Gongol.com Archives: July 2017
July 21, 2017
Minneapolis police chief resigns over civilian shooting death
Justine Damond and Jamar Clark were both unarmed civilians killed by Minneapolis police officers during the outgoing chief's tenure.
"Nothing compelled them to be Good Samaritans"
A group of teenagers apparently watched, mocked, and recorded as a man drowned in a Florida pond on July 9th. They might be free of legal culpability for choosing not to render aid, but they might face prosecution for failing to report a death.
The state of the First Amendment isn't uniformly good
The Newseum Institute finds that only 49% of people ages 18 to 29 believe in universal freedom of religion
360,000 people with cholera in Yemen
That's just in the last three months. An appalling figure.
21% of American adults are online but don't use social media
For as much as Facebook and Twitter and their cousins are discussed every single day in the news, one in five of us don't use them (but aren't holding out on the rest of the Internet). Another one in 10 doesn't use the Internet at all.
