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Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser was ripped on Sunday for posting a tone deaf tweet about auto theft prevention just days after the deadly carjacking of an Uber Eats driver. Bowser shared a video from DC’s Metro police on “preventing auto thefts” following the death last Tuesday of Mohammad Anwar, who was killed after two two teen girls allegedly stun-gunned and carjacked him. “Auto theft is a crime of opportunity. Follow these steps to reduce the risk of your vehicle becoming a target. Remember the motto, #ProtectYourAuto,” Bowser wrote on Twitter on Sunday. Anwar, 66, died when he was flung from the car
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Makassar, Indonesia—Two attackers blew themselves up outside a packed Roman Catholic cathedral during a Palm Sunday Mass on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, wounding at least 20 people, police said. A video obtained by The Associated Press showed body parts scattered near a burning motorbike at the gates of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi province. Rev. Wilhelmus Tulak, a priest at the church, said he had just finished celebrating Palm Sunday Mass when a loud bang shocked his congregation. He said the blast went off at about 10:30 a.m. as a first batch of churchgoers was walking out
Daily Mail (UK),
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Megan Sheets
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A boy has been arrested in connection with a shooting that killed an eighth grade girl in Virginia after a day-long manhunt. Loved ones identified the victim as Lucia Whalen Bremer, a student at the Quioccasin Middle School in Richmond. She was shot multiple times on Friday afternoon at the Gayton Forest West subdivision and died at an area hospital soon after. Police said the suspected shooter fled the scene immediately after opening fire and was arrested on Saturday afternoon about a half-mile away.(Snip)'Lucia was exceptional; truly one-of-a-kind. She was brave, hardworking, and kind to everyone.
Daily Mail (UK),
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Raven Saunt
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The University of Oxford is considering scrapping sheet music for being 'too colonial' after staff raised concerns about the 'complicity in white supremacy' in music curriculums. Professors are set to reform their music courses to move away from the classic repertoire, which includes the likes of Beethoven and Mozart, in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement.
University staff have argued that the current curriculum focuses on 'white European music from the slave period', according to The Telegraph.(Snip) It claimed that teaching musical notation had 'not shaken off its connection to its colonial past' and would be 'a slap in the face' to some students.
New York Post,
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Georgett Roberts *
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A teenager who keeps getting sprung by judges despite five open weapons-possession cases may finally see the inside of a state prison—he’s facing two years for felony gun possession at a sentencing scheduled for Monday in Brooklyn. The Post highlighted the “revolver door” of justice enjoyed by Raquan Wilson in an exclusive story Friday. A reputed member of the Cripps’ “Folk Nation” gang, Wilson, 19, had four open gun cases in Queens and Brooklyn when he was busted on his fifth gun possession case Sunday—and quickly sprung by a Brooklyn judge thanks to last year’s bail reform rules. Out on a total $26,500 bail,
Reuters,
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Jennifer Gauthier
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North Vancouver, Canada—One person is dead and multiple others were wounded in a stabbing at a public library in an affluent Vancouver suburb on Saturday, and a suspect, who apparently acted alone, was taken into custody.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said "multiple victims" were stabbed inside and outside the North Vancouver Library and that one suspect was in custody. It "appears this was a lone suspect," the RCMP said on Twitter, adding that it was still looking for "potential additional victims." Amy Robertson of B.C. Emergency Health Services said six people were taken to the hospital and that she was unable to release
New York Post,
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Jeffrey Wilson
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3/27/2021 6:37:11 PM
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Meet the million-dollar cop. The police chief of tiny, low-crime Southampton Village—pop. 3,307, with 30 sworn officers—makes more than NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea. That would be the top cop of New York City, pop. 8,300,000, with about 36,000 sworn officers. Chief Thomas Cummings was compensated $441,945.82 last year, according to village documents. His annual base pay was $263,829, easily topping Shea’s $239,092. The village is not exactly a hotbed of crime. It has not had a murder since 2008, and last year reported no homicides, rapes, robberies or aggravated assaults. It did have two car thefts, one burglary, and 42 non-violent
New York Post,
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Eileen AJ Connelly
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Three young men were slapped with a series of gun and assault charges after a gunfight erupted in Virginia Beach, leaving eight people wounded.
The melee was one of three separate incidents that also left two people dead. The chaotic night began around 11:30 p.m. Friday when a fight broke out in a crowd on the main strip in the oceanfront resort city. Multiple shots were fired, and police arrived to find eight people with gunshot wounds, some critically hurt. Ahmon Jaree Adams, 22, of Chesapeake, Virginia, and Nyquez Tyyon Baker, 18, and Devon Maurice Dorsey Jr., 20, both of Virginia Beach,
Daily Mail (UK),
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Steven Fletcher
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Nine US service members who drowned when their amphibious vehicle sank off the coast of California last summer did not have any breathing devices because they had been cut to save money. The nine–eight marines and one sailor—were killed when their 26-ton tank-like Marine landing craft sank in hundreds of feet of water off the coast of Southern California on July 30 after completing routine training.(Snip) Now it has emerged the nine were not carrying breathing devices because the Marine Corps axed them because the $15.9million cost outweighed concerns about a possible catastrophe, says Business Insider. Marines used to each carry
New York Post,
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Gabrielle Fonrouge
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The nation’s very first “vaccine passport” is coming to the Big Apple.
The program, dubbed the “Excelsior Pass,” is an app that will allow New Yorkers to prove their vaccination status, or recent history of a negative COVID-19 test, in order to gain entry to events and businesses, Governor Cuomo announced in a news release Friday. “Similar to a mobile airline boarding pass, individuals will be able to either print out their pass or store it on their smartphones using the Excelsior Pass Wallet app,” the news release explains. “Each Pass will have a secure QR code, which participating businesses and venues
CNBC,
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Thomas Franck
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A vehicle mileage tax could be on the table in talks about how to finance the White House’s expected multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure proposal, according to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Buttigieg, who spoke with CNBC’s Kayla Tausche on Friday, also contended that President Joe Biden’s forthcoming plans to rebuild the nation’s roads, bridges and waterways would lead to a net gain for the U.S. taxpayer and not a net outlay. “When you think about infrastructure, it’s a classic example of the kind of investment that has a return on that investment,” he said.(Snip) “I’m hearing a lot of appetite to make sure
New York Daily News,
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Chris Sommerfeldt
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AOC’s beef with MCC isn’t over yet. New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is alleging that shadowy political forces handpicked former news anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera to primary her last year explicitly because of her “ethnicity” as part of a “disgusting” attempt to confuse voters. Ocasio-Cortez made the blistering claim in a wide-ranging interview this week, charging that “Wall Street” and other unspecified entities selected Caruso-Cabrera for the 2020 primary battle specifically because she’s “also a Latina, down to having a hyphenated last name.” “It was just the most cynical, disgusting thing,” Ocasio-Cortez said in the interview
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Another day, another stabbing, this one including a woman and a 7-year-old boy. CBC says the knife was very large, no ordinary knife, and the attacker was in his 60s. The stabber, as often happens, was also known to the police.