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Misleading headline?
Family sues police over California Taser death
LOS ANGELES, Sept 1 (Reuters) – The parents of a Southern California man who accuse police of killing their son with a Taser after he honked at a patrol car have sued the sheriff’s department and county.
This headline is misleading. A cause of death hasn’t been determined and to simply infer that the use of one police tool is to blame for this man’s death is irresponsible as there are no facts to support that causal relationship.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, hundreds of people unfortunately die during or following arrests each year with only a small fraction of these events involving the use of a TASER® device and most of these cases involved some other cause of death.
Please immediately correct the headline to reflect that the cause of death is as yet unknown.
Stacey Todd TASER International
We have amended the headline to call it a Taser-related death: GBU Editor
Cause of death…
Michael Jackson crowned king of MTV VMAs: poll
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – King of Pop Michael Jackson is gone, but he is not forgotten — not by MTV Video Music Award voters.
The “Thriller” singer, who died in June 2009 from a drug overdose, also got the nod for best pop performance with the same medley, again topping artists including Britney Spears, Justin Bieber, TLC and his own sister, Janet Jackson, who performed a tribute to Michael the year he died.
I am requesting that you make necessary adjustments to an incorrect statement made in this article.
Mr. Jackson did not die of an overdose of drugs. Mr. Jackson died of acute propofol intoxication, as per his autopsy report.
The propofol was administered by Dr. Conrad Murray, outside of a hospital setting, and without proper monitoring equipment. Dr. Conrad Murray is now standing trial for the manslughter of Mr. Jackson.
The statement in this article is only perpetuating a lie that is being bandied about by tabloid/medialoid reporters who aren’t concerned with selling the truth. Their interest lies in selling sensationlism for profit. Reuters is well-respected, and above tabloid behavior. Please make this correction.
How much per dose?
Mexico seizes over 800 tonnes of meth chemicals
I think someone needs to brush up on their math skills, this would be $8,000 a dose, and that would solve the addiction problem.
F.B.
The problem wasn’t our math skills, it was the basic numbers we used. We should have said nearly 350 million doses, not 3.5 million.
That’s where the problem occurred. We corrected: GBU Editor
A soldier stands guard as members of a forensic team, in chemical protective clothing, prepare to enter a warehouse used to store chemicals for illicit drug processing at an industrial park in Queretaro July 20, 2011. REUTERS/Demian Chavez
Charges dropped?
Pentagon cautions news media on WikiLeaks documents
Assange has been establishing a base in Sweden in order to benefit from the Nordic country’s strict journalist protection laws. He is also being investigated over rape allegations in Sweden, which he has denied, calling them baseless.
It has been widely reported that the rape charges were dropped.
The relevancy of the remaining charges would appear to have no bearing on the article on hand, and the original statement would appear to be included as an attempt of character assassination by the author.
D.E.
It was indeed widely reported in August that the charges were dropped, and then again in September when Swedish prosecutors reopened the investigation: GBU Editor
Frame grab shows Director of Public Prosecutions Marianne Ny during a news conference in Stockholm September 1, 2010. Ny, a top Swedish prosecutor, said on Wednesday she was reopening an investigation into rape allegations against Julian Assange, the founder of whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. REUTERS/Angelica Karlsson/Scanpix Sweden
Torchings in France
Hundreds of cars torched in France at New Year
PARIS (Reuters) – Youths burned 1,137 cars across France overnight as New Year’s Eve celebrations once again turned violent, the French Interior Ministry said on Friday.
Car burnings are regular occurrences in poor suburbs that ring France’s big cities, but the arson is especially prevalent during New Year’s Eve revelry.
These are merely your run of the mill French “youths” burning cars across Paris?
They wouldn’t be, by and large, by any chance, a particular group of “youths”?
Buddhists perhaps? Amish youths? British soccer fans? American skinheads?
Or…or…could it be…? average well-adjusted well-meaning MUSLIM youths?? Noooooooo….
Before or after?
Madoff friend Picower dead, found in pool
MIAMI, Oct 25 (Reuters) – Palm Beach billionaire Jeffry Picower, described as the biggest beneficiary of Bernard Madoff’s fraud, died on Sunday after he was found lying at the bottom of the pool at his home, police said.
I think you will find that he died *before* he was found at the bottom of his pool, not “after”.
John
I appreciate the amusing point you are making, but I think our wording was fine. This story – and subsequent ones with more detail – went on to say he was pulled unconscious from the pool and later pronounced dead: GBU Editor
Bernard Madoff in a 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/Files
Polanski’s legal status…
Anger in France and Poland after Polanski arrest
Artists and film makers also urged the release of Polanski, who faces charges of having sex with a girl of 13 in 1977, accusing Switzerland of being overzealous in pursuing such an old case and bowing to U.S. demands.
In an article on PolanskI, you say he faces charges of having sex with a girl of 13.
He’s not facing charges, he’s facing prison time. Can you actually put out a story that tells the truth and gives truthful background?
S.B.
Several readers pointed this out to us. Our subsequent stories on Polanski made his correct status clear: GBU Editor
Polish-born film director Roman Polanski awaits a public talk in Potsdam February 19, 2009. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
its a shame…they should free him…enough…
i am also amazed at people’s mean and judgmental attitudes….scary…also because they think they are so right in whitchunting…nothing ever changes…….
Republicans or Democrats?
Mayors, rabbis arrested in NJ corruption probe
NEWARK (Reuters) – Dozens of New Jersey politicians, officials and prominent rabbis were arrested on Thursday in a sweeping federal probe that uncovered political corruption, human organ sales and money laundering from New York to Israel, officials said.
The 10-year investigation, dubbed “Operation Bid Rig,” exposed influence-peddling and bribe-taking among a network of public officials and a separate multimillion dollar money-laundering ring that funneled funds through charities operated by local rabbis, said the U.S. Attorney’s office in Newark, New Jersey.
The cast of the 44 arrested featured Hoboken, New Jersey, Mayor Peter Cammarano, who took office three weeks ago in the industrial city visible across the Hudson River from New York.
Get real. If this was a group of Republicans the party would be splashed all over the place. I am assuming that most of these were Demoncrats because no mention was made about the political parties. SHAME SHAME.
L.S.
We got several reader e-mails along these same lines. The party affiliation of the key players was relevant and should have been mentioned in our story. The two mayors in the excerpt above are Democrats: GBU Editor
Editing problems
Capitol police say suspect killed near Capitol
The shooting occurred after a Capitol police officer tried to make a routine traffic stop near Union Station, a police spokeswoman said. Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said the driver fled, nearly ran over two officers, struck a parked and then crashed into a police cruiser.
Robert Drumm, visiting Washington from Edmond, Oklahoma said he was walking near the Capitol when he saw police cars engaged in a high speech chase with a white Mercedes.
Between the words ‘parked” and “and,” I believe there should be another word (vehicle, car, bike, etc).
Ken
The article says there was a “high speech chase”.
Mario
Those of us who grew up watching Walter Cronkite did not think of him as an entertainer. He was a professional broadcast journalist. Guess Reuters (and likely all other news services)don’t have category other than entertainment under which to announce his death. That alone is sad.
Madoff’s crime
Madoff can expect de facto life term at sentencing
NEW YORK, June 29 (Reuters) – Admitted thief Bernard Madoff will leave his jail cell and be taken under guard to court on Monday morning to hear his punishment for running Wall Street’s biggest and most brazen investment scheme.
The opening sentence in this article is ignorant. It It is not a crime to run a big or a brazen investment scheme.
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