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ATLANTA (ABC7) -- A man who died in a bedbug-infested cell in a Georgia jail's psychiatric wing "died due to severe neglect," according to an independent autopsy released Monday by lawyers for his family.

Lashawn Thompson, 35, died in September, 3 months after he was booked into the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. Public outrage over his death spread last month after a lawyer for his family, Michael Harper, released photos of Thompson's face & body covered in insects.

The independent autopsy report lists the cause of death as "Complications due to Severe Neglect," with "Untreated Decompensated Schizophrenia" identified as a contributing cause.

A combination of dehydration, rapid weight loss & malnutrition, complicated by untreated decompensated schizophrenia led to a fatal cardiac arrythmia, the report says. Because he did not receive necessary medical care or adequate food, water & shelter, his manner of death is homicide.

An earlier report from the Fulton County medical examiner's office found no obvious signs of trauma on Thompson's body but noted a "severe bed bug infestation." It lists his cause of death as "undetermined."

The new autopsy "confirms that this is one of the most deplorable in-custody deaths in the history of America," said prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represents the family.

Thompson had lost 32 pounds, or about 18% of his body weight, during his 3 months at the Fulton County Jail & showed evidence of dehydration, the report says. In addition to an "innumerable number of insects" all over his body, his hands, feet, fingernails & toenails were filthy, it says.

Medical records from the jail indicate that Thompson received his last dose of the medications he'd been prescribed for his mental health issues 32 days before his death.

The independent autopsy was paid for by the Autopsy Initiative of the Know Your Rights Camp, an initiative started by former NFL star & activist Colin Kaepernick.

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(CNN) Donald Trump has agreed the historic search warrant that authorized the seizure of federal records from the former president's home at Mar-a-Lago should be released.

The Justice Department had told the court it believes that unsealing the confidential investigative documents is in the public interest. The DOJ said it supports releasing 4 documents: The search warrant itself, 2 attachments that describe at least to some extent what was being searched & why & a receipt handed to Trump's legal team documenting what was seized from the property.

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier Friday that the FBI recovered 11 sets of classified documents from its search of Mar-a-Lago earlier this week, including some materials marked as "top secret/SCI." The newspaper reported that FBI agents removed about 20 boxes from Trump's resort & residence in Palm Beach, Florida -- including binders, sets of classified government materials, photographs & at least 1 handwritten note.

Federal agents reportedly seized one set of "top secret/SCI" documents, the highest level of classification. Agents took 4 sets of "top secret" documents, 3 sets of "secret" documents & 3 sets of "confidential" documents.

During the search, FBI agents also recovered a document about the "President of France."

The FBI search at the resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday was followed by days of silence from the Justice Department, as is the department's normal practice for ongoing investigations.

Then on Thursday, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the department had moved to unseal the search warrant & 2 attachments, including an inventory list.

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High-ranking Republicans in the House of Representatives are demanding answers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation after court-ordered information surfaced showing that the federal law enforcement agency collected the personal information of more than three million American citizens without a warrant.

The Epoch Times reported that on May 25, FBI Director Christopher Wray was sent a letter from Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Mike Turner (R-Ohio) asking him to explain why the bureau wiretapped and gathered the personal information of over 3.3 million Americans without first obtaining a warrant.

Typically, the limited ability to gather foreign intelligence is granted to a governmental agency by obtaining a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant.

Section 702 of this law states: “The Attorney General (AG) and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) may jointly authorize the targeting of (i) non-U.S. persons (ii) who are reasonably believed to be outside of the United States (iii) to acquire foreign intelligence information.”

However, the power granted by a FISA warrant can give federal agents ever-expanding networks of people to probe. The information gathered by doing so can then be used by the federal intelligence apparatus against American citizens who have had any interactions with foreign entities targeted by the federal government.

In the past, how FISA warrants have been used to gather intelligence and subsequently leveraged against the American public has been limited and concealed by the federal government through classified reports.

However, in late 2020, a decision by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) — the entity responsible for serving as a watchdog for the federal intelligence apparatus — mandated that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) report the “number of U.S. person queries run by the FBI against 702-acquired information.”

In alignment with these new protocols, ODNI’s recently released Annual Statistical Transparency Report included data on how often the FBI gathered information on American citizens invoking section 702 this past year.

In total, there were 3,394,053 searches made against individual American citizens. By comparison, there were 1,324,057 total queries made in 2020. This marks a 250% search increase in President Joe Biden's first year in office.

The ODNI reported that more than half of these queries were part of a larger investigation of alleged attempts by Russian nationals to target or weaken critical American infrastructure.

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Source: The Blaze

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A Florida man was arrested after he allegedly opened fire during a road-rage shooting in June & authorities from Miami-Dade released chilling new dashcam footage of the incident.

The June 21 incident occurred on I-95 in northwest Miami-Dade after it is believed Eric Popper, the man arrested, cut off another driver. The other driver, who was not identified, tailgated Popper, & hand gestures between the 2 were exchanged.

State troopers and Popper's lawyer disagree on what happened next.

Robert Gershman, the 30-year-old's lawyer, says the video is proof that his client was shot at first & he returned fire in self-defense.

"On the video, you can hear & see the other driver shoot his car," Gershman said, pointing out that his client heard the sound prior to shooting.

The driver of the Camry did not have a gun in his vehicle but admitted to throwing a water bottle at Popper’s SUV, investigators said. Popper fired the gun 11 times at the other driver, through his own window & windshield.

Popper pulled off the highway and called law enforcement. He later turned himself in to the Florida Highway Patrol, provided the dashcam video & resigned from his job as a civilian fire inspector with Miami Beach Fire Rescue.

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- New video shows Chicago police officers dragging a 16-year-old Marshall High School student down a flight of stairs, punching her, and using a stun gun on her. 

What the video shows does not appear to match the story the officers initially told when the incident happened in January. 

Video from security cameras inside Marshall High School in the city's East Garfield Park neighborhood shows Dnigma Howard talking with a classmate while two Chicago police officers stand by. 

As the person in the yellow shirt walks away, video shows one of the officers immediately grab Howard and throw her to the ground. 

The three of them eventually disappear from the shot, going down the staircase. The video shows other students immediately rush toward the stairs. 

Video from another angle shows the officers dragging Howard down the stairs, and at the bottom one officer is holding her arm while the other is holding her leg. 

"In the video you can see they pull her by the leg down the stairs, the whole flight of stairs," said Laurentio Howard, father. 

One officer appears to kick and punch Howard as he's holding her on the ground. Video shows her thrashing on the floor, appearing to fight back before the officer ultimately deploys his stun gun. 

"I thought maybe they were going to try to choke her out or she would lose consciousness or something like that. they had their foot on her chest. She has asthma, she's telling me she can't breathe. She's turning red, I see a vein sticking out her head," Laurentio said. 

At the time of the incident, police said they were told to escort Howard out of the school after she was removed from class for having her phone out, then got agitated and lashed out at a security guard. Howard previously said she grabbed one of the officer's vests. 

Laurentio had been called to pick his daughter up after she was removed from the classroom, he said. 

"I'm standing downstairs by the front door and she said, 'I'm going to get her to come downstairs. She's going home right now,'" he said. 

"I couldn't believe I seen two sworn police officers of Chicago abusing my daughter like this and I'm standing right there watching them do this and can't do anything about it," he recalled of the incident. 

Officers tased Howard three times. 

"Thank god for that video," said the family's attorney. "When this instance first happened the state's attorney charged a 16-year-old unarmed girl with two felonies for aggravated assault against a peace officer." 

Howard was initially charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery against a peace officer, but the State's Attorney's office dropped the charges. The two officers were removed from the school and reassigned to different duties as COPA and the CPD Force Review Unit completed an independent investigation of the incident. 

The City of Chicago Law Department said they "do not comment on pending litigation."

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Cleveland 19′s Investigative Unit learned Imani Edwards, 23, has been found guilty of at least four traffic violations since 2017.

According to court records in Orangeburg County in South Carolina, Edwards was cited for:

• Sept. 1, 2018 - Driving under suspension
• July 3, 2018 - Failure to obey traffic-control devices
• Nov. 11, 2017 - Driving vehicle at greater speed than is reasonable under conditions
• Sept. 27, 2017 - Speeding, more than 15 but less than 23 mph over the speed limit (charge amended to speeding, 10 mph or less over the speed limit)

Edwards, who used to live in Akron, was also cited by the Ohio State Highway Patrol in 2014 for failure to control.

She pleaded guilty and received a $169 fine and two points on her license.

Edwards is currently charged with felonious assault and fleeing in connection with Friday’s multi-jurisdictional pursuit.

According to investigators, a trooper with the Ohio State Highway Patrol attempted to stop Edwards on I-77 northbound in Broadview Heights for illegal window tinting.

Edwards failed to comply and led troopers and police with Newburgh Heights and Cuyahoga Heights on chase that eventually ended on East 105th Street near St. Clair Avenue in Cleveland.

Dash camera footage shows Edwards smashing into several law enforcement vehicles on I-77 near the Pershing Avenue exit.

Newburgh Heights Police Chief John Majoy praised the work of the officers, who never fired their weapons.

“Their lives were at stake," said Majoy. “She almost ran them over. That’s a 2,000 pound weapon coming at you, they jumped out of the way just in the nick of time to save their own lives.”

When the pursuit finally ended and Edwards was taken into custody, an officer can be heard on a body camera asking her, “What are you doing?”

“I was on my way to work,” Edwards responded.

“Do you have any idea what you just did?” the officer asked.

“Yes sir,” said Edwards.

“Obviously you don’t,” the officer replied.

In addition to the felony criminal charges, Edwards was also cited for tinted windows, no seat belt, and driving under suspension.

The case has been bound over to the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas.

Edwards remains in jail on $100,000 bond.

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UFC Star Cris Cyborg visits Boulder Colorado and the home of the Extract Labs processing center. CBD medical marijuana has been approved for use by the Olympic Committee for Olympic use in athletes with pain management concerns.

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Police in Tulsa, Okla. have released body cam footage that shows a woman in handcuffs stealing a police car. The incident happened earlier this year, and the woman is currently in prison.

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For the first time we're seeing video of exactly what happened in the moments leading up to the death of rapper Bankroll Fresh whose real name is Trentavious White.

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(FoxNews) A female jogger in Massachusetts managed to fight off an attempted kidnapper who allegedly sexually assaulted her as he tried to drag the woman into his car early Sunday morning.

The frightening confrontation caught on a surveillance camera shows a man identified as Gordon J. Lyons, 57, slowly pulling up his car to the 37-year-old woman while she jogged down the street.

In the footage, the man can be seen getting out of his car, approaching the woman and then attempting to grab her. The two then scuffled behind a tree where he allegedly assaulted the jogger before jumping back into his car and speeding away.

"I just knew that I needed to do whatever I needed to do in order to be OK," the unidentified victim told Enterprise News of Brockton. "I knew I needed to defend myself and be smart. I knew I needed to do something."

She added, "I kept thinking 'what would Dad want me to do?'"

Bridgewater police say the jogger took a photo of his car after the terrifying altercation. Investigators matched the photo to the suspect’s license plate after he crashed his car about seven miles away from the scene.

On Wednesday, Bridgewater police revealed Lyons was convicted of rape in 1978. The details of the crime were not released.

Lyons pleaded not guilty and was ordered held without bail.

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