Several people were wounded in an apparent officer-involved shooting in West Baltimore Tuesday. The gunfire rang out in the 1500 block of Eutaw Place. The Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police wrote on twitter, “There has been a Police involved shooting McMechen & Eutaw Sts Possibility of up to 7 people shot with details unclear at this point. At this time we have no reports of injuries to any of our Officers. Pres Mancuso and our Attorneys from SBWDLaw are at HQ supporting our members.” It was unclear what led up to the incident.

Western civilization is doing just fine, in case anyone was wondering.

View from the Space Station today.
http://redd.it/fkas6p

“A new bill sponsored by Lindsey Graham, Richard Blumenthal, Josh Hawley and Dianne Feinstein called the EARN IT Act of 2020 will force encrypted communication providers, like Telegram and Protonmail, to give American intelligence services the ability to wiretap private chats or face steep legal penalties.”

https://news4whites.blogspot.com/2020/03/new-law-plans-to-end-internet-privacy.html?m=1

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3398/text

Lutz Bachmann😂🤣😂

The Shedd Aquarium in Chicago shut down on Friday in a big to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus. On Monday, the aquarium shared a video of two bonded rockhopper penguins, Edward and Annie, waddling around the empty space.

My local zoo posted this pic of Kami the tiger and her reaction to bubbles.. that face
r/#aww

Meanwhile in Germany

The Surgeon General warned on Wednesday that it could take longer than 15 days to slow the spread of coronavirus but that Americans must 'pitch in' and do their part now to stay home and self-isolate if they want the deadly disease to die. Millions have heeded the advice and are avoiding going out. Some, like in cities where the pandemic spreading the quickest, are calling for harsher action, like a two-week national shutdown to force people indoors. On Tuesday, startling new data revealed that as many as 2million Americans may die if no further action is taken but that making people self-isolate now for 18 months could cut that figure to 200,000.

Meanwhile in Ukraine, L'vov city.

An NYPD officer in New York City's Lower Manhattan has tested positive for coronavirus, while 31 others at the precinct have called out sick. He is the fourth NYPD officer to test positive for the virus since the pandemic began. The latest case was from the city's 1st Precinct. Another 31 officers that have called out sick - including the precinct's commanding officer and executive officer. Of those, 17 have complained of having flu-like symptoms and are self-quaranting.