A graphic video played at a hearing Monday to determine whether two California police officers should stand trial in the beating death of a homeless man showed them kicking and punching the mentally ill man as he lay on the ground — screaming in pain and begging for help.
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Man yelled ‘Dad, help!’ as cops beat him
The 17-member panel will focus on the Stand Your Ground measure, which has been cited as a defense in the shooting of the unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin.
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Florida Gun Law Task Force Is Named
The shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida is reverberating today in an unlikely place: the executive suites of major corporations. In recent days, advocacy groups have targeted more than a dozen corporations over their financial support for the conservative organization that encouraged states to pass the “ Stand Your Ground ” legislation cited as a defense for George Zimmerman , the man charged with second-degree murder in the Feb. 26 shooting. Read full article > >
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Trayvon Martin shooting spurs protests against companies with ties to legislative group
African Americans and whites have starkly different views about the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Trayvon Martin and the “stand your ground” law at the root of the controversy, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll . Read full article > >
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Trayvon Martin case: Poll finds stark racial divide
An F/A-18 experienced a “catastrophic mechanical malfunction” during takeoff Friday before crashing, Navy officials say. Both aviators aboard and at least four people on the ground were injured.
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Navy jet slams into apartment complex
The “ Stand Your Ground ” laws in Florida and other states should all be repealed. At best, they are redundant. At worst, as in the Trayvon Martin killing , they are nothing but a license to kill. Police in Sanford, Fla. , cited the statute as grounds for their decision not to file charges against Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman . Martin, 17, was strolling home from a convenience store, armed with an iced tea and a bag of Skittles, when Zimmerman — a neighborhood watch volunteer and wannabe police officer — spotted him and decided he looked suspicious. Read full article > >
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Repeal the ‘Stand Your Ground’ law
Fire crews have rescued three people whose hot-air balloon became entangled in power lines, leaving their basket suspended 15 metres above the ground.
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Seven years after Florida adopted the “Stand Your Ground” law, the shooting of Trayvon Martin, who was unarmed, has put that law at the center of an increasingly angry debate.
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U.S. Opens Inquiry in Killing of Trayvon Martin
The Pentagon said Thursday that it would ease some restrictions on women serving in combat roles, a step that in part codifies the reality on the ground in Afghanistan, where commanders have stretched rules to allow women to support ground combat units. Read full article > >
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The Occupy movement took hold at some campuses, and students are still holding their ground. But how strong is their will?
Serbia and Kosovo reach an agreement to jointly manage their border crossings, after a series of clashes on the ground, the European Union says.
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Serbia agrees Kosovo border deal
Twenty games into the 2011-12 NHL season, “accountability” is still the Washington Capitals ’ chief buzzword. The mantra that has been trumpeted by the organization’s ownership, management, coaches and players since mid-summer has been tested early, but Coach Bruce Boudreau has stood his ground as the Capitals close out the second month of the regular season. Read full article > >
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Capitals still stressing accountability, but have the stars accepted it?
It looks like he’s spraying weeds in the garden or coating the oven with caustic cleanser. It’s not just the casual, dispassionate manner in which the University of California at Davis police officer pepper sprays a line of passive students sitting on the ground. It’s the way the can becomes merely a tool, an implement that diminishes the humanity of the students and widens a terrifying gulf between the police and the people whom they are entrusted to protect. Read full article > >
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UC Davis pepper-spraying raises questions about role of police
SAN FRANCISCO — Protesters sitting on the ground supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement on the campus of the University of California, Davis, took a face full of pepper spray at close range from an officer in riot gear in an incident that was captured on cellphone video and spread virally across the Internet Saturday. Read full article > >
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UC Davis launches investigation after pepper spray video; chancellor calls video ‘chilling’
If there’s a reason Fairfax County Supervisor John C. Cook won by a gnat’s eyelash in Tuesday’s election, it might have to do with a big hole in the ground. Democrats and Republicans both say that Cook, a Republican who eked out victory over Democratic challenger Janet S. Oleszek by 372 votes in the closely watched Braddock District , had a record of dealing with hyper-local problems. Read full article > >
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