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Black Lives Matter Activists Block U.K. Roads, Jill Stein—Folk Rock Hero, Why London Fellatio Café Won't Happen: A.M. Links

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.5.2016 9:00 AM

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    British Black Lives Matter activists blocked the road to Heathrow airport, just outside London, Friday and held demonstrations in Manchester, Birmingham, and Nottingham.

This morning we #Shutdown major transport hubs because the conventional avenues to justice have been shutdown to us.

— #BlackLivesMatterUK (@ukblm) August 5, 2016

  • An Indianapolis police officer shot a colleague in a jealous rage when he saw the man with his estranged wife —investigating a domestic violence incident between the unhappy couple.
  • Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein put out a few folk-rock albums in the 1990s as the lead singer of a band called Somebody's Sister. Songs include lines like "Gotta take your vote back from the corporation."

  • The city of Orlando may purchase Pulse nightclub and turn it into a memorial to the 49 people killed there in June.
  • Stockton, California Mayor Anthony Silver has been arrested on suspicion of eavesdropping and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
  • Why a proposed London "Fellatio Café" probably won't happen.

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Elizabeth Nolan Brown is a senior editor at Reason.

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