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[Content note: Police brutality, transphobia]

Friday Newsies:

Delaware Governor Jack Markell has signed into law a bill aimed at protecting his state's transgender residents by adding gender identity and expression to the state's anti-discrimination and hate crimes laws.

75,000 residents have been forced from their homes as Calgary floods.

In 2011, the multibillion-dollar nonprofit Goodwill Industries paid Pennsylvania workers with disabilities wages as low as 22, 38 and 41 cents an hour. Note: This is perfectly legal.

Oregon cops tasered a naked, autistic child found wandering along a highway. Obviously.

The largest full moon of 2013, a supermoon, will light up the night sky this weekend. Neat!

Watch the BBC's The Secret Life of the Cat.

Detroit police officer Joseph Weekley was spared a felony conviction over the killing of a 7-year-old girl after a jury deadlocked and a mistrial was declared.

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