Video shows Michigan officer on Black man’s back fatally shot him.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. A Black man facedown on the ground was fatally shot in the back of the head by a police officer, the violent climax of a traffic stop, foot chase and fight over a stun gun, according to videos of the April 4 incident released Wednesday.

Patrick Lyoya, 26, was killed outside a house in Grand Rapids. The white officer repeatedly ordered Lyoya to “let go” of his Taser, at one point demanding: “Drop the Taser!”

Winstrom said the fight over the Taser lasted about 90 seconds. In the final moments, the officer was on top of Lyoya, kneeling on his back.

North Carolina drops Meadows from voter rolls amid inquiry.

Mark Meadows, a former chief of staff in the Trump White House, has been removed from the voter rolls in North Carolina as officials investigate whether he fraudulently registered to vote and cast a ballot in the state during the 2020 presidential election.

Meadows, who helped amplify former President Donald Trump’s false claims of voter fraud, was “administratively removed” from the poll book by the Macon County Board of Elections on Monday “after documentation indicated he lived in Virginia and last voted in the 2021 election there,” Patrick Gannon, a spokesperson for the North Carolina State Board of Elections, said.

California woman admits faking her abduction, prosecutors say.

A California woman whose disappearance in 2016 prompted an intense, weeks-long search has accepted a plea bargain, admitting that she made up the story she gave the authorities about being abducted, beaten and leashed to a pole in a closet, prosecutors said.

Sherri Papini, 39, of Redding, Calif., will plead guilty to one count of making false statements to FBI agents about her disappearance and one count of mail fraud.

Gooding pleads guilty to forcible touching.

NEW YORK Cuba Gooding Jr., the actor who had been accused by more than 20 women of groping or forcibly kissing them in encounters that dated back more than two decades, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of forcible touching.

Gooding had faced a criminal trial on charges of unwanted sexual touching of three women in Manhattan restaurants and nightclubs in 2018 and 2019. The Manhattan district attorney’s office had asked a judge to admit as witnesses 19 other women who it said had come forward to accuse Gooding of such conduct.

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