NEW: Two very different accounts emerged today from either side of an apartment door in Louisville — the one that police officers knocked off its hinges as they charged into Breonna Taylor's home nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/…
Among 15hrs of grand jury audio:
• Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend said he was "scared to death"
• Police swear they announced; boyfriend says he & Breonna didn't hear
• Jurors were skeptical about some evidence
• NOT included: prosecutor statements/recs nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/…
So many more harrowing details emerged in the 15 hours of audio from the Breonna Taylor grand jury.
Breonna Taylor's boyfriend in newly released audio:
"Next thing I know, she’s on the ground and the door’s busted open and I hear a bunch of yelling and just panicking. And she’s right here bleeding. And nobody’s coming, and I’m just confused and scared." nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/…
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With ICE agents rumored to be staying at this downtown Minneapolis hotel, roughly 1,000 protesters are outside shining lights and making as much noise as possible — including via bullhorn, trombone, drums and sax — on a Friday night.
Minneapolis Police have issued an "unlawful assembly" notice, ordering people to leave the area, shortly after a dozen or so people tried to rush into a side door of the hotel.
State Police are now approaching the dwindling number of protesters from two sides on Park Avenue.
Protesters down to fewer than 100, some throwing ice/snowballs at a line of state police officers. At a standstill here on Third St in downtown Minneapolis.
In new court filing, public defenders for the suspect in the mass shooting at a Colorado gay club that left 5 people dead say that their client is non-binary and that "they use they/them pronouns." The lawyers refer to their client as Mx. Anderson Aldrich.
Among the victims in the attack: 2 bartenders who looked after everybody, a trans woman who was showing off her outfit minutes earlier, a man at the bar for the first time with his girlfriend, and a woman who worked for an org that helps foster children. nytimes.com/article/victim…
NEW: A legal battle is playing out in Alabama over the execution of Alan Eugene Miller.
It begins in 2018, when the state gave death row prisoners a short window in which they could choose to die by a never-before-tried method: oxygen deprivation. nytimes.com/2022/09/23/us/…
Alan Eugene Miller, who was convicted of murdering three men in a workplace rampage, said he opted for that new method because he had become afraid of needles after a bad experience getting blood drawn in prison.
A judge stopped the execution, ruling that Alan Eugene Miller likely did submit his form and prison officials lost it.
But last night, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the execution can go ahead. Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the liberals in dissent. nytimes.com/2022/09/23/us/…
Breaking: Albuquerque mosque president tells @AvaSasani that the authorities told him the suspect in the killings of four Muslim men is Sunni Muslim and targeted the victims because he was angry over his daughter marrying a Shiite Muslim. nytimes.com/2022/08/09/us/…
Breaking: police say they've arrested Muhammad Syed, 51, and charged him with two of the killings, which they describe as possibly being the result of "an interpersonal conflict."
"We do have some information about those events taking place, but we’re not really clear if that was the actual motive, if it was part of the motive or if there’s just a bigger picture that we’re missing," says Kyle Hartsock, a deputy commander with the Albuquerque Police Dept.
More people who were concerned by his behavior in the weeks and months leading up to the attack: nytimes.com/live/2022/05/2…
Experts in mass shootings call advance disclosures like the ones from the Uvalde gunman "leakage," and say that they are much more common among young gunmen than older attackers.
Introducing his interview with Kyle Rittenhouse — the first since he was acquitted — @TuckerCarlson says it's "hard to ignore the yawning class divide" between Rittenhouse, 18, who worked as a janitor and cook in high school, and "his many critics in the media."
After Kyle Rittenhouse, then 17, fatally shot two people and wounded a third during destructive demonstrations in August 2020, he says his mom "wanted to go into hiding."
But, he says, "I said no, the right thing to do would be to turn myself in — I didn't do anything wrong."
Rittenhouse says his old lawyers had him do interviews "which I should never have done" & took their time bailing him out, telling him he was "safer in jail."