fall, after the Olympics.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine has developed a loyal following in the tradition of NBC comedies, featuring a terrific cast and charming chemistry. However, the police antics have been complicated in the wake of George Floyd’s death and the global 2020 movement to hold cops accountable for the brutal treatment of Black people.
Bail donations pour in for Jacksonville woman who shot officer during raid
Diamonds Ford says a 911 call proves she is innocent
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The group of supporters is calling for the State Attorney’s Office to drop the charges against Diamonds Ford.
People from around the country have raised over $500,000 to bail her out of jail while she awaits trial.
A cheerful Ford ran towards her family after being released from jail Friday.
Ford said she’s innocent and hopes the charges against her are dropped.
In debate over secret safe house, prosecutor says Kenosha shooter’s ability to ‘roam freely’ is ‘extremely rare for an accused murderer’ Mark Berman, Mark Guarino, Kim Bellware
How the lives of Kyle Rittenhouse and Joseph Rosenbaum clashed in a fatal shooting in Kenosha, Wis.
Replay Video UP NEXT Prosecutors seeking to increase Kyle Rittenhouse’s $2 million bond said Thursday that the ability of the Kenosha, Wisc., shooter to “roam freely” before trial is “extremely rare for an accused murderer” and argued his address should be made public. But his defense attorneys argue that housing Rittenhouse in a secret safe house is necessary to protect his life.
February 3, 2021
Some of America s busiest courts have gone virtual or delayed creating backlogs, increased surveillance and false guilty pleas, advocates say.
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Empty streets, shuttered restaurants, and now, closed courts.
Cathryn Crawford is the director of legal services for the Lawndale Christian Legal Center in Chicago: The backlog is going to take a really long time, a really long time, because it s not like everything stops, and we re going to get rid of those cases.”
Across the country, criminal courts have either gone virtual, been delayed or stopped indefinitely. Eight states and the district of Columbia have statewide restrictions on jury trials “until further notice.”
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The frantic wind in Ashland, Oregon, woke me up at 5 a.m. on September 8, 2020, the morning of the fire. For a heavy sleeper whoâs known to set five or six alarms for early mornings, I was surprised that I had been startled by the sound of harried wind chimes outside my window. In retrospect, the unrelenting minor-key clanging of the hollow pipes seems like some kind of omen. But for the next five or six hours, I went about my regular morning routine: coffee, oatmeal, Twitter, work.
Then, around 10 or 11 a.m., the winds guided what became a fierce inferno named the Almeda Fire on a highly destructive path. Fire season always poses a serious threat to Southern Oregonâs Rogue Valley, but no one could have predicted the severity of the Almeda Fire, which primarily affected the towns of Talent and Phoenixâjust north of Ashland. On the following day, FEMA stated that the fire had burned approximately 600 h