2023-05-17: News Headlines

Jonathan Turley (2023-05-16). America's State Media: The Blackout on Biden Corruption Is Truly 'Pulitzer-level Stuff'. globalresearch.ca

Fight Back (2023-05-17). Denver continues fight for justice in case of mass police shooting. fightbacknews.org Denver, CO – A dozen concerned residents rallied Saturday, May 13, to demand justice in the case of a police shooting that wounded seven last summer. As bars were letting out in Lower Downtown on the night of July 17, 2022, three DPD officers attempted to stop 21-year-old Jordan Waddy who they suspected of being involved in an altercation earlier that evening. | Bodycam footage shows that, after Waddy had disarmed himself and put his hands in the air, Officers Brandon Ramos, Meagan Lieberson and Kenneth Rowland opened fire on him with no regard for the large crowd of bystanders all around them. Ramos, the only of…

Fight Back (2023-05-17). Atlanta police doubles down on attacks on Cop City protesters. fightbacknews.org Atlanta, GA – Several activists were arrested and charged with felonies for the crime of hanging up flyers demanding justice for Manuel "Tortuguita'' Terán, a forest defender who was shot 57 times and murdered by Georgia State Patrol in January 2023. | The three people arrested are being charged with felony 'intimidation of an officer', which falls under Georgia's domestic terrorism laws, and are facing 20 years in jail for posting flyers on mailboxes in Cartersville, a suburb in north metro Atlanta. All three arrested are being denied bail and held in solitary confinement. The bogus charges and unjust…

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