In surveillance video footage that has quickly gone viral, Santa Ana police officers appear to eat products at a marijuana dispensary that they were raiding.
The L.A. Times claims one officer appears to give the thumbs-up sign as he consumes the marijuana edible.
Sky High Holistic was raided on May 26 for operating without a permit. A cease-and-desist order filed in February had allegedly been ignored by the shop’s owner.
The shop’s manager, Marla James, an amputee who uses a wheelchair, claims police made fun of her physical condition during the raid.
The allegations are being investigated. The officers involved in the raid are not on administrative leave.
A Cobb County, Ga., grand jury has indicted the 20-year-old grandson of rapper Ice-T in the shooting death of his roommate.Elyjah Marrow of Marietta was arrested last year after allegedly shooting 19-year-old Daryus Johnson in the chest while handling a stolen gun, according to police. Johnson died from his injuries.
Investigators found marijuana in the apartment where the shooting happened, and Marrow allegedly admitted he sold the drug, his arrest warrant states.
Marrow was indicted June 4 on charges of involuntary manslaughter, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of marijuana more than an ounce, theft by receiving stolen property and possession of firearm during commission of a felony reckless conduct, according to the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office. He is currently free on bond.
Ice-T, whose real name is Tracy Lauren Marrow, is also an actor and currently stars in the E! show “Ice Loves Coco.” His grandson previously appeared on that show.
Ice-T also appears on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”
Thousands of dogs are sold from the black market, cooked and eaten in Yulin, in Guangxi province in southern China, as part of the city’s yearly dog meat festival.
Outrage on social media over an annual dog-eating festival in China has been growing every year – and this year it’s trended across the world. Will the anger eventually end the practice of eating dog meat in China.
Each year during summer solstice, it’s thought that 10,000 dogs are cooked and eaten in Yulin, in Guangxi province in southern China, as part of the city’s yearly dog meat festival. Although it’s not illegal to eat dog meat in China, opinion is divided on how deep the “tradition” really runs.
On Chinese social media in recent years, the Yulin Festival has become a focus for the large numbers of animal lovers – mostly within China – who are against it.But this year, the reaction has gone global. Since May, almost a quarter of a million tweets have been posted using the hashtag #StopYulin2015, with most of the activity coming from the UK, the US and Australia.
One of the loudest voices has been the US animal welfare group Duo Duo, whose change.org petition calling for the cancellation of the event has received more than 200,000 signatures. The group’s campaign video on YouTube has been viewed more than 130,000 times.
“I went to a slaughter house in Yulin a few days ago. The dogs and cats were wearing collars and of different sizes and breeds. They were very friendly,” says Duo Duo founder Andrea Gung. “Dogs are man’s best friend. To kill more than 10,000 of them in one day is wrong,” she says. Activists have also raised health concerns – although the meat is traditionally seen as having health benefits, campaigners claim the dogs transported into Yulin come from the black market and could be diseased. “The consumer thinks they’re safe to eat but they’re not,” says Gung.Duo Duo has intentionally targeted a Western audience with its social media campaign, rather than campaigning within China, as it says it doesn’t want to interfere with the activities of local activists. “The main thing we have done is made people in Yulin realise that their tradition is something from the past, that is perceived negatively from the outside world,” says Gung.
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