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[Link] Cop Caught on Video Shooting Man in Wheelchair 9 Times From Behind
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
The officer, Ryan Remington, has since been fired from the Tuscon Police Department as a result of the deadly shooting, police said Wednesday. Remington, a four-year veteran of the force, also faces possible charges in the fatal incident. Police say that sometime before 6 p.
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[Link] The COVID-19 pandemic positives for Australians living with disabilities
Read: 28/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The pandemic has brought with it different challenges for everyone. But for some Australians with a disability, it's been a chance to find joy, independence and new passions.
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[Link] Intellectually Disabled Man Spared Imminent Execution After Catching COVID
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
In a twist few saw coming, Singapore’s highest court has delayed the execution of an intellectually disabled man convicted of drug trafficking after he was found to have tested positive for COVID-19.
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[Link] Medical Marijuana Is Legal in Thailand, but People Are Sticking With the Black Market
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Five years ago, long before medical cannabis became legal in Thailand, Ladda was desperate to ease her son's seizures. The longer the epilepsy episode, the more it damaged Dino’s brain and slowed his mental and physical development, she explained. Ladda gave her son a one-drop dose.
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[Link] Actors ‘told they’re too disabled’ for disabled roles in UK television
Read: 24/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Actors have been told they are “too disabled” to play disabled roles in popular television series, with parts instead going to able-bodied people, according to a leading screenwriter who has called for television companies to adopt quotas for people with disabilities.
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[Link] Magnets Could Give Prosthetic Control A Leg Up
Read: 22/8/2021 hackaday.com
Today, prostheses and exoskeletons are controlled using electromyography. In other words, by recording the electrical activity in muscles as they contract. It’s neither intuitive nor human-like, and it really only shows the brain’s intent, not the reality of what the muscle is doing.
[Link] Advocates say NSW anti-discrimination laws are failing vulnerable
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
New South Wales’ “terrible” anti-discrimination laws are worse than second-rate and are failing the state’s most vulnerable, a coalition of community and rights groups say.
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[Link] Pokémon no go? Players revolt as Niantic sends them back outside
Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The developer of Pokémon Go is facing a player revolt after rolling back safety measures implemented at the onset of the pandemic last year. Niantic, the Google subsidiary which released the smash hit mobile game in 2016, had reacted to the onset of the pandemic by tweaking how its games work.
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[Link] Woman hands herself in over theft of electric wheelchair from Adelaide home
Read: 3/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The electric wheelchair was returned to its owner over the weekend after being found dumped at Cowandilla, around a kilometre from where it was stolen, about 12:30am on Saturday.
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