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Charles Pierce | The Republican Healthcare Plan: Gut Medicare and Blame Obama 
 
Charles Pierce, Esquire 
Pierce writes: "My Walk To Work, November 11, 2016: Part Two. Every few days, when I walk to the BlogCave, I stop at a local McDonald's for one of their Triglyceride Festival breakfasts. Every time I've done this, there has been a table full of elderly gents sitting at the same table by the side door." 
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Protests Erupt After Mistrial in Ray Tensing Police Murder Case 
David Boroff and Laura Bult, New York Daily News 
Excerpt: "Protesters filled the streets outside the Cincinnati courthouse where a judge declared a mistrial Saturday in the case of a white University of Cincinnati police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black motorist." 
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Donald Trump's Victory Followed by Wave of Hate Crime Attacks Against Minorities Across US - Led by His Supporters 
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Bottled Water Must Be Delivered to Flint Residents in Lead Crisis, Judge Rules 
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Thousands of Potentially Wrongful Convictions, Years of Delayed Action 
Patrick G. Lee, ProPublica 
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Will Trump's Immigration Crackdown Be a "Cash Machine" for Military and Private Prison Contractors? 
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez and William Hartung, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "Stocks of some companies surged, including the largest private prison contractor, Corrections Corporation of America - which recently changed its name to CoreCivic - whose shares are up 43 percent since Trump's victory. GEO Group, another private prison contractor, is up 21 percent. Meanwhile, stocks also surged for many military contractors, including Raytheon, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Boeing." 
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FDA Suspends Testing Foods for Glyphosate Residues 
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Gillam writes: "Government testing for residues of glyphosate has been put on hold, slowing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) first-ever endeavor to get a handle on just how much of the controversial chemical is making its way into U.S. foods." 
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RSN: US to Sell $5.4 Billion Worth of Missiles to Saudi Arabia, It's Not Climate Change - It's Everything Change, How Mass Incarceration Creates 'Million Dollar Blocks' in Poor Neighborhoods

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Margaret Atwood | It's Not Climate Change - It's Everything Change 
 
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Atwood writes: "The future without oil! For optimists, a pleasant picture. There we are, driving around in our cars fueled by hydrogen, or methane, or solar, or something else we have yet to dream up." 
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Former University of Cincinnati Police Officer Pleads Not Guilty 
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Bittenbender writes: "A judge on Thursday set a bond of $1 million for a former University of Cincinnati campus police officer charged with the murder of an unarmed black man he had stopped for a missing license plate. Ray Tensing, 25, pleaded not guilty at the arraignment." 
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RSN: Video Shows 2 Officers Validating False Account of Samuel DuBose's Killing

Police officer corroborate a false account of Officer Ray Tensing being dragged by Samuel DuBose's car. (photo: Guardian UK)


Video Shows 2 Officers Validating False Account of Samuel DuBose's Killing 
Oliver Laughland, Lauren Gambino and Valerie Lapinski, Guardian UK 
Gottinger writes: "The University of Cincinnati prosecutor announced yesterday that Officer Tensing has been indicted for murder. The prosecutor stated, 'This office has probably reviewed upwards of a hundred police shootings, and this is the first time that we thought this is, without question, a murder.'" 

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Analysis of Cincinnati shooting’s aftermath reveals how multiple officers discussed claim – disputed as the basis of a murder charge – that Ray Tensing was ‘dragged’ by unarmed black man’s car

Editor's Note:

This body camera video, released yesterday, appears to show multiple officers corroborating a false account of what transpired when University of Cincinnati police officer, Ray Tensing, killed Samuel Dubose on July 19 with a single gunshot.

Officer Tensing can be seen telling other officers he was being dragged by Mr. Dubose's car. Another officer confirms that he saw Officer Tensing being dragged. Later in the video, a third officer repeats Officer Tensing's account of the dragging.

However, the video of the actual shooting, which is posted to RSN's homepage and below, shows that no such dragging occurred. In fact, Officer Tensing almost immediately fires at Mr. Dubose as his car only barely inches forward. The car then continues moves forward after Dubose is shot and apparently unconscious.

Later in this video, Officer Tensing justifies the shooting by telling other officers “I thought I was going to get run over. I was trying to stop him.”

The University of Cincinnati prosecutor announced yesterday that Officer Tensing has been indicted for murder. The prosecutor stated, "This office has probably reviewed upwards of a hundred police shootings, and this is the first time that we thought this is, without question, a murder."

No charges have been announced for the officers who corroborated Officer Tensing's story.

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olice officers in Cincinnati appear to have corroborated a false account of the fatal shooting of Samuel DuBose in the immediate aftermath of the incident, a detailed analysis of body-camera video released on Wednesday shows.

DuBose, an unarmed 43-year-old black man, was shot dead by white University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing on 19 July. The officer claimed he was “dragged” by DuBose’s vehicle following an altercation during a routine traffic stop, and was therefore forced to open fire, shooting DuBose once in the head.

On Wednesday, Tensing was indicted for murder after Hamilton County prosecutor Joseph Deters said body-camera footage, which he released at a press conference announcing the charge, showed the officer was not dragged during the encounter.

“It is our belief that he was not dragged. If you slow down this tape you see what happens, it is a very short period of time from when the car starts rolling to when a gun is out and he’s shot in the head,” Deters told reporters on Wednesday.

The footage shows that Tensing falls back, after DuBose is killed instantly by a single shot to the head and immediately chases after the vehicle. Deters said that DuBose’s limp body probably caused the car to accelerate.

A Guardian analysis of the nearly 28 minutes’ worth of Tensing’s body-camera footage released by the prosecutor’s office also shows the aftermath of the shooting and reveals that on three occasions, two other police officers repeat Tensing’s account that he was dragged by DuBose, and one of these officers claims to have witnessed it occurring.

Tensing repeats, multiple times throughout the footage, the claim that he was dragged by DuBose’s vehicle. But at five minutes and 44 seconds into the video, he states: “I think I’m OK. He was just dragging me.”

To which a second officer, who stands out of the frame, replies: “Yeah, I saw that.”

Tensing continues: “I thought I was going to get run over. I was trying to stop him.”

Then, at six minutes and 54 seconds into the footage, while Tensing is seemingly conversing with the same officer, he states: “He was dragging me, man.”

The officer replies, “Yeah.” To which Tensing continues: “I got my hand and my arm caught inside.” The officer then replies, “Yeah, I saw that.”

The identity of this officer is not immediately clear. A copy of the University of Cincinnati police division’s information report on the shooting names university police officer Phillip Kidd as a witness to the entire event.

The information report, written by UC police officer Eric Weibel, states: “Officer Kidd told me that he witnessed the Honda Accord [DuBose’s vehicle] drag Officer Tensing, and that he witnessed Officer Tensing fire a single shot.”

Weibel’s report continues: “Looking at Officer Tensing’s uniform, I could see that the back of his pants and shirt looked as if it had been dragged over a rough surface.”

About 14 minutes into the video, while Tensing is still at the site of the shooting, but has now moved further away from DuBose’s crashed car, he is instructed by a third officer to indicate where the altercation had started.

This officer appears to be a member of the Cincinnati police department and wears a sergeant’s lapel on his arm. He states: “You can talk about anything you want except for what happened [sic]. The only thing that I ask of you is where did it start?”

Tensing replies: “I initiated the traffic stop at Vine and Thill.”

The two officers then clarify the direction Tensing was driving. The sergeant then states: “And, it looks like you got dragged if I’m understanding, looking …”

To which Tensing replies: “Yes.”

The Hamilton County prosecutor’s office did not reply to a question from the Guardian after Deter’s press conference over whether any other officers were being investigated in relation to the incident.

A representative for the UC police referred all questions to the prosecutor’s office. The Cincinnati police department did not respond to a request for comment.

At a rally in Cincinnati on Wednesday night organized by Black Lives Matter, protester James Yaacov Delaney said he thought the responding officers should be held accountable.

“They knew and they had plenty of opportunities to change their story about what occurred and they didn’t,” Delaney told the Guardian, as rain and night fell on Cincinnati.

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Bernie Sanders | Enough Is Enough 
 
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Sanders writes: "You knew then, what the American people are beginning to remember now - that real change takes place when millions of people stand up and say 'enough is enough.'" 
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Video Shows 2 Officers Validating False Account of Samuel DuBose's Killing 
Oliver Laughland, Lauren Gambino and Valerie Lapinski, Guardian UK 
Gottinger writes: "The University of Cincinnati prosecutor announced yesterday that Officer Tensing has been indicted for murder. The prosecutor stated, 'This office has probably reviewed upwards of a hundred police shootings, and this is the first time that we thought this is, without question, a murder.'" 
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Planned Parenthood Sites Hacked for Second Time This Week 
Al Jazeera America and Reuters 
Excerpt: "Early Thursday morning, the site's landing page said 'Our site is not available due to an attack by extremists.'" 
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Rolling Stone Managing Editor Steps Down in Wake of Botched Rape Story 
Margaret Hartmann, New York Magazine 
Hartmann writes: "On Wednesday night, Rolling Stone revealed that Dana, who has served as managing editor since 2005, will depart on August 7. According to the New York Times, he is 'not leaving for another job, and his successor has not been named.'" 
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Ai Weiwei, Chinese Dissident Artist, Denied UK Business Visa Over 'Criminal' History 
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Debris From Boeing 777 on La Reunion Could Be Missing MH370 
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Excerpt: "Debris washed up on La Reunion island in the southern Indian Ocean is 'almost certain' to belong to a Boeing 777 aircraft, Malaysia's deputy transport minister said on Thursday, and could hold clues over the disappearance of missing flight MH370." 
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Rich American Tourists Kill Hundreds of Lions Each Year, and It's All Legal 
Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post 
Ingraham writes: "American tourists - wealthy ones, given the high costs involved - account for the majority of lions killed for sport in Africa." 
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Noam Chomsky | Creating the Horror Chambers 
 
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Police Officer Indicted for Murder in Fatal Shooting of Samuel Dubose 
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Excerpt: "Body camera footage of the shooting of Dubose, 43, an unarmed black man, in the head by white officer Ray Tensing will be released on Wednesday." 
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