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April 12, 2021 - April 18, 2021 Hello readers. What a sh*t storm of a week we've had in Chicago! The Civilian Office of Police Accountability released all the videos associated with the police shooting of 13 year-old Adam Toledo. Video #1 BWC1-Shooting Officer shows officer Eric Stillman chasing after Ruben Roman and then after Toledo. When the kid stops, the officer tells him to turn around with his hands up. As the kid complies, raises his hands, and turns around, the officer shoots him. Officer Stillman runs up to the child and asks where he's been shot and attempts to help, but it's too late. Most media outlets are torn on how to report this. Some networks will lean on the fact that a gun was found mere feet away from Toledo. Other networks will lean on the fact that Officer Stillman attempts to assist directly after he makes the mistake. I've talked to older officers who remember a time that you had to actually be shot at in order to return fire - what a simpler ...

In 1968 George A Romero created a subgenre in horror that would continue to frighten audiences even forty years later.  With Night Of The Living Dead a slew of followers came and each country throughout the world would copy this blueprint.   Romero was especially influential to filmmakers in Italy, he lead them to a new genre – the spaghetti-zombie film.  The leader of this new genre was Lucio Fulci, he was determined to out-gore Romero, which he did successfully in his film Zombie (1979).  Released the same year as Dawn of the Dead , Zombie is an intense and beautiful film about the beginning of a zombie plague.  When Dawn was released in Italy the title was changed to Zombi, so Fulci’s film was then titled as Zombie 2 .  This caused confusion and made Fulci’s film instantly linked to the Dead trilogy.  Now you can find this film under the titles: Zombi, Zombie, Zombi 2 , Zombie Flesh Eaters , or Island of the Living Dead . "When the ear...