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  • Report: Chicago Boy, 9, Lured Into Alley and Killed Because of Father’s Gang Connection

    Chicago police now believe that a 9-year-old boy who was shot and killed earlier this week was lured into an alley by a gang because of his father’s relationship with a rival gang. “Tyshawn Lee was murdered in probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime that I’ve witnessed in 35 years of policing,” Chicago Police…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 6, 2015
  • Students at Calif. High School March to Protest Racist Messages, Lynching Threat 

    More than 1,500 Berkeley High students staged a protest after a Web page made to look like the school’s home page made references to the Ku Klux Klan and included racial slurs and threats against black students, including a note reading, “Public lynching December 9th 2015.” According to the Contra Costa Times, students at the…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 6, 2015
  • SC Boy, 11, Dies After Pushing Sister Out of the Way of Oncoming Car 

    La’Darious Wylie, 11, and his sister Sha’Vonta, 7, were waiting for a school bus near their Chester, S.C., home Oct. 27 when a car veered off the road. La’Darious pushed his sister out of the way and was struck by the car. La’Darious was rushed to a local hospital, where he died the next day…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 5, 2015
  • Va. Teacher Found Handcuffed and Unconscious in Custody of Special Police Dies at Hospital

    A 27-year-old Virginia teacher was found unconscious in handcuffs and was later pronounced dead after special police—a private security detail with arrest powers—for a Washington, D.C., apartment complex placed the man in custody. Alonzo Smith was not breathing when D.C.’s Metropolitan Police arrived at the Marbury Plaza Apartments around 4 a.m. Sunday. Special police officers…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 5, 2015
  • Police: Death of Ill. Officer Who Embezzled Money From Youth Program Was a ‘Carefully Staged Suicide’

    Turns out that the Illinois police officer who claimed that he was in pursuit of three suspects before he was found shot and killed staged the scene to look like murder, and police officials are now stating that it was a “carefully staged suicide,” according to NBC News Chicago. When the Sept. 1 shooting was…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 4, 2015
  • 7-Year-Old Mich. Boy With ADHD Handcuffed by Cop Who Loses Key

    A 7-year-old Flint, Mich., boy with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder was at an after-school program Oct. 12 when his mother says she received a call telling her that her son was in handcuffs and that she needed to come pick him up. When Chrystal McCadden arrived at the Brownell STEM Academy, she demanded that the handcuffs be taken…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 4, 2015
  • Aspiring Model, on Her Way Home to Sign Her 1st Contract, Killed in Chicago Drive-By 

    Kaylyn Pryor’s life was looking up. On Sept. 24 the 20-year-old from Evanston, Ill., won hairstylist Mario Tricoci’s “Mario, Make Me a Model” contest. On Monday, Pryor and a 15-year-old boy were leaving her grandparents’ house when a car pulled up next to them, opened fire and sped off. Pryor and the teen were taken…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 4, 2015
  • Spirit Airlines Accused of Discrimination After 6 Black Passengers Kicked Off Plane

    A discussion about an overbooked seat led to six black passengers being kicked off a Spirit Airlines plane at Los Angeles International Airport Monday, and those passengers are claiming discrimination. According to CBS News Los Angeles, a flight attendant asked a couple to change seats because the airline had overbooked. Witnesses say the couple told…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 3, 2015
  • Black Yale Student Turned Away From Frat Party, Told ‘White Girls Only’

    A black Yale University student took to social media Saturday to say that she wasn’t allowed into a fraternity party because it was a “white girls only” affair. “I’d just like to take a moment to give a shoutout to the member of Yale’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter who turned away a group of girls…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    November 3, 2015
  • Gay-Porn Website Comes Out Swinging, Claims That Boxer’s Story of Drugged Sex Is Untrue

    DawgPoundUSA.com has come out swinging after a Philadelphia man claimed that someone at the online porn site drugged him and filmed him engaged in a same-sex threesome. Earlier this month, Yusaf Mack, 35, a retired boxer who won several world championships, claimed that he had no memory of shooting a same-sex porn scene until people…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    October 30, 2015
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