An unarmed man, suspected of no crime, who three years ago was shot 16 times by police while lying in his bed, told a Seattle Times reporter in March that he bears no ill will for the cops who shot him. Said Dustin Theoharis, now 32, 鈥淪ometimes (police) make mistakes.鈥� Theoharis was napping in a friend鈥檚 house in Puyallup, Washington, when police arrived to arrest the friend鈥檚 son, and when Theoharis reached for his ID, one officer imagined a gun, and the two officers opened fire, hitting Theoharis in the jaw, both upper arms, both lower arms, wrist, hand, shoulder, abdomen and both legs. He spent months in a hospital and skilled nursing facility and today is largely immobile and unable to work. (He 鈥渨on鈥� legal settlements totaling $5.5 million, but one-third went to lawyers, and much of the rest has paid medical bills.)
According to the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, it appears that some of the 2016 Summer Olympics aquatic events will take place among floating household trash and raw sewage in Guanabara Bay (although Mayor Eduardo Paes noted to the Associated Press in March that the events are scheduled for the 鈥渃leanest part鈥� of the bay). To acquire the games, organizers had promised a massive cleanup, but now, with 500 days to go, Paes conceded infrastructure improvements still have not halted the sewage flow into the bay.
According to a 17-year-old bicyclist who was broadsided by a motorist in England, on March 6, a woman at first alighted from the car to help. However, upon seeing the extent of the cyclist鈥檚 injuries, she apologized and walked away, telling the sprawled-out victim that her children were in the car and would be 鈥渟cared鈥� to see all that blood and so she would drive them to school. (Witnesses provided a description of the vehicle, but the hit-and-run driver was still at large.
