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Grand Jury in Eric Garner Choke Hold Case Could Decide Charges This Week
Updated Wed., Dec. 3, 2:32 p.m. EST: A grand jury has decided not to indict the police officer involved in the Eric Garner choke hold case. More to come. Earlier: A Staten Island, N.Y., grand jury could render a decision as early as Wednesday on whether charges will be brought against officers in the case…
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Soccer Star ‘Super’ Mario Balotelli Could Be Suspended for Racist, Anti-Semitic Post
Soccer star Mario Balotelli, who has endured numerous racial taunts as a striker for Liverpool, England, is now being accused of throwing his own racist and anti-Semitic jabs on social media. According to the Associated Press, Balotelli took to his Instagram page and “posted a photo of the video game character Super Mario with whom…
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St. Louis Rams Players Show Solidarity With Ferguson Protesters
Before the St. Louis Rams would destroy the Oakland Raiders 52-0 on Sunday at Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, they wanted protesters in Ferguson, Mo., and all around the world to know that they stood in solidarity with them. Five St. Louis Rams players emerged from the tunnel during pregame introductions and stood with…
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Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick on Ferguson and Running for President in 2016
Outgoing Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick has thought about himself in the White House. Like most of the protesting public, he also would have liked to see a grand jury indictment of Ferguson, Mo., Officer Darren Wilson, according to an interview he did over the weekend. “I think a trial and the transparency of a…
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Watch: Black Man Stopped by Cop for ‘Walking With His Hands in His Pockets’
On a brisk day around 4:30 p.m. in Pontiac, Mich., a black man was walking down the street with his hands in his pockets when a police officer stopped him. His charge: walking with his hands in his pockets. This is not a joke. Video of the incident, which has been making the rounds across…
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Ferguson Mayor: Darren Wilson Will Not Receive Severance Package
Over the weekend Darren Wilson, the Ferguson Missouri police officer who wasn’t indicted for fatally shooting unarmed teen Michael Brown, resigned from the police force, and the Ferguson mayor says that this ends the relationship between the city and Wilson. According to the Associated Press, Wilson, who had been on paid administrative leave since the…
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According to Knicks Player J.R. Smith, Black Friday Is Linked to Slavery
We have yet to check with our editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., but according to New York Knicks guard J.R. Smith’s Instagram page, Black Friday is historically linked to slavery. On Tuesday evening, Smith posted the following message linking the biggest shopping day of the year with a “historical” factoid claiming that the day after…
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Watch: Driver Hits Michael Brown Protesters in Minneapolis
A car that drove into a group of protesters Tuesday afternoon in Minneapolis hit several people who were rallying for justice for Michael Brown a day after a St. Louis grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting Brown. According to video taken by helicopter for news station KSTP, a vehicle…
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Darren Wilson and Wife Expecting a Child; Would Love to Teach on Use of Force
Being a police officer was the job of his life. He thought that he would work for 30 years and then make sergeant and then retire. But Aug. 9 changed all of that for Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed unarmed teen Michael Brown. In the second installment of an hour-and-a-half…
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44 Arrested as Tension in Ferguson Grows
The second day of protests continued in Ferguson, Mo., as police arrested some 44 people, but authorities considered Tuesday’s protests to be more calm overall, and attributed that to the some 2,000 National Guard troops deployed to the St. Louis suburb. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar noted…
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