Новости за 21.03.2016

So, I’m kinda new to all of this new-age social justice stuff. Of course, I’ve always been aware of what racism and sexism and bias meant, but some of the terminology used to describe specific examples of it–i.e., microaggressions, white privilege, street harassment, et.c–were also new to me and it took a while to understand what they meant. But I do now.

An Austin, Texas, police officer is being accused of using unnecessary force after activists captured him on camera pepper-spraying a handcuffed man inside a police wagon, Fox7 reports. 

An Indiana mother of 5 was fatally shot in front of her own home, with her children just inside, Fox59 reports. 

A Chicago mom is furious after her daughter, an elementary school student, was reportedly handcuffed while at school.

A 25-year-old Virginia woman was fatally shot by Norfolk police Saturday after she reportedly made a threatening move toward officers while holding what turned out to be a fake handgun.

President Barack Obama will have a busy two days in Cuba during his historic visit to the island nation as the first U.S. president in nearly 90 years to do so. 

A Florida man wanted a BMW so he walked into Pompano Beach car dealership and found the one he wanted—a $60,000 BMW X-6—and then attempted to pay for it using his Electronic Benefits Transfer card and a credit card.

Three Plantation, Florida police officers were responding to noise complaints at a house having a Spring Break party Saturday evening when shots rang out from inside the home.

“Get the girl to check the numbers.” These words came from astronaut John Glenn in February 1962 as he prepared to become the first American to orbit the Earth. The trajectory of his orbit had been calculated by NASA’s new state-of-the-art computers, but Glenn did not trust the machines.