Ana Kasparian joins Cenk for the second hour. Cenk gives an Indiegogo campaign update. Cenk reads #TYTLive tweets. An 8 year old is tased to death by police in South Dakota after threatening to hurt herself with a knife. The passengers on a crowded commuter train in San Francisco were so absorbed with their phones that they failed to notice a gun-toting man who went on to commit murder. Are smartphones taking over our lives? A homeless man in Boston returns $40,000 to its rightful owner and is rewarded with $148,000, raised from an online campaign.
Cenk reads #TYTLive tweets. An unpaid intern at a New York media outlet will not be able to file a sexual harassment suit because she was not considered an employee. This law obviously needs to be changed as interns deserve the same legal protections as full fledged employees. Are unpaid internships as a concept in general acceptable? Do the contributing bloggers at The Huffington Post deserve compensation?
A man from Texas pulls an “Old School” and fakes his own violent kidnapping to spend some time away from his wife. The man was charged with a misdemeanor count of false report to a police officer and will face jail time. 4 malnourished children in the Denver area were neglected so severely that they were found in a home covered in cat feces and could only communicate with each other using a language of grunts.