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What if he didn't hit her?

New information has appeared on social media, containing police testimony and never before seen footage from surveillance cameras of the former marital home of Amber Heard and Johnny Depp.

In May 2016, Heard and her team testified in several court cases that Depp threw a phone in her face and trashed their penthouse kitchen. However, the actor's lawyers argue that graphic images of the damage, including broken candelabra, glasses scattered on the floor, and red wine splattered on walls and carpets, contradict what the police saw.

Savvy?
Check out our brief summary of some of the latest news:

▪️ The U.S. Department of Justice has sued Roger Stone, saying the close ally of former President Donald Trump owes about $2 million in unpaid federal income taxes

▪️ Authorities have released the names of the eight people killed during Thursday’s shooting rampage at an Indianapolis FedEx facility

▪️ Protests from Oregon to Illinois turned violent Friday night, as demonstrators again took to the streets to demand an end to police brutality

▪️ Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has accused Biden administration officials of misleading the press about striking a deal in which Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico will tighten their borders to reduce migration to the US

▪️ Kamala Harris has gone 24 days without a news conference since being tapped for the border crisis role

▪️ California authorities on Friday identified three police officers who were involved in the fatal shooting of a fugitive following an 11-hour SWAT standoff in San Diego earlier this week
👮 Murder suspect Christopher Buggs, who was mistakenly released from a NYC jail in March, has been rearrested, according to a police source.

The 26-year old was finally captured in a store in the Bronx.
Is there an option to end to police violence and public disorder?

The US has been swept by protests again after 20-year-old Daunte Wright was fatally shot by a police officer. The fact that the incident took place several kilometres from the site where George Floyd died only fuelled public anger over what is believed to be police violence.

Dr. Robert Gonzalez, an NYPD veteran and professor of criminal justice at St John’s University spoke to Sputnik about the flaws in the US police system. He thinks one unified policing system needs to be created in the US to stop civilians being killed.

Read more on our website: https://sptnkne.ws/FXKE
🤔 New York’s Upper West Side is too white and Jewish, says a City Council candidate’s campaign manager.

Quinn Mootz, the campaign manager for Upper West Side City Council candidate Sara Lind, has found herself in hot water after she said that the neighbourhood is too white and Jewish.

“As of 2018: 10.8% of the population is Asian, 4.1% black, 14.1% hispanic, and 68.4% white”, she tweeted. “So yeah ima go ahead and say the UWS has a diversity problem”.

“Jews are not POC [People of Color] for just being jewish. sorry,” Mootz also tweeted, using the handle “Quinn Mootz says Hot Girls Hate The Filibuster.”

Mootz – who happens to be white and Jewish herself – tweeted her comments on 13 April. While they have since been deleted, some people managed to take screenshots.
🚨 Portland police declared a riot once again on Friday – the third night in five days – after protesters lit fires and smashed windows during a demonstration.

Protests erupted on Sunday after the death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, who was fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop in Minnesota.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has condemned the violence, while supporting calls for police accountability.
Focus on POTUS or how to win with ‘selectively leaked’ information.

Republican Senator Tom Cotton believes that someone in the government who did not like then-President Donald Trump "selectively leaked" to the media a secret report on the so-called "Taliban bounties" in 2020 to help Joe Biden prevail in the election.

That's one way of winning!
💸 The US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Roger Stone and his wife, alleging the Republican politician along with his spouse used a commercial body to "shield their personal income from enforced collection and fund a lavish lifestyle despite owing nearly $2 million in unpaid taxes, interest, and penalties."

According to the lawsuit, the couple underpaid their income taxes by $1,590,361 from 2007 to 2011 and by $407,036 in 2018.

A lavish lifestyle isn't for everybody
Ex-US President George W. Bush believes that it is necessary to gradually legalize millions of illegal immigrants who “have played by the rules”. Bush also said that trying to bring them all back home would be a "political pipe dream."

Free apartments for those who “have played by the rules”!
💰 Members of Congress of both parties who voted against Donald Trump have been gripped by fear. Since January, they have increased their spending on private security. For example, House Democratic member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was not trapped in the congressional building with rioters on January 6, but broadcast events from the office and shared her fears for her life, has since spent a whopping $ 45,000 on private security.

Some Republicans have also become obsessive about protection: Senators Mitt Romney and Pat Toomey, who voted to convict Trump during the trial, increased their private security spending to $ 43,633 and $ 70,000, respectively.

How much taxpayer money are you willing to spend to protect yourself?
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🛬 A World War II-era plane participating in the Florida Air Show made an emergency landing in the ocean near the Patrick Space Force Base beaches, local media reported.

Stuck the landing
Check out our brief summary of some of the latest news:

▪️ Three people have been killed and two sustained injuries in a shooting at The Somers House Tavern in Kenosha County, Wisconsin

▪️ The former FedEx worker, who murdered eight people in Indianapolis, legally bought the two weapons he used

▪️ The US and China have agreed to cooperate to curb climate change

▪️ The Minnesota State Patrol will stop monitoring journalists covering protests after free press outcry

▪️ The Indianapolis Sikh community has called for gun reforms as they mourn the deaths of four Sikhs who were among the eight people killed in a mass shooting at a FedEx warehouse

▪️ Hester Ford, the oldest person in the US, died on Saturday at the age of 116
China has warned the US and Japan against meddling in the country’s domestic affairs, accusing the two of “actually ganging up to form cliques and fanning bloc confrontation”.

A few days earlier, US President Biden and Japanese PM Suga discussed an array of pressing issues, including those related to China's growing “assertiveness” on the global arena.