Last month, the Citizens Review Board ruled there was evidence the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers may have violated policy last summer when they handcuffed Jasmine Horne, a woman they misidentified as a suspect of a violent crime. Thursday, Horne will move to the second part of her case the evidentiary hearing. First, we look at the history of the board, as well as frustrations about how the board operates coming from officers, advocates, and sometimes the board itself.
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Fighting for the Hook: A Forgotten Battle of the Korean War
United Nations forces fought a series of bloody battles with Chinese and Korean Communists for a piece of strategic real estate known as “the Hook.”
Here s What You Need to Know: The heroic actions of those who fought so bravely on the Hook have been largely forgotten.
Peering intently through a telescope, General Lemuel C. Shepherd, the commandant of the Marine Corps, scanned the shell-pocked Korean terrain in front of his position. Shepherd had made a special visit to the Korean front lines to obtain a firsthand view of the Main of Line of Resistance (MLR) his Marines were defending. In the early spring of 1952, under orders from the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea, the entire 25,000-man 1st Marine Division had moved from the east-central sector of the country to the western part of I Corps to man positions along the extreme left flank of an area called the Jamestown Line. In early March the Marines, joined by the attach