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Do you remember Sam DuBose?

Back in 2015, during a routine traffic stop, a white police officer who was wearing a Confederate flag T-shirt under his uniform shot unarmed African-American Sam DuBose in the head and killed him. The officer claimed that DuBose almost ran him over and that “he was being dragged by the vehicle and had to fire his weapon,” but video from the officer’s body camera showed this was false. He was fired. Despite this, two separate juries--both predominantly white (10-2 and 9-3)--failed to reach a verdict.

There will be no third jury.

“Before dropping the case, [prosecutor Joe] Deters said he heard in discussions with both black and white jurors from the first two Tensing trials that he could ‘never’ get a conviction. ... Deters said he thought his prosecutors made a strong case on the murder and voluntary manslaughter charges but they could not break though biases -- racial and pro-police -- among the jurors. ‘The division in this country is profound ... In this case we had jurors who would not vote to convict a police officer.’”

[ASIA] SEOUL – Just three years after South Korea’s former President Yoon Suk Yeol moved the presidential office from the historic Blue House, his potential successors are vowing to move again, as they seek to escape the taint of his martial law attempt. Yoon, stripped of office on April 4 over the bid that triggered a snap election on June 3, never set foot in the Blue House, having promised to…

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A New Zealand fighter deters a man from killing himself

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New Zealand martial arts fighter Jesse Harrison has succeeded in saving a suicide man, according to Jiujitsutimes.

On his return from an evening exercise, Harrison noted a man who had left his car near the bridge and stood on its edge to commit suicide. The fighter rushed to the rescue of the stranger.

Jesse Harrison entered into a dialogue with the man, and it…