Five Things To Know For Your New Day – Tuesday, December 23, 2014
1. NYPD COP KILLINGS
Turning blue: New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is catching plenty of heat in the aftermath of the execution-style killings of two of the city’s cops over the weekend. Critics – including those in the police force – accuse him of stoking an anti-police fervor that contributed to the deaths officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos. He came into office promising police reform, but now he’s trying to cool tensions after encouraging people to protest the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, two unarmed African-American men, at the hands of white police officers. Neither officer was charged. He said the murders this weekend were “an attack on all of us” and called for a hiatus from the protests.
2. MILWAUKEE POLICE SHOOTING
No charges here: A district attorney in Wisconsin has decided against filing charges against a police officer who fatally shot a mentally ill man more than a dozen times in Milwaukee. The officer, Christopher Manney, killed Dontre Hamilton during a confrontation in April. The officer says he opened fire when Hamilton grabbed his baton and struck him with it. Manney has since been fired for not following protocols, but he will not be charged. As in the Brown and Garner cases, Hamilton was black and Manney is white. The U.S. Department of Justice will review the case.
3. NORTH KOREA INTERNET
Message sent?: North Korea’s Internet was back up today after a more than nine-hour outage, according to a company that monitors such things. The disruption came in the midst of an escalating war of words between the United States and North Korea over a massive cyberattack on Sony Pictures. The United States blames North Korea for the Sony hack; North Korea denies it was involved. It’s not clear what caused the outage, but it brought down major websites that are hosted inside the country. There were no problems accessing pro-Pyongyang pages that have servers elsewhere, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.
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source: CNN.com
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