What to know about the trial of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro
The case received renewed attention after President Donald Trump directly tied a 50% tariff on Brazilian imported goods to Bolsonaro's judicial situation, which Trump called a ' witch hunt.'
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Winnipeg Free Press
11 minutes ago
- Winnipeg Free Press
Police deny wrongdoing in death of Alabama man, dispute family's account
Police officers in Alabama who were involved in the arrest of a man who died while handcuffed were not at fault, officials said, disputing an account from the man's family who are calling for the officers to be charged. Police employed no excessive force in the events leading up to the August 2024 arrest and death of Phillip Reeder, 52, the City of Irondale and its police department said in a joint statement late Monday. The Birmingham suburb's announcement came hours after attorneys for Reeder's family shared a county coroner's report that said Reeder's death was a homicide caused by a 'combination of his heart disease, cocaine, injuries, and exertion from the altercation' with police. This undated photo shows Sandra Lee Reeder and her husband, Phillip Reeder, who was killed on August 4, 2024 after a police officer restrained Phillip Reeder by pressing a knee to his neck. (Mike Wukela via the AP) Attorneys for the family said an police officer kneeled on Reeder's neck and compared what happened to Reeder with what happened to George Floyd in 2020 — an incident that captured the country's attention and renewed scrutiny of police practices. Reeder was white; Floyd was Black. In autopsies, the term homicide has a medical definition that is different from a criminal one. In a medical context, homicide means that a death is caused at the hands of another person, but does not necessarily mean someone is criminally guilty. Both the police department and Reeder's wife, Sandra Lee Reeder, agree that police officers were dispatched to a local highway just after 5 a.m. on Aug. 6, 2024, after multiple 911 complaints of a man behaving erratically and running into traffic. Reeder continued to run in the road, shouting, when officers approached him, ignoring 'multiple commands to comply,' the city statement said. Officers then shocked Reeder with a Taser, saying he 'posed a danger to himself and others.' After officers handcuffed him, 'Mr. Reeder continued to struggle and resist for almost two minutes,' the statement read. Officers used their arms to restrain Reeder, it said, but 'No knee was placed in the back of his neck, and no excessive force was used.' The statement emphasized that Reeder had a history of 'hypertensive heart disease,' which the coroner said contributed to his death. The statement underscored the portion of the autopsy that said 'the blunt force injuries alone would not account for Mr. Reeder's death.' It also said that the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, the state agency tasked with investigating the incident, found no wrongdoing and that the Jefferson County District Attorney didn't see evidence 'sufficient for criminal charges' against the officers involved. Reeder's wife, Sandra Lee Reeder, offered an account Monday that was starkly different. She and her attorney say they saw body camera footage of the incident on July 18, after almost a year of asking the city and police department for more information on Reeder's death. The video showed 'no attempt from the Irondale police officers to talk Phillip down,' Reeder's wife said at a news conference. She said that her husband was unarmed and was suffering from a mental health crisis. Sandra Lee Reeder said an officer put a knee on Reeder's neck for approximately three minutes after he was shocked with the Taser. She said her husband can be heard saying 'I can't breathe' three times while he was restrained. The body camera footage has not been released publicly because of an Alabama law that governs release of police recordings. The law says an agency may choose to not disclose a recording to the public if it would affect an active law enforcement investigation, but does not require an agency to provide a reason for denying a request. Reeder's family attorney, Roderick Van Daniel, has urged authorities to release the bodycam video to the public. ___ Riddle reported from Montgomery, Alabama. She is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
CBC
12 minutes ago
- CBC
Trump revives old grievances in Oval Office rant, accusing Obama of treason
U.S. President Donald Trump rehashed long-standing grievances Tuesday over the Russia investigation that shadowed much of his first term, criticizing former president Barack Obama and others following a new report from his intelligence director aimed at casting doubt on long-established findings about Moscow's interference in the 2016 election. "It's time to go after people," Trump said from the Oval Office, as he repeated a baseless claim that Obama and other officials had engaged in treason. Trump accused the former president, without evidence, of being the "ringleader" of a conspiracy to get him. "The leader of the gang was President Obama," he said. "He's guilty.... This was treason." The former president's office issued a rare response to the allegations, saying "these bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction. "Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response," said Obama spokesperson Patrick Rodenbush. "But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one." Rodenbush emphasized that multiple investigations, including a bipartisan examination by the Senate intelligence committee, found that Russia had meddled in the 2016 election. Obama has never been accused of any wrongdoing as part of the Russia investigation. As well, a landmark U.S. Supreme Court opinion from last year shields former presidents from prosecution for official acts conducted in office. Deflecting questions about Epstein case Trump launched his rant after being asked about the U.S. Justice Department's effort to speak with Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein who was convicted of helping the financier sexually abuse underage girls. "I don't really follow that too much," he said. "It's sort of a witch hunt, a continuation of the witch hunt." Trump is under pressure from conspiracy-minded segments of his political MAGA base to release more about the Epstein case. He's tried to move on, which Democrats say is because of his association with Epstein. Trump has denied knowledge or involvement of Epstein's crimes and said he ended their friendship years ago. Adding to that pressure is a recent Wall Street Journal story of a crude letter that Trump purportedly wrote to Epstein in 2003, alluding to secrets they shared. Trump has denied writing the letter and is now suing the paper and its owners. As the scrutiny has grown in recent weeks, Trump administration officials have escalated their focus on other matters like the Russia investigation. House shut down to avoid Epstein vote Meantime, House Speaker Mike Johnson rebuffed pressure to act on the investigation into Epstein, moving instead to send members home early for a month-long break from Washington after the week's legislative agenda was upended by Republican members clamouring for a vote. Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, said Tuesday morning that he wants to give the White House "space" to release the Epstein information on its own, despite the bipartisan push for legislation that aims to force the release of more documents. "There's no purpose for the Congress to push an administration to do something they're already doing," Johnson said at his weekly press conference, his last before lawmakers depart Washington on Wednesday for their traditional August recess. Under pressure from right-wing online influencers, as well as voters back home, rank-and-file Republicans are demanding that the House intervene in the matter. "The public's not going to let this die, and rightfully so," said Rep. Ralph Norman, a South Carolina Republican. WATCH | Seeking to distract: Are Trump's social posts an Epstein distraction tactic? 18 hours ago Political wedge Even with the month-long break, the pressure on Johnson is unlikely to end. Frustration in the House has been running high since last week, when Republican leaders signalled possible support for a vote on a bipartisan resolution to require the Justice Department and FBI to release all government documents on Epstein as they raced to pass a $9-billion US package of spending cuts. Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican whose contrarian stances are often a thorn in the side of leadership, is gathering support for a legislative manoeuvre to force the bipartisan bill to a House vote, even without leadership's consent. "Now, there are a lot of people here in the swamp who think that, 'Oh, well, if we spend five weeks on vacation, the pressure for this will dissipate.' I don't think it's going to dissipate," Massie told reporters Monday evening. Democrats have repeatedly tried to force votes on the matter. "It's about transparency in government. It's about whose side are you on? Are you on the side of the rich and powerful, protecting men? Or are you on the side of young girls and America's children?" said Rep. Ro Khanna, the California Democrat who put forward the legislation alongside Massie. Epstein sexually abused children hundreds of times over more than a decade, exploiting vulnerable girls as young as 14, authorities say. He couldn't have done so without the help of Maxwell, his longtime companion, prosecutors contend. Massie said the case is palpable enough to carry significant political consequences. "This will be an issue that does follow Republicans through the midterms, and it will follow each individual Republican through the midterms," he told reporters. "It will follow people into their primaries. Did you support transparency and justice, or did you come up here, get elected and fall into the swamp?"
Winnipeg Free Press
41 minutes ago
- Winnipeg Free Press
Prosecutors expected to announce felony charges in LA car crash outside nightclub that injured 36
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles prosecutors are expected to announce felony charges Tuesday in connection with a car crash outside a nightclub over the weekend that injured at least 36 people and led to the driver being shot. Partygoers were leaving the Vermont Hollywood venue at the end of a reggae hip-hop event early Saturday when a vehicle rammed into the crowd along a busy boulevard in East Hollywood. The car came to a stop after colliding with several food carts, which became lodged underneath the vehicle, and bystanders attacked the driver, according to police. Injuries ranged from minor pain to serious fractures and lacerations, and some people were briefly trapped beneath the vehicle. A vehicle sits on the sidewalk after ramming into a crowd of people waiting to enter a nightclub along a busy boulevard in Los Angeles early Saturday, July 19, 2025 injuring several people. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) LA County District Attorney Nathan Hochman is expected to announce felony charges against the driver, who was identified Sunday as 29-year-old Fernando Ramirez. He is expected to face a felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon. A phone number for Ramirez could not be found in an online database search, and the public defender's office has not responded to requests for comment on whether one of its attorneys is representing him. Ramirez was later found to have been shot in the lower back, but authorities have not identified the suspected gunman. Los Angeles police released surveillance photos Monday from cameras near the crash showing a man with a goatee wearing a blue Dodgers jacket and a light blue jersey with the number '5.' Ramirez has a criminal history that includes a battery and gang-related charge in 2014, an aggravated battery conviction for a 2019 attack on a Black man at a Whole Foods grocery store in Laguna Beach, California, and a domestic violence charge in 2021, records show. Ramirez 'has proved to be violent to strangers and family alike and clearly has a lack of concern for the safety of others,' Orange County prosecutors said in a court filing for the 2019 attack. A 2024 drunken driving case and 2022 domestic violence charge were pending at the time of the nightclub crash, according to records.
