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Mark Esper: Defense chief breaks with Trump on response to protests
“The option to use active duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort, and only in the most urgent and dire of situations. We are not in one of those situations now. I do not support invoking the Insurrection Act,” he said during a briefing at …
Minneapolis police chief says all four officers involved in George Floyd’s death bear responsibility
“Mr. Floyd died in our hands and so I see that as being complicit,” Chief Medaria Arradondo told CNN’s Sara Sidner. “Silence and inaction, you’re complicit. If there was one solitary voice that would have intervened … that’s what I would have hoped for.” Arradondo’s response Sunday came after Floyd’s brother asked the chief if …
St. Petersburg welcomes protesters; will arrest those breaking the law, police chief says
Peaceful protests in St. Pete Evan Axelbank reports ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Chanting “No justice, no peace,” “Silence is compliance,” and “arrest the police,” rallies in St. Petersburg were largely peaceful. For most of Sunday evening, about a hundred people marched through the city and held a sit-in at the police station. “People are hurt. …
The Technology 202: TikTok’s new chief executive’s success may hinge on allaying Washington’s concerns
with Tonya Riley Washington lawmakers already want to put TikTok’s new chief executive in the hot seat. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) welcomed former Disney executive Kevin Mayer into his new role with an invitation on Twitter to appear in front of Congress. Hawley has long pressed TikTok to send its top executive to testify amid …
Calls for NYC Health Chief Oxiris Barbot to Resign After Rejecting NYPD PPE Request – NBC New York
Police unions are livid and demanding New York City’s Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot resign or be fired after she reportedly gave an emphatic rejection when the NYPD sought more face masks for officers. In late March, Barbot had a phone call with Chief of Department Terence Monahan regarding additional PPE for police, as the department …
A Florida police chief is on leave after linking a sheriff deputy’s death from coronavirus to ‘homosexual behavior’
A woman who answered Engle’s phone said he was not available to comment. Florida Fraternal Order of Police chief of staff Mike Tucker wrote the letter to Davie town administrator Richard Lemack based on reports from members of the Davie Police Department. Tucker wrote that the trouble began after officers asked Engle about the department’s …
Breaking the rules could plunge West Midlands hospitals into crisis, chief warns
Dr David Rosser, chief executive of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, said hospitals were in control of dealing with the Covid-19 and “nowhere near” reaching a point where no additional patients could be received. But he said he had serious concerns that people who head out into the sunshine over the weekend could spread …
Scotland’s chief medical officer sorry about breaking own coronavirus rules
LONDON — Police issued a warning to Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer Catherine Calderwood on Sunday after she broke her own advice on social distancing to slow coronavirus spread when she visited her second home this weekend and last. Photographs of Calderwood visiting her holiday home in Earlsferry, on the east coast of Scotland about an …
Air Force Technology Chief Roper Responds To An Unfolding Crisis In The U.S. Industrial Base
Dr. Will Roper, the U.S. Air Force’s top acquisition and technology official, is pressing his service to respond quickly and imaginatively to the stresses imposed on military contractors by the spread of coronavirus. Roper established a COVID-19 acquisition task force within the Department of the Air Force on March 25, and subsequently undertook a series …
Stimwave Technologies Names Aure Bruneau Chief Executive Officer
POMPANO BEACH, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Stimwave Technologies, Inc., a global medical device company that provides minimally invasive, MRI-compatible battery-free implantable devices to treat chronic pain, today announced that Aure Bruneau has been named Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Paul LaViolette, effective immediately. Mr. LaViolette, who stepped into the role of Interim Chief Executive Officer in late 2019, will …
