January 23, 2021

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Charge dropped against woman dragged out car by police

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  • Mia Wright, who said a police officer grabbed her out of her car by her hair and knelt on her neck outside Brickyard Mall in June, attends a news conference in the West Town area of Chicago, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. Wright was charged with disorderly conduct and suffers from partial blindness from the incident. Wright was joined by her attorney Nenye Uche, who announced Tuesday that charges against her had been dropped. (Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times via AP) Photo: Pat Nabong, AP / 2020
    Mia Wright, who said a police officer grabbed her out of her car by her hair and knelt on her neck outside Brickyard Mall in June, attends a news conference in the West Town area of Chicago, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. Wright was charged with disorderly conduct and suffers from partial blindness from the incident. Wright was joined by her attorney Nenye Uche, who announced Tuesday that charges against her had been dropped. (Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times via AP) less
    Mia Wright, who said a police officer grabbed her out of her car by her hair and knelt on her neck outside Brickyard Mall in June, attends a news conference in the West Town area of Chicago, Tuesday, Sept. 29, … more


    Photo: Pat Nabong, AP

Mia Wright, who said a police officer grabbed her out of her car by her hair and
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City of Chicago drops charge against Mia Wright after violent arrest outside Brickyard Mall

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A misdemeanor charge has been dropped against a woman who says she was left partially blind earlier this year when Chicago police officers smashed through a car’s windows to drag her out by the hair in a video-recorded encounter outside the Brickyard Mall.

City officials moved to dismiss the disorderly conduct charge against Mia Wright on Monday, records show, nearly four months after the violent May 31 arrest.

Representatives for the city’s legal and police departments declined to comment on the decision — and they didn’t offer an explanation to Wright, either, according to her lawyer.

“I think this one speaks for itself,” attorney Nenye Uche said Tuesday alongside Wright. “Watching the video, assessing and evaluating the entire circumstance — it’s obvious that it’s baseless.”

Bystanders recorded as police used batons to smash the windows of Wright’s cousin’s car outside the Northwest Side mall. An officer grabbed Wright’s hair, which

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Total Acquires London’s Largest Electric Vehicle Charge Points Network

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Total (Paris:FP) (LSE:TTA) (NYSE:TOT) has signed the acquisition of ‘Blue Point London’ from the Bolloré Group. With this transaction, Total is taking over the management and operation of Source London, the largest electric vehicle charging network citywide, which includes more than 1,600 on-street charge points.

Launched in 2010, the current Source London network has been developed in cooperation with the London Boroughs and currently represents more than half of the charge points in operation in the capital city. Source London growth perspectives are supported by the City of London’s ambition to be a zero carbon city by 2050, notably with the aim of increasing tenfold the number of charge points within five years.

Total is also committed to powering this charging network with electricity 100% guaranteed from renewable sources, to be supplied by its subsidiary Total Gas & Power Limited.

Already active in the installation and operation of charge

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