THE BIG STORY

A night of protest

There were major protests in a number of US cities last night, with people taking to the streets in Minnesota, Kentucky, Colorado, New York, California, and Ohio in response to two high-profile cases of unarmed black people killed by police.

The biggest protest was in Minneapolis, where four police officers were fired this week after one was filmed kneeling on the neck of a detainee, George Floyd, until he lost consciousness and later died. Protests and police clashed throughout the night, with police eventually evacuating the Third Precinct building in the south of the city, which was later set on fire.

Early this morning, Minneapolis police arrested a CNN reporter, Omar Jiminez, and his entire crew, while they were broadcasting live from the site of the protests. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz quickly apologized for the arrest and Jiminez and the crew were soon released.

In Kentucky, police said seven people were shot during demonstrations in Louisville over the killing of Breonna Taylor, an unarmed black woman who was shot by police in her home in March. Police said they were not involved in the shootings of the protestors. Two of the people shot required surgery but the remaining five were in "good condition," said Louisville mayor Greg Fischer.

STAYING ON TOP OF THIS

Huxley Stauffer's story

YouTuber Myka Stauffer built a following on the site by documenting the process of adopting a toddler from China, publishing years of videos — and landing a number of sponsorship deals — based on the intimate details of the child's life since he was adopted in 2017.

But the boy, who she and her husband named Huxley, hasn't been appearing in her videos for a while now, raising questions from fans. And in a video published this week, they revealed why: he's no longer a part of their family, Stephanie McNeal reports. He's now living with new parents, after the couple chose to "hand-select a family who is equipped to handle Huxley’s needs," their lawyers told BuzzFeed News.

The sad story has many asking questions about the rights of young children on social media, where parents have found a booming and highly lucrative market for videos documenting the lives of their kids. "Could Huxley’s case be the one that makes people wake up and call for more regulation against child influencers online," McNeal asks?

Myka Stauffer / YouTube

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SNAPSHOTS

Twitter's feud with President Trump looks set to escalate. The company today attached warning labels to tweets from Trump and the White House, saying they breached the company's rules against glorifying violence.

The ACLU is suing the controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI. The lawsuit says it's seeking to end a "nightmare scenario" of digital surveillance.

Lawmakers on both sides of the political divide want to see a legal crackdown on Silicon Valley tech giants. They're worried about monopoly power and its effects on the economy.

Remember when you used to eat dinner in a restaurant? Here's some photos showing what it might look like as places reopen.

A man and a woman dine behind plastic shields in a Paris restaurant, May 27. (Thibault Camus / AP)

IT'S NEWS O'CLOCK

The podcast that's doing the most

Minneapolis is dealing with the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd. Our hosts Hayes Brown and Casey Rackham talk with Amber McReynolds, CEO of Vote at Home, about how to vote safely this fall. And to decompress from all the terrible, we list some of our favorite Sesame Street songs featuring celebrity guests. Check out the latest episode of News O'Clock here!

BROOM PLAY

"The facts of the case are unusual," the judge said

That's one of history's greatest understatements, from an Australian judge who found a man not guilty of breaking and entering while armed with a weapon. In mid-2019, the man was caught, along with an accomplice, carrying a machete in the house of another man. But it's not as bad as it sounds.

"This bizarre interaction at a home in Goolgowi, almost seven hours west of Sydney, was not a crime, an Australian judge ruled this month, but rather the result of a bumbling attempt at carrying out another man's sexual fantasy," David Mack reports.

"In exchange for $5,000, the two men had agreed to tie up a man they had never met, then rub his underwear with a broom. There was just one problem: They had the wrong address."

It gets better, and weirder, and you just have to read the whole thing.

We all have the right to safely explore our sexual fantasies — at the correct address,

Tom