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Sgt. Joseph Miller and canine handler Jason Woodruff have both been charged with fourth-degree assault for the May 24 incident, Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Public Safety James Cockrell announced in a news conference Thursday.
“I’ve been with this department 33 years, and I’ve never seen any action like this before by an Alaska State Trooper,” Cockrell said. “Because of their actions, there was significant injuries to the person that went to the hospital that was in that vehicle.”
An arraignment for the officers is scheduled on September 10.
The two troopers broke out the rear window of a man’s car, pepper sprayed him, used a taser, and ordered a police dog to repeatedly bite him while attempting to arrest him, authorities said. It wasn’t until officers took him to the hospital for treatment that they realized that they had arrested the cousin of the man they were seeking. Both men had the same last name.
The two troopers originally responded to a car parked in a public right of way in Soldotna on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, southwest of Anchorage. The car was registered to a man with an active misdemeanor warrant, according to Cockrell.
Miller and Woodruff were placed on administrative leave following the incident and the dog is no longer in service, according to Cockrell. CNN has been unable to determine if Miller and Woodruff have obtained legal representation.
The troopers attempted to speak with a man who was “hidden in the rear of the vehicle” and ordered him to exit the car, according to a news release from Alaska’s Department of Public Safety. He denied he had an active warrant and refused to exit the vehicle, the news release said.
Miller, 49, then broke out the rear window of the car and sprayed pepper spray into the car, according to the news release. “There should have been some additional questions asked before we broke the window and drug him out of his car,” Public Safety Commissioner Cockrell said in the news conference.
As the man began to exit the vehicle, the troopers attempted to handcuff him, and Miller placed his foot on the man’s head, “pushing it into the ground covered in broken glass,” according to the release. This caused his “face or head” to start bleeding, said Cockrell.
Miller also used a taser multiple times, according to the news release.
Then, even as the man seemed to be complying with commands from officers, Woodruff, 42, released his canine and “continued to order the K9 to bite the man,” the release said.
The man was eventually placed in handcuffs, given first aid and taken to a hospital.
It wasn’t until then the troopers realized he was not the person they were looking for.
According to charging documents obtained by The Associated Press, the troopers thought they had encountered a man with an outstanding warrant but the man pepper-sprayed and attacked by a dog was his cousin.
The man was left blooded and needed surgery to repair muscle lacerations after the incident, The Associated Press reported.
Charges against the man who was wrongly arrested were subsequently dropped, according to the charging document against the two officers.
“Personally, when I reviewed this video, I was totally sickened by what I saw,” Cockrell said. Authorities have said they will not release all the body camera video until the investigation is complete.
Miller and Woodruff were placed on administrative leave following the incident and the dog is no longer in service, according to Cockrell.
“Let me be clear, the actions of these two individuals are not acceptable to me, not in line with our training and policy, and I know it is not acceptable to the Alaskans we serve,” said Cockrell in the news release.
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Two Alaska state troopers charged with assault after violently arresting wrong person
Sgt. Joseph Miller and canine handler Jason Woodruff have both been charged with fourth-degree assault for the May 24 incident, Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Public Safety James Cockrell announced in a news conference Thursday.
“I’ve been with this department 33 years, and I’ve never seen any action like this before by an Alaska State Trooper,” Cockrell said. “Because of their actions, there was significant injuries to the person that went to the hospital that was in that vehicle.”
An arraignment for the officers is scheduled on September 10.
The two troopers broke out the rear window of a man’s car, pepper sprayed him, used a taser, and ordered a police dog to repeatedly bite him while attempting to arrest him, authorities said. It wasn’t until officers took him to the hospital for treatment that they realized that they had arrested the cousin of the man they were seeking. Both men had the same last name.
The two troopers originally responded to a car parked in a public right of way in Soldotna on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, southwest of Anchorage. The car was registered to a man with an active misdemeanor warrant, according to Cockrell.
Miller and Woodruff were placed on administrative leave following the incident and the dog is no longer in service, according to Cockrell. CNN has been unable to determine if Miller and Woodruff have obtained legal representation.
The troopers attempted to speak with a man who was “hidden in the rear of the vehicle” and ordered him to exit the car, according to a news release from Alaska’s Department of Public Safety. He denied he had an active warrant and refused to exit the vehicle, the news release said.
Miller, 49, then broke out the rear window of the car and sprayed pepper spray into the car, according to the news release. “There should have been some additional questions asked before we broke the window and drug him out of his car,” Public Safety Commissioner Cockrell said in the news conference.
As the man began to exit the vehicle, the troopers attempted to handcuff him, and Miller placed his foot on the man’s head, “pushing it into the ground covered in broken glass,” according to the release. This caused his “face or head” to start bleeding, said Cockrell.
Miller also used a taser multiple times, according to the news release.
Then, even as the man seemed to be complying with commands from officers, Woodruff, 42, released his canine and “continued to order the K9 to bite the man,” the release said.
The man was eventually placed in handcuffs, given first aid and taken to a hospital.
It wasn’t until then the troopers realized he was not the person they were looking for.
According to charging documents obtained by The Associated Press, the troopers thought they had encountered a man with an outstanding warrant but the man pepper-sprayed and attacked by a dog was his cousin.
The man was left blooded and needed surgery to repair muscle lacerations after the incident, The Associated Press reported.
Charges against the man who was wrongly arrested were subsequently dropped, according to the charging document against the two officers.
“Personally, when I reviewed this video, I was totally sickened by what I saw,” Cockrell said. Authorities have said they will not release all the body camera video until the investigation is complete.
Miller and Woodruff were placed on administrative leave following the incident and the dog is no longer in service, according to Cockrell.
“Let me be clear, the actions of these two individuals are not acceptable to me, not in line with our training and policy, and I know it is not acceptable to the Alaskans we serve,” said Cockrell in the news release.
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The study, called “New Things: A theological investigation into the work of starting new churches across 11 dioceses in the Church of England,” was conducted by the Centre for Church Planting Theology and Research in Durham.
The qualitative study inspected language used by 11 Church of England dioceses to describe their new churches.
Traditionally, new churches are referred to as “church plants.” In this study, the Centre for Church Planting Theology discovered that even though more than 900 new churches were established by 11 dioceses in the past 10 years, none of them used the word “church plant” or “church.”
“Not one diocese used the term ‘church’ in their main descriptor. ‘Church plant’ is not used by any of the 11 dioceses. Only one diocese used ‘fresh expressions’ of ‘pioneering’ in its descriptor,” reads the study’s conclusion.
In footage released by the Tulsa Police Department and obtained by FOX 5, officers encounter Victor Martinez Hernandez at a bar in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
His arrest came 10 months into an intense nationwide manhunt.
The mother of five, whose children range in age from 8 to 18, was raped before being murdered in August while jogging on the Ma & Pa Trail in Harford County, Maryland.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT INDICTED FOR RACHEL MORIN’S MURDER IN ‘CRUCIAL STEP’: FAMILY LAWYER
WATCH BODY CAMERA FOOTAGE:
In the footage, officers arrive at a bar where Martinez Hernandez was sitting.
After the initial encounter, he complied when taken outside the bar, and police began asking him for his identification.
Martinez Hernandez told the officers he didn’t have an ID and provided a fake name.
“You live in El Salvador?” one officer is heard asking.
The migrant’s identity was revealed, and officers snapped pictures to circulate the long-awaited capture of Morin’s suspected killer.
The real estate company found that today, nearly 1 in 10 U.S. homes, or 8.5%, are worth at least $1 million, which is the highest share the nation has ever seen. Plus, the number is up 7.6% from just last year and more than double the 4% seen before the pandemic.
Redfin attributes the rise to record home prices that have been kept up, in part, due to low inventory driving competition between buyers, despite high mortgage rates slowing demand.
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In June, Redfin data showed median home sale prices hit an all-time high of $442,525 after rising 4% year over year. But the month also saw the highest share of price cuts, 20%, with many purchases being canceled by skittish buyers, the real estate company said.
Luxury homes are also at an all-time high, rising more than twice as fast as non-luxury homes at up 8.8% from a year earlier, Redfin data showed. It reports the typical luxury home in the U.S. sold for a record $1.18 million in the second quarter, which it says has pushed the share of homes that were nearly at $1 million over the threshold.
All this to say, sellers are more likely to have a higher-priced asset, but buyers are more likely to be either priced out of, or scared to commit to, affording more and more homes.
So where is this happening the most and the least?
Redfin says all but three of the 50 most populous metropolitan cities in the U.S. saw its share of homes worth $1 million or more rise year over year: It fell in Austin from 10.1% to 10%, and it stayed the same in Houston at 3.6% and Indianapolis at 2%.
California still reigns supreme for having the most million-dollar homes, with more than 80% of homes in both San Francisco and San Jose worth at least $1 million compared to the next highest share in Anaheim at nearly 60%.
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But the state is also gaining million-dollar homes faster than anywhere else in the country, according to Redfin. Anaheim’s share of homes worth at least $1 million rose the most since last June at 7.8%, followed by San Diego at 6.1%, then Los Angeles at 4.3% and San Francisco at 4.2%.
Seattle, Wash. also saw a 4.2% increase in its share of $1 million homes, according to Redfin’s analysis.
Redfin says you could choose to look at places like Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Kansas City, Missouri and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for options. Less than 1% of homes in each of those cities are worth $1 million.
Record number of US homes are worth $1 million or more, and these cities have the most
The real estate company found that today, nearly 1 in 10 U.S. homes, or 8.5%, are worth at least $1 million, which is the highest share the nation has ever seen. Plus, the number is up 7.6% from just last year and more than double the 4% seen before the pandemic.
Redfin attributes the rise to record home prices that have been kept up, in part, due to low inventory driving competition between buyers, despite high mortgage rates slowing demand.
RELATED STORY | Here’s where rent prices are dropping and rising in the US
In June, Redfin data showed median home sale prices hit an all-time high of $442,525 after rising 4% year over year. But the month also saw the highest share of price cuts, 20%, with many purchases being canceled by skittish buyers, the real estate company said.
Luxury homes are also at an all-time high, rising more than twice as fast as non-luxury homes at up 8.8% from a year earlier, Redfin data showed. It reports the typical luxury home in the U.S. sold for a record $1.18 million in the second quarter, which it says has pushed the share of homes that were nearly at $1 million over the threshold.
All this to say, sellers are more likely to have a higher-priced asset, but buyers are more likely to be either priced out of, or scared to commit to, affording more and more homes.
So where is this happening the most and the least?
Redfin says all but three of the 50 most populous metropolitan cities in the U.S. saw its share of homes worth $1 million or more rise year over year: It fell in Austin from 10.1% to 10%, and it stayed the same in Houston at 3.6% and Indianapolis at 2%.
California still reigns supreme for having the most million-dollar homes, with more than 80% of homes in both San Francisco and San Jose worth at least $1 million compared to the next highest share in Anaheim at nearly 60%.
RELATED STORY | California’s median home price hits record high at $900,000, Realtors association says
But the state is also gaining million-dollar homes faster than anywhere else in the country, according to Redfin. Anaheim’s share of homes worth at least $1 million rose the most since last June at 7.8%, followed by San Diego at 6.1%, then Los Angeles at 4.3% and San Francisco at 4.2%.
Seattle, Wash. also saw a 4.2% increase in its share of $1 million homes, according to Redfin’s analysis.
Redfin says you could choose to look at places like Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Kansas City, Missouri and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for options. Less than 1% of homes in each of those cities are worth $1 million.
A member of Erdoğan’s party approached Ahmet Sik, who is in the same Workers’ Party of Turkey as a delegate believed to have been jailed for political reasons, and attacked him after Sik made the “terrorist” claim.
“We’re not surprised that you call Can Atalay a terrorist, just as you do everyone who does not side with you,” Sik said in his speech. “But the biggest terrorists are the ones sitting in these seats.”
Soon, dozens of lawmakers had joined the skirmish, with some throwing punches and papers and others trying to stop the fighting.
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A female lawmaker was hit, splattering blood across the parliamentary podium.
“It is a shameful situation,” Ozgur Ozel, who heads the Republican People’s Party, the largest opposition party, told The Associated Press. “Instead of words flying in the air, fists are flying. There is blood on the ground. They are hitting women.”
The Turkish Grand National Assembly had been debating Can Atalay, who was elected as a parliamentary deputy in May 2023 while imprisoned for his role in 2013 anti-government protests.
Atalay, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2022 over the protests that challenged Erdoğan’s rule, wants to serve his term in parliament, saying he would return to prison afterward.
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Being in parliament would give him immunity from prosecution.
In an Aug. 1 ruling, the Constitutional Court said the decision to not allow Atalay to take his seat in parliament was “null and void” after parliament stripped him of his seat.
It was the Constitutional Court’s third ruling in Atalay’s favor, but the lower courts have been ignoring its rulings.
International human rights groups have called Atalay’s and others’ jailing and sentencing, including philanthropist Osman Kavala, arbitrary and politically motivated.
“When I am President, it will be a day one priority to bring down prices,” Harris declared in a Thursday night social media post. “I’ll take on big corporations that engage in illegal price gouging and corporate landlords that unfairly raise rents on working families.”
But the vice president and presidential hopeful faces one unique challenge in arguing about policy, the fact she has failed to enact such changes over the course of the Biden-Harris administration she currently presides in, a point many commentators pointed out.
“What have you been doing the last four years?” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, inquired.
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