Navalny arrested at rally
A WHITE police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager resigned on Sunday from the New York Police Department to avoid being fired following a disciplinary trial in a case that sparked outrage over police use of deadly force against black men and boys.
Richard Haste was brought on departmental charges for demonstrating “poor judgment”. He was accused of not taking obvious steps to defuse a fatal standoff that ended in the 2012 death of Ramarley Graham. Administrative Judge Rosemarie Maldonado found on Friday that he should be fired. FORTY- SIX dogs were flown to New York from South Korea after being rescued at a farm where they were to be slaughtered for human consumption, animal advocates said.
The Humane Society International is responsible for saving the dogs that were fed barely enough to survive.
The animals arrived at Kennedy International Airport Saturday and were headed to shelters in New York, Maryland and Pennsylvania. An estimated 17,000 other such farms still operate in South Korea. POLICE have detained hundreds of protesters across Russia, including opposition leader Alexei Navalny, after thousands took to the streets to demonstrate against corruption and demand the resignation of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
Sunday’s protests, reckoned to be the biggest since a wave of anti- Kremlin demonstrations in 2011- 12, come a year before a presidential election that Vladimir Putin is expected to contest, running for what would be a fourth term.
Opinion polls suggest the liberal opposition, which Navalny represents, has little chance of fielding a candidate capable of unseating Putin, who enjoys high ratings.
But Navalny and his supporters hope to channel public discontent over official corruption to attract more support.
A Reuters reporter saw police detain Navalny, who hopes to run against Putin, as he walked along central Moscow’s Tverskaya St with supporters, part of an unsanctioned rally as a police helicopter circled overhead.