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In India, Ishwar Deen spent more than two months and 250,000 rupees ($2,995) modifying his car to look like a helicopter, welding a propeller to the top and a boom to the back. The first day he took the car on the road, police seized it for illegal modifications and fined him 2,000 rupees ($24). Twyla Stallworth of Andalusia, Alabama, called to file a noise complaint against her neighbor; when no police officer ever came, she set off a car alarm to annoy the neighbor, who then called to report her. An officer was then dispatched to the scene and arrested Stallworth—not for the car alarm, but f...
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For almost eight years, California law enforcement officials kept a death in police custody secret, labeling the case an "accident" and refusing to disclose basic information to journalists and the family of the victim, according to an investigation by Open Vallejo. Darryl Mefferd had seemed disoriented and dehydrated and was making paranoid remarks, so his niece took him to a local hospital, where he was treated with vitamins and a sedative. Doctors wanted him to remain in the hospital, but they did not feel he met the conditions for an involuntary commitment and did not call police. Mefferd ...
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For the first time in 111 years, Pennsylvania's Upper Moreland Township will not host the June Fete Fair and Horse and Pony Show. Township officials canceled the fair citing recent youth violence at other area events. Organizers had offered to cancel evening hours, install metal detectors, and beef up security, but town officials said the changes weren't enough. This is the second spring festival in the region canceled because of violence and robberies at other events. The post Brickbat: All Things Must End appeared first on Reason.com.
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Mexican officials are once again criticizing Ceci Flores, who searches for the bodies of people who have disappeared and are presumed to have been kidnapped and murdered. She typically searches in areas known to be places where drug cartels dump bodies. The problem is that she is too successful in finding those bodies, undercutting the government's claims to be searching for them and its efforts to downplay the scope of violence and kidnapping in the country. After her latest find, prosecutors initially claimed she'd found dog bones before admitting she'd found human remains, but they then acc...
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The California state Senate has passed a bill that would require speed governors on all new cars manufactured or sold in California by 2032. These devices would give drivers "audible and visual signals" when they exceed the speed limit by more than 10 miles per hour. The bill's sponsor, Sen. Scott Wiener (D–San Francisco), says the measure will reduce traffic accidents and deaths. The post Brickbat: Life in the Slow Lane appeared first on Reason.com.
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A group of New York City sheriffs created a "man cave" at a city storage facility and stocked it with booze and tobacco products seized from stores and bars they raided and closed for violating COVID-19 shutdown orders. They reportedly blocked off the security cameras so they could drink and smoke in the area. The Department of Finance, which employs the sheriffs, has refused to release their names, and department Commissioner Preston Niblack declined to discuss the issue with local media. But officials say that twelve sheriffs were suspended for 30 days without pay over the matter, and none w...
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Darien Harris spent 12 years in prison for murder but was freed last year after it was discovered an eyewitness against him was legally blind. Court records show the man denied under oath that he had vision problems. In fact, he had advanced glaucoma and had been declared legally blind nine years previously. A second eyewitness denied Harris was the shooter. Harris is now suing the Chicago Police Department for violating his civil rights. The post Brickbat: Injustice Is Blind appeared first on Reason.com.
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U.S. Reps. Grace Meng and Tim Kennedy, both Democrats from New York, have introduced a bill that bar the sale, transfer, or possession of Level 3 body armor to anyone but the military or police officers. Level 3 armor is designed to stop rifle rounds such as 7.62 mm. The bill is named for Aaron Salter Jr., a retired police officer who died trying to stop a 2022 mass shooting in Buffalo. Kennedy said Salter fired on and hit the gunman but the gunman was wearing body armor and was not stopped. The post Brickbat: Naked and Afraid appeared first on Reason.com.
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Linden, New Jersey, Mayor Derek Armstead has apologized for making disparaging remarks about Hasidic Jews. In a secretly recorded conversation between Armstead and local Board of Education President Marlene Berghammer, Berghammer said, "If it's in a neighborhood school district, it should be, we don't mind if it is a black person or a Haitian-speaking person." Armstead replies, "That is what has to happen in order to keep our community from being taken over by guys with big hats and curls," an apparent reference to the city's growing Hasidic Jewish population. Armstead apologized for the remar...
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Police Scotland initially declared the death of Brian Low to be "non-suspicious and medical-related." But a medical examination found "he had injuries consistent with being fatally shot." His death certificate says he died of a shotgun wound to the neck and chest. Three months later, police arrested a man in connection with the death. Scotland's Police Investigation and Review Commissioner has confirmed it is looking into the way the crime scene was handled. The post Brickbat: I Had No Suspicions appeared first on Reason.com.
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