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The Black Swan manslaughter case [a] occurred in Lakewood Ranch, Manatee County, Florida, on September 27, 2020. Ashley Benefield ( née Byers), [ 4 ] a former ballerina was accused of the shooting mariticide [ 5 ] of her estranged husband 58-year-old Douglas "Doug" Benefield. [ 6 ]
The case, which became known as the "Black Swan murder" trial, garnered national attention, with some comparing Benefield to the protagonist of the 2010 film "Black Swan."
Ashley's slaying of her husband was nicknamed "The Black Swan Case" because of her history as a ballet dancer. In the film Black Swan , released in 2010, Natalie Portman stars as a ballerina who ...
The former ballerina convicted of killing her well-heeled husband — in a sensational case that came to be known as the “Black Swan murder” — has been sentenced to 20 years in prison ...
While representation is often cited as a grievance of District residents, limited self-rule has often played a large or larger part in retrocession movements. In 1801, members of the levy courts that governed Washington County and Alexandria County were all chosen by the president, as was the mayor of the City of Washington from 1802 to 1820.
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was murdered by white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who kept his knee on Floyd's neck for over nine minutes during an arrest. [21] [22] Video of the killing triggered widespread protests and riots across the United States.
Although Washington was home to abolitionist papers prior to the American Civil War (1861-1865), the first known newspaper published by and for African Americans in the District of Columbia was the New Era, which Frederick Douglass launched in 1870. Notable newspapers in Washington today include the Washington Afro-American and Washington Informer.
American Eagle flight 5342 – carrying 64 people – and the military Black Hawk helicopter – carrying three people – crashed at approximately 8:53 p.m. on Wednesday (29 January).