The Politicrat Daily Newsletter compiled by Omar Moore
(Twitter: @the_politicrat | @thepopcornreel)
February 4, 2022
A voting precinct. (Photo: Karen Focht/Shutterstock)
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NOTABLE STORIES
An enslaver in England who helped hold a disabled man in enslavement for 40 years is given a six-month prison sentence, which is suspended for 18 months (February 4, BBC)
Four aides quit UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s cabinet including his chief of staff and a 14-year adviser and confidant (a fifth aide has quit since this article) (February 4, The Times Of London)
US economy adds 467,000 jobs in January amidst the Covid-19 pandemic (February 4, AP)
Strained US hospitals are seeking overseas nurses to assist amid a visa windfall (February 3, AP)
Pamela Moses, a Black woman from Memphis, Tennessee, was sentenced last November for six years in prison for trying to register to vote (February 3, The Guardian)
States seek to protect election workers amid growing threats from violent right-wingers (February 3, AP)
Former Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke, who killed Black teenager Laquan McDonald, leaves prison almost four years early after serving less than half of his seven-year sentence (February 3, AP)
President Biden announces successful counter-terrorism operation that resulted in a leader of ISIS blowing himself and several family members up (February 3, AP)
SCOTLAND: Raith Rovers Football Club says that rapist David Goodwillie will not play for the Club after major public outcry against Raith Rovers for signing the rapist in the first place; contract of Goodwillie is expected to be terminated (February 3, The Guardian)
ENGLAND: Metropolitan Police officers “joked” about raping women; made racist comments and insulted the disabled (February 1, The Guardian)
Whoopi Goldberg suspended for two weeks regarding her comments on “The View”about the Holocaust against Jewish people (February 1, The New York Times)
Terrorist bomb threats at more than 14 historically Black colleges and universities in the US on the first day of Black History Month (February 1, CNN)
“We feel invisible”: Washington Football Team employees experienced decades of abuse, sexual harassment (Op-ed; October 14, 2021, USA Today)
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