Tag: Police
A top Democratic candidate’s own brother says he’s voting against him in a new Republican attack ad
Randy Bryce, a Democrat running for the Wisconsin congressional seat being vacated by House Speaker Paul Ryan, is facing a particularly brutal attack ad featuring his own brother, a police officer, accusing him of inciting violence against law enforcement.
Davos is holding a referendum to see if its citizens want to keep paying to protect world leaders and bankers at the World Economic Forum
The bill for security at the annual World Economic Forum is rising by 10% for Davos next year and the 13,000 residents of the Swiss Alpine town are preparing to vote on whether they will foot the cost, with some saying they’ve had enough.
China uses threats about relatives at home to control and silence expats and exiles abroad
The family of former beauty queen Anastasia Lin has been continually threatened and prevented from travelling abroad because of Lin's decision to discuss Chinese human-rights issues. Police also take fruit and flower baskets to visit Lin's grandparents regularly in hopes of persuading them.
‘I do not know that man. I didn’t do anything!’: A woman who tried to share footage of the explosion near Beijing’s US Embassy...
The woman was dragged away by plainclothes men who said they were dealing with a "family matter," but the woman yelled, "I do not know that man. I didn’t do anything! I was just a bystander!" Censorship of controversial thoughts and political incidents is common in China
CVS fired two employees who were filmed calling 911 on a black woman they accused of using a counterfeit coupon
Two CVS employees have been fired after a manager of one of the pharmacy’s Chicago stores called the police on an black woman after accusing her of using a counterfeit coupon. CVS Health "sincerely apologized" to the customer, 53-year-old Camilla Hudson, in a statement released on Monday.
Police are reportedly cutting too-long dresses off ethnic minority women in the middle of streets in China
Photos show women having their dresses cut off to their hips while they're in the middle of the street. China subjects Uighurs to extreme rules in an effort to crack down on religious extremism.
Scottish police are still looking for the protester who paraglided stunningly close to Trump, then escaped
Scottish police said they still haven't found the Greenpeace protester who paraglided over President Donald Trump's golf resort in Scotland on Friday. The protester wielded a large banner reading, "TRUMP, WELL BELOW PAR #RESIST."
2 Georgia police officers used a coin flip app to decide whether to arrest a woman
Two Georgia police officers were put on administrative leave after video emerged showing they used a coin flip app to decide whether to arrest a woman they charged with speeding and reckless driving. The driver didn't know about the coin toss and said the charges were tossed.
Police busted the dark web’s $1.5 billion cryptocurrency World Cup gambling ring
Chinese officials shut down an online gambling ring that had accumulated $1.5 billion in bets made on World Cup matches using cryptocurrencies like ethereum, bitcoin, and litecoin.
How a small error by a pilot caused armed police to raid a JetBlue flight thinking it was being hijacked
JetBlue Flight 1623 suffered from a malfunctioning radio on Tuesday. Its pilots accidentally sent air traffic control the emergency code that made authorities believe that the Airbus jet was being hijacked.