4-year-old dies after Facebook antivaxxers advise mother to put potatoes in his socks instead of giving him Tamiflu
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/4-year-old-dies-after-facebook-antivaxxers-advise-mother-to-put-potatoes-in-his-socks-instead-of-giving-him-tamiflu/
New York man attacked by MS-13, who was set to testify against them, found dead
A New York man willing to testify against MS-13 members who attacked him in 2018 was found dead earlier this week after his identity was disclosed to defendants' attorneys in pre-trial proceedings, police say. The bludgeoned body of 36-year-old Wilmer Maldonado Rodriguez was found Sunday outside an abandoned home in New Cassel,
Singas says prosecutors tried to keep Rodriguez’s identity secret by obtaining a protective order in December 2018.
But last December, ahead of looming changes to New York’s criminal justice system, including reforming the pre-trial discovery phase – during which prosecutors reveal evidence to the defense for preparation – the judge in the case issued a new order.
It allowed “for the disclosure of the protected information to defense counsel,” Newsday reports. The judge’s order, it added, required attorneys for two defendants not to reveal Rodriguez' s name to their clients until the trial’s start date of Jan. 6.
However, Nassau Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said Wednesday that the trial was delayed.
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“We don’t know if the defense counsel turned that information over to the defendants, but we do know that right after that time period… started this pattern of intimidation,” Ryder said.
He told reporters Wednesday that another witness on the case was shot at in New Cassel on Jan. 30.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-man-set-to-testify-in-ms-13-case-is-found-dead-police-say
laws need to change and judges held accountable
An anti-Putin blogger was found dead in a French hotel, and the killing has the hallmarks of the Russian hit squad causing chaos in Europe
Aliev, who vocally opposed the Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead the next morning by hotel staff.
His throat had been slit.
https://www.businessinsider.com/anti-putin-blogger-imran-aliev-murdered-in-france-2020-2