Category Archives: Viva!

Security Concerns Give the White House a Fortified New Look

Don’t Fence Me In – https://youtu.be/4QEM6UAyicA

It increasingly resembles a Washington version of the Green Zone that sheltered American and Iraqi officials in Baghdad.

Pennsylvania man who wrongly spent 23 years on death row is freed

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  • Walter Ogrod’s conviction for 1988 murder overturned
  • Ogrod, now 55, has long protested his innocence

A man who spent more than 23 years on death row in Pennsylvania for a crime he did not commit walked free from jail on Friday.

A judge overturned Walter Ogrod’s conviction in the sexual assault and murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn, his neighbor in Philadelphia, in July 1988.

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Vallejo police kill unarmed 22-year-old, who was on his knees with his hands up

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An officer in the northern California city mistakenly believed Sean Monterrosa had a gun, but it was a hammer in his pocket

Police in northern California fatally shot an unarmed 22-year-old who was on his knees with his hands up outside a Walgreens store while responding to a call of alleged looting, officials said.

An officer in the city of Vallejo was inside his car when he shot Sean Monterrosa on Monday night amid local and national protests against police brutality. Police said an officer mistakenly believed Monterrosa had a gun, but later determined he had a hammer in his pocket.

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