Wednesday, April 14 top stories
It is Wednesday, April 14. Here are today’s top stories.
Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kim Potter, who shot and killed 20-year-old Black man Daunte Wright, was charged with second-degree manslaughter. She said she meant to fire her taser during a struggle with Daunte but instead used her firearm. She resigned yesterday. If she is convicted, she faces up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.
About 80 people were arrested last night during the protests and there are strict curfew orders around Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis, and St. Paul. Emotions are raw, especially with the Chauvin trial going on only 10 miles away.
Bernie Madoff died this early morning in a federal prison in North Carolina of natural causes. He was 82. He was serving a 150-year-prison sentence for running a massive Ponzi scheme that had $17 billion put in it from thousands of investors. He had the trust of many people because he was a former chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. He would send out fake financial statements to make investors think they were making money.
The police officer who shot and killed a woman who tried to break through a door in the U.S. Capitol during the attack on January 6 will not face criminal charges. The woman’s name was Ashli Babbit, who was an Air Force veteran, a strong Trump supporter, and a QAnon follower. Videos show her trying to get into the Speaker’s Lobby in the House when she was shot once in the shoulder area. She was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. The Justice Department said they believe the officer, who was not identified, shot her to defend members of Congress who were being evacuated.
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This morning the defense attorney for Derek Chauvin called a retired forensic pathologist named David Fowler. He said it is his opinion that George Floyd died from cardiac issues when he was restrained by police. He said the carbon monoxide from the police vehicle exhaust, in addition to drugs in Floyd’s system, contributed to his death.
Prior to that, a friend of Floyd named Morries Hall, who was riding with him in a SUV right before Floyd was detained, said he would invoke his Fifth Amendment to not testify out of concerns that he would incriminate himself with drug charges.
The Kenosha (Wisconsin) Police Department announced that Officer Rusten Sheskey, who shot Jacob Blake in his back and side seven times, causing him to become paralyzed, is now back at work from administrative leave with no discipline. In January, the Kenosha DA said he would not charge Sheskey because he believed there was a strong case for self-defense.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represented Blake and his family, said “our justice system has failed the Blake family.”
The shooting sparked many protests in Kenosha last year in which Kyle Rittenhouse, who was carrying an AR-15, shot and killed two people. His murder trial will take place this fall.
A 30-year-old man named Jordan Gerbich was sentenced to three months in prison for fatally shooting a wild elephant seal that was resting on a California beach two years ago. The seal also had its tail fins cut off. Gerbich’s public defender said prior to the sentencing in a court document that he was struggling with emotional issues and shot at it because his friend pressured him to do it. NBC News explained that elephant seals are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
Today Coinbase, a company that exchanges cryptocurrency, opened trading on the stock market today at $381 per share, which makes it valued at just above $100 billion. Most transactions on Coinbase are for Bitcoin or Ethereum, which has climbed about 1,000% in value this year alone. This shows how popular and lucrative cryptocurrency can be.
That is all the top stories for today. Check out our other videos. See you tomorrow and stay with the light.
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/04/12/nation/police-officer-who-fired-shot-that-killed-daunte-wright-intended-discharge-taser-chief-says/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/police-shooting-trial-philando-castile.html
https://apnews.com/article/bernie-madoff-dead-9d9bd8065708384e0bf0c840bd1ae711
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/derek-chauvin-trial-04-14-21/index.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-who-shot-killed-elephant-seal-california-sentenced-prison-n1264010
https://twitter.com/KenoshaPolice/status/1382066056643117057/photo/1
https://twitter.com/AttorneyCrump/status/1382163105631850499
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/no-discipline-kenosha-police-officer-who-shot-jacob-blake-chief-n1263986?cid=sm_npd_ms_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR1IgQGWIT1uVuhNhVP_aRWzgx-z_A0j6KYRF4G1_HuqUcLu7zeka4gPqmE
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/prosecutors-charges-officer-capitol-riot-shooting-77071213?cid=clicksource_4380645_5_three_posts_card_hed
https://www.axios.com/coinbase-price-public-listing-fe7532b6-4e54-42dc-97af-09ce9c68760a.html