Charley Gallay/Getty Images Former New York City prosecutor Linda Fairstein is suing Ava Duvernay and Netflix for portraying her “in a false and defamatory manner” in When They See Us, a Netflix miniseries about the Central Park Five. The miniseries focuses on the trials and convictions of Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise, the five teenagers who were imprisoned, and then had their […]
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Linda Fairstein, the prosecutor of the now-exonerated Central Park Five, sued Netflix and the director of the series When They See Us on Wednesday, claiming the show contained defamatory scenes that portrayed her as a “racist, unethical villain.” Fairstein, a 72-year-old former New York prosecutor, alleged in the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida that the four-part series about […]
The FBI has released photos of doomsday mom Lori Vallow, her two now-missing children, and her brother during a Sept. 8 visit to Yellowstone National Park, and appealed to the public to submit any other video or photos from that day that could be helpful. The trip may have been the last time that Vallow’s daughter Tylee Ryan, 17, was seen. Her stepbrother, 7-year-old J.J., was […]
London plans to turn Hyde Park into a giant morgue in the event of a worst-case coronavirus scenario, reports Bloomberg. “We have contingency plans to open up a morgue in Hyde Park, in tents,” said MP Nickie Aiken, whose district includes the 350-acre open space which was used as a refuge from the plague in the 17th century. “We would run the morgue for most of […]
An Iowa professor has been charged for allegedly gagging and binding her husband to a chair with rope for hours before his death, authorities said on Wednesday evening. Gowun Park, a 41-year-old assistant economics professor at Simpson College, was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping in the death of her 41-year-old husband, Sung Nam, on Saturday West Des Moines police told The Daily Beast. “Ms. […]
A Turkish court has acquitted the defendants who protested at Istanbul’s Gezi Park in 2013, releasing nine individuals who were previously accused of attempting to cause instability and overthrow the Turkish government by organising large demonstrations at the famed green spot in Istanbul. That ruling changed yesterday, however, when the judge acknowledged that there was “not enough concrete evidence” to fully charge them. Celebrations reportedly erupted […]
When a Chechen exile was shot dead in a Berlin park last summer it strained relations between Germany and Russia. A new investigation suggests his alleged killer may have been trained by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was regarded as a terrorist by Moscow for his role in conflicts in the Caucasus during the early 2000s. He moved to Germany after apparently surviving an […]
Zachary Leeman is a US-based journalist and author of the novel Nigh. A string of tweets from writer Dana Schwartz slamming the “cultural damage” done by ‘South Park’ have gone viral, and now fans are defending the controversial show, saying it’s exactly what today’s bubble-wrapped culture needs. Don’t count ‘She-Hulk’ writer Dana Schwartz as a ‘South Park’ fan anytime soon. “It seems impossible to overstate the cultural […]