A San Francisco lawmaker proposed a bill this week that would make fake and racially motivated 911 calls illegal.Shamann Walton, a member of the city's board of supervisors, proposed the Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies Act, known as the CAREN Act, at a board meeting on Tuesday afternoon.The acronym for the bill is a reference…
(CNN)It may soon be illegal to make discriminatory, racially biased 911 calls in San Francisco. The "CAREN Act" (Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies) was introduced on Tuesday at a…
The city of San Francisco is being asked to take a stand against Karens. Supervisor Shamann Walton introduced on Tuesday the Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies (or CAREN) Act, which would make it illegal to “fabricate false racially biased emergency reports.” Over the last several weeks, examples of racial profiling have been recorded and made…
San Francisco has temporarily halted planned reopenings scheduled for next week amid a surge in coronavirus cases while Gov. Gavin Newsom urged one Southern California county to reinstitute stay-at-home orders after a spike in positive COVID-19 tests there.The city recorded 103 new cases Thursday, San Francisco Mayor London Breed said in a Friday announcement, affecting a number of…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…