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Screaming ‘Karen’ attacks Native Americans staging a protest against Trump’s border wall – and then mocks them when they refuse to fight back and start praying to their ancestors

  • Group of Southern California Native Americans were attacked by irate woman
  • She is filmed shouting at the group and hurling xenophobic remarks at them  
  • The peaceful protesters respond in a non-violent manner and attempt to restrain the woman 

A screaming ‘Karen’ was filmed attacking a group of Native Americans opposing the Mexico border wall construction. 

The unnamed woman then mocks them when they refuse to fight back and start praying to their ancestors.  

Video footage shows the woman pushing and shoving the Southern California Native Americans, who are part of a group called Defend Kumeyaay Land. 

They had gathered at the site of the wall in San Diego County, California, to peacefully protest against the construction of the Mexico border wall.

The maskless woman shouts at the group, telling them to ‘get the f*** out of here’ and saying they are ‘disturbing the job

She hurls xenophobic remarks at them, telling them the land is hers and not theirs, but the protesters refuse to engage in a fight with her

‘You’re being recorded,’ one of the group members tells the irate woman in the video

The maskless woman shouts at the group, telling them to ‘get the f*** out of here’ and saying they are ‘disturbing the job’ of constructing Trump’s border wall.

She hurls xenophobic remarks at them, telling them the land is hers and not theirs, but the protesters refuse to engage in a fight with her. 

Kumeyaay land lies between San Diego and Baja California in Mexico. 

According to an Instagram post written by the group, the woman had also tried to tear down their tent. 

‘You’re being recorded,’ one of the group members tells the irate woman in the video. She replies ‘I don’t give a f***,’ as she lunges at the person recording the scene.  

The peaceful protesters respond in a non-violent manner and attempt to restrain the woman. 

Later in the footage, as the group begin praying to their ancestors and singing and chanting, the Trump supporter appears to mock them by hopping around and mimicking their Native American dance rituals. 

The peaceful protesters respond in a non-violent manner and attempt to restrain the woman

Later in the footage, as the group begin singing and chanting, the Trump supporter appears to mock them

The protest group describe themselves as a ‘small indigenous initiative that is rooted in prayer’ . 

They say they are protesting against the border wall construction on behalf of ‘the land and indigenous sovereignty’. 

The caption of the Instagram post reads: ‘Tonight we experienced a violent woman who tried to tear our tents down. We de-escalated and stayed non-violent. 

‘We used songs and prayers again just like how we non violently stop desecration to the land.’ 

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¿Verdad o mentira?

Todas falsas, pero que muchos creyeron y compartieron en su momento vía Facebook,Twitter, WhatsApp, blogs o por cualquier otra vía digital.

Si durante 2016 estas y otras centenares de “noticias” cobraron protagonismo, el bombardeo de mentiras, exageraciones, desinformación y calumnias que vienen para 2017 será abrumador, esto debido al lucrativo negocio que genera para muchos la creación de contenidos digitales falsos, al acceso global a la internet y a los 1,650 millones de usuarios activos por mes en Facebook, quienes usan esta red como una, o quizás, la principal fuente de noticias.

Según una encuesta de Ipsos, el 75 por ciento de los estadounidenses considera ciertas las noticias falsas que lee en internet. La encuesta realizada a casi 3,000 personas en el país muestra además que quienes consideran a Facebook como una fuente importante de noticias son más propensos a creer que los titulares falsos que lee son reales.

Millones de personas ya han caído en los hoax o noticias falsas, incluso, se ha llegado a decir que los contenidos falsos difundidos en las redes sociales fueron decisivos en los resultados de eventos trascendentales como el Brexit, el plebiscito en Colombia y las elecciones en Estados Unidos.

El 75% de los estadounidenses considera ciertas las noticias falsas que lee en Internet, según una encuesta de Ipsos

Para que en este 2017 no sea víctima de las mentiras en Internet, tenga en cuenta estas claves y herramientas que le ayudarán a detectar entre lo real y lo ficticio en medio de la avalancha de contenidos que surgirán durante el próximo año.

Le preguntamos a Mauricio Jaramillo, periodista en tecnología y consultor digital sobre las claves para no caer en un hoax y las siguientes son sus recomendaciones:

Señales de alerta de que una noticia es falsa:

▪  Parece increíble.

▪  La noticia no presenta fuentes o usa fuentes poco confiables. (Si usa fuentes confiables, se puede ir directamente a ellas para confirmar).

▪  Los datos en la noticia son vagos o incompletos (lugar, fecha, nombres de personas u organizaciones, etc.).

¿Qué hacer como usuarios para no caer en un ‘hoax’ o noticia falsa?

▪  Siempre desconfiar de lo que leemos o vemos. Ya sea de una cuenta desconocida, de una de baja reputación o incluso de la fuente más creíble.

▪  Desconfiar implica contrastar, verificar, buscar otras fuentes. ¿Cómo? “Googlear” las palabras clave de la noticia falsa, para ver si se ha publicado en medios de comunicación u organizaciones confiables.

Si hay pocos resultados, o estos son de sitios web y medios de poca reputación, esto casi confirma que es un hoax. Si hay muchos resultados y de medios respetados, aumentan las posibilidades de que sea una noticia real, pero no sobra buscar la fuente primaria, pues estos también pueden haber sido engañados.

Usar búsquedas avanzadas de Google

En redes sociales, buscar qué publican los periodistas y líderes de opinión sobre esas noticias sobre las que se desconfía de su veracidad. (Es posible que ellos caigan en una noticia falsa, pero lo más probable es que las ignoren o las desmientan).

Si no se está totalmente seguro de la veracidad de una noticia, no se debe compartir. Hacerlo pone en entredicho la credibilidad de la persona que lo hace.

Por último, Jaramillo recomienda que si en Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp u otras plataformas los amigos y demás contactos difunden una noticia falsa, conviene corregirlos y “educarlos” sobre la importancia de verificar la veracidad de las noticias que se comparten.

¿Y qué hacer con las noticias en Facebook ?

Recientemente Facebook añadió una nueva alerta que, en colaboración con los usuarios, busca detectar las noticias falsas que se difunden en esta red social. Funciona en dos pasos:

1. Reporte del usuario Cada vez que el usuario vea noticias que considera que podrían ser engañosas las puede reportar haciendo click en el extremo superior derecho de la publicación . Un equipo de Facebook revisará si esta publicación viene de medios reales o de webs que intentan dar la impresión de serlo (por ejemplo, bbc.co en lugar de bbc.com).

2. Identificación y evaluación: Si la noticia procede de un medio real, pero el contenido es dudoso, Facebook remitirá la información a sus organizaciones aliadas como Snopes, Factcheck.org y Politifact, además de algunos medios como ABC News y la agencia de noticias AP, que comprobarán si se trata o no de una noticia falsa. Si al menos dos de estos medios aliados dudan de la veracidad de la información, las historias aparecerán marcadas como “cuestionadas”.

¿Cómo filtrar la información en Google ?

Google también cuenta con su propio sistema de verificación de hechos, la etiqueta Fact Check permitirá a los usuarios contrastar con Google News si el artículo que está leyendo es veraz, accediendo a bases de datos de la organización Schema.org. Para saber que una noticia es Fact check o “hecho comprobado”, esta contará con una etiqueta gris hacia el lado superior derecho. Su presencia indicará que ha superado una serie de filtros y que se trata de información real y fiable.

La herramienta filtrará el acceso a fuentes primarias, la transparencia a la hora de obtenerlas, una redacción imparcial, referencias, datos verificados y hasta el título.

Hoaxy, una plataforma para detectar noticias falsas

Aunque actualmente está en una versión preliminar (beta), la plataforma genera un listado con cerca de 132 resultados sobre los principales sitios que se dedican a difundir noticias falsas. Cualquier persona puede ingresar a la página, introducir un tema y obtendrá resultados inmediatos. Rumores, noticias falsas y teorías de la conspiración son los principales objetivos de Hoaxy. La herramienta está siendo desarrollada por expertos de la Universidad de Indiana.

Detectores de mentiras

Snopes, es una de las herramientas disponibles para detectar contenidos falsos en la red, y una de las organizaciones aliadas de Facebook en su lucha contra la difusión de noticias falsas. Si hay alguna información que te genera desconfianza, puedes indagar sobre su veracidad con esta plataforma cuyo propósito es desenmascarar engaños o rumores que hay en la Red.

FactCheck, las noticias falsas pueden camuflarse bajo “medias-verdades” que distorsionan la realidad. Fact Check es otro verificador de hechos del Centro de Políticas Públicas Annenberg de la Universidad de Pensilvania. Su objetivo consiste en reducir el nivel de decepción y confusión de las personas sobre la política de Estados Unidos.

Otros sitios que se dedican a desenmarcarar mentiras virtuales PolitiFact.com, del diario Tampa Bay Times, ganador de un Premio Pulitzer, y el Washington Post cuenta con su propio Fact Checker como una guía para detectar noticias falsas.

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The Oakland County Sheriff said three students were killed and eight others have been hurt when someone started shooting inside Oxford High School on Tuesday.

According to Oakland County Undersheriff Michael McCabe, three students were killed in the shooting and there were at least eight other victims including a teacher. The sheriff also said that the suspect is a 15-year-old sophomore at the school and has invoked his right to remain silent.

McCabe said the first of more than 100 calls came into 911 at 12:51 p.m. to a report of a shooting. Deputies immediately responded to the scene and took the suspect into custody but not until after he shot 10 people, killing three.

The suspect did not resist officers when they arrived. McCabe said he asked for an attorney and would offer no details regarding a possible motive.

RELATED: 15-year-old suspect arrested in Oxford High School shooting; 3 dead, 6 injured

Around 2:00 p.m., medical helicopters including the University of Michigan’s Survival Flight had landed in the parking lot of the school as a secondary search was being conducted around the perimeter of the school.

Isabel Flores, a 15-year-old freshman, was inside the school when the gunshots were fired. She told FOX 2’s Charlie Langton they heard gunshots and saw another student bleeding from the face before they all ran from the area through the back of the school. 

Another student we spoke with, identified only as Savannah, said that the school conducts mass shooting training and they knew what to do.

After the lockdown was lifted, students from the high school were sent to the Meijer parking lot across the street from the school.

A parent sitting in a car told FOX 2 that his student inside had to barricade inside a classroom when they heard the gunshots being fired inside the school. He said his son was not physically hurt.

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According to an alert sent out to Oxford parents, an active emergency was reported at the school around 1 p.m. and it has gone into emergency protocols and put the school into lockdown. 

By 2 p.m., students were being released and dozens of ambulances and emergency personnel arrived at the scene.

The alert sent to parents urged them not to come to the school at this time.

There are multiple units on the scene including SWAT and the aviation unit and the sheriff said the scene is still active.

Oxford is a village population of just under 3,400 about 30 miles north of Detroit.

Source Article from https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/oxford-high-school-locked-down-due-to-active-emergency-oakland-county-sheriff-on-scene

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Como si fuera un espectáculo de ilusionismo orquestado por la naturaleza, las ruinas de una imponente iglesia del siglo XVI emergieron del río Grijalva en el estado de Chiapas, en el sur de México.

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El tempo de Santiago se hizo visible días atrás por la bajada de 25 metros de las aguas, causada por una persistente sequía.

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No es la primera vez que el templo vuelve a emerger de entre las aguas.

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Hace unos 12 años el nivel del río bajó tanto que hasta era posible caminar por el interior de la iglesia.

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Según los expertos, la fortaleza económica que está demostrando el portal de arriendo de viviendas privadas la convertirá en la primera compañía de economía colaborativa en convertirse en un éxito financiero, superando incluso a Uber, otra de las más populares del mundo.

A pesar de las proyecciones de crecimiento, la compañía todavía enfrenta varios inconvenientes, especialmente en lo que se refiera a regulación en los diferentes mercados en los que opera. (El Mercurio / GDA)

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Bill Taylor testified that President Trump had directly asked about a Ukrainian investigation into Joe Biden

Acting US Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, whose testimony helped build the case for impeaching Donald Trump, is to leave his post next month.

Mr Taylor will step down in January when his temporary appointment is due to expire, the New York Times reported.

His tenure could have been extended by the Republican-controlled Senate but no such move has been made.

Mr Taylor took up the post in June after Mr Trump controversially withdrew the then ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch.

Ms Yovanovitch has said she was the victim of a smear campaign by Mr Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.

A replacement for Mr Taylor has not yet been announced.

News of his departure was met with concern by Senator Robert Menendez, the most senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

He said he feared it would create a vacuum in Ukraine, which is still grappling with Russian-backed separatists.

In his testimony before the impeachment inquiry last month, Mr Taylor said that a member of his staff overheard a telephone call in which President Trump inquired about “the investigations” into Mr Biden.

Media captionTrump could be impeached – how did we get here?

The call was with Gordon Sondland, US ambassador to the European Union, who reportedly told the president over the phone from a restaurant in Kyiv that “the Ukrainians were ready to move forward”.

After the call, the staff member “asked Mr Sondland what President Trump thought about Ukraine”, Mr Taylor said.

Mr Taylor said: “Ambassador Sondland responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden.”

President Trump is accused of withholding US military aid to Ukraine in order to pressure the country’s president to publicly announce a corruption inquiry into Mr Biden. He denies any wrongdoing and has described the impeachment inquiry as a “witch hunt”.

A majority of House Democrats are expected to vote to impeach Mr Trump on Wednesday.

Source Article from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50831743

Senate and House Democrats have different strategies over how to limit President TrumpDonald John TrumpIran says it ‘unintentionally’ shot down Ukrainian plane Puerto Rico hit with another major earthquake as aftershocks continue Trump empathizes with Queen Elizabeth II after Harry and Meghan’s royal exit MORE’s power to take military action against Iran.

Senate Democrats are debating among themselves whether to take up a concurrent resolution passed by the House on Thursday limiting Trump’s war powers, or to stick with a proposal sponsored by Sens. Tim KaineTimothy (Tim) Michael KaineDem senators say Iran threat to embassies not mentioned in intelligence briefing Democrats brace for round two of impeachment witness fight Overnight Defense: House passes measure to limit Trump on Iran | Pelosi vows vote to end 2002 war authorization | Officials believe Iran accidentally shot down passenger plane MORE (D-Va.) and Dick DurbinRichard (Dick) Joseph DurbinOvernight Health Care: Kansas leaders reach deal to expand Medicaid | California to launch own prescription drug label | Dem senator offers bill banning e-cigarette flavors Pressure building on Pelosi over articles of impeachment Democrats call for updates on US troop deployments MORE (D-Ill.).

As a concurrent resolution, the House measure doesn’t require Trump’s signature. But it’s not clear whether it would actually tie Trump’s hands. The Supreme Court may ultimately have to decide if it has the binding force of law.

The Senate bill would have the force of law, and it would be significant if approved by the GOP-controlled chamber. But it does require Trump’s signature and has almost no chance of becoming law since it would be vetoed, and would then need 67 votes to override a veto.

“I know it’s being wrestled with, I haven’t heard any update,” said Sen. Jeff MerkleyJeffrey (Jeff) Alan MerkleyOvernight Health Care: Kansas leaders reach deal to expand Medicaid | California to launch own prescription drug label | Dem senator offers bill banning e-cigarette flavors Senators introduce resolution warning that Congress has not authorized Iran war On The Money: Senate panel advances Trump’s new NAFTA despite GOP gripes | Trade deficit falls to three-year low | Senate confirms Trump pick for small business chief MORE (D-Ore.), a member of the Foreign Relations Committee.

Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiOvernight Health Care: Trump officials want Supreme Court to delay ObamaCare case | Medicaid expansion linked to decline in opioid deaths | Drug price outrage threatens to be liability for GOP Impeachment trial weighs on 2020 Democrats Voters see slightly more GOP partisanship on impeachment: Poll MORE (D-Calif.) on Thursday touted her chamber’s proposal as having “real teeth.” She said it was significant that Trump could not veto it, as he did to a war powers resolution Congress passed last year requiring him to withdraw U.S. forces from the civil war in Yemen.

“We’re taking this path because it does not require a signature of the president of the United States,” she added. “This is a statement of the Congress of the United States and I will not have that statement be diminished by whether the president will veto it or not.”

Key Democratic senators, however, aren’t convinced this is the way to go.

Kaine said that he will press ahead with his own resolution, which has the support of GOP Sens. Mike LeeMichael (Mike) Shumway LeeOvernight Defense: Pompeo defends intel on Soleimani strike | Iraqi PM tells US to start working on plan for withdrawal | Paul, Graham feud deepens over Trump war powers White House spokesman roasted over Obama tweet Gabbard: Appearing on Fox News allows me to speak to Trump MORE (Utah) and Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulOvernight Defense: Pompeo defends intel on Soleimani strike | Iraqi PM tells US to start working on plan for withdrawal | Paul, Graham feud deepens over Trump war powers White House spokesman roasted over Obama tweet The Hill’s 12:30 Report: Pelosi plans to send impeachment articles next week MORE (Ky.).

“The one that I have would go to the president’s desk, if it passes,” he said. “I’m likely to call up mine.”

Kaine noted that his resolution, which is privileged and cannot be blocked from receiving a floor vote, is due to be automatically discharged out of the Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.

“Mine is on time clock where I could call it up starting next week. Theirs would not be,” he said. “I can get it up promptly and I can get it [passed] on a majority vote.”

Democratic aides in both chambers say that the House-passed war powers resolution would also be considered a privileged measure and guaranteed a vote in the GOP-controlled Senate, but Kaine said it would have to be put on a later timeline since the House just approved it Thursday.

The timing of the war powers debate is in flux because of Trump’s looming impeachment trial.

Pelosi says she will meet with the House Democratic caucus on Tuesday to discuss naming a team of prosecutors and sending the articles of impeachment across the Capitol. As soon as she does, the trial is set to begin immediately.   

Even so, there will be a lull between when senators get sworn in as jurors and the start of opening arguments, when lawmakers will have a chance to act on legislative business.

Kaine has already shopped his legislation to about ten Senate Republicans who are in various stages of reviewing it.

Kaine acknowledged Trump may well veto his war powers resolution but argued that the act of putting it on the president’s desk will send a more powerful message than the concurrent resolution.

“I want to put it on the president’s desk. We did that with the Yemen resolution and even though the president vetoed, they stopped fueling the Saudi jets on the way to bombings. They actually stopped doing the thing we ordered them not to do,” he said, referring to U.S. support of a Saudi-backed coalition fighting in Yemen.

Senate Democrats say they’re keeping their options open and may try to advance both Kaine’s and Pelosi’s competing measures. 

“Those conversations are going on right now,” said a Democratic senator, who requested anonymity to talk about internal discussions. “It doesn’t have to be either/or but I think at some point we should figure out what we’re going to prioritize.”  

Lee, who backs the Kaine-Durbin bill, disputes Pelosi’s argument that the House-passed resolution will have the force of law.

He pointed to the 1983 Supreme Court decision in INS v. Chadha in which the high court ruled in an opinion penned by then Chief Justice Warren Burger that legislation affecting persons outside the legislative branch must be presented to the president for his signature.

“I was surprised when I saw that that resolution was styled as a [House concurrent resolution.] It makes me wonder why they did it that way or whether it might have been a mistake from the outset,” Lee said.

“Prior to the decision by the Supreme Court in INS v. Chadha 1983, you had had an opportunity for Congress through a concurrent resolution to alter the legal status quo that didn’t require presentment to the president. Post Chadha that went away,” he said.

Lee said the House-passed resolution “could never be more than akin to a sense of the House or a sense of the Senate.”

A senior House Democratic aide said that legal question may have to be decided anew by the federal courts.

“There are arguments for why this part of the war powers resolution might not be binding, but we decided to follow the process in the war powers resolution as our first step. It makes Congressional intent crystal clear and the President should respect that,” the aide said.

Source Article from https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/477763-democrats-conflicted-over-how-to-limit-trumps-war-powers

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In announcing the Doral pick just days earlier, White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney described the resort as “the best place”.
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Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that President Donald Trump was “honestly surprised at the level of pushback” on plans to host next year’s G-7 summit at his Doral resort in Miami. 

Democrats and some Republicans, as well as government watchdogs, decried the administration’s decision to award the event to one of the president’s properties. Critics rejected Mulvaney’s claim that Doral had been selected as the “perfect” location after an exhaustive search. Many, including former White House officials, said it had the appearance of impropriety and others said it was a violation of the Constitution. 

Trump backed down in the wake of the criticism and declared the event would not be held at his resort “based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility.” 

‘There’s a perception of impropriety’: Former White House officials say Doral G-7 breaks precedent

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Mulvaney said on “Fox News Sunday” that “we are all surprised at the level of pushback” and that it was “the right decision to change.” 

“We’ll have to find someplace else. And my guess is we’ll find someplace else that the media won’t like either for another reason,” he said. 

Mulvaney said Trump “saw an opportunity to take the biggest leaders from around the world, and he wanted to put on the absolute best show.”

“At the end of the day, you know, he still considers himself to be in the hospitality business,” Mulvaney explained. 

“He’s the president of the United States,” host Chris Wallace replied. 

“Yes, but that’s his background. It’s like, I used to be in the real estate business,” Mulvaney said. He tried to get Wallace, the son of “60 Minutes” reporter Mike Wallace, to relate by asking him what he did “before you were in the media.” 

“Nothing. That’s all I’ve ever done,” Wallace said. 

“But he wanted to put on a show. He wanted to take care of folks,” Mulvaney said. “He’s in the hotel business, or at least he was before he was the president.” 

Wallace asked Mulvaney if Trump understood that at the very least, it was a bad choice in terms of appearance.

“Well, I think he knows. He thinks people think it looks lousy,” Mulvaney said. 

More: House Judiciary Committee to investigate Trump’s desire to use his Doral resort to host next G-7 summit

Source Article from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/10/20/trump-surprised-pushback-g-7-doral/4047431002/

Prosecutors in California have decided not to charge two police officers who fatally shot an unarmed black man last year, saying the “shooting was lawful.”

Sacramento County District Attorney Marie Schubert announced on Saturday that Officers Terrance Mercadal and Jared Robinet would not face criminal charges in the March 18 death of Stephon Clark after an independent review of the case found that the pair used lethal force lawfully.

The 61-page review conducted by the prosecutor’s office stated that  Mercadal and Robinet “had honest and reasonable belief that they were in imminent danger of death or great bodily injury.”

Schubert said the decision “does not diminish in any way the tragedy, the anger and the frustration that we heard since the time of his death.”

She added: “We cannot ignore that there is rage within our community.”

Reaction to the decision came swiftly on Saturday. Among the first to weigh in was Clark’s mother, Sequette, who refused to accept prosecutors’ judgment. “They executed my son,” she said, according to The Associated Press. “It’s not right.”

Also on Saturday, Gov. Gavin Newsom and civil rights activists called for criminal justice reforms concerning use of deadly force. Newsom called it a hard truth that “our criminal justice system treats young black and Latino men and women differently than their white counterparts. That must change.”

How the community at large will react to prosecutors’ decision remained an open question early Saturday evening, though Sacramento has been bracing for protests; business owners were warned by a business association and state government workers told by legislative officials in recent days to stay away from downtown at least through the weekend.

STEPHON CLARK SHOOTING: A TIMELINE OF EVENTS

Clark was shot and killed March 18;  the two officers were responding to a report of somebody breaking car windows. Police said they believed Clark was the suspect, and that he ran when a police helicopter responded and failed to obey officers’ orders.

Police said they thought Clark was holding a gun when he moved toward them with his arms extended and an object in his hands. He was later found to only have a cellphone on him.

Police video of the shooting does not clearly capture all that happened after Clark ran into his grandmother’s backyard.

It showed him initially moving toward the officers, who were peeking out from behind a corner of the house, but it’s not clear whether he was facing them or that he knew the officers were there when they opened fire after shouting “gun, gun, gun.” The video showed Clark staggering sideways and falling on his stomach as the officers continued shooting.

OUTRAGE GROWS OVER POLICE KILLING OF STEPHON CLARK IN SACRAMENTO: ‘20 SHOTS OVER A CELLPHONE’

“We must recognize that they are often forced to make split-second decisions and we must recognize that they are under tense, uncertain and rapidly evolving circumstances,” Schubert said on Saturday.

A review of the district attorney’s findings stated that “the law recognizes an inherent right to use deadly force to protect oneself or others from death or great bodily harm.”

It continued: “This fundamental legal principle is known as the right of ‘self-defense.’ A police officer does not lose his fundamental right by virtue of becoming a police officer.”

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Clark’s family, including his two sons, his parents and his grandparents, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in January seeking more than $20 million from the city, Mercadal and Robinet. The suit alleges that the use of force was excessive, and that Clark was a victim of racial profiling.

One of the officers who shot Clark is black and the other is white, police said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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En Las Vegas, el jubilado Stephen Paddock, de 64 años, fue identificado como el hombre que utilizó dos armas automáticas para disparar contra una multitud. (Foto: AFP)

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Tres gigantes del sector de internet –Facebook, Google y Twitter– admitieron este martes que fracasaron en evitar la diseminación de rumores y desinformación luego de la matanza de 59 personas el domingo en Las Vegas.

Los tres gigantes informaron que estaban trabajando en modificaciones en sus servicios luego de comprobar que noticias falsas, rumores y claras tentativas de desinformación terminaron entre menciones destacadas en búsquedas.

Algunas noticias falsas identificaron equivocadamente al atacante, y otras indicaron que se buscaba a una mujer que describieron como una “admiradora de Rachel Maddow que odia a (el presidente Donald) Trump”.

Maddow es presentadora de un programa en la red de televisión MSNBC y es una crítica mordaz del presidente.
En el caso de Google, el principal problema detectado fue que reportes completamente falsos que circularon en la red 4chan terminaron en el tope de las búsquedas.

“En un plazo de horas, la historia que circuló en 4chan fue reemplazada mediante un algoritmo por resultados relevantes”, informó Google en un correo a AFP.

El material falso de 4chan “no debió aparecer en ninguna de las búsquedas, y continuaremos haciendo mejoras en el servicio para evitar que esto ocurra en el futuro”.

En tanto, Facebook informó que descubrió la circulación de información falsa sobre el tiroteo y actuó para eliminarla.

“Sin embargo, la remoción de ese material se atrasó algunos minutos y eso permitió que se hayan hecho capturas de pantalla que siguieron circulando”, admitió la firma.

“Estamos trabajando para corregir el problema que permitió que esto ocurriera, y lamentamos profundamente la confusión causada”, añadió.

A su vez, Twitter también informó sobre esfuerzos para impedir la circulación de información falsa sobre el tiroteo.

“Tenemos información sobre este problema y estamos tomando acciones sobre contenido que viola los términos de nuestro servicio”, apuntó un vocero de la firma.

En Las Vegas, el jubilado Stephen Paddock, de 64 años, fue identificado como el hombre que utilizó dos armas automáticas para disparar contra una multitud, dejando un saldo de 59 muertos y unos 500 heridos.

Las investigaciones ahora se concentran en tratar de establecer un motivo para la matanza.

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Los allegados a López se reunieron tras conocer la condena.

Un silencio incómodo se sintió en la noche del jueves tras la intervención de los allegados al venezolano Leopoldo López en una plaza caraqueña después de que se conoció la condena por más de 13 años al político opositor.

De repente, una mujer gritó: “¿Y ahora qué hacemos?”.

Ni los activistas opositores ni la familia de López supieron o quisieron responder: el silencio se prolongó.

Lea también: Venezuela: condenan a Leopoldo López a más de 13 años de prisión

Después de que uno de sus símbolos más importantes sufre un revés judicial, la oposición venezolana se enfrenta a un dilema: ¿protestamos o votamos?

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López es uno de los símbolos de la oposición en Venezuela.

En ambos escenarios, el gobierno de Nicolás Maduro tiene ventajas: maneja las fuerzas de seguridad del Estado, controla la mayoría de los medios de comunicación y posee una eficiente maquinaria electoral.

El 6 de diciembre están pautadas unas elecciones parlamentarias que muchos en la oposición ven como el último recurso democrático para generar un cambio en el país, afectado por una profunda crisis económica y de inseguridad.

El oficialismo, a pesar de que se encuentra 20 puntos por debajo de la oposición en encuestas de intención de voto, dice que va a ganar la elecciones con el objetivo de continuar el para ellos “exitoso” legado social y político del fallecido Hugo Chávez.

Lea también: “Queremos imponerle la paz al gobierno”, dice oposición de Venezuela tras condena a Leopoldo López

Maduro está concentrado en una política para “liberar a Venezuela del paramilitarismo”, que según él entra al país por la frontera con Colombia y genera el caos de violencia y escasez que viven cada día los venezolanos.

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Después de numerosas protestas, para muchos las elecciones son el último recurso democrático.

Mientras tanto, la oposición tendrá que jugar ajedrez en un tablero que es, en principio, desigual.

Por qué lo condenan

López fue declarado culpable de todos los cargos: instigación pública, daños a la propiedad, incendio intencional y asociación para delinquir.

Por todo ello, fue condenado a 13 años y 9 meses en la cárcel militar de Ramo Verde, a las afueras de Caracas.

Lea también: Leopoldo López, el líder rebelde de la oposición venezolana

Según la justicia, López actuó como autor intelectual de las muertes y los daños ocurridos el 12 de febrero en Caracas, en la primera de varias marchas masivas a lo largo del país que pedían la renuncia de Maduro.

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Jesús Torrealba es el jefe de la coalición opositora Mesa de la Unidad Democrática.

Las protestas, que se prolongaron por tres meses, según el recuento del gobierno dejaron un saldo de 43 muertos, más de 1.000 heridos y casi 4.000 detenidos.

López dice que promovió una protesta pacífica en el marco de la Constitución y que lo condenan sin pruebas simplemente por ser un factor de disidencia.

La defensa informó que apelará en los 10 días que tiene de plazo y que, si eso no funciona, presentará un recurso legal ante el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia.

López y la oposición

Exalcalde del municipio caraqueño de Chacao, López –que tiene 44 años– es una de las figuras más importantes de la oposición, no solo por su carisma, preparación y contundencia, sino porque desde que está arrestado se ha convertido en lo que algunos llaman “un mártir de la democracia”.

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Henrique Capriles, gobernador de Miranda, es otra figura importante de la oposición.

Al tiempo, López se ha caracterizado por ser un opositor radical para el que la única forma de resolver los problemas del país es, en sus palabras, “saliendo de este gobierno”.

Desde 2008, la oposición ha acudido a los procesos electorales en coalición con la llamada Mesa de la Unidad (MUD). En dos ocasiones, en 2012 y 2013, el candidato presidencial ha sido el gobernador de Miranda, Henrique Capriles.

Pero con la remontada de su popularidad en los últimos dos años, López se volvió un factor de división dentro de la oposición, porque hay otra corriente según la cual el cambio debe tener en cuenta al chavismo.

Esa divergencia de estrategias se mantiene en la oposición venezolana, que deberá llegar unida a las elecciones parlamentarias para ganar.

“Gran parte del futuro de la oposición va a depender de la posición del propio López para sostener o no la unidad”, le dice a BBC Mundo Luis Vicente León, encuestador y analista político venezolano.

Precisamente el viernes la esposa de López, Lilian Tintori, leyó una carta en la que el líder opositor pedía a sus partidarios no “dejarse derrumbar anímicamente” por la condena.

López en su carta convocó una marcha para el sábado 19 de septiembre e iniciar el camino hacia las elecciones.

“Ese día, con irreverencia, con revive democrático, salgamos con toda nuestra fuerza a votar”, escribió Lopez.

Esa parece ser la dirección de toda la MUD: “La única rebelión posible para nosotros es la rebelión electoral”, le dijo a BBC Mundo el jefe de la coalición opositora, Jesús Torrealba.

Los retos de la oposición

Varios analistas señalan que ésta y otras recientes medidas del gobierno –como el cierre de la frontera con Colombia y la inhabilitación de varios candidatos opositores– buscan, entre otras cosas, promover la desesperanza y la abstención entre los potenciales votantes opositores, que pueden llegar a sentir que los poderes del Estado están al servicio del Ejecutivo.

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Leopoldo López y su esposa, Lilian Tintori, en la marcha tras la que el líder opositor se entregó al gobierno, hace 19 meses.

Sobre esto, Torrealba dice: “Vamos a votar no porque confiamos en el ente electoral, sino a pesar del ente electoral, porque tenemos una mayoría tan amplia que el cambio es inevitable”.

La oposición también cuenta con ventajas más allá de la mayoría que proyectan las encuestas.

Por un lado, con la condena, López pasa a aparecer aún más como un mártir.

Luis Vicente León recuerda a Pedro de Braganza, rey de Portugal y Brasil, quien dijo: “Nunca martirices a tus enemigos porque siempre regresan, vivos o muertos y te destruirán”.

En ese sentido, dice el analista, “López puede más bien unificar a toda la oposición y canalizar su energía hacia el evento electoral”.

“No hay nada más motivante que una elección donde ese líder mártir llama a ser liberado a través del voto”, concluye León.

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¿Será la condena a López un golpe o un impulso para la oposición?

Con un limitado acceso a los medios de comunicación y sin tantos recursos para hacer campaña, el reto de la oposición venezolana es convencer a la mayoría de los venezolanos de que el gobierno no es invencible en las urnas.

La condena de López, más que un golpe a la oposición, puede llegar a ser su As bajo la manga.

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A grassroots online campaign to fund President Trump’s proposed border wall roared past $8.7 million on Thursday, but questions remained about whether the feds would be able to accept the gift.

As of Thursday evening, 143,821 people had donated $8,742,182 toward Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage’s GoFundMe campaign, titled We the People Will Fund the Wall, just a little over three days after its launch.

The pledge drive aims to raise $1 billion to “uphold our laws, and get this wall BUILT!” Kolfage, a Purple Heart recipient who lost both legs and an arm in Iraq, wrote on the campaign’s Web page. “It’s up to Americans to help out and pitch in to get this project rolling.”

Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chair of the House Judiciary Committee and a longtime proponent of tighter border security, hailed the vet’s “impressive” campaign, even as he expressed reservations about allowing private citizens to govern with their wallets.

“I think it’s admirable, and I think that the country should respond,” Goodlatte told The Post. “Obviously, we can’t let citizens raise money and say, ‘The government will spend my money on this purpose.’ ”

According to the Treasury Department, general donations to the feds are directed to a “Gifts to the United States” fund, set aside for “general use” by the federal government or “budget needs.”

Specific federal agencies can’t touch this funding without a congressional appropriation.

Some agencies can accept gifts directly for earmarked purposes, but it was not clear if the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the borders, was among them.

The DHS did not immediately respond to a request for clarification.

Furthermore, GoFundMe’s terms of service prohibit “not using funds for their stated purpose,” meaning that if the DHS were unable to accept the windfall, Kolfage may have to reimburse his campaign’s donors.

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The special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has been a uniquely stupid chapter in news media history.

Newsrooms got some of it right. They also got a lot wrong.

One of the worst aspects of the press’ two-year-long exercise in speculation and rumormongering was social media, particularly Twitter, which provided reporters and political commentators with public platforms to spout off half-cocked for every new allegation and detail regarding the investigation. It’s almost as if these people have never heard the phrase “wait and see.”

And now that the investigation has concluded, we can truly appreciate the absurdity of some of these by-the-minute takes from the people who pretended to understand what was happening.

Washington Post columnist Max Boot, for example, went out on a limb on March 28 when he asked (with a straight face, I presume) how Attorney General William Barr and his team of legal professionals could have possibly read and understood the 400-plus-page Mueller report in less than 48 hours, as the Justice Department claimed.

Funnily enough, the following tweet also comes from Boot, who apparently was able to do all by his lonesome self what he could not comprehend from the Justice Department.

“Having read the Mueller report, I can see why Trump was so eager to discredit the investigators – and why Barr felt compelled to spin in advance. And it’s not because the report proves ‘No Collusion – No Obstruction!’ It proves the very opposite,” he claimed less than 12 hours after the report was released to the public.

Call me a cynic, but my guess here is that Boot’s real position is the opposite of whatever benefits the Trump administration.

Speaking of “whatever it is, I’m against it,” let us also consider freelance journalist and New York Times contributor Jared Yates Sexton, who once wrote a sort of winding paean to Mueller in 2017.

“Important to remember: Robert Mueller is an independent special prosecutor tasked with investigating possible collusion. He is not a partisan tasked with destroying Trump. That’s what conservatives want people to believe,” he wrote. “Do not fall into the trap of talking about this in the terms conservatives want you to. This is as much a PR battle as a legal one.”

“The battle Republicans want here is to define it as a partisan witch hunt. It’s not, at all. But words and tone matter,” Yates concluded. “If Mueller didn’t find evidence, he’d walk away. His job isn’t to invent or distort. This seems obvious, but is massively important.”

On April 18, just hours after the report’s release, Sexton then tweeted:

As it turns out, “wait and see” is a good rule to live by precisely because it saves you from publicly repudiating yourself. It saves you from having the general public realize that even you don’t pay attention to what you say. It also saves you from looking like a partisan hack.

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President Biden admitted during a CNN town hall Thursday night that he has no immediate solution to the problem of spiking gas prices and suggested that Americans would not start seeing relief at the pump until next year.

“My guess is, you’ll start to see gas prices come down as we get by and going into the winter – I mean, excuse me, into next year, 2022,” the president told moderator Anderson Cooper at the Baltimore event.

“I don’t see anything that’s going to happen in the meantime that’s going to significantly reduce gas prices.

“I must tell you, I don’t have a near-term answer,” Biden added before musing on the possibility that he could “go in the [Strategic] Petroleum Reserve and take out and probably reduce the price of gas maybe 18 cents or so per gallon, [but] it’s still gonna be above three bucks.”

According to AAA, the national average price of a gallon of regular gasoline had reached $3.36 Thursday, up four cents from the average on Monday. The organization noted that no state had an average gas price lower than $3 per gallon.

In Gorda, Calif., on the state’s Central Coast, a gallon of unleaded was fetching $7.59, while Fox 5 reported last week that Manhattan motorists were paying nearly $5 per gallon to fill up their tank.

AAA attributed the price spike to high demand, high crude oil prices and a drop in gas stocks –which Biden sought to blame Thursday on OPEC and its oil-producing allies in the Middle East.

High gas prices seen at a station in San Francisco on October 12, 2021.
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“Gas prices relate to a foreign policy initiative that is about something that goes beyond the cost of gas … That’s because of the supply being withheld by OPEC,” he said, “and so there’s a lot of negotiation that is … there’s a lot of Middle Eastern folks that want to talk to me. I’m not sure I’m going to talk to them, but the point is, it’s about gas production.”

Republicans have blamed Biden for spiking energy prices, citing his administration’s pursuit of inflationary spending policies as well as the president’s cancellation of the Keystone XL Pipeline on his first day in office.

“Gas prices are at the highest levels since 2014 and Americans’ heating costs could increase as much as 54% this winter,” the Republican National Committee’s @RNCResearch account tweeted in response to Biden’s remarks. “Biden attacked American energy, and now Americans are paying the price!”

“The answer ultimately is, ultimately meaning the next three or four years, is investing in renewable energy,” insisted Biden, who also touted the “Big Three” US automakers’ August announcement that electric vehicles will make up between 40 and 50 percent of their sales by 2030.

“So what will happen is, you’re going to see a dramatic drop, a dramatic drop, in what’s gonna happen in terms of gas prices as we go into the next two or three years,” the president promised.

But in the meantime, Biden acknowledged, “it’s gonna be hard. It’s gonna be hard. There’s a possibility to be able to bring it down. It depends on a little bit on Saudi Arabia and a few other things that are in the offing.”

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