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The family of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court Wednesday, alleging police conspired with city officials to cover up the details surrounding the tragic event.
As we previously covered, the young girl was asleep on a couch in her home when police mistakenly raided the wrong home, launching a flash-bang grenade into the residence and fatally shooting the sleeping child.
The raid was conducted on May 16, 2010 when police were looking for murder suspect Chauncey Owens, who lived in a separate unit.
According to Officer Joseph Weekley, a fellow officer threw a flash-bang grenade through the window, …read more

Port Acres, TX – After setting a legal precedent for medical marijuana use in the state of Texas, courts are now going back on their decision allowing an epileptic man to use his medication during probation.
Last month, we reported on the case of Jeremy Bourque, an epileptic, and self-prescribed medical marijuana patient. He was facing jail time for growing three marijuana plants; the intended use of which being personal medical consumption. Jeremy had contacted us with the good news that not only was he able to avoid jail time, but the terms of his probation would also allow for him …read more

On the evening of April 2, the leaders of seven political parties in Great Britain debated each other. All seven party leaders appear to have performed without making any obvious gaffes. See this story. Also, here is another story. For another, see this story. Each of these three articles is quite different from the others. …read more

Richmond, VA — A disturbing video surfaced on YouTube Wednesday showing the apparent aftermath of a police involved shooting.
The video shows a man laying on the ground in handcuffs, with a bullet wound to the chest. He’s looking around and asking officers who shot him, when the cop who shot him responds.
“Why the f**k did you shoot me?” asks the man. “I didn’t point sh*t at you man!”
“You pointed a gun,” the cop replies. “You’re lucky I didn’t shoot you in the head.”
The onlookers then erupt in anger after hearing such words.
It is unclear whether or not the man had …read more

In a video uploaded to Facebook on Wednesday, Michael Cates filmed a disturbing interaction between police and retired truck driver, Russel Ayers. The recording shows police threatening Ayers with incarceration after he refused to apologize to an officer, after calling him a “f*cking asshole.”
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The confrontation took place after the officer’s partner allegedly came close to plowing through a group of bikers on Highway 62 in Thomasville, North Carolina. The cruiser was reportedly going 100 mph in a 60 mph zone, with no siren or lights.
“All I want you to do is apologize for what you called my brother, the guy …read more

The Alabama bill that improves ballot access for newly-qualifying parties and non-presidential independent candidates has cleared the Senate Rules Committee and may receive a vote on the Senate floor as early as Thursday, April 2. Thanks to Joshua Cassity for this news. …read more

Beth Clarkson, chief statistician for the National Institute for Aviation Research, and a Kansas, has been studying November 2014 Kansas election returns, and she has noted odd patterns in the precinct voting returns. On April 1 she filed a lawsuit in state court to obtain records that would help her to investigate further. See this story. UPDATE: See here for more about Clarkson. Thanks to Rick Hasen for the link. …read more

Almost a year ago we launched an option to see bitcoin amounts in bits in your Coinbase wallet. One bitcoin is equal to 1,000,000 bits, and, like many people, we at Coinbase believe that bits will eventually be the common way people send bitcoin in everyday payments.

Today we’re launching 3 improvements to our bits integration – and in addition, bits will be the default for all new customers signing up. Existing customers can enable (or disable) bits at any time on the settings page.

These changes are live today on web and will be available in our mobile apps in the …read more

We’re excited to announce support for iDEAL, a popular payment method in the Netherlands, for buying bitcoin on Coinbase. To get started visit your accounts page, click on your EUR wallet (if you have one), and then click “Deposit”. Coinbase users with accounts at the following banks can now fund their EUR wallet via iDEAL:

ABN AMRO
ASN Bank
ING
Knab
Rabobank
RegioBank
SNS Bank
Triodos Bank
Van Lanschot
Customers using iDEAL who later want to cash out their euro wallet can do so via SEPA. The ability to buy and sell bitcoin on Coinbase is available in 24 countries worldwide. If we don’t yet support your country, sign up …read more

New York City, N.Y. – Comedian Chris Rock has never been one to hold his tongue and is well known for using his comedy as a means of social commentary. One of his past routines entitled “How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked By The Police,” may have come in handy this past Monday, when Rock uploaded a photo of himself being stopped by police to his Twitter account.
Stopped by the cops again wish me luck. pic.twitter.com/6t0wlgwkrJ
— Chris Rock (@chrisrock) March 31, 2015

This marks the third time in the past seven weeks that Rock has been pulled over by police.
Last …read more