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Polling from Gallup released  the day before officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were killed, showed 13 percent of Americans said race relations was the most pressing issue in the United States. That number has only been higher once since the late 1960s; that was in 1992, when the beating of Rodney King by police officers led to riots in Los Angeles. 

In an editorial titled “Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses,” The New York Times called on the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an investigation of former Vice President Dick Cheney and several other Bush administration officials for actions they took to counter terrorism and root out terrorists, post Sept. 11, 2001.

The Praise Cathedral Church of God's Gaylard Williams, of Seymour, Indiana, was arrested this week when he allegedly massaged a stranger's genitals in a park and asked him for oral sex; police found pornography in his car (which he claimed was being delivered to someone else) -- Williams is a noted homophobic preacher whose sermons condemn homosexuals.