"In six pages of the 163-page report documenting how Baltimore police officers have systematically violated the rights of African-Americans, the Justice Department also painted a picture of a police culture deeply dismissive of sexual assault victims and hostile toward prostitutes and transgender people. It branded the Baltimore Police Department's response to sexual assault cases "grossly inadequate.""

""There's a lot of women in the same communities that have been victimized just as much," Ms. Hill-Aston said, adding of the police, "They just didn't care, because it was a poor black woman or a poor black neighborhood.""

"In 2010, The Baltimore Sun reported that in the previous four years, the police had routinely failed to solve rape cases; in reviewing F.B.I. data, the newspaper found that the percentage of rape cases dismissed as false or baseless was higher in Baltimore than in any other city in the country."

Finally... this statement... If it's true, and not taken out of context, is a deeply revealing and disturbing view of the police:

""The challenge of interacting respectfully with victims of sexual assault is a challenge to our profession," Commissioner Davis said"

Repack is willing to bet that Hillary wins by 100 electoral votes.

To be fair to Trevor and other Trump supporters like him. It's a terrible bet to take but it is a great bet for Repack.

The state called a medical examiner/pathologist Valerie Rao. She acknowledged Angela Corey recommended her to the Governor for one of her two positions. (Actually, as O'Mara originally asked her, and despite her runaround answer, she was appointed by Angela Corey to serve as Medical Examiner for the Fourth Judicial District.)

O'Mara didn't bring up the ten years of complaints in multiple cities against her including concerns expressed by law enforcement, funeral homes and organ donor organizations. Or the complaints by co-workers who said she called employees rednecks and criticized their weight. (These are in addition to the criticisms of her as an ME.) Her contract was not renewed...

...she never examined Martin's body and wasn't on the autopsy team.

Here's one big difference between these two shootings...

But one significant difference between the two cases, Bamberg said, is that Zimmerman reported an altercation before the fatal shot.

She then broke into "what she really meant" explaining "what he really meant"

Homeland season 6 is jumping right back into the current political conversation

In the new season, Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) has begun working at a foundation that aims to provide aid to Muslims living in the U.S. The show's action will tackle the events after a U.S. presidential election, with the season taking place between election day and a new president's inauguration.

"We talked a lot about the Iran nuclear deal, because a lot of that business gets conducted in New York City in terms of the sanctions and banking," Gansa said.

SYDNEY - A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 struck about 535 km (330 miles) southeast of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said, triggering a local tsunami warning.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a warning for areas close to the quake, although there was no Pacific-wide threat of a tsunami, the Hawaii-based center said. The shallow quake was measured at a depth of about 10 km (6 miles).

Kind of an interesting statistic, and the article, while attempting to explain why, doesn't really seem to figure it out.

One example

The all-time classic Trump deposition is the one he gave in 2007 in a libel lawsuit he brought against Timothy O'Brien, author of  TrumpNation , because the book stated that Trump's net worth was far less than he claimed...
Trump needed to prove he was damaged by the purported libel, but he wasn't content with just saying he had lost some specific bit of business. Instead, he claimed to have lost business he never knew existed. "The fact is that a lot of people who would have done deals with me didn't come to do deals with me,'' he testified. "I can't tell you who they are because they never came to me."

(Magistrate Judge) Duffin found that investigators made false promises to Dassey during multiple interrogations.

"These repeated false promises, when considered in conjunction with all relevant factors, most especially Dassey's age, intellectual deficits, and the absence of a supportive adult, rendered Dassey's confession involuntary under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. The Wisconsin Court of Appeals' decision to the contrary was an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law," Duffin wrote.

Wonder why the Prez hasn't told us if he a son he would look like these??

Still, while Clinton hasn't followed Trump's lead in releasing names, advocates say her most likely choices for a high court appointment are already apparent.

The Hill talked to three well-connected groups in Washington about Clinton's Supreme Court options should she win the White House. None would go on the record, citing the sensitivities surrounding the issue.

But there's broad agreement about who Clinton would be most likely to consider, not only for the vacancy already on the court, but also the additional ones that could open up over the next four years if liberals like Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice Anthony Kennedy were to retire.

Topping the list, insiders say, is Garland.

He's an obvious choice, having already completed the background checks from the FBI and the American Bar Association to be a Supreme Court nominee; that process can take up to four months.

Garland already serves on the powerful D.C. appeals court, and personally knows some of the other members of the Supreme Court, including Chief Justice John Roberts.

And while Republicans have refused to consider Garland's nomination this year, saying the court vacancy should be filled by the next president, many have spoken highly of his qualifications, giving him a good chance at being confirmed.