Brown University cops won’t report race of wanted suspects

Brown University cops won’t report race of wanted suspects

Police officers at Brown University are no longer including the race of criminal suspects when announcing crimes, after an outcry from Brown students who said the practice stigmatized certain groups.

Weld downplays Johnson’s Aleppo gaffe, plays up libertarian-style Republicanism
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Weld downplays Johnson’s Aleppo gaffe, plays up libertarian-style Republicanism

Evan Lips

BOSTON — Libertarian Party vice presidential candidate and former two-term Gov. William Weld addressed Emerson College students Thursday at an engagement open to the media, and predictably spent the bulk of his time addressing questions about his running mate's Syria gaffe.

Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson, who tapped Weld to run with him in his longshot bid for the White House, earlier that day appeared miffed when asked about Aleppo, the besieged Syrian city at the heart of the country's refugee crisis, by MSNBC's Mike Barnicle.

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