Brickbats.

• Author: Oliver, Charles
• Position: Resisting arrest, smog alerts in China, accidental shooting in school

Oklahoma prosecutors have dropped charges of resisting arrest against Pearl Pearson Jr., who was beaten by state troopers for not obeying their commands during a traffic stop. Pearson said he tried to tell them he was deaf and could not understand them, but they would not listen.

The Chinese government has told local officials to stop issuing smog alerts. Officials say the move is designed to end discrepancies between the information issued by local meteorological offices and that released by the environmental protection ministry.

Bay County, Michigan, school resource officer Adam Brown has been charged with careless discharge of a firearm and tampering with evidence. While using equipment in a school robotics lab to test the trigger pull on his personal firearm, the sheriffs deputy fired a bullet through drywall into a classroom, striking a teacher. Brown did not initially admit he fired the gun, causing the school to go into lockdown. When staff gave Brown the bullet, he tossed it into a grassy area covered by leaves.

Iran has banned American wrestlers from entering the country to compete in the Freestyle World Cup. The move was in retaliation for President Donald Trump's recent executive order restricting travel from seven countries, including Iran.

Mary Jo Frazier, the former head of a Boulder City, Nevada, animal shelter, was charged with needlessly euthanizing her family dog to punish her ex-husband after their divorce. After pleading guilty to animal cruelty, she was sentenced to 90 days in jail.

The Chinese government has closed the social media sites of economist MaoYushiaswellasa think tank he is associated with. Mao, who received the 2012 Milton Friedman Prize, is a proponent of free markets and a critic of policies inspired by the late Communist leader Mao Zedong.

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