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Police officers killing citizens is becoming a costly business for local communities and their insurers, the Washington Post reported earlier this year. Such was the case with an Ohio jury awarded the family of an unarmed black man shot and killed while he was sleeping, reported The Guardian.

The jury ordered $4.4 million in compensatory damages for Luke Stewart, who was asleep in his car in Euclid, Ohio in March of 2017. Officer Matthew Rhodes "climbed" into the car after someone reported the "suspicious car," reported ABC News Cleveland.

An Alabama costume party ended in a stabbing after a man came dressed in a Ku Klux Klan costume, reported CenLA.

Slocomb High School senior Michael Harrison Barrett was arrested and charged after allegedly stabbing another partygoer. Witnesses say that the victim walked up to Barrett at the party with hundreds of other youths in costume.

The co-hosts of "The View" flattened Justice Clarence Thomas for his statements during the Supreme Court arguments around affirmative action.

Whoopi Goldberg was so serious, she took her glasses off, looking directly into the camera to deliver a message to the Black justice.

A state Senate seat in California got contentious in Sacramento when the two Democrats in the race started debating which one of them was the most Republican.

"Former insurance commissioner Dave Jones and Sacramento City Councilwoman Angelique Ashby have both spent the final weeks of the midterm election trying to pick up Republicans they may need to win Senate District 8," reported the Sacramento Bee on Tuesday. "The competition has been fierce, and their attempts to win over GOP voters have devolved into attacks on each other."

Over the weekend, the Republican Party has generated conspiracies to cover up the real story about the right-wing violence against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband. The attacker has confessed to police, saying that his efforts were motivated by fringe conspiracy theories linked to the right wing.

"So, let's get this straight: we have a full confession," began former FBI counterintelligence assistant director Frank Figliuzzi. "We have an FBI agent representing the Department of Justice writing the affidavit containing the full confession. We have the United States attorney's office representing our Department of Justice saying we're prosecuting this person for Title 18, Section 115, assault on an immediate family member of a federal official and we're adding — because he was so kind to confess to us — we're adding a separate charge of kidnapping. And what is the response? Within minutes if not seconds, complete inability to accept what our institutions are telling us. San Francisco PD, the district attorney in a major city in America. No, don't believe them."

US District Judge Brian Cogan hinted in court on Monday that he was “thinning some things out” when it came to the trial of Donald Trump fundraiser Tom Barrack. Barrack is charged with lobbying as an unregistered foreign agent for the United Arab Emirates.

Cogan indicated he was considering dismissing some of the counts against Barrack and co-defendant Matthew Grimes but that didn't happen, said CNN.com. The judge did agree to restrict prosecutors from telling jurors they could find Grimes guilty of acting as an unregistered foreign agent if he only aided and abetted someone else who was acting as an unregistered foreign agent.

Former Proud Boys chief Enrique Tarrio had a guide to infiltrating the U.S. Capitol using "covert sleeper" staff and plotted ways to tie up traffic so additional police and defense couldn't get to the Capitol to protect it.

The New York Times reported the name of the person that Tarrio got the document from, a Miami promoter named Eryka Gemma. She's a well-known crypto activist who "may have played a role in the Capitol attack," the Times said.

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and attempt to overthrow the 2020 election brought in the spokesperson of the Secret Service to answer questions about the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson.

The Washington Post reported that spokesman Anthony Guglielmi was asked about statements the Secret Service sent out that undercut the sworn testimony Hutchinson gave about what she was told by Donald Trump's detail head and his deputy chief of staff.

Another pro-MAGA activist has been outed as a Chinese spy, according to the Washington Post.

Just as Elon Musk is taking over Twitter, the company uncovered three China-based operatives pretending to be influencers in American politics as part of an effort to polarize Americans ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

Alyssa Farah Griffin joined the voices of those calling out Republicans refusing to be unified against political violence after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul was attacked by an apparent QAnon supporter.

Griffin said that at the time of the attack on the Congressional baseball game she recalled every Democratic member in office uniformly denouncing the shooter and his actions, and rooted for Rep. Steve Scalise's (R-LA) recovery. She claims that didn't happen among the GOP.

A Michigan Republican spoke to a QAnon podcast just after the 2020 election where she made some bizarre comments about Democrats, Vice News found.

Kristina Karamo, who is seen as an extremist in the race to control elections as the Michigan Secretary of State, talked about "child sacrifice" by the Democratic Party.

The two leaders of the far-right group True the Vote have been hauled off to jail as of Monday afternoon, according to Votebeat Texas.

Gregg Philips and Catherine Engelbrecht were told that until they follow a federal judge's order to identify the man they say is an FBI informant in a defamation case they must remain in jail.

Political violence in the United States is continuing to get worse and with easy access to weapons of mass death, there is a fear that it could generate larger body counts.

Princeton Professor Eddie Glaude warned this is just the beginning of MSNBC's The Last Word on Monday evening.