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A South Carolina Jury Decided That Shooting a Fleeing 14-Year-Old in the Back Wasn't Murder Two weeks ago, a South Carolina jury acquitted the man who chased and shot 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton over water he didn't steal, the latest in a long history of courts failing Black children. Kahlil Greene Jun 15 On June 1, 2026, a South Carolina jury found Rick Chow not guilty of murder. Chow, a convenience store owner, had chased a 14-year-old named Cyrus Carmack-Belton more than the length of a football field down a Columbia side street and shot him in the back as he ran away. Chow claimed that Belton had stolen four bottles of water that surveillance footage later showed Carmack-Belton took from a cooler and put back. Carmack-Belton had a pistol on him, but it fell from his pocket during the chase, and the first officer to arrive at the scene testified that Chow admitted he never saw Carmack-Belton point it at anyone. Despite this, the jury concluded that no crime had been com...

  Morning Digest: Flesh-eating parasite attacks district where GOP governor has stalled on calling special election "If this isn’t cause for calling a special election, I don’t know what is," says Democratic candidate David Nir and Jeff Singer Jun 15   Texas Gov. Greg Abbott with Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins. (Credit: Greg Abbott Facebook) Leading Off TX-23, FL-20 Republican governors in two red states with congressional seats that have been vacant for almost two months still have not called special elections, even as a grave new agricultural threat just surfaced in one of them. That threat is the New World screwworm, a fly whose eggs, laid in the wounds of warm-blooded animals, transform into flesh-eating larvae that can kill their hosts. The fly poses a particular risk to livestock, though it can also harm wildlife, pets, and even humans. Thanks to aggressive eradication efforts, the screwworm, which is endemic in South America and the Caribbean, has largely bee...