Rochester Police Department immediately removed the three involved officers from patrol duties
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Three officers suspended after police pepper spray 9-year-old girl in Rochester, N.Y. - 0 views
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"This isn't how the police should treat anyone, let alone a 9-year-old girl,"
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"Such use of force and pepper spray should never be deployed against a child, period. My office is looking into what transpired and how a child was ever subjected to such danger."
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“You’re acting like a child,” one of the officers says at one point.“I am a child,” she can be heard responding.
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We don't have a simple (situation), where we can put out our hands and have somebody be instantly handcuffed and comply."
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This Is How TikTok Responded To The Chaos In Washington - 0 views
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Was Nancy Pelosi's lectern actually sold on eBay? - 0 views
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While it remains unconfirmed if Johnson actually managed to get the lectern out of the Capitol building — seems highly unlikely, but so did the riot’s prolonged runtime — a listing for the House Speaker’s podium appeared on eBay soon after the siege.
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In any event, it’s another case study in how easily you can dupe a board full of Redditors during a coup.
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But perhaps the defining image of this leisurely, stupid, and largely uninhibited affair came from the grinning, waving man who waltzed out of the House floor with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern.
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Adoption agency should be able to reject gay couples, Trump administration argues - 0 views
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The Trump administration submitted a brief to the Supreme Court on Wednesday arguing that a taxpayer-funded organization should be able to refuse to work with same-sex couples and others whom the group considers to be in violation of its religious beliefs.
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the government intervened on behalf of baker Jack Phillips who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple due to his religious beliefs.
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“While this case involves rejecting LGBTQ families, if the Court accepts the claims made in this case, not only will this hurt children in foster care by reducing the number of families to care for them, but anyone who depends on a wide range of government services will be at risk of discrimination based on their sexual orientation, religion or any other characteristic that fails a provider’s religious litmus test,”
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The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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“Our government provides critical social services to people in need, including through partnerships with private secular and religious organizations,” Cooper said. “Discrimination has no place there.
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Under President Donald Trump, the Department of Justice has not shied away from weighing in on LGBTQ rights cases at the Supreme Court. I
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House Democrats to consider impeachment, 25th Amendment measures - 0 views
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impeachment against President Donald Trump on Monday for "incitement of insurrection" when his supporters violently breached the Capitol last Wednesday.
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"We are calling on the Vice President to respond within 24 hours," Pelosi said in her letter, which said that Democrats would pursue impeachment legislation next.
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The measure says that Trump has "demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office, and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible with self-governance and the rule of law."
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"to expel members to voted to overturn the election and incited a white supremacist coup that has left people dead. They have violated the 14th Amendment,"
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House impeaches Trump this week, the earliest the Senate could begin to take it up would be January 19
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Nevada election results: Why it's taking so long to count ballots in Nevada and how man... - 0 views
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But government officials say they are emphasizing accuracy over speed in a year when processing an unprecedented flood of mail-in ballots under extended deadlines is taking more time.
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"The volume is definitely something that we've never seen before in the state as far as receiving and processing mail-in ballots."
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More than 1.2 million ballots had been counted by Friday afternoon, with Joe Biden holding a 20,137-vote lead over President Donald Trump - an edge of about 1.6 points. About 87% of the estimated vote has been tallied, but tens of thousands of votes remain uncounted statewide.
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The vast majority of those untallied ballots are in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas and its populous surrounding suburbs
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Election staff manually examines signatures not verified by the machine. Later, a review is done to make sure the total number of ballots processed matches the number of ballots received. Once verified, those ballots are counted.
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Gloria said he expected the majority of the remaining ballots to be counted by Sunday.
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Processing mail-in ballots takes longer but "we haven't had any hiccups, we haven't had any delays," said spokeswoman Bethany Drysdale.
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Why Latin is Not a Dead Language - Argonauts and Emperors - 0 views
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Latin still breathes. As long as there is civilisation, it will live on.
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Latin is also a practical tool for anyone learning to read or speak them.
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many of today’s key political concepts have their origins in Latin
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Latin also continues to have a practical purpose. Any student of Law or Medicine is expected to be familiar with technical Latin or even Greek terms.
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What's At Stake For LGBTQ Voters This Election? : NPR - 0 views
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Many say they feel like their lives depend on this vote.
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Donald Trump is doing what Donald Trump does best, which is gaslighting people into believing that he supports them when, in fact, nothing could be further from the truth.
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Trump's ban on openly transgender people serving in the military
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White House opposed the Equality Act, which would provide comprehensive protections for LGBTQ people inside and outside of the work force. And appointing conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court this week doesn't help.
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Her professional actions as a scholar and a jurist raised significant concerns about her ability to be impartial and fair when considering cases that will impact the LGBTQ community.
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more than 70% of LGBTQ voters favor Biden, while only 17% support Trump.
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For you, it's a financial argument. For me, it's a can-I-even-be-in-the-room argument.
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Sun says if Biden is elected, she'll be holding him accountable for the promises he's made to the LGBTQ community.
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How the election affected society and communication across America - USC News - 0 views
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was that social media, which was intended to help people connect with one another, instead has led to the emergence of echo chambers — social bubbles in which people only engage people with whom they agree while they avoid, block, disconnect or dismiss friends, relatives or contacts with different viewpoints.
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We impose our beliefs and our biases on social media to make these echo chambers.”
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people expressing anger about injustice either during or after the election are now very angry and hostile
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“Underneath most anger is fear,”
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“The fact that another candidate can say such disgusting and vulgar things and still be elected — that’s very difficult to accept. There’s a double standard that comes across in this election.”
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“The United States is so concerned with freedom of speech that we’re unwilling to impose sanctions on this, Dundes Renteln said. “There are consequences of that and we’re going to have to come to terms with how to protect civil liberties and civil rights.”