NYC corrections officer suspended over sick George Floyd parody photo. A city correction officer allegedly posted a sickening online parody of the George Floyd death photo — with the white worker shown kneeling on the neck of his union’s black president — resulting in his suspension Friday. The image was posted Thursday to the Facebook page of city Correction Department driver Derrick Lascko and deleted later that day after an online uproar among jail guards. The image superimposed Lascko’s face over that of white former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin, as Chauvin was caught on video with his knee to Floyd’s neck. In place of Floyd’s face was that of Elias Husamudeen, the president of Lascko’s union, the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association.
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RICHMOND, Va. — A small group of demonstrators toppled a statue of a Confederate general in the the former capital of the Confederacy late Saturday, following a day of largely peaceful protests in the Virginia city. The statue of Gen. Williams Carter Wickham was pulled from its pedestal in Monroe Park, a Richmond police spokeswoman said. She said she did not know if there were any arrests or damage done to the statue. A rope had been tied around the Confederate statue, which has stood since 1891, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported, adding that someone urinated on the statue after it was pulled down. Photos and video from the newspaper showed the what appeared to be red paint splashed or sprayed on the statue.
Tropical Storm Cristobal brought squalls with tropical storm-force winds to the mouth of the Mississippi River on Sunday morning, as conditions are expected to continue to deteriorate before the storm makes landfall somewhere in Louisiana by Sunday night. Cristobal’s maximum sustained winds remained at 50 mph and it was moving north at 12 mph, centered around 90 miles south of New Orleans, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC). A tornado touched down Saturday evening near downtown Orlando, causing some damage and just missing a group of protesters at Lake Eola at around 7:30 p.m. In Louisiana, two brothers were killed Friday night getting caught in an undertow and swept away by a rip current as Cristobal churned in the Gulf of Mexico. The children, ages 8 and 10, were swimming at a beach in Grand Isle when they were caught and swept away, FOX8 reported. Officials said the boy's 12-year-old cousin was also caught in the rip current but survived.
A call about a suspicious van led to an ambush Saturday that resulted in the death of a Northern California sheriff’s deputy and injuries to two other law enforcement officers, according to reports. Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, 38, was fatally shot during the confrontation in Ben Lomond, an unincorporated area, Santa Cruz County Sheriff Jim Hart said. A second deputy was injured, and a third officer from the California Highway Patrol was shot in a hand, the sheriff said. Gutzwiller was a married father of one child with a second child on the way, Hart told FOX 2 of the San Francisco Bay Area. “Words cannot express the pain we feel for Damon and his family," Hart told the station. "Today, we lost a hero." The suspect, identified as Steven Carrillo, 38, was shot during his capture and was being treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, the sheriff added. #RIP
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Minneapolis city council votes on disbanding police, US cities consider defunding forces