âStand Your Groundâ proposal stirs debate at state Legislature
Lawmakers explore the possibility of a Stand Your Ground law in Hawaii By Chelsea Davis | February 3, 2021 at 11:08 PM HST - Updated February 4 at 2:41 PM
HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Thereâs considerable debate at the state Legislature this session on whether to pursue passage of a so-called âStand Your Groundâ law in Hawaii.
On Tuesday, House Bill 534 was heard before the House Committee on Pandemic & Disaster Preparedness. It received lots of criticism, even from guns rights advocates.
Hawaii Firearms Coalition Director Andrew Namiki Roberts asked the committee to change the wording of the bill to match House Bill 711.
A new memorial project in Berlin, supported by Germany s culture commission and the French Embassy hopes to pave the way for remembrance culture in the digital age. Thousands of names are currently being projected onto the Embassy s facade, a symbol itself of the post-war Franco-German friendship after so many decades of enmity.
Monika Grütters is Germany s Government Commissioner for Culture & Media. She says there has been a shift in what is acceptable to articulate, and we should be wary: We’re experiencing more and more hatred and incitement, not only on social networks and in the digital sphere, but also here on the streets. You only have to think of attacks like in Hanau and Halle. And that’s why it’s, of course, particularly important to remember where hatred and incitement, anti-Semitism, and resentment led: to the Holocaust .
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A woman who assaulted a Corrective Services officer, a nurse, a friend and tried also to assault police, has been sentenced for her crimes.
The 35-year-old, who has lived in various parts of the Northern Rivers, faced Byron Bay Local Court via video link for sentencing on Monday.
She had pleaded guilty to various offences including assaulting a Corrective Services officer by way of kicking and biting him, causing actual bodily harm at Lismore in March 2019 and assaulting a man with a pair of scissors in Mullumbimby last November, also causing him harm.
She has also been convicted of failing to appear before court when required.