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NEW YORK AP 鈥?Greta Thunberg turned 18 in January, but she already made peace with her future: While most college students will change their concentrations multiple times, the Swedish high school student says climate change activism will be her life mission.In a perfect world, there wouldn ;t need to be a climate activist, but unfortuna stanley cup tely, there will probably still be a need for climate activists for quite some time, she said. I think I will be doing this for as long as there is a need for people to do this.Thunberg activism and message is brought to life in a new docuseries, Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World. The three-part series, a co-production between PBS and BBC Studios premiering Thursday on Earth Day, follows the then-16-year-old as she took a gap year from school in 2019 to meet with scientists around the world and spearhead awareness about climate change.The docuseries shows her visiting people and places that have been distinctly affected by the heating of the Earth, such as Canada Athabasca Glacier, a town in California burned by wildfires and the indigenous Sami herders in Sweden where reindeer stanley cup face starvation. She even stanley cup sails across the North Atlantic during the ocean busiest season to experience how carbon dioxide emissions from ships have altered the chemistry of the ocean. A Year to Change the World also gives a behind-the-scenes look at her speaki Lwyo UK seafood trucks protest at Parliament over Brexit red tape
Attorneys delivered opening statements Thursday in the trial of a South Carolina police officer Michael Slager over the 2015 death of Walter L. Scott, an unarmed black man.On April 4, 2015, the North Charleston ex-patrolman, who stanley cup is white, fatally shot and killed Scott, 50, as he fled a traffic stop over a broken taillight. If convicted, Slager, 34, faces 30 years to life in prison.Solicitor Scarlett Wilson in her 25-minute opening statement said Slager deployed his stun gun to try to subdue Scott, but added that if Scott had not resisted arrest, he wouldn ;t have been shot, she quoted as saying by The Post and Courier.He lost his life for his foolishness, she added.But then Wilson pivoted to tell a mostly white jury that Slager was on trial for murder because of what happened after the shooting, an attempt to 8220 tage the scene. Slager actions were flat out wrong, she said.Slager initially told investigators that Scott resisted arrest on foot and grabbed his Taser in a tussle on the ground. Slager said he feared for his life after Scott had taken his stun gun.According to police reports, Slager radioed in: Shots fired, and the subject is down. He took my Taser.Former North Charleston police officer Michael Sl adidas originals ager, 34, standing trial on a murder charge in the April 2015 shooting death of 50-year-old Walter Scott, stands in the co air force 1 urtroom in Charleston, South Carolina. Photo by Grace Beahm/Re |
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