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DOVER, N.H. 鈥?A New Hampshire woman violated the state civil rights law by calling a Black child by a racial slur and threatening to kneel on his neck, a court ruled Wednesday.Kristina Graper, 51, of Dover, was accused of threatening the 9-year-old in May after he accidentally broke her son toy at a local park. She was prosecuted by the attorney general Civil Rights Unit in Strafford County Superior Court, which concluded that her conduct was motivated by the victim race and was intended to terrorize or coerce him.Graper, whose race was not mentioned in the complaint, has been prohibited from contacting the boy or his family or adidas samba coming within 250 feet of them. She also was given adidas yeezy a $2,500 civil penalty, with all but $500 suspended if she complies.Graper did not file a response to the attorney general complaint. A phone number listed for her attorney was disconnected.The complaint said the encounter distressed the child, who understood the comments to be a reference to the murder of George Floyd last year. He began to cry when he heard her words and has been afraid to return to the park, and will only do so when other children are there to help keep him safe, the complaint said.Millions of people watched the footage of Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, pleading for air as a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck until he stopped breathing. Former Officer Derek Chauvin was conv adidas samba icted in April of murder and manslaughter in F Owre Governor, and rising number of coronavirus cases, demand Mainers stay at home
BOSTON 鈥?A U.S. cybersecurity company says Russian military agents have successfully hacked the Ukrainian gas company at the center of the scandal that led to President Donald Trumps impeachment.Russian agents launched a phishing campaign in early November to steal the login credentials of employees of Burisma Holdings, th nike air force e gas company, according to Area 1 Security, a Silicon Valley company that specializes in email security.Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. vice president and Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden, previously served on Bu stanley us rismas board.It was not clear what the hackers were looking for or may have obtained, said Area 1s CEO, Oren Falkowitz, who called the findings incontrovertible and posted an eight-page report. But the timing of the operation suggests that the Russian agents could be searching for material damaging to the Bidens or perhaps s stanley cup cheming to plant misinformation.The House of Representatives impeached Trump in December for abusing the power of his office by enlisting the Ukrainian government to investigate Biden, a political rival, ahead of the 2020 election. A second charge accused Trump of obstructing a congressional investigation into the matter. Our report doesnt make any claims as to what the intent of the hackers were, what they might have been looking for, what they are going to do with their success. We just point out that this is a campaign thats going on, said Falkowitz, a former National Security Agency offensive hacker whose company |
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