Hacker News with Generative AI: Alabama

Alabama police department put on leave after grand jury recommends its abolition (nbcnews.com)
The mayor of a city in Alabama has placed its entire police department on administrative leave, a day after officials announced that a grand jury had recommended the small department be abolished, saying it had “operated as more of a criminal enterprise than a law enforcement agency” and is “an ongoing threat to public safety.”
3D-printed "ghost gun" ring comes to my community–and leaves a man dead (arstechnica.com)
It's a truism at this point to say that Americans own a lot of guns. Case in point: This week, a fire chief in rural Alabama stopped to help a driver who had just hit a deer. The two men walked up the driveway of a nearby home. For reasons that remain unclear, a man came out of the house with a gun and started shooting.
The Selma March (1965) (newyorker.com)
The thirty thousand people who at one point or another took part in this week’s march from the Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Selma, Alabama, to the statehouse in Montgomery were giving highly dramatic expression to a principle that could be articulated only in the vaguest terms.
US' largest solar panel maker First Solar debuts its $1B 3.5GW Alabama factory (electrek.co)
First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR) inaugurated its new $1.1 billion fully vertically integrated thin-film solar factory in Lawrence County, Alabama.
1,800 Alabama students will repeat third grade under new reading law (apnews.com)
Alabama prisoners' organs vanish, and there's a whole lot of passing the buck (al.com)
Alabama House of Representatives advances bill allowing arrest of librarians (alreporter.com)