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Associated Press 12:32 p.m. MST November 22, 2014

Kimberly Michelle Ballinger, center left, domestic partner of Akai Gurley, who was shot by an NYPD officer, is joined by Rev. Al Sharpton, left, Gurley's daughter Akaila Gurley, 2, and relative Janice Davis-Asiedu at the National Action Network in New York Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014. Police have described a rookie officer's shooting of Akai Gurley in a Brooklyn staircase Thursday as an apparent accident.(Photo: Craig Ruttle/AP)

NEW YORK The Rev. Al Sharpton is calling for prosecutors to do a thorough investigation into the police killing of an unarmed man in a darkened stairwell at a public housing building in New York City.

Police have described a rookie officer's shooting of Akai Gurley in a Brooklyn staircase as an apparent accident. But Sharpton asked Saturday how that can be known "until there is a thorough investigation of all that happened."

He's also calling for the New York Police Department to improve its training and procedures. Sharpton was joined by members of Gurley's family.

Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson has called Thursday's shooting "deeply troubling" and said it warrants "an immediate, fair and thorough investigation."

The NYPD has been working to give rookie officers more training and time with more senior officers.

"Things are a little tense right now as you can imagine," Kirsten Foy, an official with Sharpton's group, told reporters Friday. He said Ballinger was consulting a psychologist to help explain Gurley's death to his 2-year-old daughter, which was "a very difficult thing to have to explain to a child when you've always taught them that the police were there to be our friends and to protect us."

Mayor Bill de Blasio, calling Gurley's death a "tragedy," met with some of his relatives Friday evening. Police Commissioner William Bratton similarly described the shooting as a tragedy and said the 28-year-old man was "totally innocent" and wasn't engaged in criminal activity when the officer fired his weapon.

Why exactly Officer Peter Liang had his gun drawn and fired while patrolling the Louis Pink Houses in Brooklyn's gritty East New York neighborhood with his partner late Thursday night wasn't immediately clear, but authorities have indicated it appeared to be an accidental shooting.

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The Rev. Al Sharpton demanded a thorough investigation Saturday into a rookie police officers fatal shooting of an unarmed man in Brooklyn, N.Y.Although the New York Police Department has labeled the incident Thursday night an accident, Sharpton said further examination was needed to uncover why Officer Peter Liang shot and killed28-year-old Akai Gurley in a public housing complex, the Associated Press reported.

Were not demonizing the police.We dont know what happened ... this young man should not be dead. Sharpton said at a National Action Network news conference with Gurleys family. From Staten Island, to Ferguson, now back to Brooklyn to the Pink Houses, it is time for us to stop ducking the issue and dealing with the issue of police conduct, police training, and the rights of citizens.

Liang, who has been on the police force for less than 18 months, was conducting a vertical patrol of the Louis H. Pink Houses stairwells Thursday at about 11:15 p.m. EST when he mistakenlyfired his 9 mm gun. The bullet hit Gurley, who was 10 feet away walking down the steps with his girlfriend.The cop didnt present himself, he just shot him in the chest, his girlfriends sister, Janice Butler, toldthe New York Times. The police commissioner told reporters Gurley was totally innocent.

The NYPD put Liang on modified duty. No charges have been filed, but his rookie status means he can be fired without a hearing.As we continue to gather the facts, the fatal shooting of this unarmed man is deeply troubling and warrants an immediate, fair and thorough investigation, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson said in a statement.

The lights in the stairwell where the incident occurred had been out for months, the New York Daily News reported. Sharpton drew similarities between Gurley and Timothy Stansbury, an unarmed 19-year-old killed by a surprised officer on a rooftop in 2004. In that case, the NYPD paid Stansburys family $2 million.

The issue of police going up and down dark stairwells with their guns drawn and their safety off is at the center of this Gurley case, AP quoted Sharpton as saying. That is the policy accident that, since Stansbury, we have said to this city, You need to deal with.

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The fourteenth season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation premiered on September 25, 2013 on CBS, and concluded on May 7, 2014. It consisted of 22 episodes.

The series's 300th episode aired during the season, with Marg Helgenberger guest starring in the landmark episode in a series of newly recorded "flashbacks" to a case that occurred in the time frame of the first season.[2] Due to the leave of absence taken by George Eads following his altercation with a writer, he appears only in the first three episodes of the season, under the pretext of receiving special training in Quantico. Eads returned in the episode "Check In and Check Out".[3] The season also introduced a redesigned title sequence.

On February 18, 2014, CBS announced plans to launch a new spin-off of the CSI franchise, tentatively titled CSI: Cyber, with a backdoor pilot episode, entitled "Kitty", that aired April 30, 2014. Inspired by producer Mary Aiken's work as a cyber-psychologist, the new series revolves around Special Agent Avery Ryan, played by Patricia Arquette,[4] who is in charge of the Cyber Crime Division at Quantico, Virginia.,[5] The show was officially picked up by CBS on May 9, 2014[6]

On March 13, 2014 it was announced that CSI: Crime Scene Investigation would return for a fifteenth season, which started airing in September 2014[7]Paul Guilfoyle, who plays Jim Brass, left the series at the end of the 14th season.[8]

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Britain #39;s anti-EU UKIP takes second seat in parliament
Britain #39;s anti-European Union UK Independence Party (UKIP) wins its second seat in parliament, in a by-election that could signal upheaval in a general election in six months #39; time. Duration: 00:53.

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SPECIAL REPORT: Anal Cunt isnt an everyday sort of band name. Even in underground metal circles, it still inspires a pause, despite the fact that the defunct American grindcore group got its start in 1988. That didnt stop its display, on a large video screen, at the 2014 European Union Prize for Literature award ceremony, from being a big surprise.

Embedded in an English-language excerpt from Jelgava 94, a Latvian novel about teenage metal fans in the Baltic state, in the years immediately following independence from the USSR, its soft-spoken author read the relevant passage from the work, in his native language, like he was still a teenage music fan.

The elegantly dressed, distinctly non-metal audience drank Janis Jonevs up, as though he were a refreshing drink in an otherwise dry literary space. One of this years thirteen award winners, Jonevs novel could not stand out more.

Equal parts bildungsroman, and a portrait of the cultural chaos that reigned in former communist states during the 1990s, the book serves as a stark reminder of what has been left behind over the last year, as Cold War style tensions resumed between Moscow and the West, and border countries such as Latvia, grew increasingly concerned about their independence.

The freedom to transgress, to misbehave, to be heavy metal kids, may have been a hard-won freedom, despite the fact that anti-establishment subcultures, as in the West, often flourished behind the Iron Curtain. Still, the release that Jonevs recounts is indelibly linked to its historic context, one which, in retrospect, is not just a middle aged exercise in in remembering ones carefree youth.

The book is also, despite its intense specificity, about being part of a larger world, linked by underground music, and its influence on young persons lives. Featuring a protagonist with the nickname Death, namedropping American indie bands like Anglo kids, the characters in the book are harbingers of the global youth culture that fully emerged with the mainstreaming of the Internet in the early '00s. Theres nothing about them, at least culturally, that couldnt mark them as British, German, or Americans. Except, perhaps, how metal fits into their local lives, and structures their relations.

In literary awards ceremonies like this years EUPL event, its oftentimes hard to connect with authors so immediately, particularly when there are so many to choose from. At least in this reporters case. A former music journalist and punk zine editor, in the 1990s, Janis Jonevs work was an especially easy sell. Though the rest of the award recipients produced equally topical, deserving works, Jelgava 94 spoke to me, most personally.

Though not a patron of underground culture like I used to be, I remain as interested in it as I was in my twenties. I just have less time to seek it out, as the old mediums for discovering it record stores, fanzines have largely disappeared, in favor of the largely anonymous online space, where there is little distinction between alternative and mainstream, independent and major label. Just try searching for a record in the iTunes store, and youll see. It takes more work, ironically, to find things to connect to.

Hence, my surprise, to discover the literary equivalent of a great metal record of its day, in the form of a novel, at a European Union sponsored literary awards ceremony, in Brussels. It may be stereotypically adult to discover it that way, but the context, in terms of encountering it within a specific community setting, was not. That the funding for the awards comes from governments, of course, is a far cry from the DIY ethos of the underground. But money is money. What matters is the culture we sponsor with it. Theres always something worthy.

Reading through the selection of translations of this years European Union Prize for Literature winners, Im sure that other attendees of the Wednesday ceremony had the same sort of experience, albeit with different authors. Im equally certain that if I set myself to it, I might find similar, albeit less intense connections, as well. Practically everything Ive read (that I could translate) seems worthwhile, on one level or another. When full English translations become available, Ill gladly buy them all.

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Heavy metal Brussels: The 2014 European Union Prize for Literature award ceremony