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Minneapolis Police Department’s Mark Lenass broke the nose of Marcus Brock.

Headline Civil Rights News: Matthew Fleuret v. Orange County Sheriff’s Department et al.

According to his attorneys, Stephen Bernard and David Brown, Matthew Fleuret was taken into the Orange County sheriff’s department for his role in a bar fight. Video shows the cops beat him, strip him of his clothes, hold him to the floor, knee his head, strap him to a chair, and continue to tase him at least 11 times. Fleuret, a construction worker and handyman, was not prosecuted for the bar fight. LA Times

This follows the death of a man after being tased in an Orange County Jail.
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“We need a cleaning in the white house. And we need a woman to clean it up.”

“We don’t need no bling. We have the real thing.”

Once again, Clinton supporters are not helping.

Al Jazeera coverage of Winter Soldier.

BBC Coverage

The 1972 Vietnam Winter Soldier received no coverage from major news outlets. But this past weekend’s had a better reception.

MSNBC: “War stories echo an earlier winter”
Boston Herald: “Testimony from vets in D.C. fires up local protesters”
Boston Globe:”Veterans recall horrors of war in live broadcast”
Washington Post: “War Stories Echo an Earlier Winter”
AP: “‘Winter Soldier’ Hearings on Iraq Open — Vets Detail Misconduct”