Monday, July 21, 2025

Ex-police officer sentenced to 33 months for violating Breonna Taylor's rights

A photograph of a young Black woman pasted on a sign is held by a demonstrator.

Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison was sentenced on Monday to 33 months in prison for violating Breonna Taylor's rights during the botched 2020 drug raid in which she was shot and killed, after the U.S. Justice Department asked the judge to sentence him to a single day.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/breonna-taylor-hankison-sentencing-1.7590141?cmp=rss

Trump is serious about wanting Washington Commanders to revert to Redskins: White House

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A day after Donald Trump threatened to hold up a deal for a new football stadium in the nation's capital if the Washington Commanders did not go back to the name Redskins, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president's comments were not a joke.



source https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/nfl/donald-trump-washington-commanders-name-change-redskins-nfl-1.7590431?cmp=rss

The Cosby Show star Malcolm-Jamal Warner dead at 54

A bearded man, with a black high-top haircut and wearing a black suit, smiles as he poses for a photo.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known for playing Bill Cosby's son on the hit NBC sitcom The Cosby Show, has died at the age of 54, according to multiple U.S. media reports. 



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/malcolm-jamal-warner-obituary-1.7590147?cmp=rss