CEDs can readily be used as instruments of torture; they are designed to control through incapacitation, but also through inflicting pain. These devices have no legitimate place in the Santa Clara County prison system. I encourage fellow citizens to write to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and speak forcefully against the deployment of CEDs in the prison system.
Seven million Americans disproved the lie that these rallies were "Hate America." The Walnut Creek rally I attended was jammed with peaceful protesters showing they love America. They want decency, the Constitution and the rule of law. They don't want a country that is anti-science, anti-health and anti-democracy - and sicker because of it. Climate change is a prime example, a human health emergency, yet this administration is stomping out science and hiding the data, while dismantling the democracy we depend on to change direction.
Violent demonstrations broke out in Tanzania's largest city, Dar es Salaam, as the country held an election on Wednesday. Samia Suluhu Hassan, the president, is expected to strengthen her grip on the country against the backdrop of rapidly intensifying repression and the exclusion of opponents from the presidential contest. Social media videos show protesters throwing rocks at police, and a petrol station burning.
This wakes me up at night. They're telling me what it is that I've done with my life, and what I should do next, and that what I think is meaningless. People want to take what I've done that means so much to millions of people and wipe me out. But this is not theirs to take from me - and I don't consider I'm a bad person.
Police on Sunday fired teargas to disperse hundreds of opposition supporters in Cameroon, a day before the announcement of presidential election results. Demonstrators in Cameroon's largest city, Douala, defied protest bans to support opposition candidate Issa Tchiroma Bakary, who they claim beat the country's longtime leader Paul Biya. "We want Tchiroma, we want Tchiroma!" chanted protesters who barricaded roads.
Two former employees were arrested in Santa Rosa Saturday in connection to the homicide of Mark Calcagni, the general manager of San Francisco's Condor Club. Police suspect Richard Lund, 43, and Asia Morton, 25, who were in a romantic relationship and worked for Calcagni at one of the venues he managed, planned the killing. [KPIX] Police in the town of Watsonville in Monterey County are searching for two 12-year-old runaways a girl and a boy, who were involved in two hit-and-run collisions.
Residents living in the refugee and asylum centre describe what the past week has been like behind a garda cordon. Protests outside the Citywest Hotel are not unusual. For more than a month before last week's unrest, local residents had demonstrated two or three times a week against the State's purchase of the hotel. "But they just walked around near the entrance with a loudspeaker and placards, shouting slogans. We had got used to that," said Ukrainian resident Svitlana (not her real name; she and the other residents quoted asked for anonymity).
I spoke with Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez, who confirmed through her communications with ICE that Border Patrol operations are cancelled for the greater Bay Area - which includes Oakland - at this time.
Multiple security personnel opened fire Thursday night at a U-Haul truck that had been backing up to the entrance to Coast Guard Island, where protesters had spent the day rallying against the planned arrival of federal immigration agents. It was not immediately clear whether anyone was injured in the shooting, which happened at about 10 p.m. and was captured by camera crews for television station KTVU.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban led what he called a "peace march," stressing his opposition to military support for Ukraine, while his main challenger, Peter Magyar of the Tisza Party, led a competing protest. In an address to the crowd in front of parliament, Orban reiterated his opposition to EU military aid for Ukraine as well as potential EU and NATO membership for the country.
Viral footage shows the moment armed police rush a gunman who opened fire outside Serbia's parliament in Belgrade on Wednesday, wounding one man and setting a pro-government tent encampment ablaze. The videos also show a fire tearing through a tent near the building as gunshots can be heard ringing out. The tents had been set up by supporters of President Aleksandar Vucic while he faces ongoing protests demanding new elections. Local reports said a 57-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound and is in stable condition.
In Monona, a suburban city of around 9,000 residents just outside the capital city of Madison, around 400 people lined one of the busiest corners of the main street of the city. Protesters held signs in opposition to President Donald Trump, took part in cross-street chanting, and encouraged vehicles to honk their car horns in support - which dozens of cars did.
Welcome to the age of slop spectacle, where AI horrors are flushed down to you from the very top. On Saturday night, sitting president of the United States of America Donald Trump shared an extraordinarily bizarre AI-generated video of himself piloting a fighter jet labelled "KING TRUMP" while strafing droves of peaceful protestors with multiple barrages of - we swear we are not making this up - liquid diarrhea.
Organizers expected about 150 to 200,000 people, but we just spoke to one of the organizers, and they said that they now believe the number was closer to 300,000. So that's a 50% increase from the first time that we saw these protests. For anyone who doesn't remember, that was Trump's birthday. That was the day of the military parade. That shocked and alarmed a lot of Americans.
