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Seattle Police Officer Won’t Be Charged For Shooting Two Unarmed Brothers
BROTHERS ANDRE THOMPSON and BRYSON CHAPLIN.
Fox News Anchor Sues Toy Company For ‘Rodent’ Toy With Her Name And Likeness
HARRIS FAULKNER
PROVIDENCE, R.I. | An an- chor for Fox News is suing Has- bro for more than $5 million over a toy hamster that shares her name — and possibly even her resemblance.
Harris Faulkner sued Hasbro this week over its plas- tic Harris Faulkner hamster, sold as part of the Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based company's popular "Littlest Pet Shop" line. She says the toy wrongfully ap- propriates her name and per- sona, harms her professional credibility as a journalist and is an insult.
"Hasbro's portrayal of Faulkner as a rodent is de- meaning and insulting," says the lawsuit, which was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in New Jersey.
Faulkner has been at Fox News for a decade. She hosts the daytime show "Outnum- bered" and anchors a Sunday evening newscast.
Her lawsuit says in addition to sharing her name, the toy bears a physical resemblance to Faulkner's traditional profes- sional appearance, including its complexion, eye shape and eye makeup design.
The lawsuit says that Faulkner never gave permis- sion for Hasbro to use her name or likeness and that she even demanded in January that Hasbro stop using it. More than three weeks later, it was still for sale on Hasbro's website, the lawsuit contends.
Faulkner is seeking $5 mil- lion in damages and attorney fees, plus any profits the com- pany made on the toy
Judge: Six Separate Trials Ordered For Officers Charge In Death Of Freddie Gray
SEATTLE WA - A Wash- ington state police officer will not face criminal charges after shooting two unarmed Black men suspected of trying to steal beer from a supermarket, a prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.
Officer Ryan Donald, a three-year veteran of the police department in the state capital Olympia, told investigators the men had no weapons during the May incident. No charges will be brought against Don- ald because his use of force was justified, said Anne Larsen, a spokeswoman for the Thurston County prosecuting attorney said.
The Olympia Police Depart- ment will conduct an internal review to determine whether Donald's actions violated any department policies, police chief Ronnie Roberts said in a statement.
The shooting in the city of 48,000 people, only about 2 percent of whom are Black,
triggered street demonstra- tions.
It followed a series of fatal incidents across the nation that have put law enforcement agencies under scrutiny over their use of force, particularly against young black men and other minorities.
During the subsequent con- frontation with police, Donald shot Andre Thompson and Bryson Chaplin, two broth- ers aged 24 and 21. Thomp- son was shot in the abdomen and Chaplin in the chest, neck, back, and arm. Chaplin is paralyzed from the waist down, local media reported.
Thompson told investiga- tors he did not use a skate- board to defend himself and could not remember whether his brother did so.
Larsen, the prosecutor's spokeswoman, said the two suspects did not make any statements and were to be ar- raigned on assault charges later this month.
Six officers faces various charges in his death
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BALTIMORE, MARYLAND -- A Baltimore judge ruled Wednesday there will be sepa- rate trials for each of the six police officers charged in con- nection with the death of Freddie Gray.
The ruling represented a small victory for the defen- dants on a day that Circuit Court Judge Barry G. Williams earlier denied two key defense motions in the case -- one seeking its dis- missal for alleged prosecutor- ial misconduct and another calling for prosecutor Mari- lyn Mosby to recuse herself.
Prosecutors had asked that three of the six officers be tried together; defense lawyers ar- gued for separate trials for each.
Williams said holding the trials together as the prosecu- tion requested "is not in the in- terest of justice."
Wednesday's pretrial hear- ing came almost five months after Gray suffered a fatal spinal injury while being transported in a police van. Gray's death in April sparked days of unrest in a city of more than 600,000 people about 40 minutes northeast of the na- tion's capital.
More than a dozen attor- neys for the six Baltimore po- lice officers charged in Gray's death pressed the court to drop the charges -- and for Mosby to at least recuse her- self. They said Mosby's office
FREDDIE GRAY ...died while in police cus-
tody
had issued orders for police to crack down on the area where Gray was arrested.
Andrew Graham, an at- torney for Officer Caesar R. Goodson Jr., told Williams that Mosby was reckless and unprofessional by pressing for convictions in an attempt to restore order in Baltimore when she announced the charges in May.
The judge said that while he found some of Mosby's statement and actions "trou- bling," they "do not rise to the level" of having the charges dismissed outright or preclude the defendants from having a fair trial.
The six officers face charges ranging from assault to mur- der. All six have pleaded not guilty. The officers were not in court Wednesday.
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