Susan McCoy, a Georgia high school teacher, is under fire for comments she made during a virtual class about the death of Breonna Taylor.👩‍🏫 Orlando resident Meralyn Kirkland was shocked last Thursday to learn that her granddaughter had been arrested at her elementary school. Kaia Rolle, who is 6 years old, was throwing a tantrum in class and kicked a staff member when school police officer Dennis Turner handcuffed her, put her in the back of his cruiser, and drove her to a juvenile detention facility.👮 WHITE ARKANSAS TEACHER PLACED ON LEAVE AFTER FORCING BLACK 5-YEAR-OLD BOY TO UNCLOG A TOILET WITH HIS BARE HANDS

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Susan McCoy issued a video apology to students admitting her ignorance after she received black Lash for her comments

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Susan McCoy, a Georgia high school teacher, is under fire for comments she made during a virtual class about the death of Breonna Taylor.

On Friday, she stated Taylor was responsible for her own demise during the class, which was recorded on video and posted to social media. McCoy, who teaches forensics science at Pebblebrook High School in Mableton, is seen on a Zoom call discussing Taylor’s death. She then made statements suggesting that Taylor’s death was her own fault, saying: “if you hang out with people with guns that shoot at cops, you’re likely to get caught in the crossfire.”

The leader of an Australian neo-Nazi group has been filmed assaulting a Channel Nine security guard just hours before the network’s A Current Affair broadcast a segment about the organisation.

Thomas Sewell, one of the leaders of the neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network, was filmed assaulting the guard on Monday afternoon after he and another man came to the network’s offices in Melbourne before its tabloid current affairs program aired a segment about the group.

A 49-year-old nurse, who federal prosecutors said had a drug habit, pleaded guilty to stealing fentanyl from vials at the Orange-based clinic where she used to work, and refilling those vials with saline to hide her actions, according to authorities.

Donna Monticone, of Oxford, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of tampering with a consumer product before United States District Judge Janet C. Hall, announced acting U.S. Attorney Leonard C. Boyle. The court hearing occurred via videoconference due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

According to court documents and statements, Monticone was a nurse at the Yale Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility clinic in Orange, where her responsibilities included ordering and inventorying a variety of narcotics used by the clinic, including painkiller fentanyl.

"In June 2020, Monticone began stealing fentanyl for her own use," according to prosecutors. "She accessed secure storage areas and took vials of fentanyl, used a syringe to withdrawal the narcotics from the vials, and reinjected saline into vials so that it would appear as if none of the narcotics were missing."

Both fentanyl, a power narcotic, and saline are clear, making it impossible to detect the switch by sight, writes the New Haven Independent.

Investigators determined "that approximately 75 percent of the fentanyl given to patients at the Yale REI clinic from June to October 2020 was adulterated with saline," according to prosecutors.

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Two more women have come forward to accuse New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of inappropriate conduct, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

A former press aide, Karen Hinton, told the Post that Cuomo invited her to his dimly lit hotel room after a work event in Los Angeles in 2000, embraced her as she tried to leave and then pulled her back toward him as she pulled away

Ana Liss, another ex-aide to Cuomo, said the governor in 2014 hugged and kissed her on both cheeks and grabbed her waist, the Journal reported.

The new allegations compound the pressure on the Democratic governor, who is facing heat from prior claims of sexual harassment, as well as a scandal over his administration’s handling of Covid nursing home death data.

Amber Guyger's defense team is appealing her conviction last year, claiming the charge should have been criminally negligent homicide instead of murder.

The lesser charge would possibly mean Guyger could be released on parole.

"I feel furious about it," Botham Jean's mother Allison said in an interview from her home in St. Lucia. "It really made me question the nerve of Amber Guyger and her attorneys to even think of wanting to file an appeal."

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A woman who says she is the direct descendant of a man and woman pictured in some of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people does not have a property interest in the images, now owned by Harvard University, a Massachusetts judge ruled Tuesday.

Tamara Lanier, 58, took Harvard to court in March 2019 for "wrongful seizure, possession and expropriation" of the images, arguing her great-great-great grandfather Renty and his daughter Delia "remain enslaved" by the university.

Texas on Tuesday became the biggest state to lift its mask rule, joining a rapidly growing movement by governors and other leaders across the U.S. to loosen COVID-19 restrictions despite pleas from health officials not to let their guard down yet.

The Lone Star State will also do away with limits on the number of diners who can be served indoors, said Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who made the announcement at a restaurant in Lubbock.

The governors of Michigan, Mississippi and Louisiana likewise eased up on bars, restaurants and other businesses Tuesday, as did the mayor of San Francisco.

“Removing statewide mandates does not end personal responsibility,” said Abbott, speaking from a crowded dining room where many of those surrounding him were not wearing masks. “It’s just that now state mandates are no longer needed.”

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President Joe Biden’s White House is giving its support to studying reparations for Black Americans, boosting Democratic lawmakers who are renewing efforts to create a commission on the issue amid the stark racial disparities highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

A House panel heard testimony Wednesday on legislation that would create a commission to examine the history of slavery in the U.S. as well as the discriminatory government policies that affected former slaves and their descendants. The commission would recommend ways to educate the American public of its findings and suggest appropriate remedies, including financial payments from the government to compensate descendants of slaves for years of unpaid labor by their ancestors.