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Americans lost over $2.3 million to online ticket scams this year, according to the FBI. Lucas Gutterman from U.S. Public Interest Research Group shares tips to protect yourself.

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Oklahoma City police officer charged for slamming elderly man to the ground, breaking his neck

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Prosecutors charged an Oklahoma City police officer with felony assault on Thursday after he slammed a 71-year-old man to the ground, breaking his neck, following an argument over a traffic ticket.

Sgt. Joseph Gibson, 28, was charged in Oklahoma County with one count of aggravated assault and battery in connection with the Oct. 27 dispute. Body-worn camera video released by police shows Gibson throwing Lich Vu to the ground after Vu touched Gibson during an argument following a non-injury traffic accident.

“We evaluate the law and the facts in each individual case, and in this particular case determined the officer’s actions were an unreasonable use of force,” Oklahoma County District Attorney Vicki Zemp Behenna said in a statement.

Vu suffered a brain bleed, a broken neck and eye socket and remains hospitalized, prosecutors said.

As CBS affiliate KWTV reported, nearby surveillance video, also released by police, revealed graphic views of Vu’s head hitting the concrete during the takedown arrest. 

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In this image made from body-worn camera video provided by the Oklahoma City Police Department, Lich Vu, a 71-year-old man, speaks with an Oklahoma City police officer before he was thrown to the ground and handcuffed in Oklahoma City, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024. 

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Oklahoma City Police Capt. Valerie Littlejohn declined to comment on the charge and referred to a statement the department released in October, indicating Gibson was placed on administrative leave while his actions were being investigated.

“We want our community to know that this case is being thoroughly investigated, and the review process will take time to complete,” according to the statement, which was also released in Vietnamese.

The use of force prompted outrage in Oklahoma City’s Vietnamese community, particularly since the video shows Vu had difficulty communicating with Gibson during the interaction and appeared not to understand what the officer was telling him.

“This is the first step, but we can’t replace the hurt. It can’t replace the trauma. It can’t replace a lot of things they’re experiencing,” said Thuan Nguyen, president-elect of the Vietnamese American Community of Oklahoma. “The DA did the right thing in charging him.” 

Vu’s family said the hospital discharged Vu last week, but he’s still experiencing confusion and headaches, KWTV reported

“He’s not in the state that he was in before the accident,” Nguyen said, adding that Vu has been unable to continue cancer treatment due to his injuries. 

Oklahoma City Fraternal Order of Police President Mark Nelson said the organization is sympathetic to Vu and recognizes the severity of his injuries but expressed concern about the impact the charges will have on officers in the field.

“It is very disappointing to see a police officer face felony charges for actions taken in good faith while serving in the line of duty,” Nelson said in a statement. “Sgt. Gibson followed his de-escalation training and protocol when assaulted.”



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CBS News has learned President Biden is considering issuing preemptive pardons for some of President-elect Donald Trump’s biggest critics. Among the names being floated are Dr. Anthony Fauci, who served as the top science adviser during the height of COVID-19, California Democratic Senator-elect Adam Schiff, who led the first impeachment effort against Trump, and Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who was part of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes has more.

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Crocodile kills woman in Indonesia despite coworker’s attempt to pull her from animal’s jaws

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A crocodile attacked and killed a woman as she worked on a palm oil plantation in central Indonesia, local police said, with her body later recovered from the animal’s clutches.

Indonesia is home to several species of crocodiles that regularly attack and kill humans.

The 44-year-old woman was working with a colleague in West Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo when the crocodile chased the pair, biting the victim on her left hand and dragging her into a ditch.

The woman’s colleague tried to pull her from the animal’s jaws but lost the fight, before running to alert police in the coastal district of Ketapang, police said.

“After a 90-minute search, the victim’s body was found,” local police chief Bagus Tri Baskoro said in a statement late Thursday.

He said women’s remains were discovered still in the crocodile’s grip “not far” from the location of the attack. The animal released her body when rescuers approached it, he added.

Borneo is split between Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia and is home to vast tracts of jungle hosting a kaleidoscope of rare animals.

Palm oil plantations and logging projects have in the past been criticized for encroaching on Borneo’s rainforest areas.

In August, a crocodile killed a 54-year-old woman as she bathed in a river on Indonesia’s Maluku islands. That same month, a 63-year-old tin miner was killed by a crocodile near a river on Bangka island in Sumatra.

In 2019, a scientist was dragged by a huge captive crocodile into its enclosure and killed on the island of Sulawesi.

In 2018, a mob in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua butchered nearly 300 crocodiles in revenge after a local man was killed by one of the reptiles.

Indonesia has also seen  several deadly python attacks this year. In August, a woman was found dead by her daughter after being attacked by a python in central Indonesia.

In July, a woman was found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in Siteba village, in South Sulawesi province.

The month before that, a woman was found dead inside the belly of a reticulated python in another district of South Sulawesi.



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