Amal Clooney is taking up the fight of Iraq’s Yazidi community, driven from their homes by ISIS in a campaign the United Nations and U.S. State Department have called genocide, NBC News reported. The renowned human rights lawyer, who is married to George Clooney, recently told a group of Yazidi refugees in Greece that “the international community should be ashamed that they haven’t done more” to help them. Along with a 23-year-old survivor of three months in ISIS captivity, Clooney is trying to persuade the international community to begin collecting evidence so the members of ISIS who have attacked Yazidis can be prosecuted in international court. “Victims have all said they actually want their day in court,” Clooney told NBC News in an exclusive interview. “It’s not going to be easy, but we’re working on multiple fronts.”
Officials say a 59-year-old man took a backhoe on a joyride across the famous Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys, dumping boulders onto the road along the way.
Monroe County Sheriff's spokeswoman Becky Herrin said in a news release that Carl Blahnik damaged the road and the sides of the bridge early Tuesday while recklessly driving along it for 90 minutes.
She said deputies following him reversed direction several times to keep from being hit by the backhoe but eventually left the bridge for safety.
Officials released dashcam footage from one of the deputies' car which shows the backhoe kicking up sparks during part of the pursuit.
Herrin said that when Blahnik left the bridge, he hit spikes deputies had placed on the road. He faces charges and was taken to a hospital for treatment. Herrin didn't say whether Blahnik has a lawyer.
Traffic was allowed back on the bridge after 3 a.m.
