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AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Bodycam footage shows transgender UCF student screaming at officers before being pepper-sprayed and Tasered Mon Jul 20 16:49:57 2026

Newly released bodycam footage captures a 27-year-old transgender student at the University of Central Florida screaming profanities at police officers over pronoun use, an encounter that ended with pepper spray, a Taser, and three criminal charges. Jarrett Vick was speaking with a bystander on the UCF campus on February 5, 2025, when police officers responding […] The post Bodycam footage shows transgender UCF student screaming at officers before being pepper-sprayed and Tasered appeared first on American Almanac .

Newly released bodycam footage captures a 27-year-old transgender student at the University of Central Florida screaming profanities at police officers over pronoun use, an encounter that ended with pepper spray, a Taser, and three criminal charges. Jarrett Vick was speaking with a bystander on the UCF campus on February 5, 2025, when police officers responding to an unrelated call approached. What followed, captured on body-worn camera footage now made public by The Sun , was a rapid escalation driven almost entirely by Vick's insistence that officers use female pronouns, and the officers' apparent refusal or failure to do so. The footage shows Vick, described as having blue hair and wearing a dark long-sleeve shirt, launching into a…Open

AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Washington woman arrested after vandalizing fishermen's memorial, mistaking mooring rope for a noose Thu Jul 16 19:49:31 2026

A 34-year-old Bellingham, Washington, woman now faces three criminal charges after she allegedly spray-painted a memorial honoring fishermen lost at sea, then recorded herself berating the city workers sent to clean up the mess, insisting the statue's mooring rope was really a noose and a symbol of white supremacy. Cara Munoz was booked on allegations […] The post Washington woman arrested after vandalizing fishermen's memorial, mistaking mooring rope for a noose appeared first on American Almanac .

A 34-year-old Bellingham, Washington, woman now faces three criminal charges after she allegedly spray-painted a memorial honoring fishermen lost at sea, then recorded herself berating the city workers sent to clean up the mess, insisting the statue's mooring rope was really a noose and a symbol of white supremacy. Cara Munoz was booked on allegations of second-degree malicious mischief, third-degree assault, and resisting lawful arrest after the Monday afternoon confrontation at Zuanich Point Park, a waterfront site less than 90 miles north of Seattle. She was released on her own recognizance the following afternoon, the New York Post reported . The statue in question is called "Safe Return." It depicts a fisherman holding a rope with a…Open

STRIPES (Rose L. Thayer) - Second inmate arraigned in attempted escape from Fort Leavenworth | Stars and Stripes Wed Mar 11 21:36:57 2026

Mason Wollersheim Wollersheim pleaded not guilty to the charges, including attempted escape, conspiracy, resisting arrest and assault.