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A Portland theater has scrapped plans to screen the Arnold Schwarzenegger flick “Kindergarten Cop” after complaints that the comedy “romanticizes over-policing.” The Northwest Film Center announced this week it would pull the 1990 film starring Schwarzenegger as a detective who goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher in order to bust a drug dealer, The Willamette …
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Moments before the Pelicans and Jazz kicked off the NBA’s return to action, every player, coach and referee on the court kneeled during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice. They joined together in a powerful image, locking together in arms on a court with the words “Black Lives Matter” largely displayed. …
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A gang of Russian hackers may be behind the cyberattack that disabled Garmin’s fitness-tracking services for several days, reports say. The attackers reportedly crippled the smartwatch maker’s Garmin Connect service last week with malicious software tied to Evil Corp., a Moscow-based hacker group run by alleged cybercriminal Maksim Yakubets. Evil Corp. runs the WastedLocker ransomware …
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Garmin’s fitness-tracking service has been down for at least a day — a massive outage that may have been caused by a cyberattack. The smartwatch and GPS maker first confirmed Thursday morning that the outage had disabled its Garmin Connect service, which lets users track their workouts and personal health data through a smartphone app. …
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Post Malone is getting crafty while quarantined in a state with strict alcohol laws. The 25-year-old artist revealed his trick for stocking brews while living in Utah, where purchasing and possessing containers of beer larger than two liters is illegal. “We’re just getting hammered every day and doing funny s–t. I just drink in my …
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Howard Safir. Law enforcement veteran of 35 years. NYPD commissioner 1996 to 2000 under Mayor Giuliani. February 1999. The Amadou Diallo hysteria was on his watch. Street peddler, 22. Unarmed. No criminal record. Killed, 41 shots by four police officers. Gripping the city for months, it became a video, TV special, documentary, newspaper headline, Netflix …
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Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) late Thursday declared a state of emergency in Salt Lake City following tense demonstrations that saw protesters square off against Salt Lake City police. Protesters flooded the streets after the Salt Lake County district attorney announced that the May police killing of Bernardo Palacios Carbajal was justified. “In the case of the …
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Abby Huntsman and her family have been battling COVID-19, she revealed, after she and some family members received false negative tests. The former host of “The View” — who left the show last year and moved to Utah to work on her father’s gubernatorial campaign — has been documenting the experience on social media. She …
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A Portland theater has scrapped plans to screen the Arnold Schwarzenegger flick “Kindergarten Cop” after complaints that the comedy “romanticizes over-policing.” The Northwest Film Center announced this week it would pull the 1990 film starring Schwarzenegger as a detective who goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher in order to bust a drug dealer, The Willamette …
