On July 17, 2014, Ramsey Orta took out his mobile phone and filmed a police officer in New York killing his friend, Eric Garner. But as soon as he stopped recording, Orta says his own life also took a dramatic turn for the worst. Viewed millions of times, Orta's clip shows Daniel Pantaleo, a white officer, gripping his arms around Garner's neck in a chokehold. Garner, a black American, was 43 years old at the time, and an asthmatic. "I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. I can't breathe," Garner said, as he was being pinned to the ground and asphyxiated. They were his last words. Garner, a father of six, was selling
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InStyleIt’s easy to get lost in the beauty of Heidi Williams’ yoga-inspired Instagram account ― but the images are also spreading an important message about mental health. Williams started practicing yoga after she was diagnosed with a constellation of mental health disorders that she believes stem from an incident in 2013 in which her infant son, Silas stopped breathing and had to be revived. “He basically died and came back to life,” Williams told The Huffington Post. Though her son returned to perfect health, Williams had difficulty letting go of what happened. She would get triggered every time her son would whine or cry and even had multiple episodes of self-harm, she said. After months of struggling,
The Huffington PostThe Chicago Tribune endorsed Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson on Friday as a “principled option” beyond the typical red-blue binary. The conservative paper’s editorial board argued that the Democratic and Republican parties have drifted so far from the United States’ political mainstream and failed to nominate suitable candidates to the top of their tickets. The paper’s editorial is as much an indictment of Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump as it is an endorsement of former New Mexico Gov. Johnson.
Michael WalshSisters Annie and Robin Korkkie, who were found dead at a luxury resort in the Seychelles last week, died from acute pulmonary edema.
ABC News Videos“F- this guy,” the officer says before aiming his police cruiser at the mentally ill homeless man that he and his partner had been sent out to confront. “I”m going to hit him.” “Okay, go for it. Go for it,” his partner responds, his voice recorded on the Sacramento police cruiser’s dash cam. Twice, the man dodges their accelerating cruiser. In the second attempt, he leaps into a median, barely avoiding the vehicle. But the 51-year-old, Joseph Mann, could not escape the volley of bullets that followed moments later. Mann died in the street shortly after that July 11 shooting. Mann’s family has accused officers Randy Lozoya and John Tennis of escalating the situation and showing no regard for his life,
Washington PostThe next world chess championship tournament will be held in Tehran, where women competitors will be required to don headscarves, also known as hijab.
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This past week, a clique of rowdy, dress-donning boys caught our attention at Paris Fashion Week as they huddled outside Rochas. Turns out, the chic riffraff was the arm-candy of none other than French musician Soko, who managed to stand out even in a crew of offbeat matronly-attired bros. The singer wore a shimmering fern green Rochas dress and threw a bubblegum pink Zana Bayne harness into the mix-coolly cutting the sweet of the whole look. Refreshing? Yes! And it was far from the Left Bank stereotype that is so often associated with Parisian style. And yet, what is it about Parisian style that lends itself so well to music, or vice versa? Emmanuelle Seigner and Carla Bruni, both known for
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I've been big as long as I can remember. Even though I played soccer as a kid, danced in audition-only children's shows, and ran a nine-minute mile in PE, I was always big. My parents - San Francisco yuppie types - fed me a steady diet of farmers market vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins ...
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