According to Human Rights Watch, Libyan security forces have killed 24 protesters at anti-government demonstrations within the past few days, and many other protesters have been wounded.
This footage was filmed in Libya on Thursday and shows a man lying in a pool of blood in the middle of the street. The caption said it depicts protesters "shot by Libyan police."
WARNING: This video contains graphic content.
More footage is available at The LA Times.
This October, Rolling Stone published an exclusive report detailing an FBI raid on a prominent journalist's home which was followed by the journalist's disappearance from public view. The target of the raid was ABC News producer James Gordon Meek.
"Meek has been charged with no crime. But independent observers believe the raid is among the first — and quite possibly, the first — to be carried out on a journalist by the Biden administration," wrote Rolling Stone's Tatiana Siegel.
But behind the scenes at the outlet, Siegel was outraged at how the story was edited. According to a report from NPR this Tuesday, Siegel accused Rolling Stone Editor-in-Chief Noah Shachtman of omitting her findings that Meek was part of a federal investigation into images of child sex abuse.
"The raid on Meek's apartment occurred in April but did not become public knowledge. In September, Siegel learned details of the raid from Meek's neighbors, yet she felt the story was languishing. At a staff meeting late that month, Shachtman asked her what she was working on. She reminded him," reported NPR's David Folkenflik. "The next week, Shachtman stepped in to edit Siegel's story. It was rare for him to do so for her work."
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Siegel reportedly informed Shachtman about the seriousness of the accusations against Meek, but Shachtman shot her down, saying she shouldn't turn in a story with the words "child pornography" in it.
Enraged, Siegel accepted a position at a sister publication two months later.
"According to two people with knowledge, Mark S. Zaid, a Washington attorney who often handles national security matters and represents government whistleblowers, called Shachtman on Meek's behalf while Siegel was preparing her story. Zaid previously represented the Daily Beast on Freedom of Information Act cases while Shachtman was editor of the site," Folkenflik reports. "Zaid confirms that he called Shachtman, and he tells NPR that Meek was a longtime friend and client on Freedom of Information issues. Zaid says he was representing Meek on any possible prosecution or investigation of his potential possession of classified material."
Shachtman reportedly later told people that he was skeptical of Siegal's sourcing. Rolling Stone's parent company, Penske Media, told NPR in a statement that the authority to make such choices for Rolling Stone's coverage lies with Shachtman. "That was true in this case, as reflected in the final edits to the story," the company said. "Some material was added late in the process, other material was dropped."
Shachtman reportedly took other steps that seemingly were intended to shield Meek from scrutiny. He told photo staffers to come up with a generic photograph rather than a picture of Meek, saying, "let's not use a picture of the guy in question, james gordon meek."
"NEEDS PHOTO," he told staffers in an internal message. "something FBI-y, please."
In the hours leading up to publication, Folkenflik reports that "Shachtman changed Siegel's draft to remove all suggestions that the investigation was not related to Meek's reporting. He left in the finding that federal agents had allegedly found 'classified information' on Meek's devices."
Read the full report over at NPR.
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Stormy Daniels, the adult film star whose $130,000 hush payment from former President Donald Trump is now at the heart of a bookkeeping fraud investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, took to Twitter this week to ridicule the latest angry claims by the former president's supporters, reported Newsweek on Tuesday.
In particular, she made clear that she is intending to celebrate if, as experts broadly believe, Trump is indicted.
"Replying to a tweet that accused her of accepting a hush money payment 'to Frame an innocent man,' Daniels replied, 'Sooo...tiny paid me to frame himself? You sound even dumber than he does during his illiterate ramblings,'" reported Katherine Fung.
Daniels also taunted a Trump fan by informing them that she would "dance down the street when he is 'selected' to go to jail."
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"Over the weekend, Trump said he expected to be arrested as early as Tuesday," noted the report. "However, early-morning reports indicated that the grand jury wouldn't be voting on an indictment until Wednesday."
Falsifying business records is a misdemeanor charge in New York that is unlikely to come with jail time on its own; however, the charge could rise to a felony if prosecutors have evidence he committed the fraud as part of a coverup of another crime. Some experts have also proposed a novel legal theory whereby, because the hush payment was intended to keep voters in the 2016 presidential election from learning about an alleged affair, it amounts to a felony campaign finance violation, although this interpretion of the law is untested, and Trump has claimed the money was unrelated to the campaign.
This comes as several other criminal investigations advance against Trump, including an election interference probe in Georgia, and federal investigations into the January 6 plots and the concealment of classified documents at the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate.
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