The police surrounded her car Thursday, "drew their guns, and told her to come out with her hands up," reports a local news station. The police thought they were pulling over a murder suspect, but "It turns out it was a mistake by another department with the Flock license plate reader technology." The black woman says she'd wanted to call her mother, "but I'm like, if I make a sudden move, it's going to be over. It's going to end my life."

And amazingly, the same thing happened Monday, according to the local news report. "Milwaukee police pulled her over with guns drawn. She says officers never explained why, towed her car, and let her go."

She now describes herself as "traumatized," recalling her second detention by police on Thursday. "After they put us in cuffs, they walked us to the car. I'm not knowing what's going on. I'm scared. All you see is people in their cars recording." She now says she's scared to drive her car, and so is her daughter. "Because she doesn't know if the police are going to pull us over and do it again..."

"I haven't been to sleep since this happened. Every time I close my eyes, all I can see is guns."

She wants an apology, since the local police would only say it wasn't their fault, it was the fault of the Milwaukee police department that failed to remove the alert from Flock's system. "Milwaukee police emphasized this was not a Flock camera issue, it was a data entry mistake," according to the local news report. The woman's response?


"Y'all failed. Y'all failed the system. Y'all failed me. Y'all failed everybody."

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Somosierra will be prime spot to view celestial alignment on 12 August, an event that poses logistical challenges

Little stirs in the mountains above Somosierra beyond the wind that lashes the flat peaks, the cows that graze on parched grass and the sun that beats down on the abandoned aerodrome where generations of glider pilots learned to ride air currents alongside squadrons of vultures and red kites.

But all this stillness will disappear, albeit temporarily, on the evening of 12 August, when swathes of northern and eastern Spain and the Balearic islands experience a total solar eclipse, the likes of which has not been seen here for more than 120 years.

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The sponsorship deal between Cwmbran Celtic and the Welsh indie-rockers is part of a trend to monetise ‘adjacent audiences’ as much as it is a nostalgia trip

As someone born on the cusp of the gen X-millennial divide, I am the perfect target for today’s 90s nostalgia. I played my modest, teenage part in the Battle of Britpop (verbal skirmisher, Blur division); I fervently sang – and, God help me, believed – that Things Can Only Get Better. Super Furry Animals were a band I knew only distantly, via the transgressive thrill of that song they had with all the swearing in. And yet the news they’ll be shirt sponsor for a Welsh football club this season has managed to whisk me straight back to a time when things seemed simpler, kinder and more hopeful.

Nearly three decades have passed since Super Furry Animals last had their logo on a football kit. Back in 1999, their frontman Gruff Rhys and bassist Guto Pryce, both Cardiff City fans, persuaded their Bangor-born bandmates to lay down their north Wales allegiances for the duration of the Bluebirds’ Welsh Cup run – which was, incidentally, all they could afford. The cup shirts cost them £2,000 and were, according to Rhys, knock-offs made for ice hockey. This year’s beneficiaries are a more modest outfit: Cwmbran Celtic, just relegated from Wales’s second tier. Cwmbran is the town where the band send their stage props for repair, and given the props in question are giant inflatable bears, you wonder whether they could get one installed in goal.

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Fifa’s president ended the World Cup on a high, but is now battling to save his job after a series of self-inflicted blows

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Exclusive: anonymous flagging service says cases have surged, as watchdog says AI is making sexualised or ‘nudified’ content easier to produce

Children in the UK have reported a surge in explicit deepfake images featuring their likenesses, as a safety watchdog warned AI is making such content easier to produce.

The Report Remove service, which blocks intimate images from appearing online, said there had been a rapid increase in imagery that had been digitally manipulated or “faked” in some way, including with AI and nudification tools.

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Zorgde voor internationale ophef eerder dit jaar, en het waren, helemaal zo losgezongen van context, natuurlijk ook bijzonder onsmakelijke beelden: een hoogzwangere vrouw die door de politie (te) hardhandig werd weggetrokken en zo op de grond eindigde. De pliesie stelde een eigen onderzoek in; het stel wachtte even, en deed later alsnog aangifte. De vader is Wesam Mekdad, een crimineel die eerder vier jaar in Griekenland vastzat wegens drugshandel. Het bewuste filmpje werd opgenomen toen agenten afkwamen op een melding over een gevaarlijke, agressieve man die een mes bij zich had; naar verluidt bleek dit later een 'aardappelschiller' te zijn. Mekdad zelf gaf aan dat hij emotioneel was omdat hij zojuist te horen had gekregen dat zijn broer was omgekomen in Gaza, waarna hij zijn frustratie afreageerde op de inboedel. Een totale clusterfuck van een situatie, kortom. 

Afijn, het gezin vertrok vervolgens naar Duitsland. Daar besloten jeugdwerkers in te grijpen en de inmiddels geboren baby weg te halen bij haar ouders. Te gevaarlijk, oordeelden ze. Mekdad is inmiddels maar weer vertrokken, in de hoop iets aan de situatie te veranderen, vooralsnog zonder succes. "Ik ben nu in België, ver weg van mijn vrouw en kind, zodat mijn aanwezigheid niet als gevaar wordt gezien. Alles wat ik wil is mijn dochter Reem terugbrengen naar haar moeder."

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Nederlanders hebben tijdens de extreme hitte in juni minder geld uitgegeven. Dat constateren onderzoekers van ABN AMRO op basis van transactiegegevens van klanten tijdens de hittegolf. Volgens de bank veranderden de bestedingen vooral op het platteland.

Gemiddeld daalde de consumptie tijdelijk met 4 procent. Er werden minder onlineaankopen gedaan en er werd ook minder geld uit de muur gehaald. Bij pinbetalingen was een dubbel effect te zien. In de eerste warme dagen werd juist meer met pin betaald dan normaal. Maar tijdens de allerheetste dagen waarop code rood van kracht was, daalden de pinbestedingen sterk.

Vooral buiten stedelijk gebied werd er minder getankt. Dat wijst er volgens ABN AMRO op dat mensen daar meer thuisbleven. Ook wonen daar relatief meer ouderen. Die volgen volgens de bank vaker het advies om fysieke inspanning tijdens de heetste uren van de dag te beperken. In de steden bleven de pinbetalingen beter op peil. Daar werd juist meer gespendeerd in de horeca.

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Het wordt een mooie zaterdag om het weekend mee te beginnen want de zon is er meteen heel goed bij en er is maar een zwakke oostenwind. Het is vannacht afgekoeld tot rond 11 graden en vanochtend is er dan ook wat koelte.