Sen. Kamala Harris kicked off her presidential bid in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday. In front of throngs of people and a beautiful backdrop, the California Democrat launched her campaign in a speech that was a blend of inspiration and criticism. She delivered a scathing review of the Trump administration and conservatism — and she smiled while doing it.
Unlike Hillary Clinton, Harris came across as hard-hitting but with a soft, honey-coated edge. Harris laced her speech with a touch of religious lingo, telling the crowd she was going to only “speak truth” to those listening.
But she left out the whole truth.
1. “Let’s speak truth about our economy. Our economy today is not working for working people. The cost of living is going up, but paychecks aren’t keeping up … The truth, is our people are drowning in debt. Record student loan debt. Car loan debt. Credit card debt. Resorting to payday lenders because you can’t keep up with the bills.”
This is a large generalization. While no economy is perfect, the economy under President Trump has done quite well. In December, the U.S. added 312,000 jobs up from 176,000, doubling the previous prediction. The unemployment rate has gone from 10 percent in 2009 to less than 4 percent now. As one Forbes contributor said, it’s “about as low as it can go.”
While student loan, car loan, and credit card debts are high, Harris’ insinuation is that this is somehow Trump’s fault. It’s not. It’s a personal responsibility issue known as “keeping up with the Joneses” and no politician can curb personal greed, poor money habits, or good-old-fashioned jealousy of what your neighbor has.
2. “Let’s speak another truth about our economy. Women are paid on average 80 cents on the dollar. Black women, 63 cents. Latinas, 53 cents. And here’s the thing. When we lift up the women of our country, we lift up the children of our country. We lift up the families of our country. And the whole of society benefits.”
Technically, this is right. But Harris failed to emphasize the important part: “on average.” The gender wage gap isn’t caused by sexist discrimination. That’s a myth Democrats have wrapped in shiny rhetoric and taken for a stroll in economic speeches for decades. Multiplestudies have shown that when women have the same education, work the same job, for the same hours, and perform it just as well, there’s basically no wage gap.
What actually exists is a “choice gap.” Women tend to earn an education, get a great job, marry, and take a break to raise children, then re-enter the workforce. Sometimes that break is short, sometimes it’s decades. Of course that woman doesn’t make as much as her male counterpart does, who has been working the entire time and now has more experience. Take that example and expand it across all women, and you get the average wage gap.
While it was nice, as a woman, to see positive comments about “lifting up” the women and children of our country, the insinuation here was directly related to the workforce. That’s not the only way to help women — many women choose to remain home and raise their children.
It’s also hard not to read this and wonder how advocating for abortion lifts up women and children, but I digress.
3. “And let’s speak an uncomfortable but honest truth with one another: racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, transphobia are real in this country. They are age-old forms of hate with new fuel. And we need to speak that truth so we can deal with it.”
Harris has a point, that America is a flawed nation full of flawed people. There is no doubt those forms of hatred all exist somewhere. However, as a whole, particularly compared to other countries, the U.S. is an example of tolerance and respect, particularly toward the people targeted by the discriminatory groups she listed.
While the country is increasingly tolerant of some groups, however, they are now attacking others. Harris conveniently left out the discrimination against some conservatives, Christians, and even white, Christian men.
In December, Harris used her position on the Senate Judiciary Committee to apply a religious test to a nominee. She balked at the nomination of Brian Buescher for the federal bench because he was a member of the Knights of Columbus. In the fall, Harris, along with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., spearheaded the onslaught of attacks on then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court nomination process — despite scant evidence he had been a sexual perpetrator at any point in his life.
The majority of Harris’ speech was like this: A blend of half-truths packaged in a mini-Obama “hope and change” style. While I expect Republicans and Democrats to differ in their worldview, it’s always unfortunate to see any politician start a campaign with a trove full of misrepresentations — especially when their campaign motto is “Speak truth.”
Nicole Russell (@russell_nm) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog. She is a journalist who previously worked in Republican politics in Minnesota.
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La pelea legal entre el FBI y Apple se hizo pública a mediados de febrero, cuando Apple publicó una carta abierta sobre por qué se negaban a dar curso al requerimiento del FBI.
Tomó varias semanas, órdenes judiciales, contrademandas, pero finalmente el Buró Federal de Investigación de Estados Unidos (FBI, según sus siglas en inglés) logró penetrar el iPhone del atacante de San Bernardino.
“Hemos logrado acceder exitosamente a la información guardada en el iPhone de (Syed) Farook”, señaló el Departamento de Justicia de EE.UU. en la petición en la que pide terminar con el proceso legal que había iniciado contra Apple.
“Ya no requerimos la ayuda de Apple”, aseguró el escrito.
Así puso fin a la pelea de seis semanas desde que el FBI le pidiera a Apple desarrollar una “llave maestra” o “superclave” para acceder a la información contenida en el iPhone de Farook, quien junto a su mujer mató a 14 personas en un tiroteo en San Bernardino, California.
Apple se negó, argumentando que eso vulneraba la privacidad de sus usuarios, ya que una llave maestra puede utilizarse en cualquier dispositivo.
Pero la acción, lejos de finalizar el debate, le echó leña, haciendo surgir una serie de preguntas sobre las herramientas utilizadas y el futuro de la privacidad de los datos contenidos en dispositivos móviles.
¿Cómo accedió el FBI a la información?
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Hay varias teorías sobre cómo el FBI logró quebrantar la seguridad del iPhone.
Hasta el momento, no se saben los detalles técnicos. Y es poco probable que se sepan oficialmente. No hay nada que obligue al FBI a revelar su fórmula.
Lo que se sabe es que lo hizo a través de una “tercera parte”. Es decir, una compañía externa.
En lo que coinciden analistas y miembros de la industria es en que es prácticamente imposible que otra compañía haya podido proveer la llave maestra o “superclave” para vulnerar el sistema de seguridad iOS de Apple.
“Que hayan logrado desencriptar y encriptar (el sistema operativo) es posible pero lo menos probable”, le comenta a BBC Mundo David Gibson, vicepresidente de Estrategia y Desarrollo de Mercados de Varonis.
Lo más probable, según el experto, es que haya sido un “ataque de software”.
Esto a través de una empresa de desbloqueo de información, o lo que en la industria se denomina Análisis Forense de teléfonos celulares.
No es lo mismo que el común “desbloqueo” de un iPhone que puede realizar una empresa telefónica o un proveedor “pirata”. Ese desbloqueo lo que hace es volver el iPhone a su estado original, es decir, borrando toda la información existente.
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Los usuarios de iPhone se han mostrado contrarios a que se cree una “llave maestra” o “superclave” que le permita al FBI acceso a sus dispositivos.
Lo que hacen las empresas de Análisis Forense es “desbloquear” el aparato precisamente para recuperar la información contenida en él.
Según Jerónimo García, director de la consultora en servicios informáticos Sidertia Solutions, la manera más lógica sería es que hayan usado un “exploit” (herramienta de software diseñada para aprovecharse de una falla en un sistema informático) que explote una vulnerabilidad en el gestor de arranque de IOS, iBoot, encargado de cargar el modo de recuperación.
Así, “se podría tomar el control del mismo y por tanto poder evitar la limitación de la contraseña”, le asegura el director a BBC Mundo.
Otra posible forma de desbloquearlo sin perder la información es clonar una “imagen” del teléfono, es decir, una copia física del dispositivo para probar contraseñas incluso cuando se sobrepasa el límite de intentos.
“Obtienes una imagen lógica y vas rastreando con ella”.
Así, al bloquearse el teléfono luego de 10 intentos, se puede “continuar el ataque con alguna de las copias de la imagen”.
¿Quién desafió a Apple y ayudó al FBI?
El FBI no quiso identificar la “tercera parte” que logró acceder a la información y, según lo que le dijo su oficina central de Comunicaciones a BBC Mundo, tampoco lo hará.
Pero todos los ojos están puestos en Cellebrite, una compañía de origen israelí con oficinas en distintas partes del mundo, entre ellas EE.UU., luego de que el periódico israelí Yedioth Ahronoth revelara el miércoles pasado el supuesto vínculo.
Cellebrite le confirmó a la BBC que trabajan con el FBI, pero no quiso dar detalles.
Sin embargo, según los detalles este tendría relación con la “renovación del software UFED para siete máquinas” en Chicago.
BBC Mundo intentó obtener más detalles del contrato, sin embargo hasta el cierre de este artículo el FBI no contestó el requerimiento.
El mismo 21 de marzo el FBI aseguró que trabajaba con una“parte externa”, que había desarrollado una forma de quebrantar la seguridad del iPhone de San Bernardino.
¿Se abrió una caja de Pandora?
La pregunta hoy, aseguran los expertos, no es quién lo hizo, sino si esta es o no una solución definitiva que zanje salomónicamente conflictos como el que ocurrió entre Apple y el FBI, entre el derecho a la privacidad de los datos y la seguridad nacional.
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Según Joel Bollo, director ejecutivo de una de las principales compañías de análisis forense de datos, el principal desafío ahora es crear una opción intermedia, que no sea una llave maestra, pero que permita a las autoridades en casos fundamentados acceder a la información.
“Hoy es Apple, pero podría ser cualquier otro”, le dice a BBC Mundo Joel Bollo, director ejecutivo de la compañía sueca de análisis forense de datos MSAB, una de las principales competidoras de Cellebrite.
“El principal tema ahora es cómo mantener nuestros teléfonos seguros, prevenir la vigilancia masiva y al mismo tiempo cumplir con los requerimientos necesarios para mantener el bien común”, explica Bollo, quien se autodenomina enemigo de la cibervigilancia masiva.
“Tenemos muchos clientes. El FBI es uno de ellos”, explica su director ejecutivo al ser consultado.
La empresa creó un sistema denominado Tecnología de Acceso a Control Forense (FACT, según sus siglas en inglés) que puede ser utilizado en futuros casos como el del iPhone de San Bernardino.
El sistema se vende como una tercera vía para los casos donde, como en San Bernardino, los organismos de inteligencia y seguridad nacional requieran acceso a la información sin tener que crear una “llave maestra” que vulnere la seguridad y la privacidad del resto de los usuarios.
El método utiliza pares distintos de claves para encriptar y desencriptar información. Es decir, además de contar físicamente con el dispositivo hay que tener dos pares de llaves -o claves-: uno generado por la agencia gubernamental que requiere la información y otra por la empresa que hace el dispositivo.
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El FBI argumenta que la información del iPhone de Farook es fundamental para rastrear sus vínculos.
La clave utilizada para cada caso específico que requiera la ley se puede configurar para un número finito (normalmente de 1 a 5) de usos, luego de los cuales queda inválida.
Además, sólo con ambos pares de claves se pueden extraer los datos desde el dispositivo móvil.
¿Se sabrá algún día cómo obtuvo el FBI la información?
Apple anunció que hará todo lo posible para que el FBI revele cómo logró acceder a la información.
Sin embargo, lo más probable es que no pase.
“Es difícil que el FBI haga pública la metodología”, explica García, ya que “es muy probable que la utilicen en futuros casos”.
Probablemente, tampoco revelará oficialmente el nombre de la compañía externa.
La ley en EE.UU. permite a las autoridades retener la fuente de información si se les suministra de forma confidencial, y proteger las metodologías de recolección de datos sensibles de inteligencia.
¿Cómo evitar que tu iPhone sea vigilado?
Lo primero que hay que tener claro es que no hay tecnología a prueba de fallos.
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“Es poco realista pensar que un aparato que guarda información, ya sea un celular inteligente u otro, es infranqueable”, asegura David Gibson, de Varonis Systems. Ni siquiera los de Steve Jobs (en la foto).
“Es poco realista pensar que un aparato que guarda información, ya sea un celular inteligente u otro, es infranqueable”, asegura Gibson.
Sin embargo, que un tercero haya desarrollado una metodología que aproveche una debilidad “abrirá un debate nada agradable para Apple”, asegura García.
Una de las grandes ventajas que Apple explota en términos de marketing es la de la seguridad en privacidad de sus dispositivos.
“Si el FBI ha aprovechado algún fallo en el hardware del dispositivo, el problema para Apple es altamente complejo ya que obligaría al cambio de dispositivo, o a que los usuarios asumieran el riesgo”, comenta García.
“En el caso de que el fallo fuera lógico, si es identificado por Apple, tal y como en otras tantas ocasiones, una nueva versión de iOS solventaría el problema“.
Es lo que hace Apple cada vez que detecta una metodología para desafiar la seguridad de su sistema operativo.
La última actualización del iOS fue lanzada por Apple fue el 21 de marzo.
São Paulo – Oil barrel prices have bottomed out to their lowest in two years this week due to heightened supply and weak demand. The industry expects prices to remain around US$ 85 per barrel of the Brent Crude oil type (traded on the London Stock Exchange) for the next few months. If the trend bears out, major oil companies will have to revise their investment and debt plans. Even major global producing and exporting countries will need to cut down their spending.
According to the global news director at New York’s commodities consulting firm Platts, John Kingston, oil prices are bearish because the world economy is in “big trouble” and recovering slowly. Conversely, production and supply are on the way up.
“Demand is sluggish and growth is very slow around the world, which is still depending on the recovery of the United States’ economy,” Kingston told ANBA.
The director of the Brazilian Infrastructure Centre (CBIE), Adriano Pires also believes the world economy is recovering very slowly. He remarks that recent conflicts in Middle East countries like Palestine and Syria, coupled with the Ukrainian crisis, had postponed the price drop. Besides, the United States’ output is strong right now and investment projects rolled out over the past few years are beginning to bear fruit, causing exploration to increase.
Pires notes, however, that the commodity’s price has ups and downs. It peaked in 1973 and 1989, and plummeted in 1986 and throughout the 1990s. In 2008, however, oil sold for as much as US$ 140. By October 15th, 2012, the Brent barrel was selling for US$ 115.07. A year later, it cost US$ 110.86. This Thursday (16th), it closed at US$ 86.12.
Prices may keep falling, but not much further. Pires expects them to remain close to US$ 80. They may even increase slightly in the days leading up to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) meeting scheduled for late November. Countries like Venezuela and Libya want to reign in output so prices will rise, driving up revenues. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, for their part, would rather wait longer before slowing the output down.
The impact will likely not be as strongly felt by the United States. The country is producing oil domestically through unconventional gas extraction, thus reducing its dependence on imports and their influence on the country. Extraction of this type of gas and oil costs more, but Kingston claims some producers can “withstand” prices as low as US$ 70. “It all depends on the extraction technology and the productivity it affords,” he says.
The effects on Brazil
Low oil prices may influence the Brazilian federal government and Petrobras’ decisions in the short, medium and long run. According to Pires, plummeting oil prices relieve pressure on the government to raise fuel prices, which have been kept lower than they should be in order to curb rising inflation.
On the one hand, lower prices will also drive down costs for Petrobras. The downside is they should weigh down on the state-owned company’s revenues. “These prices will cut losses for Petrobras, but they will also jeopardize its investments, because the company is working with a price estimate of US$ 100 until 2018, and then with US$ 95. If this scenario persists, then Petrobras and other oil companies will have to reformulate their investment strategies,” he asserts.
HANOI (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Thursday he would not be in Vietnam meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump if he was not prepared to pursue the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
In answers to reporters’ questions during his meeting with Trump, Kim also said he would welcome the idea of putting a U.S. liaison office in the North’s capital, Pyongyang.
Reporting by Jeff Mason, writing by Jack Kim; Editing by Lincoln Feast
The parents charged in the murder of their 5-year-old son, Andrew “AJ” Freund, allegedly forced the little boy to stay in a cold shower “for an extended period of time” and may have “struck” him, according to court documents.
AJ’s parents, Andrew “Drew” Freund Sr. and JoAnn Cunningham, have been charged with his murder, police said.
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Andrew Freund Sr. in a police booking photo.
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JoAnn Cunningham in a police booking photo.
AJ, of Crystal Lake, Illinois, was reported missing on April 18, prompting a massive, week-long search. The deadly assault occurred on or about April 15, according to court documents.
AJ’s parents ultimately provided information that led investigators to a body believed to be that of the little boy, Crystal Lake Police Chief Jim Black said at a news conference on Wednesday.
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This undated photo provided by the Crystal Lake, Ill., Police Department shows Andrew “AJ” Freund.
Mourners gather for a vigil outside the home of five-year-old Andrew “A.J.” Freund on April 24, 2019 in Crystal Lake, Ill.
Cunningham, 35, was charged with five counts of first-degree murder; four counts of aggravated battery; two counts of aggravated domestic battery; and one count of failure to report a missing or child death.
Freund, 60, was charged with five counts of first-degree murder; two counts of aggravated battery; one count of aggravated domestic battery; two counts of concealment of homicidal death; and one count of failure to report a missing or child death.
Both are due to be arraigned on Monday.
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In this Wednesday, April 24, 2019 photo, community members in Crystal lake, Ill. hold a vigil in memory of 5-year-old Andrew “AJ” Freund.
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In this Wednesday, April 24, 2019 photo, community members in Crystal lake, Ill., hold a vigil in memory of 5-year-old Andrew “AJ” Freund.
During the search for AJ, his younger brother was placed in a different home under a Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) safety plan, a DCFS spokesman told ABC News earlier this week.
DCFS has been in contact with AJ’s family since AJ was born with opiates in his system in October 2013, DCFS officials said.
In November 2013, AJ was taken into protective custody and placed in foster care, DCFS officials said. AJ was returned to his home in June 2015, according to the agency.
In March 2018, DCFS officials investigated allegations of neglect by AJ’s parents; the allegations were unfounded, according to DCFS.
The last contact between DCFS and the family was in December 2018, after Cunningham called the cops to report that AJ’s father stole her cellphone and medication. Responding officers found a bruise on one of the children, but were “unable to make a determination of abuse,” and released the kids back to the parents, according to police reports. Child protection staffers investigated the allegations of abuse and neglect, but the allegations were unfounded, a DCFS spokesman said.
The news of AJ’s death is “heartbreaking,” Marc Smith, acting director of Illinois DCFS, said in a statement Wednesday.
“Our priority is the care and safety of Andrew’s younger sibling,” Smith said. “The Department is committed to conducting a comprehensive review of the entirety of our work with Andrew’s family to understand our shortcomings and to be fully transparent with the public on any steps we are taking to address the issues.”
ABC News’ Whitney Lloyd contributed to this report.
A day ago, Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax looked like he might survive politically. Now, his odds look much weaker.
Until today, Fairfax faced one compelling, but not contemporaneously corroborated, allegation of sexual assault from Vanessa Tyson, a liberal feminist professor whom he met at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
Given that he was sandwiched in the gubernatorial succession between two separate Democrats accused of wearing blackface, he might have survived. For the better part of a week, it’s been a three-way stalemate among a governor publicly lambasted by the entire Democratic party, his almost equally aggrieved third-in-line state attorney general, and Fairfax, on whom Democrats have largely maintained radio silence. After all, thought many Democrats, why stand up for the black feminist professor levying a serious assault allegation against the black lieutenant governor when they could stick it to the boring old white men instead?
Well, silence won’t suffice much longer. A second woman, Meredith Watson, has come forward with an allegation that Fairfax raped her in a “premeditated and aggressive assault” when they were both classmates at Duke University. The possible death knell for Fairfax’s political (and maybe legal) fate? Watson told people of the incident at the time, and they have now gone on the record to confirm that not only did she allege rape back then, but that she specifically named Fairfax.
Earlier this week, I deemed Tyson’s allegation credible — due to the undisputed fact that she and Fairfax did have an encounter of some sort at the time and place she alleges — but not yet reaching the preponderance of the evidence. After all, she didn’t tell anyone about her assault until 2017, and the press hadn’t interviewed any of them to determine whether her story was consistent.
Watson’s allegation, on the contrary, is about as watertight as two-decade-old account can be without an actual rape kit or video evidence. Barring the emergence of any extraordinary exculpatory information, Watson’s allegation, especially combined with Tyson’s, probably fulfills the standard of “preponderance of the evidence.”
To the untrained eye, Fairfax now looks more likely to have raped at least one woman, and maybe two. He’s not qualified for the governor’s mansion, let alone civil society. It’s time for him to resign, and far past time for Democrats to start standing up for women, not just when it’s politically expedient for them to do so.
Thirty-five House Republicans on Wednesday voted in favor of a bill to establish a commission to investigate the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
Former President Donald Trump this week urged Republican lawmakers to oppose it, saying in a statement: “Republicans must get much tougher and much smarter, and stop being used by the Radical Left.”
The result underscores the ongoing division within the GOP over Trump’s role in and influence over the party’s direction, with many Republicans who had criticized the former president for his role in the events of January 6 — including Rep. Liz Cheney — breaking ranks to vote in favor of establishing a commission.
The bill passed by a vote of 252-175 and was opposed by GOP leadership, Insider’s Grace Panetta and Charles Davis reported.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke out against the bill, saying the commission “does not examine interrelated forms of political violence in America,” and House Republican leadership on Tuesday also tried to pressure GOP lawmakers to vote against it, Punchbowl News reported.
The 35 House Republicans who broke ranks to vote in favor of the bill, GovTrack.us showed:
French Hill, Arkansas
Steve Womack, Arkansas
David Valadao, California
Carlos Gimenez, Florida
Maria Salazar, Florida
Mike Simpson, Idaho
Rodney Davis, Illinois
Adam Kinzinger, Illinois
Trey Hollingsworth, Indiana
Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Iowa
Meijer Peter, Michigan
Fred Upton, Michigan
Michael Guest, Mississippi
Jeff Fortenberry, Nebraska
Don Bacon, Nebraska
Chris Smith, New Jersey
Andrew Garbarino, New York
Tom Reed, New York
John Katko, New York
Chris Jacobs, New York
David Joyce, Ohio
Anthony Gonzalez, Ohio
Stephanie Bice, Oklahoma
Cliff Bentz, Oregon
Brian Fitzpatrick, Pennsylvania
Tom Rice, South Carolina
Dusty Johnson, South Dakota
Van Taylor, Texas
Tony Gonzales, Texas
Blake Moore, Utah
John Curtis, Utah
Jaime Herrera Beutler, Washington
Dan Newhouse, Washington
David McKinley, West Virginia
Liz Cheney, Wyoming
“I’m happy to put a light on all the facts and timelines,” said Rep. Don Bacon, ABC News reported, before his vote in favor of the bill. The list was first reported by CNN.
The bill is meant to establish a 10-member bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 riot and publish a report by December 31 with “findings regarding the facts and causes of the attack.” Five members are expected to be chosen by Democratic leaders in the House and five members are expected to be chosen by GOP leaders.
Newly released bodycam video shows a black man being stunned, dragged and punched by Louisiana state troopers before he died in custody following a high-speed chase.
“I’m your brother! I’m scared! I’m scared!” Ronald Greene, 49, can be heard telling the white officers as he was zapped with a stun gun after failing to pull over for an unspecified traffic violation outside of Monroe.
Footage of the arrest on May 10, 2019, was obtained by the Associated Press after authorities refused to release it for two years.
In the full 46-minute clip, one trooper can be seen wrestling the unarmed Greene to the ground, putting him in a chokehold and punching him in the face while another can be heard calling him a “stupid motherf——.”
“I’m sorry!” Greene can be heard wailing as another trooper uses a stun gun on his backside and warns, “Look, you’re going to get it again if you don’t put your f—king hands behind your back!”
The footage also shows Greene briefly being dragged facedown by another trooper after his legs had been shackled and his hands cuffed behind him.
An officer seen dragging Ronald Greene after his arrest.Louisiana State Police via APThis image from video from Louisiana State Trooper Dakota DeMoss’ body-worn camera shows troopers holding up Ronald Greene before paramedics arrived on May 10, 2019, outside Monroe, Louisiana.Louisiana State Police via APTroopers holding Ronald Greene before paramedics arrived.Louisiana State Police via APAn officer pushing Ronald Greene down on the ground with his foot.Louisiana State Police via AP
He is then left unattended, facedown and moaning for more than nine minutes, as the troopers used sanitizer wipes to get the blood off their hands and faces, video shows.
“I hope this guy ain’t got f—king AIDS,” one of the troopers can be heard saying.
Several minutes later, Greene is seen limp, unresponsive and bleeding from his head and face.
It’s unclear what exactly caused Greene’s death, but the case has drawn backlash — after authorities initially said Greene died when he crashed his vehicle into a tree.
His family has also filed a federal wrongful-death lawsuit alleging troopers “brutalized” him and “left him beaten, bloodied and in cardiac arrest.”
Greene’s mother, Mona Hardin, on Wednesday blasted the troopers.
“They murdered him. It was set out, it was planned,” she said. “He didn’t have a chance. Ronnie didn’t have a chance. He wasn’t going to live to tell about it.”
Lee Merritt, an attorney representing Greene’s family, said the footage “has some of the same hallmarks of the George Floyd video, the length of it, the sheer brutality of it.”
“He apologized in an attempt to surrender,” Merritt said.
Family members of Ronald Greene listen to speakers as demonstrators gather in Washington, DC, on Aug. 28, 2020.Michael M. Santiago/Pool via APLouisiana Master Trooper Kory York was suspended without pay for kicking and dragging Ronald Greene (pictured).Courtesy of the Greene family via APMona Hardin (center left at podium), mother of Ronald Greene, speaks at a news conference outside the Louisiana Capitol.AP Photo/Dorthy Ray
Louisiana State Police declined to comment on the footage, saying the “premature public release of investigative files and video evidence in this case is not authorized and … undermines the investigative process and compromises the fair and impartial outcome.”
The bodies of 10 people have been recovered after an oceanfront condominium building suddenly buckled and collapsed on Thursday, June 24, in Surfside, Florida.
Workers continued, in relentless 12-hour shifts, sifting through the rubble and listening for signs of life in the search for possible survivors. As the search for survivors continues, authorities have begun to release the identities of the deceased.
The first victim to be identified; her 15-year-old son was pulled alive from the wreckage
Stacie Fang, 54, was the vice president of Customer Relationship Management Conference, a company that produces an annual event in Chicago for customer relationship management retail and marketing executives. She had worked at the Surfside-based firm for 12 years.
A spokesperson for the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner Department told the New York Times that Fang had been pulled from the wreckage of the condo and taken to Aventura Hospital and Medical Center, where she was later pronounced dead of blunt force trauma.
Fang’s teen son is a sophomore, junior-varsity baseball player at a local high school, according to Miami’s WSVN. The boy was rescued by a man who was walking his dog near the building at the time of the collapse.
The couple would have celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary in July
Antonio, 83, and Gladys, 79, lived in unit 903 in the South tower. The couple was among a group of older Cubans who lived in the condo complex.
Their son, Sergio Lozano, said if there’s any solace in their deaths, it’s in knowing the two “went together and went quickly.”
Sergio was able to have dinner with his parents just hours before the collapse Thursday morning. He lives in the Champlain Towers sister condo building across the way and could see his parents’ place from his balcony.
The couple is survived by their sons, Sergio and Antonio Jr., grandson Brian and other family members.
The father of two said he wanted his life to mean something
Manuel LaFont, 54, once told a reporter, “When I die, I want to say that my life meant something. I want to help people. I want to do something good in this world.”
LaFont grew up in Houston before moving to South Florida. He owned condo unit 801 and was hailed as a devoted father, a coach and a business consultant, according to the Miami Herald.
LaFont’s ex-wife said on social media she had picked up their two children, Mia, 13, and Santi, 10, at Champlain Towers only hours before the collapse.
According to the Miami Herald, Manny LaFont could often be found on the baseball diamond, playing with his son, whose team — The Astros at North Shore Park — he coached. Together, they shared a passion for the game. He told Adriana he planned to take Santi fishing soon.
LaFont worked at Lindsay Transportation Solutions, where he led a roadway safety division. He also was a parishioner at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Miami Beach.
El autogolpe del 5 de abril de 1992 llegó a las portadas de medios internacionales como The New York Times de EE.UU. o El País de España.
Este miércoles se cumplieron 25 años del autogolpe de Estado de Alberto Fujimori del domingo 5 de abril de 1992. Esa noche, el Gobierno desplegó a las Fuerzas Armadas para tomar control del Congreso, el Poder Judicial y también intervino medios de comunicación. La noticia llegó a la prensa de España, Estados Unidos y otros países de Latinoamérica.
El País informó sobre el autogolpe en su portada dos días después, el 7 de abril. “Fujimori suprime la democracia en Perú por decreto y con apoyo militar. El golpe institucional convierte al presidente en un dictador civil”, tituló el diario español. El medio europeo también destacó que su entonces corresponsal en Lima, Gustavo Gorriti, fue detenido.
La cadena Univisión fue una de las pocas que grabó imágenes de lo ocurrido en las calles de Lima durante el autogolpe. | Fuente: Univisión / YouTube Esteban Valle Riestra
“Democracia suspendida”. El mismo 7 de abril, The New York Times informó sobre el autogolpe con los títulos “Perú suspende la democracia citando una revuelta” y “Tropas rodean el Congreso y patrullan Lima”. Clarín también le dedicó su portada con tres titulares: “Fujimori arrestó a los principales políticos”, “EE.UU. corta la ayuda militar y política” y “El Parlamento anunció la destitución del presidente”.
Según imágenes compartidas por La República, dos medios chilenos informaron el 6 de abril y en primera plana sobre el golpe de Alberto Fujimori. La Tercera enfocó la noticia por el rechazo internacional a lo ocurrido: “Fujimori se adueña del Perú. El mundo condena ‘golpe karateca'”. La Época tituló “Dictadura civil impone Fujimori”
El 5 de abril de 1992, Fujimori anunció la instalación de un “Gobierno de Emergencia y Reconstrucción Nacional”, que implicó la disolución del Congreso y la intervención del Poder Judicial. El Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura, el Tribunal Constitucional, el Ministerio Público y la Contraloría también fueron reorganizadas. El evento se recuerda como un autogolpe de Estado.
Según Fujimori, la decisión era justificada: con la toma y posterior reforma de las instituciones, se recuperaría la gobernabilidad y se superaría la crisis económica del momento. Además, se combatiría de manera más efectiva el terrorismo. La radical medida, apoyada por el 82% de la población, permitió la detención de opositores y la intervención de medios de comunicación.
Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul — who will take over for Gov. Andrew Cuomo early Tuesday — was working with Long Island officials Saturday as Hurricane Henri loomed, her office said.
“She is on Long Island today and toured areas and discussed storm prep plans with local officials in Southampton,” spokeswoman Haley Viccaro said in an email. “The lieutenant governor is also actively involved in the communications and response.”
Hochul tweeted that she also took part in a call with President Biden, Cuomo and Northeastern governors about federal storm prep. “President stressed full federal government cooperation & commitment. @RedCross & @fema are offering their assistance,” she said.
Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul spent the day on Long Island as officials prepare for Hurricane Henri.Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Viccaro said Hochul was coordinating with state and federal agencies to assist and manage the response to the storm.
“She continues to be on the Island and will be involved in the recovery effort moving forward,” Viccaro said.
Three days before he steps down amid a sexual abuse scandal, Cuomo defensively dismissed a question about Hochul’s role in preparing for the first hurricane to target Long Island since 1985 during an afternoon press conference on the storm in which he announced a state of emergency declaration.
“I am the governor today and I am in charge,” Cuomo said.
People fill up on gas at a gas station on August 21, 2021 in Westhampton, New York ahead of Hurricane Henri.Stephanie Keith/Getty ImagesA boat is driven to higher ground in Hampton Bays, New York in preparation for Hurricane Henri’s landfall.Stephanie Keith/Getty Images
The Mason-Dixon poll found that Biden was the only candidate with a positive favorability rating: 45 percent favorable to 41 unfavorable. Trump was underwater, at 46 percent favorable and 47 percent unfavorable.
In a hypothetical head-to-head match-up, Trump leads Biden by 10 points among men but trails the former vice president by the same amount among women.
Biden garnered 92 percent support among black voters and 61 percent among Hispanics. Trump leads with white voters by a 58-33 margin over Biden.
The Mason-Dixon survey of 625 registered voters in Florida was conducted Dec. 11–16.
The Caldor Fire isn’t the only thing running wild through California.
Video from an evacuated Lake Tahoe tourist city showed dumpster-diving bears and other wild critters making the most of deserted streets — as the wildfire raged just miles away.
The town would usually be full of summer visitors.RMG News
The animals were filmed Tuesday as they casually meandered through the mostly empty South Lake Tahoe, a resort city that would usually be bustling with summer tourists.
The bears nonchalantly rummaged through dumpsters, scattering food around them, and calmly crossed empty streets, with coyotes also seen strolling about.
A coyote roams free in Lake Tahoe.RMG News
That afternoon, Cal Fire Battalion Chief Henry Herrera had told KGO-TV that the Caldor Fire was just 3 miles outside of South Lake Tahoe, which had been evacuated Monday, at least of its human occupants.
Roughly 22,000 residents had jammed the city’s main artery for hours after they were ordered to leave, with officials saying only a handful of residents defied the evacuation order.
Two firefighters create a fuel break as the Caldor Fire burns near homes in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.AP
By Wednesday, thick smoke had enveloped the city as firefighters scrambled to keep the wildfire at bay amid low humidity, dry fuel and gusts up to 30 mph.
With Post wires
The bears nonchalantly rummaged through dumpsters, scattering food around them, and calmly crossed empty streets.RMG News
Esta revista habló con Claudio Minnicelli -hoy acusado de integrar la mafia de la Aduana- en los comienzos de la era K, cuando ya pesaban serias sospechas sobre él.
Claudio “El Mono” Minnicelli es el polémico cuñado de De Vido y no suele hablar con los medios. Hoy está prófugo, acusado de integrar la llamada mafia de la Aduana. Pero en los albores del kirchnerismo, allá por el 2003, ya pesaban sospechas sobre él. El miércoles 1 de octubre de ese año, este periodista de NOTICIAS lo llamó a su celular. El diálogo fue imperdible.
Noticias: ¿Es cierto que trabaja como asesor en la Secretaría de Transporte de Ricardo Jaime?
Minnicelli: ¿Qué? Mentira, yo nunca trabajé para el Estado. ¿De dónde sacaste eso?
Noticias: Llamé a la secretaría, me dieron su celular y me aseguraron que trabaja ahí.
Minnicelli: Es mentira. Yo soy amigo del secretario Jaime, pero no trabajo con él. Tengo mis negocios en Río Gallegos, una radio, la productora…
Noticias: ¿Está viviendo en una casa del country Los Lagartos?
Minnicelli: Sí. Y no es de la hija de un directivo del grupo Meller, mentira. Me la alquila una señora de setenta y pico, y pago 1.600 pesos. Pero inventan esas cosas para perjudicarlo a mi cuñado.
Noticias: ¿Es verdad que su productora de Río Gallegos tiene 24 causas de la AFIP por deudas impagas?
Minnicelli: No, no hay nada. ¿Cómo puede haber algo si hace más de un año estamos en convocatoria de acreedores?
Noticias: Bueno, estas son causas del ’97, del ’98, del 2000, del 2001. Si quiere se las leo.
Minnicelli: (Sorprendido.) Bueno… Eso es cuando la AFIP te intima y te manda un papel… Son intimaciones.
Noticias: ¿Usted maneja un Mercedes Benz en Buenos Aires?
Minnicelli: No… no lo tengo más. ¿Qué tiene de malo? Si es por eso, también tuve una agencia de autos y nueve camionetas.
Noticias: ¿Estuvo preso por tenencia de drogas en 1990?
Minnicelli: Sí, pero no por tenencia… Además me sobreseyeron.
Noticias: ¿Cuánto tiempo estuvo preso?
Minnicelli: Estuve cuarenta días.
En este punto, Minnicelli tiene razón: no fue detenido por tenencia. Según la crónica del diario santacruceño La Opinión Austral, del 3 de noviembre de 1990, fue por el delito de “comercio de estupefaciente” y junto con siete personas más.
Noticias: También hubo una denuncia por evasión de impuestos en su contra.
Minnicelli: Bueno, pero eso está totalmente terminado. ¿Sabés quién me la inició? Pérez Rasetti (Carlos), que fue un profesor mío en la secundaria. La política es muy miserable.
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