Reading archive 2021-04-22

Foxconn's giant factory in Wisconsin sounded too good to be true. Turns out it was

Ma’Khia Bryant: Columbus police release body camera footage in shooting of 16-year-old

Police kill Ma'Khia Bryant, 16, who attacked 2 with knife

Fatal police shooting of Black teenager in Columbus sparks new outcry - "Hazel Bryant, who said she is Bryant’s aunt, told The Washington Post in a brief interview Wednesday that 'the body cam doesn’t show the truth of what occurred.' She said she didn’t personally witness the incident but arrived at the scene soon after. She described her niece as 'so loving and kind.'

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"Another teenager, 13-year-old Adam Toledo, was shot and killed by police in Chicago last month, sparking protests and calls for an overhaul of policing. Authorities say Toledo had a firearm, and body camera footage released last week shows him tossing an object over a fence and raising his hands in the split-second before he was fatally wounded."

In Columbus, police killed a Black teenage girl. That fits a rarely discussed pattern.: Most White Americans think Black girls are older and more dangerous than their peers, new research finds. Police behave accordingly. - "On the same day that a Minneapolis jury declared police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd, a police officer shot and killed 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio. Ma’Khia had called the police for help." [ed. note: cannot confirm that last in WaPo reporting]

A Hong Kong journalist exposed police failures. A court found her guilty of a crime.

Beijing won total control over Hong Kong. Now, the ‘brainwashing’ begins.

Conservatives have long embraced ‘cancel culture’: The right supports free enterprise, but only when businesses toe the line on its other political priorities

Opinion: The Big Lie has gotten so bad that even some Republicans are running from it

Opinion: We should soon stop catering to the vaccine holdouts

A new way of putting private money where the forests are: Western investors join governments to come up with a way to pay countries to protect forests

As Biden convenes world leaders, U.S. pledges to cut emissions up to 52 percent by 2030: ‘The stakes could not be higher,’ said one top administration official, as the White House presses other countries to make their own bold promises

Humanity’s greatest ally against climate change is the Earth itself: Ecosystems can draw down carbon and buffer us from the worst effects of climate change — but only if we protect them

Officers grabbed a Black librarian by her hair and tore her shoulder during traffic stop, lawsuit alleges: ‘That’s good police work, baby’

Ma’Khia Bryant’s family remember her as loving, affectionate: ‘She didn’t even have a chance to live her life’: Bryant’s family and others are mourning the loss of the 16-year-old, killed by police this week

Mormon sex therapist has been expelled from the LDS Church - "She said she will stop using “colorful” language when church leaders stop. 

"'When will they stop calling homosexual people degenerate and perverse and unholy?' Helfer said. 'They’re upset that I called them patriarchal pricks. If they want me to stop saying bad words, they need to stop calling other people bad words.'

"Helfer said she and other Mormon therapists are often left to 'pick up the pieces' when Mormons are impacted by church teaching that contradicts evidence-based mental health recommendations."