News Roundup 2/18/19

by | Feb 18, 2019

News Roundup 2/18/19

by | Feb 18, 2019

Police Abuse

  • A Houston police officer is being investigated after lies he told led to police killing two people. [Link]
  • A Baltimore judge vacates a jury’s decision to award victims of a police shooting $38 million. One of the victims is a young woman killed by police, and the other is her child who was shot by police and survived. The judge claims the police officer has qualified immunity. [Link]
  • A Montana police officer has been charged with 80 counts of sexual abuse of children. [Link]
  • A Florida police officer is on leave after a video surfaced of him hitting a handcuffed man. [Link]
  • An 11-year-old boy was arrested at school for threatening a teacher. The teacher told the boy to leave the country because he found the pledge of allegiance to be racist. [Link]  

Trump’s Wall

  • Trump declares a national emergency allowing him to reallocate funding for building a wall on the southern border. [Link]

Social Media

  • Facebook suspends the accounts of three pages because the pages did not disclose links to the Russian government. It is not standard Facebook policy to require pages to disclose parent companies or foreign funding. [Link]
  • Twitter deletes a Tweet From Iran’s Supreme Leader that reasserts the execution order against Salman Rushdie. [Link]

Venezuela

  • A leaked State Department email shows the US is moving 250 million tons of humanitarian aid to Venezuela’s border. [Link]
  • The US sanctions five top Venezuelan military and intelligence officials. [Link]
  • Maduro claims member of his government has had talks with the US government. The US did not confirm or deny having talks with the Maduro. [Link]

Turkey

  • Turkey plans to move forward with the purchase of S-400 air defense from Russia. The US has threatened to end the sale of Patriot air defense and F-35s to Turkey if Turkey buys the S-400. [Link]
  • Turkey is demanding that only Turkish forces are deployed to the safe zones in northern Syria. [Link]

Kyle Anzalone

Kyle Anzalone

Kyle Anzalone is news editor of the Libertarian Institute, opinion editor of Antiwar.com and co-host of Conflicts of Interest with Will Porter and Connor Freeman.

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