Download
1 / 3
E N D
After the deaths of 25 people in clashes a day earlier at Kiev's Independence Square. Ukrainian protesters are prepared to stand and fight again Wednesday. It was the deadliest day in the months-long standoff between the government and opposition leaders. Thousands of demonstrators have packed Independence Square since November, when President Viktor Yanukovych reversed a decision to sign a trade deal with the European Union and instead turned toward Russia. The unrest intensified after an anti-protest law went into effect. Throngs of demonstrators took to the streets to protest the law. Police and protesters were among Tuesday's dead. A journalist and a government employee died, too. More than 240 others were hospitalized. Protestors prepared even more by stockpiling stones, filling Molotov cocktails and stoking flaming barricades with wood and tires. They even prepared a makeshift compressed-air cannon to catapult the projectiles into police ranks. Even as the European Union scheduled a meeting about Ukraine for Thursday and the leaders of France and Poland called for sanctions over the violence, President Yanukovych did nothing but blame the violence exclusively on protesters. He also issued a threat to the protesters. He said they should, "disassociate themselves from the radical forces that provoke bloodshed and clashes with law enforcement.“ Otherwise, admit to supporting them and be treated accordingly.
In Other News • A jury on Saturday night convicted Michael Dunn of three charges of attempted murder for shooting at three teenagers in an SUV and one count of shooting into the vehicle on November 23, 2012. But a separate murder charge in the death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis resulted in a hung jury. Prosecutor Angela Corey said she would seek a new trial on the charge. Dunn faces 60 years or more in prison for the attempted murder charges when he's sentenced next month. On the murder charge, the jury split over the issue of self-defense. Florida law says the use of deadly force is justifiable if someone reasonably believes that the force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm. In his testimony, Dunn insisted that Davis threatened him and that he saw a gun. Police never recovered a weapon. After nearly 30 hours of deliberations, the vote became 9-3. It was November 23, 2012, when Michael Dunn pulled into a gas station in Jacksonville, parking next to a red Dodge Durango with four teenagers inside. The teens had come in for gum and cigarettes; Dunn, meanwhile, had just left his son's wedding with his fiancee, who'd gone inside the convenience store for wine and chips. Dunn didn't like the loud music -- "rap crap," as he called it -- coming from the teens' SUV. So he asked them to turn it down. What followed next depends on whom you believe. Dunn says Davis threatened him, and he decided to take matters into his own hands upon seeing what he thought was the barrel of a gun sticking out of the Durango. But prosecutors say it was Dunn who lost control, firing three volleys of shots -- 10 bullets total -- at the SUV over music he didn't like. • Nestlé USA has issued a recall of two varieties of Philly Steak and Cheese Hot Pockets because they may contain meat that has already been recalled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
