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ap215 wrote: Sun Aug 07, 2022 8:27 am Nine injured in shooting at Cincinnati bar

Nine people were injured in a shooting outside a bar in Cincinnati early Sunday, officials said.

Cincinnati Police Department (CPD) Assistant Chief Michael John told reporters that the shooting victims were transported to a nearby medical facility, adding that none were in critical condition.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watc ... nnati-bar/
But these things only happen on days ending in a "y." :roll:
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ap215 wrote: Sun Aug 07, 2022 8:27 am Nine injured in shooting at Cincinnati bar

Nine people were injured in a shooting outside a bar in Cincinnati early Sunday, officials said.

Cincinnati Police Department (CPD) Assistant Chief Michael John told reporters that the shooting victims were transported to a nearby medical facility, adding that none were in critical condition.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watc ... nnati-bar/
OTR mass shooting injures 9
...Police have not made any arrests, but said they are searching for "at least two" people who fired weapons during the incident....
...Lt. Col. Mike John said it is unclear if any of the suspects were among the nine wounded but encouraged anyone with information about what happened to report it to police.....
...Police said that just after 1:30 a.m. officers assigned to the Civil Disturbance Response Team came to the corner to disperse a large crowd. While officers were at the scene, shots rang out. John said surveillance video showed a physical altercation in the crowd and then a suspect firing into it.....
.....Cincinnati Police Officer Joseph Shook fired one round at one of the shooting suspects who then fled, John said. After that suspect fled toward Zeigler Park, more shots were heard coming from the south on Main Street leading police to believe at least two people fired.....
....In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, the large crowd remained and police were struggling to make way for medics, John said.

Some officers used "bang balls," loud explosives that are rolled on the ground, to move the crowd back quickly, John said. Other officers found people who had been shot and started rendering first aid. In recent years, officers have been carrying tourniquets for situations just like this, and John said several were used by officers on Main Street......
....He said a small number of people cannot seem to solve their problems or disputes without reaching for a gun. Johnson said the people and business owners in Over-the-Rhine do not deserve to become victims due to these individuals' "ridiculous beefs."....
A little history of the region

Over-The-Rhine: Is this a model for urban renewal or a warning sign?
This Cincinnati neighbourhood has a storied history. Today, it's the scene of a major urban renewal effort that's prompted no small controversy.

On a typical, pre-pandemic weekend, thousands of people would descend on Cincinnati's revitalised Over-The-Rhine district just north of downtown.

Revellers would come to lounge on the grass in Washington Park, shop at any of the dozens of elegant new boutiques or meet for a beer at Rhinegeist Brewery's vast beer hall.

Over-The-Rhine, or OTR as it's better known, didn't always have a reputation as a place to kick back and relax.

Twenty years ago this April, police shot and killed Timothy Thomas, a 19-year-old unarmed black man wanted for outstanding traffic and other non-violent misdemeanours.

The anger fuelled by his death resulted in some of the worst rioting the country experienced since the Los Angeles unrest of 1992, and led to millions of dollars in property damage.

It marked an era of decline and neglect for the area, and by 2009 Over-The-Rhine ranked among America's most dangerous districts.

Since then, however, much of the district has undergone a massive and expensive regeneration process, and in many ways now finds itself almost unrecognisable from the past - for better or worse......
from 2017
The owners of an Over-the-Rhine bar accused of racist dress code policy have had brushes with controversy in the past
....“My friend and I were not granted access to your establishment basically because we were black,” Williams wrote in a review of the bar. “The doorman said, ‘I can’t let you in with those chains on.’ I retorted, ‘but they’re fake.’ He replied, ‘It doesn’t matter. Your look is too urban.’

“I could respect it if we were simply told there was a dress code… but the way your establishment works, like many others in gentrified OTR or Northside, you make it hard for people of color to want to come to your establishments.”

Facebook posts from others claiming to have experienced similar treatment soon followed, as well as a deluge of negative comments from people who had — and had not — visited the bar. Other commenters supported the bar, but the balance tipped toward angry, one-star reviews......
There's Another Racist Cop, and 8 Other Greater Cincinnati News Stories You May Have Missed This Week

City Council approves controversial $80M housing development in OTR, with no affordable units

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdx2A-oe3kw

Prosecutor: Cincinnati private police tickets unreliable, won't be enforced

When Private Security Patrols Public Streets

a lot of the tension, irresponsibilities, provocation leads back to business folks, private police and economic groups and racial and economic prejudgements. wonder if they are the shooters as well.
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Police release names of two men killed at Henderson homeless shelter

HENDERSON, Ky. − Two people were killed and two others were wounded at a Kentucky homeless shelter after police say a resident opened fire just as church services ended there Thursday night.

The shooting occurred about 7:40 p.m. at the Harbor House Christian Center at 804 Clay St. in Henderson. About 15 people were inside at the time, Henderson City Commissioner Robert Pruitt said.

https://www.courierpress.com/story/news ... 457565007/
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Gunman opens fire at East Bend shopping center, inside Safeway: 3 people dead, including shooter

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A gunman armed with a rifle and shotgun fired several shots in the parking lot of a northeast Bend shopping center Sunday evening, then entered a Safeway and fired numerous more shots, killing two people and sending shoppers scrambling for the exits. Officers also found the shooter dead inside the store.

Police Chief Mike Krantz told reporters at a late-night news conference they believe the man entered the shopping center parking lot from a neighborhood behind it.

https://ktvz.com/news/crime-courts/2022 ... g-shooter/
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Suspect in custody after deadly string of random shootings in Detroit: Police

The city of Detroit was on edge after police said a single gunman randomly shot four victims, three fatally, in 2 hours and 25 minutes Sunday morning.

The sole survivor of the killing rampage, an 80-year-old man, described being shot after spotting the suspect looking into cars and confronting him, police said.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/detroit-edge- ... d=88973982
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ap215 wrote: Mon Aug 29, 2022 8:29 am Gunman opens fire at East Bend shopping center, inside Safeway: 3 people dead, including shooter

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A gunman armed with a rifle and shotgun fired several shots in the parking lot of a northeast Bend shopping center Sunday evening, then entered a Safeway and fired numerous more shots, killing two people and sending shoppers scrambling for the exits. Officers also found the shooter dead inside the store.

Police Chief Mike Krantz told reporters at a late-night news conference they believe the man entered the shopping center parking lot from a neighborhood behind it.

https://ktvz.com/news/crime-courts/2022 ... g-shooter/
Congress passed a ban on assault rifles

Oregon Safeway worker tried to disarm gunman who fatally shot 2: What we know

Still a 66 year old person at work is left to fight a 20 year old in body armour while being shot and killed by an assault rifle.
...Officers found the shooter dead near an AR-15-style rifle and a shotgun. Police did not say how the gunman died, and he has not been identified.....
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NYC council debates which parts of Times Square will be off limits to concealed carrying of guns

NEW YORK CITY -- The crossroads of the world is at the center of a New York City Council hearing on the state's new gun laws.

The New York City Council on Tuesday debated which parts of Times Square will be off limits to the concealed carrying of guns.

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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner: arrest after attempted shooting of Argentina vice-president

A man has been arrested after a handgun was aimed at point-blank range at Argentina’s vice-president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, in what the government described as an apparent assassination attempt.

Fernández de Kirchner survived only because the pistol – which was loaded with five bullets – did not fire, President Alberto Fernández said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... tained-gun
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Congress passed a ban on assault weapons

The school at the center of the Uvalde, Texas, shooting will be torn down
Robb Elementary School, where a gunman walked into the building in late May and killed 21 people in Uvalde, Texas, will be demolished and rebuilt, the school district announced Tuesday.....
...The school will be demolished so "students and staff will not have to return to the building at the site of the tragedy," it said....
You can tear a building down but you cant erase a memory like this

'I'm mentally preparing myself': Uvalde students, teachers face new school year
When gunfire broke out at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, teacher Elsa Avila said her fourth graders followed lockdown protocols.

"I slammed my door. I turned off the lights, and I told the kids, 'Let's move, let's move. Let's go, let's go.' They knew what to do," she told ABC News.

As soon as they hid in a corner of the classroom, they heard gunfire in the hallway, Avila said, and the kids started crying.

When Avila stood up to check on her students, she said she felt a gunshot pierce her abdomen and she fell to the floor.

"The kids are terrified," she said. "I was in so much pain. I couldn't move, I couldn't talk."
The gunman was able to enter the gun store unobstructed and unobstructed in purchasing the assault weapon used to kill the children and teachers.
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MPD: Man responsible for 'multiple shootings' in Memphis while on Facebook Live still on the loose

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — UPDATE: Suspect is now in a grey Toyota SUV possibly driving East on Poplar Avenue.

Memphis Police are warning people in Memphis to be on the lookout for a man driving a blue or silver sedan, possibly an Infiniti or Nissan, who is responsible for multiple shootings Wednesday while on Facebook live.

https://www.localmemphis.com/article/ne ... b4192b7070
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ap215 wrote: Wed Sep 07, 2022 8:27 pm MPD: Man responsible for 'multiple shootings' in Memphis while on Facebook Live still on the loose

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — UPDATE: Suspect is now in a grey Toyota SUV possibly driving East on Poplar Avenue.

Memphis Police are warning people in Memphis to be on the lookout for a man driving a blue or silver sedan, possibly an Infiniti or Nissan, who is responsible for multiple shootings Wednesday while on Facebook live.

https://www.localmemphis.com/article/ne ... b4192b7070
I spoke to friends in Mohs and they tell me suspect is now in custody. I read reports he was claiming he wouldn’t go down without a fight but the reports are that he was captured.

The Police Chief is relatively new. She has been on the job less than two years. The DA was just elected. Memphis has a police problem. They don’t make enough money for the job they are asked to do. Nobody wants the job anymore. Unless it’s changed, it’s a requirement to live in the city. Memphis also has gang problems and the inner city schools suck and were shut down for almost two years. So what was a growing vibrant downtown has now gone backwards about 10 years. The mayor seems to be a decent guy and as far as I know he has done a pretty good job. The city just needs more cops on the street, they need better pay, better training and better equipment. They need to go back to locking up people who have a history of violent arrests. The cops know who they are. The DA know who they are. Protecting the public is job 1.
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Congress passed a ban on assault weapons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m ... es_in_2022

so far in 2022

Mass shootings 508

Total number dead(including the shooters) 545


Total number wounded(including the shooters) 2089
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Oxford shooting survivor: Leaders have failed to stop school shootings. It's up to us.
....As the school year begins, children are once again placed in harm's way. Whether it’s through anxiety-inducing active shooter drills, violent threats or school shootings, the youth of Michigan are suffering from gun violence.

So, we, the young people of March For Our Lives Michigan, were forced to take action to address the combined crisis of gun violence and mental health. Through consistent advocacy, including actions like a lobby day where over 50 youth from across the state met with dozens of representatives, a letter-writing campaign and collaborations with government officials across our state, we proved to lawmakers that our lives and mental well-being matter. The state budget passed with $250 million allocated for student mental health, $15 million in cross-system intervention to prevent mass violence, and $1 million for gun violence reduction research.

We lobbied, we organized and we won.

Despite this victory, there were many parts of the state budget that work against the forward progress. Significant money was given to School Resource Officers, despite ample evidence proving the harm they cause, especially in predominantly Black and brown cities like Flint and Detroit where power imbalances and discrimination fuel the school-to-prison pipeline. Many studies have found that students of color and those with disabilities are more likely to receive a harsh punishment for standard misbehavior. School Resource Officers are not a solution to ending gun violence but another way to over-police populations that are already at risk.

While states like New Jersey and Delaware have passed gun violence legislation following the recent shootings in Buffalo, N.Y. and Uvalde, Tex., the Michigan House and Senate GOP have made clear that they value guns over our lives. Despite attempts from Democrats, including state Sen. Rosemary Bayer, gun violence prevention legislation is consistently barred from serious negotiations.

Following the shooting at my school, Republican lawmakers offered little more than thoughts and prayers. Instead, Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey prevented a hearing or vote from even taking place. In April, he finally agreed to hold a combined hearing on safe storage and extreme risk protection orders, but there has since been no talk of this coming to fruition.

Gun violence is not a partisan matter, it’s a matter of life or death. Michigan's GOP must stop choosing death. It is far past time for the GOP to prioritize the safety of their constituents over their prospects for the next election cycle......
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Glennfs wrote: Sun May 15, 2022 12:53 pm Any segregation we have in our country today is voluntary not forced.
The Long History of Residential Segregation in Buffalo - Black Perspectives/African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)

This journal is having a roundtable on Buffalo this week. This is article no. 1.
Buffalo is one of the most segregated urban centers in the United States, and the high concentration of Black people on the East Side is what attracted a racist killer to the “City of Good Neighbors” on May 14, 2022. That day, 18-year-old white supremacist Payton S. Gendron, from a small rural town, 200 miles away in New York’s rural Southern Tier, entered a Tops supermarket to kill Black people. The young shooter knew that only one supermarket existed for East Side’s 68,000 Black residents—and that on a Saturday afternoon, that store would be filled with shoppers. It was his intention to kill as many as possible.

White racism fueled the shooter’s racial hatred. Yet ironically, white racism also created the marginalized, underdeveloped neighborhood conditions that drew him to Buffalo. Tops sit in an urban landscape that reflects the ugly reality of Buffalo’s structural racism. A sea of substandard rental housing, unkept vacant lots, neglected sidewalk, and streets, surround the store. Nearby, Route 33, the Kensington Expressway, cuts through the East Side; devalues owner-occupied housing; and spews tons of noise and air pollution into the environment. These underdeveloped neighborhood conditions produced harmful social determinants that curtail the quality of life of African Americans and produce adverse economic and health outcomes in the Black community. Consequently, most Black folks in Buffalo don’t live long and healthy lives. A 52% differential exists in the premature death rate between Black and white people. How did we get to this moment?[

The culprit is a city-building process anchored by a long history of racial residential segregation.
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https://www.aaihs.org/the-long-history- ... n-buffalo/
Black residents are highly segregated but have not always lived separately from white people. Before World War II, work, not race, determined where people lived in the industrial city. In this context, Blacks shared neighborhood space with white immigrant workers, including Italians, Russians, Germans, Polish, and Irish workers*. Blacks and immigrant workers encountered each other on the streets and in places of vice and entertainment. In Strangers in the Land of Paradise, historian Lillian Williams notes that some Black people learned German to hang out with the Germans. Black and recently immigrant workers lived together on Michigan Avenue and other streets. In some instances, they even resided in the same boarding house. For example, Mitchell Solomon, a Pullman Porter, his wife, Mary, and several other Black residents, lived in a boarding house with other white residents on Jefferson Avenue.
*And also Jewish. This paragraph really struck me because my own love of the German language came from my mother, who also had it. She started out as a young teen learning German from a German-Jewish neighbor.
The rise of mass homeownership ended the age of shared residential space among Black and white people. Before 1930, home buying was a risky business. It required a 50% downpayment, and the buyer had to pay off the loan in two to five years. During the Great Depression, the government believed the best way to jumpstart the economy was by developing mass homeownership. Implementing this required a radical change in the money mortgage system. Mortgage brokers needed guidelines to determine neighborhood stability as well as the present and future value of houses.

On a national scale, real estate appraiser Frederick Babcock developed a system in the 1930s to determine the value of housing and residential land, Babcock used whiteness and social class exclusivity to theorize that neighborhoods had life cycles. He also posited that the presence of Black people in a residential area triggered its rapid decline and eventual transformation into a slum. Furthermore, Babcock asserted that white immigrants had a negative but less harmful impact on neighborhood decline. Thus, Babcock’s system of housing and residential land valorization had a race and class component. The appraisal formula he developed was undeniably racist and classist. Housing values increased as the percentage of white people, and social class exclusivity grew in a community. Likewise, housing values declined as the percentage of Black residents, and social class inclusivity increased.

In this city-building method, housing value catalyzed neighborhood development and underdevelopment. Neighborhoods with the highest valued housing became the site of development investments and focused on maintaining the community as a great place to live, work, play, and raise a family. Concurrently, neighborhoods with the lowest valued housing experienced predatory investments and focused on hyper-extractive activities based on dispossession and maximizing profits with no regard for their social and environmental impact. In this racist approach to building cities, the tethering of race, profits, and housing spawned the underdevelopment of Black communities and the emergence of a new type of racial residential segregation.

In the case of Buffalo, the mass homeownership movement exploded after World War II. Over 500,000 people lived there in 1950. Even so, the 1937 HOLC residential maps painted a grim picture of the city’s future residential development. HOLC agents classified more than half the city’s neighborhoods as “hazardous” or “definitely declining.” Infiltration by “foreign populations,” “cheaply constructed houses,” and “apartments” threatened most of the “still desirable” neighborhoods, and only a few residential areas fell into the “best” category. This transpired on the eve of the Second Great Migration—when thousands of Black newcomers would soon enter the city. Only a mass demolition project could create enough building lots to support the homeownership movement. Thus, the suburbs rather than the central city became the homeownership zone, the region where buyers found the highest value homes and the most exclusive residential districts.
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Shots fired inside Kennywood Park; massive police presence on scene

Multiple gunshots were fired inside Kennywood Park on Saturday night, according to a report from Pittsburgh Public Safety.

Tribune-Review news partner WPXI reports a “mass casualty incident” was declared and all available emergency crews from Allegheny and Westmoreland counties were dispatched to the scene. A state police presence was also noted.

https://triblive.com/local/reports-of-s ... the-scene/
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You continue to do freedom in a very strange fashion.
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Nicholas Cruz, the Parkland/Stoneman Douglas shooter, sentenced to life without chance of parole.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/brow ... story.html

Buh-bye.
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ProfX wrote: Thu Oct 13, 2022 11:27 am Nicholas Cruz, the Parkland/Stoneman Douglas shooter, sentenced to life without chance of parole.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/brow ... story.html

Buh-bye.
Good.

I admit I have no idea what his statements were about why he did this, in fact I didn't know he was alive. Usually they aren't. I clicked on the link but didn't read it yet.
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ProfX wrote: Thu Oct 13, 2022 11:27 am Nicholas Cruz, the Parkland/Stoneman Douglas shooter, sentenced to life without chance of parole.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/brow ... story.html

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At least 5 killed in shooting in Raleigh, North Carolina; suspect in custody

Five people, including an off-duty police officer, were killed, and two more wounded in a shooting Thursday evening in a residential neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina. A suspect, described as a 15-year-old White male, has been taken into custody and was in critical condition Friday morning, the city's police chief said.

The deceased victims ranged in age from 16 to 52, Chief Estella Patterson said during a press conference Friday. Authorities were working on charges for the suspected gunman, Patterson said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shooting-r ... n-custody/
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Glennfs wrote: Sun May 15, 2022 12:53 pm Any segregation we have in our country today is voluntary not forced.
How Public Policy Shaped Buffalo’s Segregated Geography - Black Perspectives/African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)
An act of domestic terrorism at the hands of a white supremacist took place on Buffalo’s East Side on May 14, 2022. The City of Buffalo was overcome with grief, anger, sadness, fear, and discomfort. There was also a pronounced but concerning sigh of relief from some white locals who emphasized the shooter was not from Buffalo and that he had driven from a small town nearly four hours away to commit this atrocity.

Yet, Buffalo has a strong history and modern presence of racism and white supremacy. The entire region is structured around segregated geography created by racist policies supported and maintained to this day. And while geography and policy are just a small slice of the overall story of racism and white supremacy in Buffalo, it is still a stark reminder that racism presents itself in many forms.

Within Buffalo’s borders, the Black population is heavily segregated. Main Street is regarded as the “dividing line” between primarily white and primarily Black neighborhoods. Of those who identify as Black alone, 72% live in areas east of Main Street, on Buffalo’s East Side. Ninety-four percent of tracts with a Black population above the City’s average are located east of Main Street. And every single tract where more than 60% of residents identify as Black are located east of Main Street.1

Residential segregation has tremendous adverse impacts on Black people and other communities of color: it limits access to healthcare, quality education, and economic stability. Law enforcement tends to be more invasive and intensive in segregated communities, making many residents feel like the police are an occupying force. Buffalo’s East Side reflects these broader trends of residential segregation exacerbated in the aftermath of the mass shooting. Despite local mutual aids and collectives stepping in to fundraise for residents directly impacted by the closing of Tops Market, it does not solve the city’s negligence in providing East Side residents an adequate standard of living.

Buffalo’s segregation is the result of intentional, legalized racism that was—and still is—baked into public policy and practices and has shaped the City’s history, geography, and people for over a century. While it is impossible to outline every root cause of modern segregation in Buffalo in a short essay, the main causes can be categorized generally within three themes: redlining and disinvestment; housing policy; and urban renewal and suburbanization.

Buffalo’s redlining dates back to the 1930s when city officials, politicians, and urban planners restricted the residential mobility of Black people, while simultaneously disinvesting in predominately Black and Brown neighborhoods. Restrictive covenants are added to deeds preventing the sale or use of land or property. Until 1948, it was legal to include race within a restrictive covenant to exclude non-white buyers. Although not heavily used in Erie County, evidence of thousands of restrictive covenants was discovered on property deeds in Tonawanda, Orchard Park, and other areas during early suburban development. The existence of these covenants made a lasting statement on who was—and wasn’t—welcome in these communities.

Redlining is one of the most well-known policies used in cities across the country to intentionally segregate communities. The Great Depression caused many home foreclosures and as part of the New Deal, the Federal Housing Agency (FHA) was formed to increase homeownership and, supposedly, allow easier access to manageable mortgages.
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Ban on guns with serial numbers removed is unconstitutional -U.S. judge

Oct 13 (Reuters) - A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that a federal ban on possessing a gun with its serial number removed is unconstitutional, the first such ruling since the U.S. Supreme Court dramatically expanded gun rights in June.

U.S. District Judge Joseph Goodwin in Charleston on Wednesday found that the law was not consistent with the United States' "historical tradition of firearm regulation," the new standard laid out by the Supreme Court in its landmark ruling.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/ban-guns- ... 022-10-13/
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4 hurt in shooting outside Atlanta university library

ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say four people were hurt, including three students, in a shooting during Clark Atlanta University’s homecoming outside a campus library early Sunday. Police say a large group of people were listening to a DJ near the Robert W. Woodruff Library around 12:30 a.m. Sunday when officers on patrol in the area heard gunshots.

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N.Y. Governor, Attorney General Seek New Social Media Restrictions

Invoking YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, Reddit, Twitch and others, as well as fringe site 4chan, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James are calling for a government crackdown on online platforms, saying they contributed to the Buffalo mass shooting that left 10 dead and three injured.

Among the things they want to see are getting internet-service providers more involved in controlling edge provider content that leads to radicalization and violence, creating a version of “tape delay” for live streaming and the taking of “reasonable steps to prevent unlawful violent criminal content” — the quid pro quo for Section 230 immunity from liability for third-party content.

https://www.nexttv.com/news/ny-governor ... strictions
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