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☆ Tyre Nichols death: Memphis mayor and police chief requested DOJ's review of the police department
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Michelle Mark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Justice Department is reviewing the Memphis Police Department after Tyre Nichols' beating death. The review was requested by Memphis' mayor and police chief, the Justice Department said. The investigation was prompted by the death of Tyre Nichols, who was severely beaten by Memphis police officers. It will also review specialized street crime units like the SCORPION Unit, which the department deactivated after Nichols' death. The review was requested by Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland and Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn J. Davis, according to the DOJ.

☆ The Supreme Court heard Biden's loan forgiveness case today. Here's when we expect the court to rule on student loans.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Michelle Mark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday over President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. Both cases the Supreme Court heard on Tuesday are seeking to permanently block his policy from taking effect. But it wasn't until August of 2022 that Biden announced he would use the HEROES Act of 2003 to enact his long-promised student loan forgiveness plan. Biden's use of the HEROES Act to enact a vast student loan forgiveness plan caused immediate controversy. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding two challenges to Biden's loan debt relief plan on Tuesday.

☆ A US fighter jet shot down an 'unidentified object' flying over northern Canada
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-11 | by ( Michelle Mark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A US F-22 fighter jet has shot down an "unidentified object" flying over northern Canada. "I ordered the take down of an unidentified object that violated Canadian airspace," Trudeau said, adding that both Canadian and US aircraft were scrambled, and a US F-22 successfully took down the object. Trudeau said the object was shot down over the Yukon, a Canadian territory, adding that Canadian forces will recover and analyze the object's wreckage. On Friday, the US shot down another unidentified object flying roughly 40,000 feet over Alaska, and one week ago, the US took down a Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina. US officials have said the Chinese balloon was part of an operation to gather intelligence on global militaries, and was studying "strategic bases" in the US.

☆ Here's what we know about Hamilton 68, the Russian online influence tracker called into question by the 'Twitter Files'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Sonam Sheth | Michelle Mark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

A recent "Twitter Files" drop revealed deep concerns among Twitter executives about a database that claimed to track Russian propaganda in "near real time." The now defunct database, Hamilton 68, was widely cited by media outlets, including Insider, before it was shut down in 2018. He wrote that based on his analysis, Hamilton 68 "falsely accuses a bunch of legitimate, right-leaning accounts of being Russian bots." Berger and ASD did not respond to a request to provide Insider with the list of accounts Hamilton 68 tracked. Roth also claimed, after reverse-engineering the list of accounts that Hamilton 68 tracked, that they were "neither strongly Russian nor strongly bots."

☆ 2 EMTs had their licenses suspended for failing to give critical care to Tyre Nichols after he was beaten by police
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | Michelle Mark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Tennessee medical board suspended two EMTs for failing to provide life-saving medical care to Tyre Nichols. The Memphis Fire Department had already fired the EMTs, as well as a lieutenant, earlier this week. Tyre Nichols died in the hospital three days after being beaten by five Memphis police officers now charged with murder. The Tennessean reported that the medical board watched a 19-minute video showing the EMTs pacing and standing around while Nichols collapsed and writhed on the ground. Attorneys for Nichols' family have said an independent autopsy indicated that Nichols died from "extensive bleeding" after the beating.

☆ Desmond Mills Jr., one of the Memphis police officers who beat Tyre Nichols, previously failed to report his role in a different violent incident
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Michelle Mark | Narimes Parakul | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Records show that Desmond Mills Jr. received a reprimand for failing to report his use of force. A woman Mills helped arrest alleged that officers beat her and slammed her head into a squad car. "Officer Mills stated he was familiar with completing the response to resistance document in Blue Team, but he did not realize it applied to his actions in this case," a document summarizing Mills' disciplinary hearing said. Mills is not the only officer who was disciplined for failing to report a use of force. In total, four out of the five officers charged in Nichols' death had previously been disciplined for various matters.

☆ Tyre Nichols' death has reignited the debate around police brutality. Here are 5 proven ways to reduce it - and 2 strategies that don't work.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Michelle Mark | Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Here are five proven, data-based changes that could make a difference, and two approaches that don't seem to work, according to Campaign Zero. Track complaints about officers' use of forceMost complaints against officers aren't public, making them hard to track. These changes, along with requiring departments to report and publish online data on all uses of force, could reduce police violence. Body cameras are another method that haven't been proven effective when it comes to excessive force instances. Research has shown that 93% of prosecutors' offices have used body cameras mostly in cases against citizens, not against police.

☆ Tyre Nichols video: Body cam footage showing brutal police beating by 5 Memphis police officers released
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Michelle Mark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Authorities released footage Friday evening showing the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols on January 7. MEMPHIS, Tennessee — The Memphis Police Department released footage Friday evening showing the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols, with Memphis and other major US cities bracing for protests and civil unrest. "You guys are really doing a lot right now," Nichols is heard saying to the officers at the start of the video. And an attorney representing Nichols' family said the officers beat Nichols like "a human piñata." The five police officers seen in the footage were fired from the Memphis Police Department and later charged with second-degree murder.

☆ The suspect in the ambush of Microsoft manager Jared Bridegan did not act alone, authorities say
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Michelle Mark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Police arrested a man in connection to the shooting death of Microsoft manager Jared Bridegan. Henry Tenon, 61, is charged with second-degree murder, but authorities said he "did not act alone." Police said Bridegan was "gunned down in cold blood" in front of his 2-year-old daughter. Jacksonville Beach Police Chief Gene Paul Smith said Bridegan's murder was "a planned and targeted ambush" and a "ruthless homicide." Smith said Bridegan was then "gunned down in cold blood," while the 2-year-old remained in the car.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is famously secretive about his personal life, and has fought hard to prevent the media and the world from knowing much about his family. Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Orthodox Easter service in the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, on Sunday, April 24, 2022. He has rarely publicly acknowledged his children, though media outlets have for years speculated and reported about the two daughters he had with his ex-wife. Further reports center around rumors that two extramarital affairs may have produced another two daughters. And in August, the US government sanctioned ex-gymnast Alina Kabaeva — with whom Putin is rumoured to have had two children.

☆ Trump lawyers argue that calling rape accuser E. Jean Carroll a liar doesn't defame her as a journalist
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Michelle Mark | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Former President Donald Trump has filed a motion to dismiss a second lawsuit from E. Jean Carroll. Trump's attorney argued he never defamed Carroll because he didn't disparage her professionally. Carroll previously sued Trump in 2019, alleging that the then-president defamed her by claiming she invented the rape allegations. Trump's court filing on Wednesday argued that Trump's October 12 statement didn't qualify as defamation because it doesn't disparage Carroll's "trade, business or profession." In response to Insider's request for comment, Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said Carroll's team looks forward to going to trial in April 2023.

☆ What happened during the Cuban Missile Crisis — the 13-day standoff that almost ended the world
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Michelle Mark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

New photographs emerged on Oct. 26 showing further missile site construction, and Castro sent Khrushchev a private letter urging him to annihilate the US with nuclear weapons. "However harsh and terrible the solution, there would be no other," Castro wrote to Khrushchev. However harsh and terrible the solution, there would be no other," Castro wrote. Meanwhile, Khrushchev wrote to Kennedy declaring he was willing to remove the missiles from the island if the United States would pledge never to invade Cuba. "You would declare that the United States will not invade Cuba with its forces and will not support any sort of forces which might intend to carry out an invasion of Cuba.

☆ Putin has 2 daughters he barely ever talks about, and is rumoured to have at least 2 more. His rumored mistress has just been slammed with sanctions.
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-30 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | Ellen Cranley | Michelle Mark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Russian President Vladimir Putin has at least two daughters he rarely talks about. He has two adult daughters with his ex-wife Lyudmila Shkrebneva: Maria, 36, and Katerina, 35. President Vladimir Putin is famously secretive of his personal life, and has fought hard to prevent the media and the world from knowing much about his family. Putin has never publicly acknowledged his children, though media outlets have for years speculated and reported about the two daughters Putin had with his ex-wife. And in August, ex-gymnast Alina Kabaeva — with whom Putin is rumoured to have had two children — was sanctioned by the US government.

Roughly half of those fatally shot by police are white, but Black Americans are fatally shot at a disproportionate rate compared to their representation in the US population. As of December 5, 3,582 white people had been fatally shot since 2015 at a rate of 2.4 per million, whereas 1,892 Black people were fatally shot at a rate of 6 per million per year. The database also comes with a number of other qualifiers — namely, that it tracks only fatal police shootings, not fatal police encounters in general. For instance, the database includes Omar Mateen, the mass shooter who killed 49 people in an Orlando nightclub in 2016 before police fatally shot him. But even when narrowing the data down to fatal police shootings of unarmed people, it shows a similar story as the aggregate data.

☆ Research shows there are at least 5 proven ways to reduce police brutality — and 2 strategies that don't work
▼ + stars: | 2020-06-03 | by ( Michelle Mark | Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

Here are five proven, data-based changes that could make a difference, and two approaches that don't seem to work, according to Campaign Zero. Track complaints about officers' use of forceMost complaints against officers aren't public, making them hard to track. These changes, along with requiring departments to report and publish online data on all uses of force, could reduce police violence. Body cameras are another method that haven't been proven effective when it comes to excessive force instances. Research has even shown that 93% of prosecutors' offices have used body cameras mostly in cases against citizens, not against police.

☆ 32 photos of North Korea that Kim Jong Un wouldn't want you to see
▼ + stars: | 2020-04-28 | by ( Michelle Mark | Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un rules the hermit kingdom with an iron fist. National propaganda often presents a fabricated version of day-to-day life for North Koreans. In reality, much of the country lives in poverty and the government controls most aspects of life. Much of the country lives in poverty, tens of thousands of people are held as political prisoners, and the government tightly controls most aspects of life. Here's what North Korea really looks like.

☆ What we know about Kim Jong Un's 3 mysterious heirs
▼ + stars: | 2020-04-22 | by ( Michelle Mark | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is believed to have three children with his wife, Ri Sol Ju. The only child the public has seen is one daughter, fueling speculation she will one day succeed Kim. Top editors give you the stories you want — delivered right to your inbox each weekday. The North Korean leader remains an object of wild speculation and curiosity throughout much of the western world — as has his family. Little is known about Kim's wife, Ri Sol Ju, and even less is known about the three young children the couple is believed to have.

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