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The Brooklyn Nets fired coach Steve Nash on Tuesday after a disastrous start to the NBA season with two wins and five losses. “The Brooklyn Nets and head coach Steve Nash have agreed to part ways,” the Brooklyn franchise said in an official statement. Nash, 48, has been coaching the Nets since September 2020, but his team’s performance has fallen short of the lofty ambitions of the team, which has invested in the likes of Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and Ben Simmons.

Brooklyn also passed James Harden, who finally joined the Philadelphia 76ers last February to pick up Simmons. After failing in the first round of the playoffs last season with a stunning 4-0 series against the Boston Celtics, the Nets started the season on negative terms. The coach was fired even though the Nets painfully beat the Indiana Pacers (116-109) at home this Monday. This triumph broke a streak of four consecutive defeats.

“We would like to thank Steve for everything he has contributed to our franchise over the past two years. Since his acquisition, Steve has faced an unprecedented set of challenges and we are grateful for his leadership, patience and humility,” said Sean Marks, general manager of Nets. “For me personally, it was an enormously difficult decision. After much thought, however, as our season started, we decided that a change was necessary.” The Nets also reported that they will shortly make a decision on who will become the new manager. The Brooklyn team plays the Chicago Bulls at home this Tuesday.

The Nets could move quickly to replace Nash. According to ESPN, a person close to the team said the franchise is in talks with suspended Boston coach Ime Udoka, who was an assistant coach at Brooklyn. Udoka was paused by the Celtics earlier this season after it was found that he broke team rules by having a relationship with an organization employee.

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Victims of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in African American history, two men exonerated in 2021 after twenty years each in the 1965 murder of Malcolm X will receive a total of $36 million from the city and state of New York.

• Also read: Malcolm X’s family calls for the murder investigation to be reopened

Lawyer David Shanies, defense attorney for Muhammad Aziz, 84, and the family of Khalil Islam, who died in 2009, confirmed in an email to AFP on Sunday evening that an “injustice has been acknowledged today and a modest step has been taken to right it.” . .

In response to inquiries from The New York Times, New York City Hall’s legal department had previously entered into a financial compensation agreement with “MM. Aziz and Islam wrongly convicted for this crime”: the murder of Malcolm X on February 21, 1965 in the gallery of the Audubon Ballroom, a theater in Harlem, a north Manhattan borough.

The two men, members of Malcolm X’s Nation of Islam movement, had been sentenced to long prison terms in 1966 and had spent a combined 42 years behind bars – about 20 each – for a murder they never committed.

Spectacular turn of events

But on November 19, the New York State Supreme Court acquitted her in a historic perversion of the court.

The judiciary had even acknowledged their “failure” by jailing two innocent people for the 1960s murder of the black cause icon in the United States.

The disappearance of Malcolm X was a thunderbolt in the painful history of African Americans. A “tragedy felt worldwide (…) and compounded by the fact that it resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of two young, innocent black men in America,” denounced attorney David Shanies.

File photo, WENN.com

He confirmed the New York Times’ figures: $26 million from New York City and $10 million from New York State.

Muhammad Aziz, who was released in 1985, and Khalil Islam, who was released in 1987 and died in 2009 at the age of 74, have always maintained their innocence.

The third convict, Mujahid Abdul Halim, had then admitted to having shot Malcolm X and exonerated his two co-defendants, but to no avail.

Until the New York Judiciary will reopen the case in 2020.

Netflix documentation

It was in fact necessary to wait for the broadcast of a documentary on Netflix in February 2020 (“Who Killed Malcolm X?”), which renewed doubts about the presence of MM. Aziz and Islam at the crime scene.

After months of retrials, then-Manhattan prosecutor Cyrus Vance has teamed up with attorneys for both men and a miscarriage of justice organization, The Innocence Project, to file an eviction petition in the New York Supreme Court.

And last November, live on television and to applause, prosecutor Vance offered an “apology” from the US Department of Justice for “decades of injustice” and “unacceptable violations of the law and public trust.”

In court, he “recognized the seriousness of this error” without going into the rumors about the then problematic role of the federal police (FBI) and that of New York.

Malcolm X threatened

At the time of his assassination, Malcolm X, 39, a radical figure in the African American cause accused by his critics of inciting violence and separatism, had left the “Nation of Islam” and taken a more consensual turn.

He was then threatened by members of his former movement, and a few days earlier his home in New York had been the target of an attack.

The Netflix documentary is based on the thesis of a Washington lay historian, Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, who defends MM’s innocence. Aziz and Islam and that the third convict who admitted the facts was acting with four other members of the “Nation of Islam” from a mosque in Newark, New Jersey, near New York.

The assassination of Malcolm X had rocked the United States into full political and social tensions in the 1960s marked by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the assassination of civil rights figure Martin Luther King in 1968.

The family finds the dead woman’s belongings and ASHES in a prop coffin they ordered for Halloween

• Brooke Wozniak had ordered the coffin from Facebook Marketplace but was horrified to learn the coffin wasn’t exactly – empty
• Inside was a photo of the deceased, a death certificate, a social security number, a hospital bracelet, and an envelope containing the women’s ashes, Fox5 DC reported
• Forced to find the deceased’s family, Wozniak created a TikTok video hoping the right person would see it
• When the video went viral, the dead woman’s granddaughter saw it and showed it to her mother, Sabrina Jones
• Jones confirmed the items in the coffin here were mother, Edith Crews Meriedy, a church pastor who died of Covid in January

By Ruth Bashinsky

Published: 19:38 GMT, 01 November 2022 | Updated: 19:57 GMT, 1 November 2022

A Maryland family ordering a prop coffin for their spooky Halloween-themed party experienced their own horror when they discovered the dead person belonged and there were ashes in their rented coffin.

Baltimore resident Brooke Wozniak ordered the coffin from Facebook Marketplace but was horrified to learn the coffin wasn’t exactly – empty.

Inside the white steel coffin were a photo of the deceased, a death certificate, the person’s social security number, a George Washington University Hospital hospital bracelet and a white long envelope that Wozniak believes contained the person’s ashes, Fox5 DC reported.

All of the items had been taped to the inside of the coffin lining, the news outlet reported.

“Everyone was in shock,” revealed Wozniak.

After the initial shock wore off, Wozniak felt compelled to find the deceased’s family and created a TikTok video hoping the right person would see it.

“We need to find whoever’s next of kin is or who knows them,” she said.

After the video went viral, the dead woman’s granddaughter saw it and showed it to her mother, Sabrina Jones.

It was Jones who confirmed that the items in the rental coffin were in fact her mother, Edith Crews Meredy, a church pastor, who died of COVID in January.

Baltimore resident Brooke Wozniak ordered the coffin from Facebook Marketplace but was horrified to learn the coffin wasn’t exactly – empty

Brooke Wozniak is holding an envelope which the family believes to be the ashes of the deceased woman. Also in the coffin were a photo of the deceased, the death certificate, the person’s social security number and a hospital bracelet from George Washington University Hospital, Fox5 DC reported

As grateful as Sabrina Jones was, she also expressed the heartache she felt reliving the loss of her mother. “It doesn’t ease the pain that she’s gone, you know? She was my best friend. I loved my mother very much,” Jones said. “I’m the only girl. I’m the one who took her to George Washington University and left her there.”

Pictured is a photo of Edith Crews Meriedy, a church pastor who died of COVID in January. Her photo was among several personal documents found in the coffin

At that time, family members were not allowed to see their sick loved one due to COVID.

Shortly after the discovery, Jones met the Wozniak family to recover the valuable items.

As grateful as Jones was for the treasured mementos, she also expressed the heartache she felt reliving the loss of her mother.

“It doesn’t ease the pain that she’s gone, you know? She was my best friend. I loved my mother very much,” Jones said. “I’m the only girl. I’m the one who took her to George Washington University and left her there.”

Brooke Wozniak hugs an unidentified man during meeting with Sabrina Jones

Wozniak was close to hugging a young man during the emotional reunion, which included returning Edith Crews Meriedy’s personal belongings to her family after she died of Covid in January

After the ordeal, Jones met with Glenda Freeman, owner of Freeman Funeral Services in Clinton. At the funeral home, Jones had rented her mother’s coffin and a location to take care of her mother’s cremation.

Jones told Fox5 DC that Freeman was deeply apologetic and took care of the mishap, particularly the discovery of the sensitive documents. She also told her at the time that a number of the caskets had been handed over to a scrap shop for destruction.

During the bizarre incident, the Wozniaks also made a second discovery when they found information from another deceased person who was also left in the coffin.

Jones, who was distraught over the matter, was told by the funeral home that they were investigating and needed until Thursday to resolve the matter.

The 23-year-old Arizona mother, who was arrested for drunk driving, faces child molestation charges after she left her five-month-old baby at home alone to go drinking in the middle of the day

• Clare Margaret Meacham, 23, was snapped Thursday afternoon after police received calls about a possible drunk driver
• Once in custody, the drunk mother revealed to police that she may have left her baby at home alone, according to court records, CBS 5 Arizona reported
• The drunk mother, who told police she couldn’t remember anything after leaving her baby in her cot, was later charged with child molestation
• Police said the baby was not injured and was placed in the care and custody of a family member

By Ruth Bashinsky

Published: 16:23 GMT, November 01, 2022 | Updated: 18:13 GMT, 1 November 2022

A 23-year-old Arizona woman has been arrested for drunk driving and charged with child molestation after leaving her five-month-old baby at home alone so she could go out drinking in the middle of the afternoon.

Clare Margaret Meacham was snapped Thursday after police received calls about a possible drunk driver. Once in custody, the drunk mother revealed to police that she “possibly” left her baby at home alone, CBS 5 Arizona reported.

When police arrived at Meacham’s East Mesa home near Signal Butte and Ray Road, they said they could hear the baby’s loud wailing from outside the home.

As soon as the police entered the house, they contacted the child safety department.

The baby was not hurt and authorities were waiting for a family member to arrive at the home and take custody of the child, the news outlet reported.

Clare Margaret Meacham was snapped Thursday after police received calls about a possible drunk driver. Once in custody, the drunk mother revealed to police that she may have left her baby at home alone, according to court records, CBS 5 Arizona reported.

According to the woman’s doorbell camera, the footage shows the young mother leaving her home at around 12:44 p.m.

Less than two hours later, at around 2:20 p.m., police caught up with the beaten mother and accused her of child molestation.

Meacham told officers she couldn’t remember anything after leaving her baby in the crib before heading out.

Records show Meacham did not call a friend, neighbor or family member to help take care of her baby before she left her baby, the news outlet reported.

The 23-year-old mother reportedly lives alone, the New York Post reported.

The only other person who has access to Meacham’s Arizona home is the girl’s mother, the news outlet said.