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Robinhood faces class-action lawsuit for trade restrictions

Robinhood faces class-action lawsuit for trade restrictions

On January 28th, the stock trading app Robinhood became a subject of class-action lawsuit, following accusations of trade restrictions by users. The suit was filed by the Southern District of New York and Robinhood is accused of “purposefully, willfully and knowingly removed the stock ‘GME’ [GameStop] from its trading platform in the midst of an unprecedented stock rise thereby deprived retail investors of the ability to invest in the open-market and manipulating the open-market.” As a result users could not purchase AMC, GameStop and BlackBerry stocks. 

One more officer dies by suicide following Capitol riots

One more officer dies by suicide following Capitol riots

A new DC officer who was in the response team to the Capitol Hill riots died by suicide. The death of Officer Jeffery Smith was announced by Acting MPD Police Chief Robert J. Contee. Reports state that Smith — who was a part of the force for 12 years — was assigned to D.C.’s 2nd District. Since the deadly capitol riots, he was the second cop to kill himself.