Day: December 18, 2023

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At least one police officer has been killed and 14 other people have been injured during an operation to regain control of the Tacumbú penitentiary, Paraguay’s largest prison, following a violent riot that broke out in October, La Prensa Latina reports. During the riot, members of the Rotela Clan, an organization linked to drug trafficking in Paraguay, set the prison ablaze and held 22 police officers hostage for over 15 hours. Monday’s operation, which began before dawn and involved over 1,200 police officers as well as more than 1,000 military personnel, was ordered to regain control of the prison and transfer its inmates to at least eight other penitentiaries across the country. Armando Javier Rotela, the alleged leader of the Rotela clan, was reportedly captured during the operation. The head of the National Police’s anti-kidnapping department, Commissioner Nimio Cardozo, told EFE that at least 14 people – two soldiers and 12 police – have been injured.

 

Despite taxpayers spending millions of dollars to outfit police officers across the country with body-worn cameras, an effort sold as the key to transparency and accountability in policing, a recent survey shows that when civilians die at the hands of police, the public usually never sees the footage, Umar Farooq reports for ProPublica.

Of the 101 deaths by police that occurred in 131 law enforcement agencies in 34 states in June 2022,  a time frame chosen because enough time had elapsed that investigations could reasonably be expected to have concluded, authorities or victims’ families had released the bodycam footage of only 33 incidents. Withholding body-worn camera footage from the public has become so entrenched in some cities that even pleas from victims’ families don’t serve to shake the video loose. Police departments involved in 14 of the June 2022 deaths reviewed released the body-camera footage because a department policy or a state or local law demanded it. The requirements vary and many other departments — including 11 from the June 2022 review — said they cannot disclose body-camera footage while incidents are under investigation.

 

Finland on December 18 signed an agreement to enhance military cooperation with the United States, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the neighboring country over its entrance into NATO.

Внесение писателя Бориса Акунина в список «террористов и экстремистов» Росфинмониторинга, ставшее результатом  провокации прокремлевских «пранкеров» Вована и Лексуса, можно рассматривать как новую волну преследования неугодных деятелей культуры. Об этом «Медузе» рассказали источники, близкие к администрации президента (АП).

Граждане России в массе едва сводят концы с концами, но сложности необходимы, поскольку заставляют человека «карабкаться» и ценить то, что он имеет, заявил в понедельник президент РФ Владимир Путин,