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Monday, August 18, 2014

Cheat Sheet - You Can Buy Body Cameras for Ferguson Cops

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August 18, 2014
WISH LIST
Forensic pathologists are trying to figure out what transpired between Michael Brown and Officer Wilson before the unarmed teen was shot at least six times. For less than $400 we could have known, Michael Daly writes, if the Ferguson P.D. equipped the officer with a body camera like the ones worn with great success in departments across the country. Maybe it's time we chip in.
NEW DETAILS
A new eyewitness who recorded footage of Michael Brown on her phone says he was chased down by Officer Darren Wilson. Piaget Crenshaw has come forward with her account of the immediate events prior to Brown's murder. "I knew the police shouldn't have been chasing this young boy and firing at the same time," she says. According to her, Wilson looked like he was trying to pull Brown into the police car. She said it "upset the officer" that Brown got away, and he began firing at him. By her account, when one of the bullets grazed Brown's arm, he turned around and "then he was shot multiple times." She described how after Brown was lying dead on the street, "Wilson looks baffled, like 'What have I just done?'"
NEW PLATFORM
When it comes to international affairs, Rand Paul's advisers are painting him as the new Ronald Reagan, but the libertarian senator is famously skeptical of foreign wars. Olivia Nuzzi asks why he is suddenly being compared to the coldest of Cold Warriors?
FRESH BLOOD
Zephyr Teachout lives in a fifth-floor walkup in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. She also wants to be New York's next governor. First, David Freedlander reports, she has to get by the guy with the $30 million war chest.
BIBLICAL WAR
There is more than mere barbarism behind the savage tactics of the self-anointed "caliph" whose forces, formerly called ISIS, now dominate swathes of Syria and Iraq, writes Christopher Dickey. "Caliph" Ibrahim wanted his fight to be a true holy war on both sides—and his strategy seems to be succeeding, with some of the highest Christian officials calling for military action.

LIKE A BOSS
Hillary Already Travels Like She's Prez
And doesn't like posing for pictures.
SO LONG
Republican Who Gave Senate to Dems Dies
Jim Jeffords of Vermont.
ADIOS
Nadal Withdraws From U.S. Open
Wrist injury keeps him out.
WHOOPS
Hackers Grab 4.5M Hospital Records
Across 28 states.
TRAGIC
Man Dies After Raising $100K for ALS
Friend of ice bucket challenge's inventor.

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