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A woman covers her face from tear gas as federal immigration officers confront protesters outside Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)2026-01-15T20:26:55Z Federal immigration agents deployed to Minneapolis have used aggressive crowd-control tactics including pointing rifles at demonstrators and deploying chemical irritants early in confrontations actions the government says are necessary to protect officers from violent attacks. But law enforcement experts warn these measures are escalating risk and being carried out by agents without extensive crowd-management training. Videos and witness accounts reviewed by The Associated Press show federal agents breaking vehicle windows, pulling occupants from cars and deploying chemical agents such as tear gas and pepper spray during close confrontations with protesters. Experts say such tactics, while sometimes justified in targeted arrests, carry heightened risks when used on crowds. The confrontations come amid a major immigration enforcement surge ordered by the Trump administration in early December, which sent more than 2,000 officers from across the Department of Homeland Security into the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Many of the officers involved are typically tasked with arrests, deportations and criminal investigations, not managing volatile public demonstrations. What is unfolding in Minneapolis reflects a broader shift in how the federal government is asserting its authority during protests, relying on immigration agents and investigators to perform crowd-management roles traditionally handled by local police. Experts warn the approach runs counter to de-escalation standards and risks turning volatile demonstrations into deadly encounters. Tensions escalated after the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a 37-year-old woman killed by an immigration agent last week, an incident federal officials have defended as self-defense after they say Good weaponized her vehicle. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on The killing has intensified protests and scrutiny of the federal response. On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota asked a federal judge to intervene, filing a lawsuit on behalf of six residents seeking an emergency injunction to limit how federal agents operate during protests, including restrictions on the use of chemical agents, the pointing of firearms at non-threatening individuals and interference with lawful video recording. Stepping outside their traditional role Theres so much about whats happening now that is not a traditional approach to immigration apprehensions, said former Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldaa.Saldaa, who left the post at the beginning of 2017 as President Donald Trumps first term began, said she cant speak to how the agency currently trains its officers. When she was director, she said officers received training on how to interact with people who might be observing an apprehension or filming officers, but agents rarely had to deal with crowds or protests. This is different. You would hope that the agency would be responsive given the evolution of whats happening brought on, mind you, by the aggressive approach that has been taken coming from the top, she said. Ian Adams, an assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of South Carolina, said the majority of crowd-management or protest training in policing happens at the local level usually at larger police departments that have public order units. Its highly unlikely that your typical ICE agent has a great deal of experience with public order tactics or control, Adams said. DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a written statement that ICE officer candidates receive extensive training over eight weeks in courses that include conflict management and de-escalation. She said many of the candidates are military veterans and about 85% have previous law enforcement experience.All ICE candidates are subject to months of rigorous training and selection at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, where they are trained in everything from de-escalation tactics to firearms to driving training. Homeland Security Investigations candidates receive more than 100 days of specialized training, she said. Ed Maguire, a criminology professor at Arizona State University, has written extensively about crowd-management and protest- related law enforcement training. He said while he hasnt seen the current training curriculum for ICE officers, he has reviewed recent training materials for federal officers and called it horrifying.Tactics that escalate tensionMaguire said what hes seeing in Minneapolis feels like a perfect storm for bad consequences.You cant even say this doesnt meet best practices. Thats too high a bar. These dont seem to meet generally accepted practices, he said. Were seeing routinely substandard law enforcement practices that would just never be accepted at the local level, he added. Then there seems to be just an absence of standard accountability practices.Adams noted that police department practices have evolved to understand that the sort of 1950s and 1960s instinct to meet every protest with force, has blowback effects that actually make the disorder worse. He said police departments now try to open communication with organizers, set boundaries and sometimes even show deference within reason. Theres an understanding that inside of a crowd, using unnecessary force can have a domino effect that might cause escalation from protesters and from officers. Despite training for officers responding to civil unrest dramatically shifting over the last four decades, there is no nationwide standard of best practices. For example, some departments bar officers from spraying pepper spray directly into the face of people exercising Constitutional speech. Others bar the use of tear gas or other chemical agents in residential neighborhoods. Regardless of the specifics, experts recommend that departments have written policies they review regularly.Organizations and agencies arent always familiar with what their own policies are, said Humberto Cardounel, senior director of training and technical assistance at the National Policing Institute. They go through it once in basic training then expect (officers) to know how to comport themselves two years later, five years later, he said. We encourage them to understand and know their training, but also to simulate their training.Adams said part of the reason local officers are the best option for performing public order tasks is they have a compact with the community.I think at the heart of this is the challenge of calling what ICE is doing even policing, he said. Police agencies have a relationship with their community that extends before and after any incidents. Officers know we will be here no matter what happens, and the community knows regardless of what happens today, these officers will be here tomorrow.Saldaa noted that both sides have increased their aggression. You cannot put yourself in front of an armed officer, you cannot put your hands on them certainly. That is impeding law enforcement actions, she said. At this point, Im getting concerned on both sides the aggression from law enforcement and the increasingly aggressive behavior from protesters. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

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Scott Adams, the creator of the popular comic strip Dilbert has died at 68, having drawn criticism after veering into far right politics. What do you think?This is a very sad day for a small group of very weird men.Corina Wayman, Sock DarnerCant wait to see what direction JD Vance takes Dilbert.Vincent Embser, Pinwheel TesterHuge win for Peanuts Supremacists.John Ingles, Pickling AssistantThe post Dilbert Creator Dies appeared first on The Onion.

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NCAA logo displayed on the fence before an NCAA softball game between Jacksonville and FGCU, March 24, 2024, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough, File)2026-01-15T21:59:21Z HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) A federal investigation into a sprawling betting scheme to fix basketball games stretched from the Chinese Basketball Association to the NCAA and has ensnared 26 people, including current and former college players, prosecutors revealed Thursday.The charges filed in federal court in Philadelphia include bribery, wire fraud and conspiracy. How did the scheme work?A group of fixers, including gamblers, recruited players with the promise of a big payment in exchange for purposefully underperforming during a game, prosecutors said. Those fixers would then bet against the players teams in those games, defrauding sportsbooks and other bettors, authorities said.How did the players get paid?In cash, hand-delivered by fixers after a game was successfully rigged, prosecutors say. That meant fixers flying into more than a dozen states to drop off cash to players on their campuses or while they were traveling between games. How much money was involved?Prosecutors didnt say exactly how much the fixers allegedly received in ill-gotten gains. However, they said that the fixers wagered millions of dollars, generating substantial proceeds for themselves, and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to players in bribes.Payments to players typically ranged from $10,000 to $30,000 per game. Meanwhile, fixers put nearly $200,000 in bribe payments and shared winnings from two rigged Chinese Basketball Association games into one players storage locker in Florida, authorities said. How many games were involved?At least 29 NCAA games as recently as January 2025, the indictment said, plus two games in the Chinese Basketball Association.Did any of the charged players compete this season?Four of the players charged Simeon Cottle, Carlos Hart, Oumar Koureissi and Camian Shell played for their current teams within the last few days, although the allegations against them dont involve this season, but the 2023-24 season.When did this start?Fixers started in 2023 with the two games in the Chinese Basketball Association and, successful there, moved on to rigging NCAA games after that. Who were the alleged fixers?Six men primarily, prosecutors say. Three had connections to players through coaching and training, two were described as gamblers and sports handicappers, and one is former NBA player Antonio Blakeney, prosecutors say.Is the investigation over?The indictment suggests that many others, including unnamed players, had a role in the scheme but werent charged, and U.S. Attorney David Metcalf said the investigation was continuing.How does this fit into broader concerns about sports gambling?The indictment is the latest gambling scandal to hit the sports world since a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision unleashed a meteoric rise in legal sports betting. It follows a federal takedown of illegal gambling operations linked to professional basketball, NCAA lifetime bans on at least 10 basketball players for betting and two Major League baseball players facing federal charges that they took bribes to help gamblers.___Follow Marc Levy at http://twitter.com/timelywriter MARC LEVY Levy covers politics and state government in Pennsylvania for The Associated Press. He is based in Harrisburg. twitter

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His death was unnecessary, brutal and devastating, Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne told the judge in a letter filed with the court.Both of Stingleys parents spoke directly to the judge in an hourlong hearing in a courtroom filled with family members, community activists, spiritual leaders and some of the teens former classmates.Corey was my baby. A mother is not supposed to bury her child, Alicia Stingley told the judge. She spoke of the grace of forgiveness, and after the hearing she hugged Beringer. The Stingleys surviving son, Cameron, shook both mens hands.The agreement requires Cole and Beringer to make a one-time $500 donation each to a charitable organization of the Stingley familys choosing in honor of Corey. After six months, if the two men comply with the terms and do not commit any crimes, the prosecution will dismiss the case, according to documents filed with the court.ProPublica, in a 2023 story, reexamined the incident, the legal presumptions, the background of the men and Stingleys fathers relentless legal campaign to bring the men into court. The three men previously had defended their actions as justified and necessary to deal with an emergency as they held Stingley while waiting for police to arrive.Ozanne, who was appointed in 2022 to review the case, recommended the agreement after the two men and the Stingley family engaged in an extensive restorative justice process, in which they sat face to face, under the supervision of a retired judge, and shared their thoughts and feelings. Ozanne said in the letter that the process appears to have been healing for all involved.From the bench, Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Laura Crivello said she found the agreement to be fair and just and commended the work of all the parties to come to a resolution.Maybe this is the spark that makes other people see similarities in each other and not differences, she said. Maybe this is the spark that makes them think about restorative justice and how do we come together. And maybe this is part of the spark that decreases the violence in our community and leads us to finding the paths to have those circles to sit down and have the dialogue and to have that conversation. So maybe theres some good that comes out of it.Craig Stingley, Coreys father, said during the hearing that his 13-year struggle has turned into triumph.Earlier, the Stingley family filed a statement with the court affirming its support for the agreement and the restorative justice process.We sought not vengeance, but acknowledgement of Coreys life, his humanity, and the depth of our loss, it states. We believe this agreement honors Coreys memory and offers a model of how people can come together, even after profound harm, to seek understanding and healing.The family remembered Stingley as a vibrant, loving son, brother, and friend and found that the restorative dialogues brought truth, understanding, and a measure of healing that the traditional court process could not.Jonathan LaVoy, Coles attorney, told reporters after the hearing: This has been a long 13 years. Hes been under investigation with multiple reviews over that time. I think everyone is just so happy that this day has come, that theres been some finality to this whole situation.In a joint written statement provided to the court, Beringer and Cole said they came to recognize the profound ripple effects of the incident and their connection to Stingleys death. They expressed sorrow that Stingleys time on this earth ended far too soon.The proceeding followed years of work by Craig Stingley to force the justice system to view his son as a crime victim whose life was unlawfully cut short by Beringer, Cole and another store patron, Mario Laumann, who died in 2022.Prosecutors at the time declined to charge anyone, saying the men did not intend to kill Corey Stingley when they tackled him and pinned him to the floor of VJs Food Mart, in West Allis, Wisconsin. They were detaining him for police after the youth attempted to steal bottles of Smirnoff Ice. In surveillance video, Laumann can be seen holding Stingley in a chokehold while the other two men aided in restraining him. A witness told police Laumann was squeezing the hell out of the teenager.The Milwaukee County Medical Examiners Office found that Stingley died of a brain injury due to asphyxiation after a violent struggle with multiple individuals. It ruled the death a homicide.Under Wisconsin law, the charge of felony murder is brought in cases in which someone dies during the commission of another alleged crime in this case false imprisonment.Ozanne wrote to the court that his analysis found that there is no doubt Cole, Beringer and Laumann caused Corey Stingleys death.All three men, he wrote, restrained Stingley intentionally and without his consent and without legal authority to arrest him. Simply put, Corey, a teenager, was tackled and restrained to the ground by three grown men because they suspected him of shoplifting, Ozanne wrote. They killed him while piled on top of his body awaiting the police.But he noted that there is no evidence that Beringer or Cole knew that Stingley was in medical distress during the incident. He described their hold on him as rudimentary detention techniques.It was Laumann, Ozanne concluded, who strangled Corey Stingley to death. Ozanne wrote that surveillance video shows Laumanns arm for several minutes across Stingleys neck as he fades out of consciousness.If Laumann were still alive, Ozanne said in court, prosecutors likely would have been seeking a lengthy prison term for him.Defendant Jesse Cole sits in the courtroom on Thursday before a hearing on his case. Taylor Glascock for ProPublicaDefendant Robert Beringer walks into the Milwaukee County courtroom. Taylor Glascock for ProPublicaStingley died the same year as Trayvon Martin, a Black Florida teen shot to death by a neighborhood volunteer watchman, who was acquitted in 2013. Martins case drew national attention and led to the formation of the Black Lives Matter movement. But Stingleys death after being restrained by three white men did not garner widespread notice outside Wisconsin.Over the years, Craig Stingley unsuccessfully advocated for the men to face charges. Two prosecutors reviewed the case, but nothing came of it.He then discovered an obscure John Doe statute, dating back to Wisconsins territorial days, that allows a private citizen to ask a judge to consider whether a crime has been committed and, if so, by whom when a district attorney cant or wont do so.Stingley filed such a petition in late 2020. That led to the appointment of Ozanne as a special prosecutor to review the matter yet again. In 2024, Ozanne informed the Stingley family that his office had found evidence of a crime but that a guilty verdict was not assured for the remaining two men.That set in motion an effort to achieve healing and accountability through a restorative justice process. Restorative justice programs bring together survivors and offenders for conversations, led by trained facilitators, to work toward understanding and healing and how best to make amends. Last year, Stingley and members of his family met on separate occasions with both Cole and Beringer through the Andrew Center for Restorative Justice, part of the law school at Milwaukees Marquette University.The discussions led to the deferred prosecution agreement.In an interview, Anthony Neff, a longtime friend of Craig Stingleys, recalled seeing Corey Stingley in a hospital bed, attached to tubes and a ventilator in his final days. Corey Stingley had been a running back on his high school football team. Everyone in the program showed up for the funeral, Neff said.Coaches. The ball boys. The cheerleaders. I mean, theyre all standing in solidarity with Craig and the family, he said.In the years since, he and other golfing buddies of Craig Stingleys have provided emotional support in his quest. Neff called it a lesson in civics, a master lesson in civics.The post A Black Teen Died Over a $12 Shoplifting Attempt. 13 Years Later, Two Men Plead Guilty in His Killing. appeared first on ProPublica.

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