Lt. Caron Nazario was driving home when two police officers pulled him over in Windsor, Virginia, whipped out their guns, and started barking orders. bit.ly/39WAPcD
“I’m serving this country, and this is how I’m treated?” Nazario told the officers, according to his cellphone video. bit.ly/39WAPcD
The cops went on to threaten Nazario, pepper-spray him in the face, and knee-strike him in the legs, according to footage. bit.ly/39WAPcD
Nazario is suing the two cops, alleging violations of his constitutional rights under the Fourth and First Amendments. bit.ly/39WAPcD
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NEW: What would it take to bankrupt the Proud Boys? This Black church is about to find out. bit.ly/3uuWQHh
Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio has refused to answer a lawsuit filed by Metropolitan AME Church. It accuses Tarrio and other members of committing acts of terror by destroying BLM signs in Washington, D.C. in December. bit.ly/3uuWQHh
By ignoring the lawsuit, the Proud Boys leader leaves the church days away from a likely default victory. A victory, experts say, that could give Metropolitan AME the power to blow the lid off the Proud Boys’ finances. bit.ly/3uuWQHh
Four sisters got off a plane from El Salvador recently—Genesis, Adriana, Amy, and Abigail Martínez—and hugged their father in Los Angeles for the first time in six years. bit.ly/2P8gEkv
The sisters arrived through the Central American Minors Program. Established in 2014, the Obama-era program allows certain children with a parent living legally in the U.S. to apply for asylum without making the dangerous journey across Mexico. bit.ly/2P8gEkv
The way these girls entered the U.S.—on a commercial flight, passing easily through Customs—is far from the reality of the 15,000 migrant children currently held in government custody, including over 5,000 in overcrowded border patrol holding cells. bit.ly/2P8gEkv
NEW: Mexican drug cartels have turned once-thriving Guadalajara into a war zone.
The discovery of dozens of grisly “extermination houses” and mass graves has set the city on edge. bit.ly/3eF7k2b
The rise of Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) over the past decade ties directly to the downward spiral of Guadalajara and the rest of the state into violent disorder. bit.ly/3eF7k2b
Even after the original Guadalajara Cartel fragmented around 1990, the city of Guadalajara remained a relatively safe haven for narcos to live and raise their families, and especially to launder money. bit.ly/3eF7k2b
NEW: The Trump administration agreed to delay the deportation of up to a dozen women who alleged medical abuse at an ICE facility in Georgia, according to a court filing. bit.ly/33d1WwB
“This is an acknowledgement by the federal government that it is critically important that these women have a meaningful opportunity to participate in the federal investigation related to medical atrocities at Irwin," said a lawyer for two of the women. bit.ly/33d1WwB
One of the women compared her visit to Dr. Mahendra Amin to being raped. Another says she was told that her “uterus was as big as a melon” and that she would never have children. bit.ly/33d1WwB
Since a member of the right-wing “Patriot Prayer” group, Aaron “Jay” Danielson, was shot and killed in Portland, the police investigation has reportedly focused on Army veteran Michael Reinoehl. bit.ly/3lNpiQV
Reinoehl has not been charged or arrested, but in a conversation with journalist @donovanfarley, Reinoehl said he believed he and a friend were about to be stabbed, and that he acted in self defense. bit.ly/3lNpiQV
“I had no choice. I mean, I, I had a choice. I could have sat there and watched them kill a friend of mine of color. But I wasn't going to do that.” bit.ly/3lNpiQV
NEW: "Prevent escapes": Leaked documents detail brutal reality of China’s ‘re-education’ camps for Muslims bit.ly/2sdJK6o
A leaked manual for the implementation of these re-education camps reviewed by VICE News lays out in specific, brutal detail exactly how the Communist Party of China is instructing local officials to run the re-education camps. bit.ly/2sdJK6o
The goal is to assimilate long-marginalized religious and ethnic minorities into Han Chinese culture, language, and beliefs — including unquestioning support for The People’s Party. bit.ly/2sdJK6o