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George Floyd: Protesters set US police station ablaze
A police station in Minnesota went up in flames late Thursday in a third day of demonstrations as the so-called Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul seethed over the shocking police killing of a handcuffed black man. The station, which police had abandoned, burned after a group of protesters pushed through barriers around the building, breaking windows and chanting slogans. A much larger crowd demonstrated as the building went up in flames. The crowd was protesting the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, who died after Minneapolis police arrested him on Monday on suspicion of using a counterfeit banknote. Police handcuffed him and held him to the ground, with a bystander video showing an officer pressing his knee on Floyd’s neck. The videos showed Floyd saying that he couldn...
Man Who Filmed Ahmaud Arbery’s Murder Is Arrested & Charged
Source: NurPhoto / Getty The man who stood by and filmed George and Travis McMichael murdering Ahmaud Arbery in cold blood last February is now the third man arrested and charged. William “Roddie” Bryan Jr. was hit with charges of felony murder and criminal attempt to commit false imprisonment. NPR reports that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested and formally charged Bryan for his role in the death of Arbery, who was going for a run in the Salita Shores neighborhood near Brunswick, Ga, a coastal town in the southern state. More from NPR: Bryan, 50, recorded the video that ignited anger and protests in the Brunswick, Ga., area earlier this month. It shows Arbery, who is black, jogging down a residential street, two white men confronting him, and the ensuing struggle. Three gunshots...
Ivory Coast’s Guillaume Soro faces war crimes lawsuit in France
File Photo Ivory Coast’s former prime minister Guillaume Soro, a rebel leader before he entered politics, is facing a lawsuit in France for war crimes, torture and murder, lawyers told AFP. The plaintiffs say the case is being filed in France because Soro has been living in the country since 2019. Late last month, he was handed a 20-year jail term in Ivory Coast for embezzlement, money laundering, and buying a mansion in the West African country’s main city Abidjan with public money. The Abidjan court fined him nearly seven million euros ($7.6 million), ordered the confiscation of his Abidjan home and barred him from civic duties for five years, which effectively eliminates the 47-year-old from contesting presidential elections due in October. Soro denies all accusations. The latest lawsui...
Family Dollar Security Guard Shot Dead After Telling Woman To Wear Mask
Source: kali9 / Getty A security guard working at a Family Dollar store in Flint, Mich. was shot dead after confronting a woman for not wearing a mask inside the establishment. The woman returned with her husband and son, who murdered the man in cold blood and now are on the run. In one of the more tragic instances of heightened tensions due to the coronavirus pandemic, most especially in the Wolverine State, local outlet WXYZ reports that 43-year-old security guard Calvin James Munerlyn was working at the Family Dollar store last Friday (May 1) and told Sharmel Teague she needed a mask to enter. Teague reportedly became upset with Munerlyn and began yelling at him and spat on him according to the reports. Teague returned to the store with husband Larry Teague and her son, Ramonyea Bishop....
