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Sarasota Police Taser And Beat Man Having Medical Issue
Natural Hair Accessory Company Hosting First Event
Chad Washington is in jail after fiancee called 9-11 for medical help for him. Black Lives Matter Manasota marches after video of police brutality against Washington was released.
SARASOTA, FL —- Activists came together against police brutality Sunday and called for the firing of two officers after the brutal videotaped arrest of a Black man in Sarasota, Florida.
Black Lives Matter Mana- sota held a protest for Chad Washington, a 35-year-old man who was violently re- strained and tasered by Sara- sota police—and then charged with assaulting officers. The group released a portion of the video of Washington’s ar- rest, taking place in front of his
children at his home on last Thursday.
According to the police, they arrived to assist para- medics after a 9-11 call. Washington opened the door, and then closed it on them. They say they were able to push open the door, and Washington allegedly began punching officers and contin- ued to punch, kick and bite of- ficers for several minutes before they were able to hand- cuff him and take him into cus- tody.
Darnesha McMillan,
Washington’s fiancee, who said she called 911 because he began to vomit and foam at the mouth, is giving a different ac- count of what happened when police arrived.
Black Lives Matter is stand- ing by McMillan’s account.
Washington is in jail, and has multiple bruises, and a broken nose.
According to police, Wash- ington was found in posses- sion of MDMA, who said they believe he was under the influ- ence of spice and was delirious at the time.
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Linda Brown, Of Historic Brown Vs. Board Of Education Has Died
AGs In 37 States Demand Answers In Facebook Scandal
Facebook’s stock dropped in early morning trading as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a statement con- firming that it is investigating the social network’s privacy practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scan- dal.
Meanwhile, 37 state attor- ney generals are demanding answers from Facebook about its business practices and safe- guards to protect users’ pri- vacy.
The FTC’s consumer protec- tion bureau issued a statement that it’s firmly committed to protecting consumer privacy, and will use enforcement ac- tions against those companies that fail to live up to their promises.
The agency’s investigation will focus on whether the Cam- bridge Analytica data leak, in which the personal informa- tion of 50 million Facebook users was collected without their consent, violated a con- sent decree reached in 2011 re- garding the social network’s handling of personal user data. “We remain strongly commit-
Facebook CEO Mark Zucker- berg.
ted to protecting people’s in- formation. We appreciate the opportunity to answer ques- tions the FTC may have,” Rob Sherman, Facebook’s deputy chief privacy officer, said in a statement.
As for the letter from those 37 state AGs: “As the chief law enforcement officers of our re- spective states, we place a pri- ority on protecting user privacy, which has been re- peatedly placed at risk because of businesses’ failure to prop- erly ensure those protections,” they wrote.
Linda Brown at age 9, was the focal point of the landmark Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board Of Education defended, by Thurgood Marshall in the 1950s that desegregated public schools. Ms. Brown has died, she was 75.
TOPEKA, KS — Linda Brown, who as a little 9-year- old girl was at the center of the Brown v. Board of Education case that ended segregation in American schools, has died.
Friends of Brown recalled a quiet girl thrust into promi- nence who persevered to be- come a focal point of the landmark 1954 U. S. Supreme Court decision.
Brown died Sunday. She was 75.
The court ruled in May 1954 that "separate educational fa- cilities are inherently unequal,"
a violation of the 14th Amend- ment of the US Constitution, which states that no citizen can be denied equal protection under the law.
Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP's special counsel and lead counsel for the plaintiffs, argued the case before the Supreme Court.
The ruling overturned Plessy v. Ferguson, which es- tablished the separate but equal doctrine that formed the legal basis for Jim Crow laws.
The court directed schools to desegregate "with all delib-
erate speed," but it failed to es- tablish a firm timetable for doing so. The Supreme Court would outline the process of school desegregation in Brown II in 1955, but it would take years for schools across the na- tion to fully comply.
Her sister, Cheryl Brown Henderson, founding presi- dent of The Brown Founda- tion, confirmed the death.
Though Linda Brown often stayed out of the spot- light, friends, fellow Topekans and state lawmakers remem- bered her legacy Monday.
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