The Daily Populous

Wednesday July 15th, 2020 day edition

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Troubling video appears to show Oklahoma police zap man dozens of times before death Officers Joshua Taylor and Brandon Dingman have been charged with murder.

A 50-minute video was edited down to 10 minutes before its release due to the sensitivity of the incident, according to attorney Steven Terrill.

The footage begins with a 911 call from an unidentified person, who provided a vague description of the suspect.

Jared Lakey, 28, died two days after two Oklahoma police officers used their stun guns on him 53 times during an arrest on July 4, 2019 for allegedly being disorderly.

Joshua Taylor, 25, of the Wilson Police Department in Oklahoma is charged in connection to the second-degree murder of Jared Lakey.

Brandon Dingman, 34, of the Wilson Police Department in Oklahoma is charged in connection to the second-degree murder of Jared Lakey.

But in a statement to The New York Times on July 3, he said: "The death of Mr. Lakey saddens us all. »

Airbnb is getting ripped apart for asking guests to donate money to hosts

Authored by businessinsider.com
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The new tool appears to be another effort to assuage hosts' financial concerns, this time by soliciting contributions from former guests.

An Airbnb spokesperson told Business Insider that 100% of the proceeds from the kindness cards would go to the hosts.

Airbnb said in March that it would spend $250 million to reimburse hosts for guests' cancellations that stemmed from coronavirus shutdowns. »

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Where Is the Outrage Over Anti-Semitism in Sports and Hollywood?

Authored by hollywoodreporter.com

Given the New Woke-fulness in Hollywood and the sports world, we expected more passionate public outrage.

Then he went on to talk about the Rothschilds owning all the banks and his support for the notorious homophobe and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.

THR columnist Kareem Abdul Jabbar is an NBA Hall of Famer and the author of Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage and other books. »

Biden Announces $2 Trillion Climate Plan

Authored by nytimes.com

Mr. Biden’s “agenda is the most extreme platform of any major party nominee, by far, in American history,” Mr. Trump said.

Referring to Mr. Biden’s primary opponent, the progressive Senator Bernie Sanders, he continued, “I think it’s worse than actually Bernie’s platform.”.

Still, his climate plan does appear to have made some inroads with progressive Democrats. »