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New York Times slams ‘outrageous’ Donald Trump for mocking reporter’s disability
The New York Times has criticised Donald Trump as “outrageous” after the Republican presidential front-runner mocked one of its reporters and appeared to imitate his disability.
In a speech to supporters on Tuesday night, Trump derided Serge Kovaleski – a reporter for the newspaper who has disputed Trump’s claim that “thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the 9/11 attacks – while flailing and twisting his arms.
Kovaleski has arthrogryposis, a congenital condition that affects joint movement.
In 2001, he was a journalist at the Washington Post and one of the authors of a report cited by Trump in defence of his 9/11 claim. (The Washington Post has since added a disclaimer to the report, distancing it from the claims.)
The 2001 report said that “law enforcement authorities [in Jersey City] detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops”.
The Guardian
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Aust deportation laws ‘not human’ – Labour
On Wednesday, Mr Little and senior MP Phil Goff received a guided tour through the Villawood detention facility in Sydney, and spoke with three of the detainees.
The centre is an unmarked and inconspicuous building in Sydney’s western suburbs. It houses hundreds of detainees, including more than 60 New Zealanders.
Media were not invited inside, and were guarded on the road in front by a heavy security presence.
Mr Little said the facility was tidy but sterile.
Of the three New Zealanders they spoke to, all had arrived in Australia aged about 10 and had served their time in prison for minor drug or shoplifting convictions, he said.
They had all spent longer in detention than they had in prison.
“What it tells you is that the law of mandatory revocation and detention is too crude a response to the situation these guys are in.”
RNZ
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Chicago Cop Indicted as Video of Laquan McDonald Killing Released
Authorities in Chicago, Illinois have released police dashboard camera video showing a Chicago police officer fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. It was more than a year ago when Officer Jason Van Dyke shot the teenager 16 times. But it was only yesterday that Van Dyke was indicted for murder, one day before the city faced a court-ordered deadline to release the shooting video. Police had claimed Laquan McDonald lunged at Van Dyke with a small knife. But the newly released footage appears to show Van Dyke jumping out of a police car, pointing his gun at McDonald and opening fire when McDonald is many feet away. The video shows police bullets continually hitting McDonald’s body, even after he falls to the ground. We’ll go to Chicago for more on the case after headlines.
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Erdogan says Syria’s Assad, not Turkey, backing ISIL
Turkey’s president has said the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is funding the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and denied that Ankara has bought any oil from the group.
Speaking on Thursday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan also insisted Turkey’s fight against the group was “undisputed”.
“Shame on you. Those who claim we buy oil from Daesh [ISIL] are obliged to prove it. If not, you are a slanderer,” Erdogan said, lashing out at charges from Moscow after the downing of a Russian warplane on the Syrian border on Tuesday.
“ISIL sells the oil they drill to Assad. To Assad. Talk this over with Assad you support,” he said. Moscow is one of the few remaining allies of the Damascus regime.
Aljazeera
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Occupy Academia: Protests at Princeton
A black student group at Princeton occupied the university president’s office this month and demanded the Ivy League college changes the name of its renowned Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs because of the former US president’s stance on segregation.
Princeton is just the latest in a series of American colleges facing a backlash from minority protest groups alleging widespread institutional racism. Demonstrations have hit campuses at Yale, Harvard, and Smith College, as well as many others. The president of the University of Missouri — where a number of overtly racist attacks have taken place — resigned under pressure from students and admitted to not doing enough to fight racism on campus on November 9.
VICE News covered the protest at Princeton as students facing potential expulsion for their actions entered into tense negotiations with administrators over the college’s controversial legacy.
Vice News
Go Labour as they flog Aussies punishing policy.
I recall Australia had been settled by convicts????
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