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Minn. Transit Cop Who Beat Autistic Teen Is Fired: Report
The St. Paul, Minn., Metro Transit officer who assaulted an autistic teen has been dismissed from his job. According to KARE 11, Metro Transit spokesman Howie Padilla told the news station that the officer, who was on the force less than a year, did not pass the probationary period, but he did not say if…
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Okla. City School Resource Officer Who Punched Teen in the Face Is Charged With Assault: Report
An Oklahoma City high school resource officer has been arrested and charged with assault after surveillance video captured an incident on camera. According to KFOR, Thomas Jaha, a 25-year veteran with the Oklahoma City Police Department, was working at U.S. Grant High School when a 16-year-old male student appeared in the hallway without a hall…
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Lawyer for Teen in SC School Assault Video Speaks on Injuries She Suffered, Whether She Is an Orphan and Fake GoFundMe Pages
On Thursday a lawyer for the South Carolina teen who was violently assaulted by a school resource officer appeared on activist Joe Madison’s radio show on Sirius to clarify remarks posted about the teen and the incident. On Monday, video of the incident between Spring Valley High School resource officer Ben Fields and the teen went…
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Eric Garner’s Son Arrested in NYC
On Tuesday police in New York City arrested Eric Garner’s son after they say he was in possession of a stolen bike, but his mother says it was all a misunderstanding. Emery Snipes, 16, was arrested after police discovered Emery and friends in the Cpl. John A. Seravalli Playground in Manhattan after dark. According to…
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Ex-Boxer Claims He Was Drugged After Learning He Was Filmed in Same-Sex Threesome
A retired Philadelphia-born boxer claims that he didn’t agree to perform with two male co-stars when he answered an anonymous Facebook offer to shoot a porn film, and he now believes that he must have been drugged. Yusaf Mack told the Philadelphia Daily News that in June 2014 he was strapped for cash, so he…
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SC Senior Deputy Ben Fields Is Fired
Ben Fields, the South Carolina school resource officer who was caught on video knocking a female student out of her seat and then throwing her to the ground, has been fired from the Richland County Sheriff’s Department, Sheriff Leon Lott noted in a press conference Wednesday. Lott said that after reviewing the footage and speaking…
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Ariz. Woman Who Posted Cotton-Picking Photo With Caption ‘Our Inner [N–ger] Came Out Today’ Speaks
Black Twitter has claimed another victim: A 20-year-old intern has been fired for posting a photo of herself and a friend in a cotton field with the caption, “Our inner [n—ger] came out today.” Shortly after the tweet was posted, it went viral. The guilty party was a Gilbert, Ariz., woman named Erika Escalante. Several…
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FBI, Justice Department Open Civil Rights Probe Into Violent Arrest of SC Student
Richland County, S.C., Sheriff Leon Lott has asked for federal help since placing Sheriff’s Deputy Ben Fields on leave for tossing a female high school student to the floor at a school in Columbia, S.C. On Tuesday, Lott got it, with the Associated Press reoprting that the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI have opened…
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Report: Grand Jury Finally Hears Evidence in Tamir Rice Shooting
Evidence is finally being presented to a Cuyahoga County, Ohio, grand jury in the police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was fatally shot last year while playing with a toy gun at a playground near his home. Although a spokesman for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty declined to confirm whether the grand jury…
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SC Cop Involved in Classroom Incident Was Sued by Black Army Vet in 2005 for Excessive Force: Report
The South Carolina sheriff’s deputy and school resource officer seen on video throwing a female student across a classroom was involved in another incident in 2005 in which the victim says the officer snapped after he called him “dude,” adding that the encounter led to his divorce and discharge from the military. In a New…
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