November 8, 2013
#Sidney's Picks: WalMart Arrests, a Drug War Atrocity, and Justin Bieber-Related Torture
The Best of the Week’s News:
- More than 50 people were arrested in downtown LA while protesting WalMart’s poverty wages.
- Three men, including a Rutherford County commissioner, have been indicted in Tennessee for allegedly torturing a man who sold them counterfeit Justin Bieber tickets.
- An innocent man in Arizona was subjected to an increasingly invasive series of medical procedures to look for drugs in his anus because a cop thought he was standing funny during a traffic stop.
- The mass shooting you probably didn’t hear about.
- Journalistic conundrum: How do you cover a compulsive liar in a position of power without spreading his lies?