Protests after Detroit teen detained over missed homework
A Michigan judge's decision to send a 15-year-old girl to juvenile detention for violating her probation by not completing her online schoolwork during the coronavirus lockdown has prompted protests and calls for her release.
The African-American teenager has reportedly been detained since mid-May.
Hundreds of students gathered outside her school and the court to show their support for the girl known as "Grace".
The state's supreme court said on Thursday it would review her case.
Japan police seek to stop yakuza handing out Halloween sweets to children
Concerns about a turf war in Kobe prompts police to seek legislation to halt traditional handout
Police in Japan are planning to deprive children of their trick-or-treat goodies this Halloween – but only because the gifts come from members of the country’s biggest underworld organisation.
Yamaguchi-gumi gang members, based in the western port city of Kobe, have been distributing sweets to local children at Halloween most years since 2013.
But local police, concerned about a possible turf war, are to submit a bill to the prefectural assembly that, if passed, would ban members of the yakuza from giving money and gifts to under-18s.
Federal Officers Respond To Portland Protests With Gas, Munitions Thursday Amid Growing Attention From Trump Administration
By Piper McDaniel | For The Oregonian/OregonLive and Ryan Nguyen | The Oregonian/OregonLive
Portland demonstrators reacted Thursday to a wave of national attention from President Donald Trump and his administration by once again amassing throughout the city to decry police violence against Black Americans.
Federal officers responded to one late-night demonstrations downtown by using gas, smoke and impact munitions to press protesters away from two federal buildings. The confrontation between federal officers and protesters came hours after interim Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf arrived in Portland to meet with federal law enforcement officials.
Police in Germany have too much access to personal online data, top court says
Germany's Constitutional Court has ruled that current police access to personal data from phone and internet users is unconstitutional. Two groups, one with more than 6,000 supporters, argued their rights were breached.
Germany's top court on Friday ruled that police and intelligence officials have excessive access to personal data on mobile phone and internet users, a decision that will make it more difficult for investigators to access private information held on digital devices and accounts.
The Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe ruled that several regulations that allowed access to so-called "inventory data," which includes internet and mobile users' names and birth dates, were unconstitutional.
Russia police raid Kremlin critic Navalny's offices
Russian police on Friday carried out a new raid on the offices of main opposition leader Alexei Navalny as Kremlin critics accuse authorities of ramping up efforts to quash dissent.
Alexander Golovach, a lawyer working for Navalny's Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK), posted a video on social media of policemen arriving at their offices in southern Moscow.
Navalny, who was questioned by investigators Friday, said he had been banned from leaving the capital as part of a new criminal case against him.
Gov. DeSantis blames media for Florida's Covid-19 response
CNN's Brianna Keilar points out the inaccuracies in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' argument that the media stopped asking about coronavirus in May and is to blame for the public becoming complacent and cases rising.
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