An 11-year-old boy called 911 about a domestic disturbance at his home. The police arrived and shot the child.
The boy, Aderrien Murry, survived the shooting but “almost lost his life,” said his attorney, Carlos Moore. on Facebook livestream earlier this week.
Murry was airlifted to the hospital and suffered a collapsed lung, lacerated liver, and broken ribs. He is still “suffering mentally and emotionally,” Moore said at a press conference Thursday at Indianola City Hall in Mississippi.
Murry called 911 early Saturday morning at the request of his mother, Nakala Murry, who was arguing with the father of one of her children. Police were told the man, who was unarmed, came out the back door and that three children were inside the home, according to Moore.
Police told everyone in the house to get out with their hands up, prompting Aderien Murry to come out of his room. The officer “shot him immediately with his hands up, and he was coming around the corner,” Moore said Thursday.
The officer who shot the boy, Greg Capers, has been placed on paid leave.
Meet Sgt. Greg Capers of the Indianola Police Department. He is the police officer who shot and killed unarmed 11-year-old Aderrien Murry after the boy called 911 to help his mother. So far, neither the chief nor the city has explained anything about the couple’s actions. #JusticeForAderrienMurry pic.twitter.com/4xSDL6cD4i
— Attorney Carlos Moore (@Esquiremoore) May 26, 2023
Moore and Murry are asking the Indianola Police Department to release the dash cam footage of the incident.
“We cannot continue to tolerate a system that allows police officers to use lethal force with impunity,” Moore said in a statement. words. “We must seek justice for this young man and his family.”
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is now investigating the shooting.
The man who threatened Nakala Murry was taken to the police station but released. according to CNN. He said the police released him because he did not file a report against him. “When will I have time to do that? I was in the hospital with my son.”
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Governments are strictly following the constitution. A new paper published in Review of international organizations provides a database “that measures compliance with national governments and laws”:
It includes information on de jure constitution and their data Then implementation. Individual compliance indicators can be divided into four categories that we combine into an overall compliance indicator: property and legal rights, political rights, civil rights, and civil rights. The database covers 175 countries for the period 1900 to 2020 and can be used by researchers who are interested in investigating the monitoring or consequences of (non-compliance) laws. Our analysis of compliance policies in this country shows a long-term increase in compliance, which occurred mainly around 1990. The Americas saw a significant increase in compliance, while Africa and Europe changed especially at the end of the Cold War. Democracies – especially those with parliamentary and mixed systems – show more rule of law than democracies, where military regimes do worse. The structure of the constitution is also important: Laws that allow the dismissal of the head of state or government for breaking the law are followed by many others.
You can read it full paper here.
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The decision of the Supreme Court yesterday in Sackett v. EPA limits the federal government’s control over wetlands. The court held that the Clean Water Act (CWA) applies to “wetlands that are in continuous contact with bodies that are ‘waters of the United States’ in themselves” and are “not identified” with those waters, thus rejecting the lower court. A broad overview of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) jurisdiction in other areas.
The case stems from a dispute over the property of Michael and Chantell Sackett. The Sacketts wanted to fill their Priest Lake, Idaho, and build a house there. But the EPA said the site is a wetland, so the backlog violates the CWA’s ban on dumping pollutants into the water. “waters of the United States.”
The EPA defined the Sacketts’ site as a wetland because it was located near a ditch that fed into a stream that fed a passing lake, located on land. The Sacketts said their property does not contain “waters of the United States.”
The US District Court and the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit agreed with the EPA. Now, the Supreme Court has sided with Sacketts. From Volokh’s plot:
According to Justice Alito, this means that wetlands that have continuous surface water flow or are directly connected to it can be regulated as part of the waters of the United States, wetlands that are “separate” from such waters cannot be, even if they meet the broad definition of “contiguous.” He wrote:
In short, we believe that the CWA extends only to wetlands that are “as a common feature of waters of the United States.” Rapanos, 547 US, at 755 (plurality opinion) (emphasis omitted). This requires the party to have control over the neighboring swamps to establish “first, where [body of water constitutes] . . . ‘water[s] of the United States,’ (eg, permanent waters connected to traditional navigable waters); and secondly, that wetlands are continuously connected to the water, making it difficult to determine where ‘water’ ends and ‘wetland’ begins. Idto ,742.
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Becauseand Ronald Bailey wrote about this yesterday, calling the Court’s ruling a “clear statement.” Cause TV covered the issue in a video earlier this year:
GOOD EDUCATION
• One hundred years ago this week, US The Attorney General allowed women to wear pants.
• Prison officials refused to give Dexter Barry a heart transplant. After days, he was dead.
• Psychologist Lisa Damour thinks that the main issue with children and mobile phones or other digital technology is that it is taking away sleep.
• “How did the Internet become puritanical?” he asks Come on Romano Vox.
• President Joe Biden is accepting the minimum legal requirement for drug offenses again.
• “As details of the upcoming bipartisan loan are just days away from loan defaults, investors are becoming increasingly unhappy,” reports Politics.
• South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster just signed into law a measure to prevent multiple abortions after six weeks of pregnancy (which equates to only four weeks of gestation and about two weeks from the time the pregnancy is detected).
• Minnesota Governor Tim Walz vetoed a bill that would have boosted the rideshare industry by imposing a minimum wage on drivers. Walz’s veto comes after “Uber threatened to suspend operations in greater Minnesota — outside the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area — if the bill is signed into law,” CBS News reported. reports.
• “The Republican-led committee of the Texas House of Representatives recommended Thursday that the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, be impeached for various abuses by his office that committee investigators said were crimes,” he said. documents The New York Times.