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TThe long-running Music Midtown festival at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, scheduled for Sept. 17-18 with headliners My Chemical Romance, Future, Jack White and Fallout Boy, has been called off, according to a statement issued by festival organizers. The likely cause, industry sources tell Billboard, are recent changes to Georgia gun laws that prevent the festival from banning guns on to the publicly owned festival grounds... … While owner Live Nation didn’t provide any additional details for the cancellation, pro-gun rights groups had been emailing and posting comments of the festival’s social media page for several months, hinting at potential legal...

PCP, also known as phencyclidine and angel dust, was originally developed as a general anesthetic but became a popular substance in the 1960s. It’s listed as a Schedule II drug in the United States, which makes it illegal to possess. Like wide-leg jeans, PCP’s popularity comes and goes. It’s become a common club drug in the last couple of decades and produces effects similar to other dissociative substances, like special K. To get an idea of how powerful it is, just look at the other slang terms for it: elephant tranquilizer horse tranquilizer embalming fluid rocket fuel DOA (dead on...

Black Lives Matter rushed at a Rochester supermarket, forcing staff at a supermarket to lock its doors and keep customers locked inside for nearly an hour during a demonstration to mark the one-year anniversary of Daniel Prude's death. The staff of Wegmans closed the doors, to prevent the protesters entering, leaving around 100 customers inside on Tuesday. Daniel Prude, 41, died after police were called by his family on March 23, 2020 for help with a mental health episode, exacerbated by the drug PCP.

Daniel Prude died of "complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint,” with the drug PCP listed as a contributing factor, according to an autopsy report from Monroe County Medical Examiner Nadia Granger. Rochestwer mayor Warren announced that seven officers had been suspended over the incident and New York Attorney General Letitia James said she has empowered a state grand jury to investigate. The man’s brother, Joe Prude, said he had mental health and drug problems and had been acting out. Joe Prude called 911 and Prude was hospitalized for about three hours for a mental health check. Prude...

Protests broke out in Rochester, N.Y., following the release Wednesday of police body-camera footage of a Black man who died after being injured during his arrest last March. Daniel Prude was arrested by Rochester Police in the early hours of March 23, after his brother, concerned for Prude’s safety, had called 911. Prude, 41, had left his brother’s house in below-freezing weather wearing long johns and a tank top. He had been released from Rochester’s Strong Memorial Hospital earlier that night after expressing suicidal thoughts. When Rochester Police officers came upon Prude, he was naked and in distress. Prude had...

A former Chicago police officer convicted of second-degree murder in the killing of an African-American teenager he shot 16 times received a dose of prison justice just days after Illinois prosecutors moved to seek a harsher sentence for him, his wife said Thursday. Jason Van Dyke was allegedly beaten by inmates at a federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, where he was secretly moved to last week, his wife and his attorneys said during a news conference in Chicago.

A white Chicago officer was convicted of second-degree murder Friday in the 2014 shooting of a black teenager that was captured on shocking dashcam video that showed him crumpling to the ground in a hail of 16 bullets as he walked away from police. The video, some of the most graphic police footage to emerge in years, stoked outrage nationwide and put the nation’s third-largest city at the center of the debate about police misconduct and use of force. The shooting also led to a federal inquiry and calls to reform the Chicago Police Department. Jason Van Dyke, 40, was...

The Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's Office on Tuesday released its final public report on the death of Terence Crutcher, who was found to have PCP in his system when he died Sept. 16 after being shot by a Tulsa Police officer. The report included results of a toxicology analysis that found Crutcher, 40, had 96 nanograms per milliliter of phencyclidine, or PCP, in his bloodstream at the time he died. A Tulsa Police homicide official told the Tulsa World in September that officers found PCP in Crutcher's vehicle during a search after his death but did not say at that...

This case is not as blatant as many you believe it to be. I am not perfect and I definitely don’t know everything. I have discussed this with several black officers and the following is my opinion based on the information available at this time. My opinion could change if new information is released. The family of Mr. Crutcher kept stating that Mr. Crutcher had car trouble. When the family speaks of him, it came off as if his car broke down, he flagged down an officer, asked for help and got shot. That is not what happened. When a...

The latest gentle giant was apparently gently on PCP. Remember that, supposedly, damning line, Two 911 calls described an SUV that had been abandoned in the middle of the road. One unidentified caller said the driver was acting strangely, adding, "I think he's smoking something." Or the other one... Police helicopter footage was among several clips released Monday that show the shooting and aftermath. A man in the helicopter that arrives above the scene as Crutcher walks to the vehicle can be heard saying "time for a Taser" and then: "That looks like a bad dude, too. Probably on...

(CNN)From different angles, the videos show the same scene. An unarmed black man walks on a Tulsa, Oklahoma, road with his hands in the air. Police officers follow closely behind him as he approaches his vehicle. He stands beside the car, then falls to the ground after one officer pulls the trigger. Now 40-year-old Terence Crutcher is dead. Crutcher's sister is demanding that prosecutors charge the officer who shot him. And the police videos of the incident are fueling criticism about the case. Federal, state and local authorities are investigating the Friday night shooting. Crutcher's family says he was waiting...

Muslim invaders are arriving in cities and towns across America, with many more to come. Perhaps you’ve seen your town transformed. If not, you soon may. It’s call “refugee resettlement” which is code for transplanting entire communities from hellholes in the Middle East to once beautiful towns and neighborhoods across America. There are many things we all need to know to ward off this systematic destruction of our communities, and indeed our country. Below you will find vital information, including ways to take action. First I will explain some of the factors that impact how invaders wind up where...

SANTA ANA (CBSLA.com) — Police are investigating a mysterious death at a market in Santa Ana. A woman was acting violently Wednesday at El Toro Carniceria-Meat Shop at 1340 West 1st Street when a security guard placed her in handcuffs, according to investigators. A witness said she was behaving erratically and began removing her clothes. “She was jumping like crazy. And then she made a mess inside the liquor store. And that’s why the security guard had to do what he had to do, and grab her and handcuff her,” Joseph Castellan said. Moments later, she died. Detectives have not...

BRIDGEPORT — Police say a city man stripped naked, grabbed his girlfriend’s baby and ran through traffic on Interstate 95 early Saturday. Santos Rodriquez, 30, of Burr Road, was allegedly under the influence of drugs around 4 a.m. when he ran out of his girlfriend’s house nude and carrying her child, police said. Bridgeport police were later notified by Connecticut State Police that Rodriguez and the child were being held on an exit ramp of I-95. Police say Rodriguez ran across both northbound and southbound lanes of the highway while holding the child. Numerous calls were placed to police by...

A six-year-old girl found something that tasted like "fireworks" in her lunch bag. Police say it turns out her sandwich had the drug PCP in it. Police arrested her mother, 34-year-old Toriana Gutierrez, in Del Valle late Friday afternoon. Investigators say her daughter was acting strangely in her first grade classroom last month and was under the influence. She told her teacher she could her “banging in her head” and was talking to people that weren’t there.

HOUSTON – Nine Houston-area residents are facing charges in connection with the largest PCP seizure in DEA history. Andre Smith, 52; Samuel Joseph Jackson, 35; Tyrone Dewayne Roberson, 38; Michael Ardion, 50; Archie Deneshe Harris, 34; Cameo Deshawn McAfee, 24; Joseph Lamar Broussard, 37; Karola Johnson-Gant, 43; and 32-year-old Chatela Jackson were arrested Wednesday and charged with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute PCP and possession with the intent to distribute PCP. The arrests came after an 18-month investigation by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force dubbed Operation Scratch Off. The task force included DEA agents, U.S....

Services were moved to the parking lot of a Rainier Beach church after a naked man smashed through a window Saturday, spattering HIV-positive blood inside and leaving a trail of destruction through the house of worship. Officials believe the 46-year-old suspect was high on PCP during his unholy rampage through the Unity Church of God in Christ - and now the church interior is considered a bio-hazard because of the tainted blood inside.

A California man has been jailed on torture and cruelty charges after he allegedly bit his 4-year-old son's eye, blinding the child. Angelo Mendoza, 34, is accused of biting the boy's eyeball out of his face and eating it, according to WCTV. The child's eyes were swollen shut — one of them mutilated beyond repair, police said — and he had several bite wounds on his hands, the station reported. Mendoza appeared to be on PCP at the time of the attack, according to the police report. He's been charged with aggravated mayhem, torture and cruelty to a child and...

China plans to produce its own large commercial jet by 2020 to challenge the dominance of Airbus and Boeing in the world's fastest-growing aircraft market, the state media reported today.

What does this very well known technical indicator mean for us as traders? At TradingMarkets we look at the 200-day MA as the cut-off in determining whether a stock or market is in a bull market or a bear market. We take long trades after we get a buy signal ONLY if the stock or market is above its 200-day MA. We take short positions after we get a sell signal ONLY if the stock or market is below its 200-day MA. So what is the big deal about this line that is drawn on our charts? There are several...