Oakland Police officers dressed in riot gear. (Photo via Wikipedia Commons)
(CN) Five former Oakland police officers who shot and killed an armed homeless man in an alleyway in 2018 say they were fired despite several reviews and investigations that found their actions justified. On Monday, they told a Ninth Circuit panel their terminations by a court-appointed federal monitor did not comply with the city charter.
Oakland police officers fired 22 rounds at 31-year-old Joshua Pawlik, found sleeping with a gun at his side in a West Oakland alley on March 11, 2018. Video from the shooting disputed the officers’ claims that Pawlik was alert and aggressive when they fired on him from behind an armored vehicle. But then-police chief Anne Kirkpatrick determined the officers’ actions were appropriate.
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Altria Group s (NYSE:MO) 35% stake in electronic cigarette company Juul Labs may be under threat as a California district court judge said he will likely allow most of a major antitrust lawsuit to proceed. According to a document published by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on April 5, the acquisition, which Altria made for $12.8 billion, was part of an arrangement that eliminated competition in violation of federal antitrust laws.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been using American taxpayer dollars to purchase mutilated body parts from babies that were murdered through late-term abortion.
The FDA purchased the body parts from the California-based firm Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR) during Obama’s reign from 2012-2018. After getting elected, President Donald Trump shut down the program.
ABR would ship the body parts with labels such as “fresh” or “on wet ice,” indicating that they had just been harvested from a murdered baby. Some of the parts came from babies as old as 16-24 weeks gestation, meaning they could have lived outside the womb.
A plan to reduce water allocated to farmers, ranchers and flows for helping endangered fish in the Pacific Northwest has left both the agricultural industry and conservationists unsatisfied.
In this March 3, 2020, file photo, the Klamath River is seen flowing across northern California from atop Cade Mountain in the Klamath National Forest. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)
(CN) The federal government will offer millions of dollars in aid to farmers, ranchers and Native American tribes to help offset the impact of a severe drought on water earmarked for irrigating cropland and helping endangered fish on the California-Oregon border.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced Wednesday that it will provide $15 million in aid to farmers and ranchers in the Klamath Basin, and $3 million to help Native American tribes with environmental work, including efforts to protect endangered sucker fish in Oregon’s Upper Klamath Lake.
Juul’s founders, board of directors and investor Altria will face claims they worked together to deceptively target young people with ads and create a new pipeline of nicotine addicts.
A cashier displays a packet of tobacco-flavored Juul pods at a store in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Samantha Maldonado, File)
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) In a blow to e-cigarette giant Juul and its largest investor Altria, a federal judge advanced racketeering claims on a new theory that Juul founders and directors ran the company like an illegal enterprise.
The order from U.S. District Judge William Orrick III on Tuesday follows a sweeping ruling he issued this past October advancing claims that Juul intentionally enticed teens to buy e-cigarettes through promotional campaigns, but dismissing allegations of racketeering as insufficiently specific.