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Charges laid against ex-police officer over alleged assault on Aboriginal teen We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement A former police officer has been charged with assault over an incident involving an Aboriginal teenager in September 2019, when the then-senior constable was on duty with two other officers in the northern NSW town of Casino. Video of the incident was captured by a bystander, and appeared to show the 17-year-old boy being surrounded and questioned by the three officers as he repeatedly told them, “...

Make-up artist Porsche Poon reinterprets the classic style in a new, playful way 27.01.2021 “I have always wanted to do a story related to my roots, but I didn’t want to make a story about Chinese theatre masks because it’s been done so much in the past,” says make-up artist and creative director Porsche Poon. Instead, he drew inspiration from Chinese and Japanese comics he has been reading recently and armed with a new 3D pen he’s been playing with over lockdown, he decided to combine the two.  “I was first drawn to all the cloud drawings from comics and as I started to dig dee...

Expensive this is. >> when you get ted cruz calling mandatory minimums draconian, you know you have bipartisan support. >> yes. >> and that's why. >> they realize it doesn't work. there is -- the number of -- you have john kasich in ohio, who instituted sentencing reform there. and there's no question it's bipartisan. it's because of the cost. this is what has made this politically powerful. >> mr. david, let me come back to you. >> it's not even bipartisanship. that means you're surrendering something to meet in the middle. this is the rarest of all reachers in washington. this is an identica...

Crimes and changing mandatory minimums for drug and nonviolent crimes. joining me is benjamin david, district attorney in north carolina. i understand that you and other members of this group were at the white house on thursday, and i'm interested in what your takeaway from that meeting was. >> well, it was a great honor to meet with both president obama and the attorney general, who like us, is from north carolina. and to really have a meaningful discussion about how we can reduce both crime and incarceration in this country at the same time. it sounds counterintuitive but we can do it by foc...

national committee to the activists offering the dnc's support for a town hall on social and racial justice. the letters were sent to the two different groups boat at the forefront of the movement. the #blacklives' matter network, which shares its name with the broader movement and operates as an umbrella organization with local chaptersp cities across the country, and campaign zero, a separate group that has coalesced around a ten-point agenda to reduce and eliminate police violence. the dnc's recognition of both groups signals not only the growing influence of the voice of this mov...