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Internet Celebrity: Thousands of young impressionable kids packed Manhattan’s Union Square yesterday for a prize giveaway from a popular livestreamer, Kai Cenat. Picture the scene: Unruly juveniles jumping on vehicles, hurling chairs while engaging in minor scuffles. NYPD of course struggled to deal with the chaos, because they couldn’t just shoot everybody this time. Aerial TV news footage showed a surging, tightly packed crowd running through the streets, something like a Running of the Bulls, but for internet nerds. Shouting teenagers swung objects at car windows, threw paint cans and set off fire extinguishers. Police were seen wrestling kids to the ground and chasing them down the streets. They plan to charge the streamer, Kai, with multiple counts of inciting a riot, unlawful assembly and possibly other crimes, according to NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey. When all was said and done, officers arrested 65 people, including 30 juveniles. America
A Story of Murder and Torture: This longread tells the tale of a billionaire Canadian couple, the Shermans, who were murdered back in 2017. You don’t often hear stories of billionaires being on the receiving end of a homicide, but the details emerging in the Sherman history make the read well worth it
Amazon OSHA Jokes: OSHA has recommended a $15,625 fine on Amazon for exposing workers to serious physical harm and denying them medical care. The Department of Labor released a statement ruling that workers at the Logan Township, NJ warehouse suffered bodily stress that was causing muscular disorders and neck and back injuries. Amazon failed to ensure that these injured employees received adequate treatment. Meanwhile, in related news, Jeff Bezos became $10,500,000,000 richer today. His net worth currently hovers in the region of $164,000,000,000 (count the zero’s!!) Amazon is a company worth $1,430,000,000,000. In summary, the health & safety laws of this country are a cruel and twisted joke