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NYPD Cop: Chokehold Was Wrestling Move (Newser Nine at Nine)

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NYPD Cop: Chokehold Was Wrestling Move

(Newser) - "I can't breathe," protesters chanted in New York after a grand jury yesterday decided not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Eric Garner. The New York Times has details from Pantaleo's Nov. 21 grand jury testimony as described by his lawyer,... More »

NASA's 'Mars Ship' Poised for Launch

(Newser) - The spacecraft NASA hopes to one day send to Mars is awaiting its maiden voyage today, but it's been stalled twice this morning by gusts of wind and once by leaky valves, reports the AP , with the launch window rapidly closing. The Orion space capsule is to launch from... More »

Ancient Zigzag Means World's First Artist Wasn't Human

(Newser) - A human ancestor carved a zigzag onto the shell of a mussel some 430,000 years ago. Now, that shell, recovered from a riverbank in Indonesia more than a century ago, could transform what it means to be human. Artistic creativity has long been considered unique to Homo sapiens. Before... More »

Cop Who Shot Cleveland Boy 'Dismal' in Gun Training

(Newser) - The Cleveland police officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice was considered a major liability in his previous police job—but Cleveland never looked at his file. When Tim Loehmann was an officer in the Cleveland suburb of Independence, the deputy chief wrote that he seemed "distracted" and "... More »

#CrimingWhileWhite: White Privilege Tales Flood Twitter

(Newser) - New York City wasn't the only site of protests last night after a grand jury decision not to indict a police officer in Eric Garner's death. On Twitter, Tonight Show writer Jason Ross started the #CrimingWhileWhite hashtag to draw attention to the preferential treatment police give white people,... More »

Feds: Postal Workers Swiped Pot Packages

(Newser) - Sharp-eyed workers at a Long Island mail processing center identified hundreds of packages containing marijuana and set up a drug distribution network of their own, according to federal prosecutors. Eight men arrested yesterday are accused of stealing 263 packages of the drug and sending them to be delivered to destinations... More »

17 States Sue Over Obama Immigration Plan

(Newser) - More than a third of the states have joined a lawsuit fighting President Obama's sweeping executive action on immigration . The suit brought by 17 states against the federal government was filed in Texas and announced by Greg Abbott, the state attorney general and governor-elect, reports the Los Angeles Times... More »

Garner Decision 'Beyond Mystifying'

(Newser) - The words "travesty," "outrageous," and "mystifying" feature heavily in editorial columns on a grand jury's decision not to indict NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, despite the fact that the officer was captured on video using a banned chokehold on... More »

Navy: Female Submariners Secretly Filmed in Shower

(Newser) - A big scandal for the Navy's submarine integration program: Some of the first women ever to serve on American subs were secretly recorded showering on the USS Wyoming, reports the Navy Times . The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is investigating a 24-year-old male officer who is accused of recording the... More »