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A year-old case in Miami Beach, Florida, has resurfaced with the recent release of intense police body camera footage. The video captured the fatal shooting of an escaped convict, Darien Young, by an officer as Young held a girl and a store employee hostage at knifepoint inside a Victoria’s Secret store. The incident unfolded on July 27, 2023, at the Lincoln Road store. Young, 29, had previously escaped from the New Hampshire Department of Corrections, where he was serving time as a minimum-security resident. In the released footage, officers are seen arriving as Young had the girl and employee in...

Calif. Republican says bill allows state to 'discriminate based on race when providing servicesA California Democratic lawmaker accused his Republican colleague, the state assembly’s first Muslim member, of White supremacy for declining to back a bill that would allow state funds to go toward programs based on race in what critics are calling state-sanctioned discrimination. Democratic Assemblymember Corey Jackson, who proposed ACA-7, said it’s meant to address "persistent disparities in health, education, and economic outcomes for certain communities" in California. Jackson's bill would amend the state’s constitution in order to allow taxpayer money to fund "culturally specific programs in any...