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'Go Back to Your Own Country': Elderly Mexican Man Beaten With a Brick During July 4 Attack [Updated]
Updated Wednesday, July 11 at 10:49 a.m. EDT: The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department has arrested a black woman who allegedly beat a 92-year-old Mexican man for bumping into her daughter. The Los Angeles Times reports Laquisha Jones, 30, was charged on Tuesday with assault with a deadly weapon for beating Rodolfo Rodriguez with a…
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#SummerJobWhileBlack: Child Gets Cops Called on Him for Delivering Newspapers
For many kids and their families, summer jobs are a rite of passage: a way of imparting lessons about responsibility and hard work, and finally having a response to the age-old parental question, “you have McDonald’s money?” But one Ohio family says their summer job instead turned into a lesson on racial profiling. As WABC…
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Prosecutor Who Wondered Why 'Ghetto' Maxine Waters Hadn't Been Shot Is Suspended
The San Bernardino, Calif., lead gang prosecutor who called Maxine Waters a “loud mouth c*** in the ghetto” and questioned why she hadn’t been shot has been suspended, according to a district attorney’s office announcement on Tuesday. An investigation into Michael Selyem’s racist social media posts is underway after screenshots were leaked to the press…
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Judge Rules Against Trump Administration, Rejects Long-Term Detention of Migrant Families
A U.S. federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to detain migrant children and their families seeking asylum in the U.S. for indefinite periods of time. As the New York Times reports, Judge Dolly M. Gee of the Federal District Court in Los Angeles delivered the ruling, which shot down every argument offered…
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Rihanna Maybe-Arguing With her Billionaire Boyfriend Is My Summer Mood Board
The last we heard of Rihanna and Saudi billionaire Hassan Jameel, the two had parted ways—reportedly because she had simply grown tired of dude. But the pair were recently spotted together in Mexico—sitting on a patio together, surrounded by tropical plants and a big ass grill—the sort of scene that would typically ignite rumors that…
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#MericaMax Harasses Woman in Puerto Rico Shirt While Cop Does Nothing
The latest viral video of a white person harassing a person of color has all the familiar ingredients—though of course, there are variations. This one stars a belligerent middle-aged white man in Cook County, Ill., aggressively harassing a woman for wearing a shirt with a Puerto Rican flag on it. Throughout the video, #MericaMax shouts,…
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New York Giants' A.J. Francis Says TSA Spilled His Mother's Ashes During a Baggage Inspection
New York Giants defensive tackle A.J. Francis called out the Transportation Security Administration on Twitter Monday morning for allegedly searching his mother’s cremated remains and spilling them in his checked luggage. “Next time you assholes feel the need to go thru mother’s ashes for no reason, make sure you close it back so her remains…
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California Prosecutor Called Maxine Waters a ‘Loud Mouthed C-Word in the Ghetto.’ His New Boss Calls it ‘Salty’ Language
San Bernardino County’s lead gang prosecutor is under investigation after a series of racist and xenophobic posts he wrote on social media were unearthed. Even though there are calls for Deputy District Attorney Michael Selyem to step down in light of the deeply offensive posts, several of his colleagues have come to his defense. Given…
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Patricia Okoumou Knows She Could Have Died During her Statue of Liberty Protest; She Did it Anyway
On July 4, 2018, amid the cursory cookouts, cheap beer and sunburns, Patricia Okoumou climbed the Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island, N.Y., to protest the treatment of immigrant children by the Trump administration. The 44-year-old personal trainer, herself an immigrant from the Congo, had taken part in a protest earlier that day with Rise…
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Portland State University Campus Police Shoot and Kill Black Navy Veteran Who Was Trying to Break Up Fight
Protesters in Portland, Ore., are demanding Portland State University police officers be disarmed after campus cops fatally shot Jason Washington, a Navy veteran and grandfather who was killed as he was trying to break up a fight outside a sports bar early Friday morning. Video taken from that altercation shows Washington (wearing a gray shirt…
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