“Officials from Guatemala’s Ministry of Foreign affairs delivered her body to weeping relatives, friends and neighbors.”
“The Congolese asylum seeker who heard her six year old scream, ‘Don’t take me away from my mommy!’ and couldn’t reach her. The woman forced to put her 18 month old in a car seat in an ICE van, the door slamming shut before she could even say goodbye. The man who hasn’t seen his son in six months. The rows of children sleeping on thin mats behind chain-linked fences. The kids being led by guards to make phone calls, hands tied behind their backs. The prison van full of infant car seats.”
“Iran remains one of 33 countries, including the United States, that mete out the ultimate punishment for drug offenses — but it dramatically raised the quantities of drugs needed to merit the death penalty.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/jun/04/youll_never_believe_what_country
“Among the changes to the law Mitchell and the group are calling for are making lying, fabricating evidence, and withholding information a felony, requiring more publicly available information so parents know their rights, eliminating total immunity for state agents, and requiring all parental termination cases to be jury trials.”
“About 200 federal officers blitzed two locations of Corso’s Flower and Garden Center. Agents surrounded the perimeter of the Castalia location, blocking off nearby streets as helicopters flew overhead. Dozens of the workers’ children were left stranded at day-care centers and with babysitters, local activists wrote on social media.”
“The Georgia police officer who was fired for hitting a fleeing suspect with his cop car on Saturday was out of work for just two days.”
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-officer-fired-hitting-fleeing-suspect-car-hired/story?id=55652553
“If Homeland Security were genuinely concerned about public safety, they’d transfer those armed INS agents to serve as security guards in the baggage claim area, and leave intelligent, trained and — what the hell — polite and welcoming passport checkers to handle the paperwork end.”
Read more: https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/05/welcome-to-police-state-america-weary-traveler/
“Today, a federal appeals court reinstated a lawsuit against 24 FBI agents alleging that they had placed or kept law-abiding American Muslims on the No-Fly List in an attempt to coerce the men into spying on their communities.”
“The first leak case of the Trump era, the first head on a pike.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/03/reality-winner-nsa-paul-manafort/
“Brian Ellison walked onto the 5K race course with a GoPro, bullhorn and a message. Police say he violated two city ordinances.”