Five former Memphis police officers charged with murder over the death of Tyre Nichols have pleaded not guilty in their first court appearance.
Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr, Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith were involved in the arrest of Mr Nichols on 7 January.
They were fired after an internal investigation by the Memphis Police Department.
Mr Nichols’ death sparked protests against police brutality in the US.
The stench of the front had followed the wounded into the ward, so that the bandaged men reeked of a mixture of sweat, tobacco, soil, dried blood and disinfectant. A few still smelled of cordite. There were no loud voices, no laughter, no careless boasts of courage, no slogans of glory here.
Fresh from the horrors of Bakhmut, their limbs penetrated and shattered by flying metal, the soldiers spoke to one another softly, if at all, as they waited to have their wounds dressed before being evacuated westwards. Some were silent, staring into space as they reflected on what had brought them here.
A transgender butcher has been charged with abduction and sexual assault following the disappearance of an 11-year-old girl in the Scottish Borders.
Andrew George Miller, who was also known locally as Amy, appeared via video link at Jedburgh Sheriff Court for a second hearing.
The 53-year-old had been initially charged with abduction and threatening or abusive behaviour.
A few days before Christmas, a convoy of security vehicles invaded a quiet corner of Weilheim, a quaint Bavarian town of pastel squares and fastidiously kept cobblestone streets. Their target seemed as unassuming as the setting: a local children’s soccer coach.
Before then, nothing had stood out about the man, fellow coaches recalled. He was not short, but not tall — friendly, yet never wanting to discuss anything but soccer. Grasping for words, most landed on the same choice: “unremarkable.”
That changed when they learned he had been arrested on charges of treason and spying for Russia in one of the gravest espionage scandals in recent German history.
A Virginia mother has shared horrifying footage online showing the moment her 12-year-old son was strangled and bullied by an older girl on a school bus.
In the one minute-long video, that mother Taylor Brock posted on Monday, her son can be seen being hit by the girl and grabbed by the mouth.
The pair have a brief exchange when the girl begins choking the boy. Both are in the seventh grade at Whitman Middle School. His mother said the girl has a 60 pound weight advantage on her son.
Working toward the segregation they desire.
A community group in Ontario’s Niagara region says it was already dealing with a tripling of requests for assistance from asylum seekers before Ottawa recently began transferring more migrants to the province from Quebec.
Deanna D’Elia, the general manager of employment and immigrant services at the YMCA of Niagara, said her organization provides language assessments and helps new arrivals register their children in school and access other community resources. It began seeing a rise in demand around seven months ago.
Alleged gunman in custody after 2 Jewish men shot in suspected hate crime: Police
Two Jewish men were shot in Los Angeles within 24 hours in what police said they are investigating as a hate crime.
A suspect was taken into custody Thursday evening with police saying they believe he is responsible for both shootings, which occurred in West Los Angeles on Wednesday and Thursday morning.
The perp was driving a white car so the ADL will claim it as a white supremacist hate crime.
This much is clear about Russia’s actions in Ukraine. It has waged an unprovoked war of aggression, repeatedly targeted civilians and been accused of war crimes ranging from systematic rape to torture.
Frankly I was right to expect nothing Rouleau says invoking the Hitler Act was AOK with him.
Trudeau government was justified in using unprecedented powers of Emergencies Act: ruling
The Trudeau government’s unprecedented use of the Emergencies Act last year was justified, Commissioner Paul Rouleau has ruled, but could have been avoided if not for failures of policing and federalism.
A 30-year-old suspected Islamic radical has been arrested in Sweden after allegedly carrying out at least five rapes at a care home while working at the facility last autumn.
The man is said to have been employed at the care home, known as an HVB home in Sweden, in the city of Örebro and is said to have raped a person who was a resident of the home at least five times, with some of the alleged rapes taking place at the home and others at his home.
A person threw eggs at John Tory‘s office window early Friday as he marks his last day in office as Toronto mayor.
Global News captured the moment a person wearing a cowboy hat calmly approached a barrier outside Toronto city hall before pulling out some eggs and throwing them.
One of the UFOs shot down last weekend by the US Air Force with a $400,000 missile may have simply been a $12 balloon belonging to an Illinois enthusiast club, a report said.
The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade told Aviation Week on Thursday that it fears one of its diligently-tracked gasbags that recently went missing was mistaken as the mystery object taken out by the military over Canada on Saturday.
The Pico Balloon — a silver-coated, cylindrically shaped object — reported its last position at 38,910 ft. off the west coast of Alaska on Friday.
China employed a sophisticated strategy to disrupt Canada’s democracy in the 2021 federal election campaign as Chinese diplomats and their proxies backed the re-election of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals – but only to another minority government – and worked to defeat Conservative politicians considered to be unfriendly to Beijing.
The full extent of the Chinese interference operation is laid bare in both secret and top-secret Canadian Security Intelligence Service documents viewed by The Globe and Mail that cover the period before and after the September, 2021, election that returned the Liberals to office.
No wonder Junior has been lying about about being briefed on CCP skullduggery, he was likely in on the plot. The LPC is a criminal organization that has reduced Canada to Banana Republic status.
h/t DM
The Canadian and American governments have imposed blatantly racist policies and regulations on their populations. Dividing their citizens into “oppressors,” all white people, and “victims,” all BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of color) and LGBTQ2S (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual, queer, two-spirit). They label whites as “privileged” and having “white rage” and “white fragility,” with “whiteness” being racist and evil. Government championing of “marginalized minorities” at the expense of the white majority is their claim to the moral high ground. This is their “progressive” strategy to gain total political power over their populations.
Toronto police will not be able to afford the roughly $1.7-million monthly overtime costs of the additional officers currently deployed to the TTC past March 20, the city manager said Wednesday.
At Wednesday’s special budget meeting, Toronto City Council debated hot topic issues before approving a 2023 operating budget of $16.16-billion, including a $43.8M increase to TPS’ funding.
