Last month five teenagers were arrested for gang rapping a woman in the part. A family member, actually, the alleged victims father, his bizarre and rather disturbing role in all of this in a moment. Juliet rosanna that romney. One of the people that donald trump is feuding with. A bombshell in Donald Trumps past. Donald trump called him grew goofy and all sort of things. Rosanna i think donald said he will show them after super tuesday. They will be very, very beautiful. Lets take a live look at the rockaways situation. It hit one of those sandbars. The coast guard showed up to rescue everybody. Rosanna it capsized. No serious injuries. It is still going on as we speak. Greg wheres the coast guard vessel . It capsized. Attempting to rescue the rosanna some of the members had to swim to shore. Greg it has to be really bad when the coast guard needs rescuing. Mike the wind was crazy. I can only imagine. I am sure the windows were going crazy. Twitter, facebook, all over the place. It wa
Attack there is impacting the u. S. President ial race. We cannot throughout everything we know about what works and what doesnt and start torturing people. What donald trump, ted cruz, and others are suggesting is not only wrong, it is dangerous. Safe. L not keep us today, Glenn Greenwald for the hour on Hillary Clinton, donald trump, brazil, brussels, and the fbi apple fight over encryption. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In arizona, voters are calling on Maricopa County recorder Helen Purcell to resign, following widespread accusations of Voter Suppression during tuesdays primary election. At multiple polling sites, voters waited in massive lines that topped more than five hours. Some sites also ran out of ballots. The voting fiasco comes after Maricopa County, which contains the city of phoenix, cut the number of polling places from more than 200 sites to only 60. On wednesday, dozens of voters
Absurd that in brooklyn, new york, where i was , tens ofually thousands of people, as i understand it, have been purged from the voting rolls. Amy we will host a discussion on the New York Primary results. Then from brooklyn to brazil or the lower house of Brazils Congress has voted to impeach president Dilma Rousseff. She claims her opponents are mounting a coup. It is a coup. It is a coup dressed as original sin, which is the fact there is no legal basis for my impeachment. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and real estate mogul donald trump scored significant victories in new york tuesday, in a primary marked by widespread reports of voter disenfranchisement and irregularities at polling sites. On the republican side, donald trump won 60 of the vote. He appears poised to win 89 of the 95 delegates up for grabs in new york. Ohio Governor John Kasich came i
Continue to monitor this scene. Live at exit 8 a im brian thompson. Also breaking, a judge issued a ruling in a hearing involving a former nypd officer found guilty in the shooting death of akai gurley. Andrew siff is in manhattan with the decision. Reporter the judge has decided that guilty verdict will stand in the peter liang case. That after the defense had objected saying one of the jurors in the case Michael Vargas had lied. Vargas was on the stand for two days and was questioned repeatedly about why he failed to disclose that his own father had been convicted of manslaughter. Peter liang, of course, is the former rookie nypd officer who killed unarmed akai gurley inside the stairwell of a Brooklyn Housing Development in november of 2014. As for the juror, today prosecutors questioned him and asked, quote, you took it very seriously, meaning this case . He said, yes, i did. He said, i believe i did, yes. You thought about it . He said yes. You cried about it . He said, yes, thats
Those who wanting liang who didnt think he should have been indicted in the first place and then the side of gurley. You are a murderer, a convicted murderer. Reporter a convicted murderer who wont spend a day in jail. Peter liang entered the courthouse convict have had manslaughter but left convicted of criminally negligent homicide. I am just confused on what happened. Reporter liang will start five years probation and 500 hours of Community Service for the shooting death of akai gurley. A brooklyn judge reduced the charge. The fact that the judge did reduce the charge was upsetting. We feel there was enough evidence to uphold the findings of the jury but this is a man who is a convicted felon. Reporter District Attorney ken thompson initially recommended that liang serve house arrest and that attracted a crowd of protesters. No matter what recommended sentence we gave, people would be upset. Reporter and officer peter liang, he drew his own crowd. The indiement should not be against