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I still think your client is as guilty as hell. FBI Agent Shaw, Richard Jewell

On the recommendation of @cliffordbrown and others, I went to see Richard Jewell. It is a profoundly disturbing movie.

The protagonist is the kind of person who steps up in a crisis to do the right thing. Hes not perfect; his love affair with law enforcement seems to get him to go into beyond his job duties, and he is trying to help even when the FBI is targeting him but we would hope that a security officer took his job seriously. Remember If you see something, say something! Richard saved lives and really tried his best to do a good job.

For this, the FBI profiled him as a terrorist. All of his idiosyncrasies were turned into signs of guilt, and he was fed into the media wood chipper. For all the complaining about the heartless journalist and portrayal of the media, the journalist actually reconsiders. The FBI agent does not. Even as the situation changes, they stretch the theory of the case. And at no time is there any direct evidence the FBI decided he was guilty, and that was that. The quote above is as the agents hands over a letter clearing Richards name.

It is a nightmare. The full weight of the government brought against a law-abiding citizen for doing the right thing. It makes me think of George Zimmerman, who stopped to try to help the police deal with a crime rather than walk on by. He was then put under the microscope for his actions, declared to be white, and prosecuted on shoddy evidence that was revealed to be fraudulent. Incentives work if you punish good behavior, expect less of it.

This movie is also one of the best portrayals of an annoying defense lawyer as a heroic figure. Hes a jerk, but thats because he is adversarial. Its a paean to the adversarial justice system. You need a lawyer because the FBI might just decide to exploit any law-abiding traits to screw you over. I think lawyers would benefit from having defendants watch it, particularly regular citizens.

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Quote of the Day: Richard Jewell - Ricochet.com

One of my favorite photos of the last ten years comes from the Instagram of Lil Uzi Vert. In it, he and Young Thug appear to be taking a break from a shopping excursion. Thug is dripping in pearls and holding an open bag stuffed with hundred-dollar bills, but Uzi commands the frame. The eye follows his feet, clad in womens Chanel sneakers, along his tattooed calves, past a fetching cardigan short set, accented by a Chanel purse and a flute of ros, all the way up his smiling face, sandwiched between twin diamond-choked chokers and a top-knot of locs.

The decade started in darkness, with George Zimmerman killing Trayvon Martin for wearing a hoodie and further politicizing that garment. In the months and years that followed, alongside the Black Lives Matter movement, the expert display of black pain took on a bloody sheen of prestige, of importance. Affirmations of black happiness, then, emerged as a refusal of burnout, a pressure valve for the anguish of black life, and with them came an aesthetic of black boy joy: flower crowns, pastels, a visual softening of male aggression and stoicism most celebrated against a palette of cisness and straightness. Lil Uzi Vert is far from the first rapper to love fashion or wear feminine clothing, but he is a delightful bookmark for this new lens.

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Why Lil Uzi Vert Is the Most Stylish Man of the Decade - GQ

Kirwan Institute legal analyst Kyle Strickland one of four panelists tabbed for the latest monthly panel discussion from the Columbus African Council

The Columbus African Council has been running monthly discussion panels tackling big-picture questions within the black community, delving into the state of black education and the growing racial wealth gap, among other topics. But the organizations upcoming forum, Breathing While Black, takes a more personal turn, exploring the reality that those within the community are forced to learn to be hyper-vigilant about our black bodies while dancing/selling bottled water/napping in a dorm/mowing the lawn/going to the store/walking through a neighborhood, as detailed in the Facebook event page.

When I heard about the concept, there were so many things I was immediately drawn to. I thought about Trayvon Martin. I thought about Michael Brown. I thought about Tamir Rice, and all of these [instances] where you have African American men shot and killed, and a justice system that never quite delivers the justice that it claims to, said Kyle Strickland, senior legal analyst at the Kirwan Institute for Race & Ethnicity, who will join a four-person panel in discussion at the Columbus Metropolitan Library on Tuesday, Dec. 17. "And you think, That could be me. That could be anybody at any moment in time.'"

Eventually, though, as Strickland considered the topic, he started to think on a more experiential level about the ways race had routinely exhibited itself in his life, often in ways as simple as never really having the benefit of the doubt, he said.

As an example, Strickland, who grew up in a predominantly white Worthington neighborhood, pointed to a visit he made to a childhood friend a couple of years back, when he was approached by a white woman while he sat in his parked car.

And she walks up and says, What are you doing here? Strickland said. As the conversation continued, Strickland informed the woman that he was merely waiting on a friend, and that he had in fact grown up in the area. And yet the woman persisted. And she finally said, You dont really fit in so you might want to move along, which was very much code for, Im going to call the cops.

While Strickland termed the encounter trivial compared with the experiences of others, it served as yet another in a lifetime of reminders that his skin color will sometimes be the first thing some people will see. In grade school, Strickland said it wasnt unusual for teachers to discipline him more harshly than his white counterparts. Then, while he was a senior at Ohio State, someone spray painted Long Live Zimmerman on Hale Hall, the universitys black cultural center, in reference to George Zimmerman, who shot and killed black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012.

Even Harvard University, where Strickland earned his law degree, wasnt immune, with Strickland recalling the debates surrounding the Harvard Law School shield, which included three sheaves of wheat taken from the coat of arms of the Royall family, which amassed its fortune in the slave trade and on a sugar plantation in Antigua (Harvard Law School was established in 1817 with a bequest from Isaac Royall Jr.; the shield has since been removed from the law school).

And one day we woke up to seeing the portraits of all of the black professors with black tape over their mouths, said Strickland, who also serves as the director of My Brothers Keeper Ohio, a statewide network aimed at providing educational and community opportunities for young men of color. It seemed like a shock at the time: 'How could this happen in a place like this?' But then you look at it, and its like, No. Theres no shock at all. This exists, especially in places of power and prestige.'"

But for Breathing While Black, Strickland said hes as eager to hear from community members far removed from positions of power as he is fellow esteemed panelists, which include organizer Tammy Fournier Alsaada, Judge Kimberly Cocroft and former Ohio State Sen. Ray Miller.

Theres a great group of panelists but you could bring anybody up there to have these conversations and it would be just as powerful and impactful, Strickland said. And I think we often lose sight of that. Its not just the success stories, or people in positions of power [who should be heard]. Really, its the stories of everyday people who are too often ignored. We need to listen to the stories people tell and the pain that they go through.

While discussions centered on race can be difficult, Strickland said theyre essential to countering the long-simmering hatreds and prejudices that once led his fellow Harvard students to place black electrical tape over photographs of black professors, and the teachers in his predominantly white grade school to punish his perceived misdeeds more harshly than his fair-skinned classmates.

If you see ugliness and sit idly by and say, Were not going to talk about it, it will still persist. So Im going to continue to fight, and to talk about these injustices, Strickland said. I think about my two nieces, who are 3 and 1 years old, and I think about the type of country I want to see for them. Ultimately, you talk about being subjected to all of the ugly parts of this country, but there are so many beautiful parts within it, as well. Im not going to let somebody hijack that narrative from me of what it means to be an American.

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Forum will explore the difficulty of Breathing While Black - Columbus Alive

When Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012 and, in 2013, when George Zimmerman was acquitted, my body and spirit was moved into action, Cullors wrote in an op-ed for Teen Vogue about the movements sixth anniversary earlier this year. Alicia, Opal, and I created #BlackLivesMatter as an online community to help combat anti-Black racism across the globe.

The need for their effort has been tragically validated countless times since then. On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown was a college-bound 18-year-old with no criminal record when he was shot and killed by a white police officer named Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Several protests began taking place in Ferguson, and the issue of police brutality against black bodies was in the national spotlight. In response to what was happening in Ferguson, organizers in various cities nationwide created Black Lives Matter chapters in their communities.

Black Lives Matter created a space for activists of all ages to take a stand against anti-Black racism. After the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, teen activists held a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest that shut down Chicago streets, and in response to the murder of Eric Garner, then 18-year-old Nupol Kiazolu (now president of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York) led protests in Garners home state of New York.

Today, Black Lives Matter is a global network of more than 40 chapters, with members organizing and building local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.

The #NoDAPL movement was launched by a group of young Native Americans who claimed the title of water protectors in response to the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline, an oil pipeline considered a threat to the Indigenous community at the Standing Rock reservation. It began when Anna Lee Rain Yellowhammer, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, started a Change.org petition titled, Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. From there, young activists began using the hashtags #StandWithStandingRock and #NoDAPL to spread the word, garnering the support of hundreds of thousands of people.

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Youth Activist Movements of the 2010s: A Timeline and Brief History of a Decade of Change - Teen Vogue

April 20, 2010: An explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico causes the biggest marine oil spill in history.

Source: Encyclopedia Britannica

May 2, 2010: The European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund sign off on a 110 million bailout of Greece, to save the EU country from default.

Source: The Guardian

June 27, 2010: The FBI arrests 10 Russian spies caught living deep undercover in the United States.

Just days later, the group was taken to Vienna, Austria, where they were turned over to Russian authorities in exchange for four Russian nationals accused of being double agents, The Guardian reported at the time.

October 13, 2010: 33 miners are rescued after spending 69 days trapped in a Chilean copper mine.

Sources: CNN, Encyclopedia Britannica

December 8, 2010: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange turns himself in to British police after Swedish authorities put out a warrant for his arrest in connection to a rape accusation.

Assange denied the allegation and said the extradition order was just a way to get him to Sweden so that he could be extradited to the US for his role in publishing information embarrassing to the American government, according to The New York Times.

While out on bail in the UK in June 2012, Assange sought asylum at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London as a way to avoid his extradition to Sweden. He lived there for seven years before his asylum was withdrawn in April 2019, following disputes with Ecuadorian authorities, and he was rearrested by British police.

However, Swedish authorities announced they were dropping the rape investigation into Assange in November 2019.

December 17, 2010: The suicide of a Tunisian street vendor serves as a catalyst for the Arab Spring.

Tarek el-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire outside the local governor's office when government authorities confiscated his wares, according to The New York Times.

The incident caused revolutionary protests in Tunisia, and the toppling of the government within a month. Similar protests broke out in several other North African and Middle Eastern countries, including Egypt, Libya, Yemen, and Syria.

February 11, 2011: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigns under pressure from revolutionaries, giving up the seat he had held for three decades.

Anti-government protests in Egypt broke out a month earlier, as part of the larger Arab Spring, Al Jazeera reported. When Mubarak resigned, the military took control of the government. Amnesty International said that at least 840 people were killed in the protests that transpired over 18 days.

Mubarak was put on trial for the protester deaths, but acquitted in 2017, according to Al-Ahram.

March 2011: Civil war breaks out in Syria after military defectors create the Free Syrian Army, to combat those loyal to President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Protests had broken out in Syria after police tortured teenagers caught making anti-regime graffiti, according to Mother Jones.

March 11, 2011: An earthquake in Japan causes the second-worst nuclear accident in history.

The Great Sendai Earthquake of 2011 caused a tsunami in Japan's northeastern Fukushima prefecture. That tsunami in turn damaged backup generates at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which went into partial meltdown, prompting the government to order the evacuation of nearly 50,000 residents, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.

April 29, 2011: 3 billion people tune in to watch Britain's Prince William marry college sweetheart Kate Middleton in a ceremony at Westminster Cathedral in London

Source: The New York Times

May 1, 2011: President Barack Obama addresses the nation to announce the death of terrorist Osama bin Laden, after a successful Navy SEAL raid on the 9/11 mastermind's compound in Pakistan.

Source: NPR

May 14, 2011: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is pulled off a Paris-bound flight in New York and charged with sexually assaulting a hotel maid.

Three months later, prosecutors decided to drop the case after they lost faith in the credibility of the accuser, Nafissatou Diallo, The New York Times reported at the time.

Strauss-Kahn has always maintained that he did not rape Diallo, but in 2012 he settled with the hotel worker for an undisclosed sum after she sued him for sexual assault, according to The Guardian.

July 7, 2011: Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid shutters after it was revealed that staffers hacked into the phones of prominent figures like Prince William to mine for stories.

Sources: CNN, CSM

July 22, 2011: A right-wing Christian extremist kills 77 people most of them children in attacks on Oslo, Norway, and the nearby island of Utoya.

In August 2012, the attacker was sentenced to 21 years in prison, the maximum possible sentence since Norway doesn't have the death penalty, according to CNN.

July 23, 2011: Grammy Award-winning singer Amy Winehouse, 27, is found dead at her home in north London.

Though the troubled songstress had released just two studio albums in her career, the second, "Back to Black," was a critical and popular success. Rolling Stoneranks it #451 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

A coroner later determined the singer's cause of death was from drinking too much alcohol, according to the BBC.

September 17, 2011: The Occupy Wall Street movement begins with about 1,000 people protesting in downtown Manhattan's Zuccotti Park.

The group's main issue was the power and influence held by the richest Americans.

The group held the park for about three months before police kicked them out on November 15. By then, similar protest camps had been started in other cities across America, according to The Week.

October 3, 2011: American Amanda Knox, 24, is freed from an Italian prison after her conviction in the 2009 murder of her British roommate is overthrown.

Knox served nearly four years of a 26-year sentence before she was cleared, according to CNN.

July 20, 2012: A shooter opens fire at a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight," in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and injuring dozens of others.

The shooter was later sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

September 11, 2012: US Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans are killed after a mob storms the US mission in Benghazi, Libya.

Source: CNN

October 22, 2012: After being accused of conducting an elaborate doping scheme, American cyclist Lance Armstrong is stripped of his seven Tour de France medals and banned from cycling competitions for life.

He initially denied the accusations before telling Oprah Winfrey in 2013 that they were true.

October 29, 2012: Superstorm Sandy causes widespread death and damage, especially in the Northeastern US.

Source: Business Insider

November 6, 2012: Voters in Colorado and Washington vote to legalize recreational marijuana, becoming the first states in the US to do so.

Nine other states have since followed suit, from Alaska to Maine.

February 28, 2013: Basketball legend Dennis Rodman travels to North Korea and meets leader Kim Jong-un, becoming the first American to meet the new leader since he assumed office two years prior.

Sources: Encyclopedia Britannica, The New York Times

March 13, 2013: Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is elected pope, becoming the first South American to lead the Roman Catholic Church. He assumes the name Pope Francis.

Pope Francis was elected after his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, abdicated, becoming the first pope to voluntarily resign since Celestine V in 1294.

April 15, 2013: Two pressure cooker bombs explode at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 250 others.

Brothers Tamerlan, 26, and Dzokhar Tsarnaev, 19, initially escaped the scene, and the city of Boston was effectively shut down for days as law enforcement teams hunted for the bombers.

Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police four days later. A wounded Dzokhar was arrested later that morning, after seeking shelter in a dry-docked boat.

Two years later, Dzokhar was sentenced to death for his role in the bombings.

May 16, 2013: The now-defunct news site Gawker publishes a video showing Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack.

Ford initially refuses to step down, and his increasingly bizarre behavior over the coming weeks and months make international headlines.

His term as mayor came to an end on November 30, 2014, after he dropped out of the race to deal with a cancer diagnosis. But he still won for city councilor of his old constituency with 58% of the vote. He served just two years in that role before dying at the age of 46 in March 2016.

May 6, 2013: Three women who had been missing for about a decade are rescued from the Cleveland, Ohio, home of Ariel Castro.

Amanda Berry, 27, Gina DeJesus, 23, and Michelle Knight, 32, had each disappeared between 2002 and 2004. They finally escaped after Berry kicked down a screen door and yelled at a neighbor to call 911, according to CBS News.

Castro, 53, later pleaded guilty to several charges to avoid the death penalty, only to die by suicide in his cell a month later.

June 6, 2013: The Guardian and the Washington Post publish stories based on information leaked to them by government contractor Edward Snowden.

Snowden flees the country and is eventually allowed asylum in Russia.

July 6, 2013: "Glee" star Cory Monteith is found dead in a Vancouver, British Columbia, hotel room after succumbing to a drug and alcohol overdose.

Source: USA Today

July 7, 2013: Scottish tennis player Andy Murray becomes the first British man to win Wimbledon since Fred Perry in 1936.

Source: Tennis.com

July 13, 2013: The Black Lives Matter movement begins after George Zimmerman is acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the shooting death of black teen Trayvon Martin.

On February 26, 2012, Zimmerman shot dead Martin because he thought he was an intruder in his Sanford, Florida, neighborhood. But Martin lived in the same neighborhood and was just returning home after a trip to the convenience store to buy an iced tea and candy. The incident caused national outrage over the treatment of black people, especially black boys.

July 22, 2013: Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, gives birth to a baby boy named Prince George, who becomes third in line to the British throne, behind his father and grandfather.

Source: Business Insider

December 5, 2013: Nelson Mandela, South Africa's trailblazing first black president, dies at the age of 95.

Source: Business Insider

February 1, 2014: Dylan Farrow writes an essay describing how her father, director Woody Allen, molested her as a child. Allen was never charged and denies the allegation.

The accusation against Allen wasn't new, but it was the first time that his daughter had spoken publicly to give her side of the story.

February 2, 2014: Academy Award-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman dies at the age of 46 from a drug overdose.

Source: The New York Times

February 18, 2014: A 39-year-old Jimmy Fallon starts his tenure as host of "The Tonight Show".

Source: The New York Times

March 2014: Russia invades Ukraine and annexes the Crimea, after Ukraine's pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, is toppled in anti-government protests.

Sources: Business Insider, Vox

March 8, 2014: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 mysteriously vanishes off radar while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers and crew on board.

Parts of the Boeing 777 would later wash up on islands off the southeastern coast of Africa, but not the fuselage.

March 25, 2014: Actress Gwyneth Paltrow announces her separation from her Coldplay frontman husband Chris Martin on her blog Goop, saying they have decided to "consciously uncouple".

Source: Harper's Bazaar

April 2014: The Flint water crisis begins as the Michigan city tries to cut costs by getting their water from the Flint River instead of getting it from Detroit.

Doctors would later tell residents to stop using the water after finding high lead levels in children's blood.

March 23, 2014: The World Health Organization reports that there has been an outbreak of Ebola in Guinea, the start of the largest outbreak of the virus in history.

The virus spread as far as the US, after a man infected with the virus flew to Dallas in October and got sick after landing. He later died, and two nurses became infected while treating him but recovered.

There was another scare when a medical aide worker became infected with the virus after returning to New York City from Guinea.

Seven other people were flown to the US to get treatment for the virus, most of whom were medical workers. Of those seven, six survived and one died.

When Guinea was finally Ebola-free in June 2016, more than 28,600 people had contracted the disease, and 11,325 died.

February 1, 2015: The New England Patriots win Super Bowl XLIX thanks to an interception with just seconds left in the game.

With just 25 seconds left in the game, the Seattle Seahawks looked on track to overtake the Patriots.

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119 stories that gripped the world in the 2010s - INSIDER