FAMILY DEMANDS COP'S ARREST FOR KILLING PATRICK LYOYA The Grand Rapids, Michigan, cop who pinned the unarmed Black man to the ground and shot him in the back of the head should be fired and prosecuted, Lyoya's family said. Lyoya's father, Peter Lyoya, took his six children from Congo in 2014 to escape violence. Now he fears he brought them to the U.S. to die. [AP]
SUPREME COURT RULING GUTTING ROE WON'T JUST AFFECT RED STATES Oklahoma's new near-total ban on abortion is just the latest GOP-led state anticipating a Supreme Court decision this summer that might gut Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that recognized a constitutional right to have an abortion. But as the Republican crackdown spreads, even states where Democrats hold power might be affected by a Supreme Court ruling against abortion rights. Jonathan Cohn explains. [HuffPost]
NYC'S BIG CLEAN ENERGY PROJECT DRAWS MAJOR OPPOSITION — FROM ENVIRONMENTALISTS New York, with 90% of its electricity powered by fossil fuels, wants to run a transmission line down the Hudson River from hydropower dams in Québec. Environmental groups and gas companies are trying to kill it. [HuffPost]
HOW A TRUMP TAX BREAK FOR THE POOR LED TO A $30 MILLION GOLD STASH IN A QUEENS WAREHOUSE Molly Redden takes a fascinating look at how financial schemers turned a Trump tax break pitched as help for poor neighborhoods into a bonanza for the ultrarich. Warning: This story will make you mad. [HuffPost]
BORIS JOHNSON'S PARTYGATE FINE WON'T STOP THE UPROAR U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's wrist-slap fine for attending parties during the coronavirus lockdown makes him the country's first head of state lawbreaker in living memory. And the scandal lives on. [HuffPost UK]
BOWEN TURNER'S SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES SHOW THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IS WORKING JUST FINE — FOR WHITE MEN Don't worry if you've never heard of Turner — that's by design. One of his alleged victims is dead. Another watched him violate house arrest more than 20 times. Cops never brought charges in a third case. To this day, Turner is free, which is what the white guys of 1789 envisioned, HuffPost opinion editor Stephen K. Crockett Jr. writes. [HuffPost]
