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In December the sheriff’s office in Galveston, Texas, admitted that Louis Radzieski, 20, had escaped from lockup by simply walking out the front door. According to Sheriff Gean Leonard, Radzieski crouched behind a woman being legitimately released and remained in step with her as she passed the two officers at the booking desk. And in January in a Miami courtroom, while a prosecutor in the case of Raymond Jessi Snyder demanded that Snyder be incarcerated prior to sentencing because his record indicated he was a “flight risk,” Snyder slowly eased from his seat and bolted out the door. (He was apprehended only minutes later.)
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In December in Stockholm, Sweden, the owner of the gallery exhibiting the work of Ukrainian-born artist Nathalia Edenmont defended her against animal-rights protesters by claiming that she kills the animals in her photos humanely, and that art (unlike, for example, cosmetics testing) provides “food for the soul.” Among Edenmont’s artistic statements: A hand wearing the gutted front halves of five white mice like finger puppets represents the former Soviet Union (whose flag had five stars), which Edenmont believes was responsible for her mother’s murder, and several dead mice all pointing in the same direction represent the “cowardice” of Swedish society.
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