> Eleven current and former East Cleveland Police Department officers indicted earlier this month participated in “appalling” behavior and face charges including assault, dereliction of duty and interfering with civil rights, authorities in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, said after they released video showing several incidents. Seven are facing charges for the first time, while four others were indicted on new charges, authorities announced.

> Ten of the 11 officers pleaded not guilty to the charges at an arraignment March 28, according to court records. The arraignment for the 11th officer, who resigned from the department, was rescheduled for April 4, according to the court docket. The new indictments raise the number of former or current East Cleveland police officers who have been indicted in the past seven months to 16, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael C. O’Malley said in early March.

> “Make no mistake, there has been a cancer growing in the East Cleveland Police Department,” O’Malley said. “We are doing our best to remove every tentacle of that cancer so that this department can rebuild and grow to put itself in a position to hire officers who enforce the law as well as follow the law.” O’Malley showed several videos of the 11 officers participating in behavior he called “appalling.” CNN has reached out to the Cuyahoga County prosecutor’s office for the original footage of the alleged incidents in question.

> The 11 new indictments stem from incidents between February 2020 and July 2022, authorities said. “In the next couple of weeks, we will be issuing a release detailing the 11 incidents with additional videos,” O’Malley said.

> East Cleveland’s recently appointed chief of police, Brian Gerhard, said the indictments will not prevent the department from functioning and protecting citizens. “I have cooperated fully with the county prosecutor’s office and will continue to do so,” Gerhard stated in a news release. “As I stated when appointed chief last October, I will move the department in a positive direction, I have very good personnel on my staff that will assist me rebuilding the agency.” CNN has reached out to the 11 current and former officers for comment.

> The Fraternal Order of Police / Ohio Labor Council, the largest law enforcement labor organization in the state, said in a statement Thursday the 11 officers “are entitled to due process like all citizens” and encouraged “everyone to reserve judgment until facts are known.”

I've seen other water brands that say on the label that its municipal water from whatever small town they built the bottling plant in, its not unique to Dasani.

Big companies like Coke have multiple bottling plants so the quality will vary depending on which plant it came from and how good their local water treatment facilities are.

I know in the town I lived in at the time I would regularly get letters from the water company saying they were legally obligated to advise all customers that they had failed their water quality test from the government (again) and here's a list of all the contamination found in their water but they promise its still totally safe to drink, the levels of contamination in the water are just a little bit over the legal limits.

No different from amy bottled water that isn't specifically labeled as "spring water".

I used to work at a Coca-Cola bottling plant and the Dasani came from a faucet in the back.

So this even pre-dates the famous "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast that tricked several people into thinking Martians were invading?

And now they're talking about pumping seawater into the great Salt Lake because the water level is too low.

The dirtiest place in the office is the top of the hand sanitizer pump.

Nobody touches the sanitizer pump because they have clean hands and I've never seen anyone sanitize the pump after they do their hands.

This make twice this week I've had someone reply to one of my comments with a really obscure hitchhikers guide reference from one of the later books. I'm going to have to reread it all to make sure I'm not missing any I might have forgot.

So if the Sentinelese are going to use the scrap metal to make tools and weapons does that count as a technological revolution, sort of like entering the iron age?

How advanced do they need to become to lose the "primitive isolated people" label?

"Junk DNA" is a misnomer based on our poor understanding of how DNA works during early studies. Further research has shown that its not "junk" and does serve several important purposes.

https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/basics/noncodingdna/

Nothing says "I love you" like a bouquet of amputated plant sex organs.

"Here honey, I got you a bag of plant dicks and pussies, enjoy"

Thats even more interesting because mp3 wasn't the first digital music, it just had better file compression than previous formats so it made portable digital music players and sharing files over the internet more feasible.

I would have thought the creator was inspired by previous portable music inventions like radios, cassette players, cd players, etc...

weird that he would say the idea came from watching star trek and not from just looking around at the already existing technologies of digital music and portable music and saying "these could go together if I could just make the file sizes smaller"

Interesting you'd go with the example of digital music when there's other more glaringly obvious things like the original series communicators inspiring flip phones, or those data pads they use instead of paper for reports inspiring tablets and e-readers, or even the replicator inspiring 3d printing.

If Toto's classic "Africa" plays on a loop in the desert but nobody is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?