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Watch: Police Defend Arrest of Black Man Reportedly Tased in Front of His Kids
Updated Aug. 29, 9:10 a.m. EDT: The St. Paul, Minn., Police Department issued a statement on its Facebook page defending the arrest of Chris Lollie in January of this year. The statement was reported by the Minneapolis City Pages. In the statement, police say they were called by a private security company because a man had…
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Handcuffed Man Died After Being Tased 13 Times by Police, Attorney Says
A Georgia man’s family has learned that he died while in police custody after being hit with a Taser some 13 times by two police officers who were involved in a foot chase with the man. At the time he was in handcuffs and had claimed that he was too tired to walk. According to…
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Company Man and Wife: Couple Sells Ad Space to Sponsor Wedding
Courtney McKenzie and her fiance, Jamil Newell, are under no illusion about the high cost of a destination wedding, so the couple have come up with a creative way to cover the expense: have corporations sponsor it. The Orlando, Fla., couple are all set to wed in December and are hoping that they get enough…
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Fits the Description: How Checking a Parking Meter Led to a Charge of Bank Robbery
It was the walk to the car to check the meter and to make sure he didn’t get a ticket that ultimately led to film and TV producer Charles Belk’s six-hour ordeal with police in Beverly Hills, Calif., which included being treated as a suspect in a bank robbery. According to Belk, who took to…
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Jackie Robinson West All-Stars Still Celebrated, Even in Defeat
The Jackie Robinson West All-Stars are still the pride of Chicago, even after a tough loss to South Korea in the Little League World Series championship game. The Jackie Robinson West team put up a valiant fight, including a late rally in the bottom of the sixth inning, but in the end it was not…
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Soccer Player Dies After Being Hit With Object Thrown From Crowd
A 24-year-old Cameroonian soccer player has died after being hit with an object thrown by angry fans upset with their team’s loss, according to the BBC. Albert Ebosse was struck in the head by an unconfirmed object after his team, the Algerian club JS Kabylie, beat another Algerian team, USM Alger, 2-1 Saturday evening. He was…
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Watch: David Letterman and Serena Williams Break a Deli Window
On a makeshift tennis court outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City, late-night talk show host David Letterman and Serena Williams, one of the world’s top tennis players, decided to get in a quick game yesterday. The pair didn’t even change into tennis gear. Letterman merely ditched his sport coat and played in…
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Black Former Editor at People Mag Says She Was Told to Change Her Speech: ‘You’re Not at Essence Anymore’
Tatsha Robertson, People magazine’s only black editor until she was fired in May, has filed a lawsuit against the magazine alleging that the publication is biased against blacks and that she was treated like a second-class citizen. According to New York’s Daily News, which has viewed the lawsuit, Robertson, 48, alleges that there were only…
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‘Affluenza’ Teen’s Father Arrested
This may be a clear case of “police-enza.” Fred Couch, the father of Ethan Couch, the Texas teen who made national news after his attorneys argued an “affluenza” defense for a drunken-driving accident that killed four people and seriously injured two, has been arrested for impersonating a police officer, the Dallas News reports. According to…
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Calif. Highway Patrol Officer Suspended in Beating of Homeless Woman
The video footage was violent. A California Highway Patrol officer straddling an older woman rained down punches, all of them closed fist, to the woman’s face. The July 1 video of the incident went viral. On Wednesday the CHP released a statement noting that Daniel Andrew, the officer who is reported to have been involved…
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