| French authorities are bracing for more attacks in wake of Charlie Hebdo massacre | French authorities announced Monday it's deploying 10,000 soldiers to protect Jewish schools, places of worship and other "sensitive sites," in what Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called "the first mobilization on this scale on our territory," the New York Times reports.
+ Le Drian: "The threats remain and we have to protect ourselves from them. It is an internal operation that will mobilize almost as many men as we have in our overseas operations."
+ As many as six members of a terrorist cell involved in the Paris attacks may still be at large, police officials told the Associated Press.
+ Charlie Hebdo will publish more than 1 million issues on Wednesday — including brand new Muhammad cartoons.
+ The Agence France-Presse reports that there have been more than 50 anti-Muslim incidents since the attack on the satirical paper.
+ No, President Barack Obama didn't let the world down by not traveling to Paris for the Charlie Hebdo solidarity marches. | | | Terrorists killed more than 2,000 people in Nigeria last week. Why didn't the world care? |
Thousands of miles from the anti-terror marches in Paris, another crisis went largely ignored by global media outlets: Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria committed a massacre of unbelievable proportions in Borno State, killing more than 2,000 people in the town of Baga, as well as 16 neighboring towns and villages, burning entire communities to the ground.
Amnesty International described it as the terror group's "deadliest massacre" to date, and the Guardian reports that local defense groups said they gave up counting the bodies left lying on the streets. The media silence, writes Mic's Mikael Owunna, is not accidental.
"There is a clear double standard when talking about Western vs. non-Western and Muslim vs. non-Muslim victims of terrorism," Owunna writes. "Terrorist attacks on the West, and against non-Muslims in particular, are sensationalized in the media, while those afflicting non-Westerners and Muslims are normalized and treated as business as usual ... Reports about non-Western victims of terrorism are generally overlooked or ignored unless they fit particular narrative of freedom and civilization under assault from Islamic extremism." | | | New York police keep using chokeholds, despite bans and scrutiny | The first investigation conducted by New York City's police inspector general in the aftermath of the now-infamous Eric Garner chokehold case has concluded that the police department has neglected to follow its own guidelines when it comes to chokeholds — and the patterns of punishment for the officers responsible is sketchy at best.
+ Monday's report, carried out by the Office of the Inspector General, highlights 10 chokehold cases that occurred between 2009 and June 2014 and examined the circumstances and disciplinary processes of each.
+ The inspector general's office found that in several of the cases, the officer in question "employed a chokehold as a first step to overcoming verbal resistance," despite the fact that chokeholds were banned by the New York City Police Department in 1993. | | |
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