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Washington (AFP) - The governor of the US state of Maryland issued a mass pardon of drug offenses on Monday, in a far-reaching move forgiving 175,000 low-level marijuana convictions across multiple decades. Democrat Wes Moore said his act -- "the most sweeping state-level pardon" in American history -- was aimed at addressing social and economic injustices disproportionately impacting tens of thousands of Black people. Moore, the eastern state's first Black governor, said he intended to right the "decades of harm" wrought by drug policy that had disproportionately targeted African Americans, d...
AFP
Since March of last year, the Australian state of Victoria has been rocked by a series of arsons and firebombings. Some of the targets are victims of extortion; others are caught in an escalating turf war between rival gangs. Two men with links to organized crime have been publicly murdered, one in a broad-daylight shooting at a shopping mall in a Melbourne suburb. Violent conflict is not unexpected in organized crime, but what is unusual is the drug at the center of this conflict: nicotine. This tobacco turf war has been widely covered in Australian media but generally ignored elsewhere. In i...
Reason
Russian security forces stormed on June 16 a detention center in Rostov-on-Don, killing at least some of the prisoners who took two prison staff members hostage, state-owned news agency TASS reported. Six prisoners, some of whom were accused of links to the Islamic State terrorist group, took the two employees hostage on the morning of June 16. The attackers were armed with a pocket knife, a rubber baton, and a fire axe but failed to take possession of a firearm, Russian law enforcement agencies told the local media. It is believed that the hostage-taking had been prepared for several months. ...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Russian security forces stormed on June 16 a detention center in Rostov-on-Don, killing at least some of the prisoners who took two prison staff members hostage, state-owned news agency TASS reported. Six prisoners, some of whom were accused of links to the Islamic State terrorist group, took the two employees hostage on the morning of June 16. The attackers were armed with a pocket knife, a rubber baton, and a fire axe but failed to take possession of a firearm, Russian law enforcement agencies told the local media. It is believed that the hostage-taking had been prepared for several months. ...
Kyiv Independent
Russian security forces stormed on June 16 a detention center in Rostov-on-Don, killing at least some of the prisoners who took two prison staff members hostage, state-owned news agency TASS reported. Six prisoners, some of whom were accused of links to the Islamic State terrorist group, took the two employees hostage on the morning of June 16. The attackers were armed with a pocket knife, a rubber baton, and a fire axe but failed to take possession of a firearm, Russian law enforcement agencies told the local media. It is believed that the hostage-taking had been prepared for several months. ...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
A New York City Police Department Deputy Inspector was indicted on Thursday, June 13, for allegedly allowing his drunken girlfriend to drive his NYPD vehicle in 2022 and attempting to cover it up after she allegedly struck a cab. Paul Zangrilli, 44, is charged with one count of tampering with physical evidence; two counts of falsifying business records in the first degree; two counts of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree; one count of obstructing governmental administration in the second degree; two counts of official misconduct; one count of operating a motor vehicle w...
Knewz (UK)
A New York City Police Department Deputy Inspector was indicted on Thursday, June 13, for allegedly allowing his drunken girlfriend to drive his NYPD vehicle in 2022 and attempting to cover it up after she allegedly struck a cab. Paul Zangrilli, 44, is charged with one count of tampering with physical evidence; two counts of falsifying business records in the first degree; two counts of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree; one count of obstructing governmental administration in the second degree; two counts of official misconduct; one count of operating a motor vehicle w...
Knewz
A New York City Police Department Deputy Inspector was indicted on Thursday, June 13, for allegedly allowing his drunken girlfriend to drive his NYPD vehicle in 2022 and attempting to cover it up after she allegedly struck a cab. Paul Zangrilli, 44, is charged with one count of tampering with physical evidence; two counts of falsifying business records in the first degree; two counts of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree; one count of obstructing governmental administration in the second degree; two counts of official misconduct; one count of operating a motor vehicle w...
Knewz (CA)
The city morgue of Guayaquil in Ecuador is so full of dead bodies that it has resorted to using refrigerated shipping containers. Knewz.com has learned that the problem intensified when corpses accumulated and the cooling failed, immersing the facility in a miasma. The main factor leading to this situation is prison massacres. According to the El Pais, unlike the usual protocols of storing dead bodies one-per-niche until loved ones come looking, the facility is now forced to fit two and sometimes three corpses into said niches. Another cause is two of the three designated refrigerated containe...
Knewz (UK)
The city morgue of Guayaquil in Ecuador is so full of dead bodies that it has resorted to using refrigerated shipping containers. Knewz.com has learned that the problem intensified when corpses accumulated and the cooling failed, immersing the facility in a miasma. The main factor leading to this situation is prison massacres. According to the El Pais, unlike the usual protocols of storing dead bodies one-per-niche until loved ones come looking, the facility is now forced to fit two and sometimes three corpses into said niches. Another cause is two of the three designated refrigerated containe...
Knewz
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