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  • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Columbus OH police officers shoot and kill a local man in Milwaukee WI outside the RNC security perimeter
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    9 months ago

    A homeless man was shot because there were too many cops around.

    14th and Vliet is near the secure zone of the Republican National Convention, but we have no reason to believe this incident is connected to events at the RNC.

    TMJ4 spoke to two people, who said they witnessed the shooting, telling TMJ4 they saw a man walk across Vliet St., and said police followed him across the street, and shot the man in the back.

    According to the witnesses, the man lived at a nearby homeless encampment with them and was just trying to cross the street when police shot him.

    “More than 4,000 additional law enforcement officials are in Milwaukee for the RNC, and we’ve long feared how this heavy police presence could increase the risk of deadly police encounters, especially by out-of-state officers who don’t know and aren’t accountable to our community. We offer our condolences to the friends and family of the person killed.”

  • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Kroger and Albertsons to close these 63 grocery stores in California under proposed merger
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    9 months ago

    Again, these places aren’t being closed. They are being sold to a different grocery giant. The issue at hand is monopoly and price fixing, not fewer grocery stores.

    Did you read the article you posted about Santa Rosa? That law was pushed into place so one guy could open a Smart & Final. There was already a Lola’s (independently owned grocery store), Target with grocery section and a Costco there. How is that a food desert?

    He also didn’t like that the law had the appearance of being written specifically to help one property owner get a new tenant. Commercial real estate broker Tom Laugero, who was working to get Smart & Final into the Santa Rosa Town Center space, petitioned the council to pass the law. […] “We corrupted our process,” Wysocky said. “We took 12-year-old statistics from the federal government and molded our process just to help this one tenant out. And that’s not OK.”