Barovskaya, who was at work, said that when her daughter called, “I could hear the doorbell ringing non-stop. She was hysterical … It was very scary.” The men at Barovskaya’s apartment door were police officers who came to talk about her involvement in peaceful protests following the contentious presidential elections. While she was on the phone with her daughter, police arrived at her office and took her to the police station. For five hours, they questioned Barovskaya about her posts on social media and threatened that her “support for the power-grabbers” would ruin her daughter’s budding sports career. When they let her leave, she frantically called her daughter and found out the girl did not open the door and the police eventually left. Source: Belarus Uses Children to Pressure Dissenting Parents | Human Rights Watch
Daily Archives: October 8, 2020
Meiler Recalls 26 Cantaloupe Products for Salmonella
The multi-state recall involves whole cantaloupe and select cut cantaloupe fruit trays and bowls in various weights ranging from 6–40 ounces sold between Sept. 26 and Oct. 5 of this year at all Meijer stores in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin. There have been no illnesses reported to date.
Whole cantaloupe and select cut cantaloupe fruit trays and bowls are recalled across six states.
Don’t Let Amazon Get Any Bigger
Sorry, I don’t get the problem. Amazon is actually hundreds of small businesses an in some ways more like a co-op – such as Welch’s which is owned by more than 900 farmer families who grow our grapes.
A damning congressional report about Big Tech helps make the case to break up Jeff Bezos’ empire.
Supreme Court rejects GOP effort to block mail voting in Montana
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a bid by Republicans and the Trump campaign to block mail voting in Montana.The emergency application was denied by Justice Elena Kagan without any additio…
USDA’s Perdue fined for violating Hatch Act while promoting food boxes
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue was found to have violated the Hatch Act in August by encouraging voters to support President Trump at an event to promote the Farmers to Families Food Box Program.In…
Texas police officer fired after being charged with murder in fatal shooting of Jonathan Price
The Wolf City Police Department on Thursday fired the Texas police officer charged with murder in the fatal shooting of 31-year-old Black man Jonathan Price, calling the officer’s actions an “egregious violation of …
Black Boston jogger stopped by ICE agents, prompting outcry from local officials: ‘Outrageous’
A Black man captured a video of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents stopping him during a jog in Boston this week, prompting an outcry from local officials.
Police recorded offering to turn blind eye to prayer against COVID rules – The Jerusalem Post (politics first, health of all citizens second)
A police commander in the ultra-Orthodox city of Modiin Illit made an offer this week to an influential individual within the extremist Jerusalem Faction group that the police would ignore mass prayer indoors as long as the congregation pretended to disperse.
The revelation comes following allegations against the Jerusalem police that similar deals had been struck with extremist hassidic communities in Mea Shearim during the course of the recent holiday season.
Source: Police recorded offering to turn blind eye to prayer against COVID rules – The Jerusalem Post
Dozens infected, nine dead in COVID-19 outbreak at a Santa Cruz County nursing home
A skilled nursing home in Santa Cruz County is suffering a severe outbreak of COVID-19, with 61 people having tested positive and nine dead, a county health spokeswoman said Thursday.
Of the 61 infected at the Watsonville Post-Acute Center, nine were staff. All those who died were residents and ranged in age from their early 70s to 90s, said Corinne Hyland, a public information officer for the county Department of Public Health. The facility is licensed for 95 beds.
A severe outbreak of coronavirus infection at a nursing home in Santa Cruz County has led to 61 cases and nine fatalities.
Companies slam Trump ally Harlan Hill after vulgar attack on Kamala Harris
Hill will no longer be allowed to appear on Fox News, the network said Thursday.
Both American Airlines and AT&T distanced themselves from him on Thursday and demanded he stop using their names and logo on his website.
“We have found no record of this person working for us, and he certainly never will in the future. We have contacted him and demanded he remove our name and logo from his website,” Jim Greer, a spokesman for AT&T, told CNBC.
Source: Companies slam Trump ally Harlan Hill after vulgar attack on Kamala Harris
