No further action taken against top cop accused of gross misconduct over fatal police shooting

A woman has been taken to hospital after falling into a canal in Tameside.Emergency crews were called to Dunkirk Lane, in Hyde, following reports that a woman was in the canal close to Jet Amber Fields.Police, fire and ambulance crews all attended just before 5.15pm on Bank Holiday Monday (August 31).The woman was out of the water before crews arrived and she was checked over by colleagues from the North West Ambulance Service.A woman was taken to hospital, police said.A Greater Manchester

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorThe NHL has postponed its Stanley Cup Playoffs games set for tonight and Friday, joining the NBA and other pro sports leagues and teams in protesting the latest police shooting of a Black man.

Chrissy Teigen posted a new video to her Instagram Stories, in which she reveals her growing baby bump."Wow. Third baby goes fast," she says in the video.

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Erik Pedersen Managing EditorThe pro sports boycotts over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin continue to grow.Following the lead of the NBA, its Milwaukee Bucks and other teams and leagues, two-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka of Japan said today that she is skipping her semifinal match Thursday at the Western & Southern Open in New York City.“Before I am an athlete, I am a black woman,” she wrote in a social media post (read it in full below).

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorThe WNBA has postponed its three games scheduled for tonight. The league’s move follows the postponed of today’s NBA playoff games in the wake of Jacob Blake’s shooting by police in Kenosha WI.“The consensus is to not play in tonight’s slate of games and to kneel, lock arms and raise fists during the national anthem,” said Elizabeth Williams of the Atlanta Dream.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorUPDATED with NBA statement: The NBA has announced that all of tonight’s playoff games have been postponed. The late games were slated to air on TNT.The NBA and the NBPA today announced that in light of the Milwaukee Bucks’ decision to not take the floor today for Game 5 against the Orlando Magic, today’s three games – MIL-ORL, HOU-OKC and LAL-POR have been postponed.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorAfter Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers  watched his team dismantle the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA playoffs Tuesday night, he got emotional in talking to reporters. The topic wasn’t the 43-point victory but the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Wisconsin, the GOP and the state of racial politics in the United States.“It’s just so sad,” he said during the virtual postgame presser.

“Stranger Things” star Natalia Dyer is calling out inappropriate fandom.The 25-year-old actress who plays Nancy Wheeler on the Netflix horror show defended her teen colleagues in a new interview with the Independent.“I generally feel like, to me, it’s over-sexualizing them,” she said of the cast members, who play a squad of mystery-solving preteens in ’80s-era Indiana. “I feel protective over the younger kids even though they’re not kids anymore, they’re teens.

LeBron James reacted to the news that Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, WI, was shot seven times by two police officers after walking away from the officers and opening the driver’s side door of his gray SUV on August 23. The Lakers basketball player took to Twitter on August 24, nearly 24 hours after the graphic incident was caught on cellphone video and went viral online, and shared his mounting frustration with the state of police brutality and systemic racism in America.