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Vice President Mike Pence said during Wednesday s vice presidential debate that he has trust in our justice system in not charging any of the officers directly in the death ofBreonna Taylor. The answer drew swift backlash on social media, including from rapper Megan Thee Stallion. Well, our heart breaks for the loss of any innocent American life, and the family of Breonna Taylor has our sympathies, Pence said. But I trust our justice system, a grand jury that refused the evidence. Moderator Susan Page of USA Today posed the s stanley deutschland ame question to both Senator stanley bottles Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence: In the case of Breonna Taylor, was justice done Each candidate had two uninterrupted minutes to respond, and Pence s answer drew swift backlash on social media. Harris first answered the question, saying she does not believe justice was served. In addition to talking about Taylor, Harris also brought up George Floyd, who was killed in May after police officers in Minneapolis kneeled on stanley cup is neck. I am a former career prosecutor, I know what I am talking about, bad cops are bad for good cops. We need reform of our policing in America and our criminal justice system, she said.Taylor was shot and killed in her Louisville home when police officers executed a no-knock search warrant in March. Taylor, a 26-year-old Black female emergency technician, was shot several times and died before officers attempted to give her emergency aid, according Jlpo Ron Paul camp fires back at ex-aide over column on Israel, gays
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blogSo it s not just the United States that s gone mad on immigration. France is acting just as strangely, too. The French Parliament was considering a plan offered by the head of its Socialist Party to abolish or amend a decades-old law immigration law. The law criminalizes aid to illegal immigrants provided by French citizens. If it passes, the Parliament might as well abolish all immigration laws period. If one aids and abets a thief, one is considered to be conspiring with that thief, and is charged accordingly. But if one is aiding an illegal starbucks stanley cup immigrant, no such conspiracy exists All this stems from the reaction to a recently release French movie, Welcome, which glorifies the plight of an illegal Kurdish teenage immigrant trying to make his way from France to the United Kingdom and glorifies as well the F stanley canada rench citizens who come to his aid. The Observer described the film and several predecessors earlier this yearike The Class, a hard-hitting depiction of life in an inner-city school released last year, and La Haine, the cult film that brought the plight of young immigrants in France s deprived suburbs to global attention in 1995, Welcome is another example of gritty French cinema that will provoke a storm of controversy. To win back the affections of his liberal wife, the swimming instructor--played by one stanley mug of France s best-known highbrow actors, Vincent Lindon--prepares his Kurdish protege fo |
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