Estimated read time: 3-4 minutes
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Newly released body camera footage shows Florida police officers laughing and celebrating after shooting protesters with rubber bullets during a May protest against police brutality. In response to a story by the Miami Herald, Fort Lauderdale police posted a video on its official YouTube channel Wednesday taken from the body camera of Detective Zachary Baro on May 31. During one section of the video, an officer approaches Baro behind the police line and asks if his body camera is off. After Baro replies incorrectly that his camera is in stand-by mode and not recording, the two officers begin laughing and joking about the people they had shot with rubber bullets.
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York appeals court has cleared the way for a publisher to distribute a tell-all book by President Donald Trump's niece over the objections of the president's brother. The New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division issued the written decision late Wednesday. The appeals court lifted a restraint that a judge put on Simon & Schuster that sought to block its distribution. But it left in place restraints against Mary Trump. She's the author of “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.” The publisher, Simon & Schuster, and a lawyer for Mary Trump praised the ruling. An email seeking comment was sent to a lawyer for Robert Trump, who sued Mary Trump.
ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden outpaced President Donald Trump’s campaign fundraising juggernaut in June and in the second quarter of this election year, continuing a stunning reversal of fortune from his threadbare primary campaign. The former vice president’s spokesman said Tuesday night that Biden and the Democratic National Committee raised $141 million in June, bringing their second-quarter total to more than $282 million. Republicans announced earlier Tuesday that Trump and the national GOP had raised $131 million in June and $266 million for the quarter. The president’s reelection effort still had nearly $300 million cash on hand at the end of June, the campaign says.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi has formally retired the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem. Dozens of people watched and many applauded Wednesday as flags were removed from the state Capitol and taken to the Museum of Mississippi history. One dignitary there was 91-year-old former state Rep. Robert Clark. He said he thought of his grandfather, who was a slave. Mississippi faced pressure in recent weeks to change its 126-year-old flag since protests against racial injustice focused attention on Confederate symbols. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed a law Tuesday, and Mississippi won't have a flag for a while.
UNDATED (AP) — Asian stocks have followed Wall Street higher as hopes for development of a coronavirus vaccine compete with concern about rising U.S. infections. Benchmarks in Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Australia all advanced. Wall Street's benchmark S&P 500 index ended 0.5% higher. Investors were encouraged after drug companies Pfizer and BioNtech announced preliminary data from a vaccine test. At the same time, some American states reported daily record highs in new virus cases.
Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
