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Saturday May 27th, 2023 night edition

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Officer who shot an unarmed 11-year-old boy in his home should be fired, family attorney says.

An attorney says a Mississippi police officer who shot and wounded an 11-year-old Black boy in the child’s home should be fired.

(AP) — A Mississippi police officer who shot and wounded an unarmed 11-year-old Black boy in the child’s home should be fired, an attorney for the child’s mother said Thursday.

The child, Aderrien Murry, was hospitalized five days for a collapsed lung, lacerated liver and fractured ribs after an Indianola Police Department officer shot him in the chest early Saturday, attorney Carlos Moore said.

Indianola City Attorney Kimberly Merchant confirmed to The Enterprise-Tocsin newspaper in Indianola that Capers is the officer who fired the shot.

The bureau said a person younger than 18 had received “significant injuries” after being shot by an Indianola Police Department officer. »

In Russia, children will be sent to patriotic camps and taught to shoot and fly UAVs

Authored by pravda.com.ua
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Quote: "Teenagers aged 14 to 17 will receive fire, tactical, and engineering training, learn the basics of tactical medicine, as well as the organisation of communication and piloting of UAVs.

Pupils will meet with veterans of the Great Patriotic War and "special military operation" (the war in Ukraine – ed.

Military-patriotic camps will open in Buryatia, Kalmykia, Tatarstan, Chechnya, Khabarovsk Territory, Belgorod, Kemerovo, Pskov, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen Oblasts and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. »

Aderrien Murry: 11-year-old Mississippi boy who was shot by responding police officer after calling 911 is released from the hospital

Authored by edition.cnn.com

An 11-year-old Mississippi boy who was shot by a police officer after he called 911 for help is recovering after being released from the hospital, according to his family.

Murry told CNN that the “irate” father of another of her children arrived at her home at 4 a.m. Saturday.

Murry said the officer who arrived at the home “had his gun drawn at the front door and asked those inside the home to come outside.” »

Poll: most don’t trust Supreme Court to decide reproductive health cases

Authored by thehill.com

Most respondents in a new poll said they don’t trust the Supreme Court to decide cases related to reproductive and sexual health.

Only 37 percent of adults said they trust the court “a lot” or “somewhat” to make the right decision on reproductive and sexual health, according to the poll released Friday by KFF.

The results come amid an ongoing lawsuit that seeks to undo federal approval of the common medication abortion pill mifepristone, and almost a year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. »