“K’aun Green’s attorney says the college football player is a “hero” who didn’t deserve police bullets”
i don’t what’s standard for san jose, but it’s incredible how the police put out an edited clip of the body cam nearly instantly when every other jurisdiction fights tooth and nail to prevent footage from reaching the public.
they even did so before the press conference, let alone before any investigation - it’s almost like they’re trying to control the narrative around what should be a fair and factual look at what happened
Just, FYI, this is not the main campus, but one of the furtherest out satellite campuses of the Perimieter College units (a community college that GSU acquired as a feeder school).
The second link has the tik-tok video where she describes what happened. Absolutely absurd to call the police on students who are late to class… WTF…
In April 2021, Yahoo News revealed the existence of the iCOP surveillance, which used analysts to trawl the internet looking for “inflammatory” posts about nationwide Black Lives Matter protests. A series of follow-up reports revealedfurther detailsabout the program, which had been operating without the oversight or even the knowledge of Congress. (Yahoo News has filed its own lawsuit to obtain additional records related to iCOP.)
“The Oversight Committee requested this report because of our significant concerns about intelligence activities conducted by the Postal Service Inspection Service’s analytics team related to First Amendment activity," Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, told Yahoo News in a Thursday statement. “The inspector general’s audit makes clear that the committee’s concerns were justified, and that the use of open-source intelligence by the analytics team ‘exceeded the Postal Inspection Service’s law enforcement authority.’”
The plea deal requires Ponsetto, 23, to follow the probation terms for a separate case in California, attend counseling and avoid further criminal incidents. If she doesn’t comply, Ponsetto could go to prison for up to four years, prosecutors said. But if she successfully follows those terms, she can re-plead the felony charge to a misdemeanor charge of aggravated harassment in the second degree.
Hickman said he didn’t understand why his remarks were upsetting. “No, ’cause those blacks live over there — that’s why I asked,” he maintained. “Nothing racial about it.”
