AirTalk®|Following the release of surveillance video of police shooting and killing a young black man in the Willowbrook neighborhood of Los Angeles earlier this month, questions are arising about whether the deputies' actions that led to the shooting were justified.
The court is continuing to allow Congress to delegate the details on a law's implementation. But is this decision a harbinger of something quite different?
The L.A. County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider paying $7 million to the family of Donta Taylor, who was killed by sheriff's deputies in Compton three years ago. The deputies claimed Taylor had brandished a gun before they chased him on foot and shot him, but no weapon was ever found.
Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Corey Scott stunned prosecutors as he described a previously unheard version of events, saying he asphyxiated the teenage Islamic fighter as an act of mercy.
The secretive group espoused a philosophy of self-help but was accused of recruiting women as sex slaves. Charges against Raniere, known as "Vanguard," included sex trafficking and racketeering.
"Mr. Pozner has sought for years to try to get these conspiracy theorists to understand that his son really was a person and that his son really did die," attorney Jake Zimmerman told NPR.
The nationwide analysis has concluded that probation and parole violations amount to nearly half of admissions to state prisons. The majority of those violations were minor infractions.
