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Police Identify Suspect In New Orleans Parade Shooting

CNN (USA), REUTERS

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NEW ORLEANS - Police have identified a 19-year-old man as a suspect in the shooting during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans that left 19 injured.

New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas told CNN late Monday that authorities are looking for 19-year-old Akein Scott.

WANTED: 19yr old Akein Scott, ID'd as shooter at NOLA Mother's Day parade, has long rap sheet; may be on parole twitter.com/NewsBreaker/st…

— NewsBreaker (@NewsBreaker) May 14, 2013

According to Reuters, New Orleans police are familiar with Scott, who was last arrested in March and has a criminal history that includes charges for possessing narcotics and a firearm, as well as resisting arrest.

Ten men, seven women and a girl and a boy, both 10 years old, were injured when one or more people opened fire at the parade on Sunday; it is still unclear whether the shooting was gang-related, or if there was more than one gunman.

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A Brazilian Plea For Science, Religious Freedom And The Right To Samba As You Wish

An evangelic group has threatened to take legal action against a samba school because of its mix of religious iconography at the 2023 Carnival festivities. A Brazilian secular institute has a response.

Photo of Rio's carnival 2015

Rio carnival in full swing

Daniel Gontijo E Pirula

-OpEd-

SÃO PAULO — To celebrate religious diversity at 2023 carnival, the samba school Gaviões da Fiel in São Paolo combined Christian symbols with imagery from African religions — for example, Christ with Oxalá (a deity from Candomblé, an African diasporic religion).

Gaviões received a disclaimer note from the country's conservative Evangelical Parliamentary Front (FPE). In these politicians’ view, "one cannot compare Christ and Oxalá … under no circumstances", and there would only be one god, one Son, and one Holy Spirit.

Having interpreted this artistic syncretism as an immoral, vile act, the FPE is now threatening to take legal action against the samba school.

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