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Video Shows Convicted Va. School Guard Tackling, Using Choke Hold on Middle School Student
Surveillance footage a Virginia school district apparently tried to keep under wraps shows a now former Arlington Middle School security guard convicted of battery grabbing two students and slamming them to the ground, WJAX-TV reports. According to the news station, it took four months of public records requests for it to obtain the footage from the state…
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Mom Says Miss. Noose Incident Left Emotional Scar on 15-Year-Old Son
The mother of the black Mississippi 15-year-old who had a noose pulled around his neck says that her son shook in fear when he described the harrowing ordeal to her, the Associated Press reports. Stacey Payton, a 47-year-old college instructor, said that although the incident left no physical marks on her son, it may have…
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Chicago Cop Who Quit After Fatally Shooting Rekia Boyd Seeks Disability Pay
A Chicago police detective who quit his job just days before a Chicago Police Board hearing would have determined whether he would be fired for the 2012 shooting death of 22-year-old Rekia Boyd is now seeking disability pay, the Chicago Tribune reports. According to the report, former Chicago Police Detective Dante Servin is demanding disability pay…
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High School Student Disciplined in Miss. Noose Incident
A Mississippi high school student has been disciplined following allegations that white students put a noose around the neck of a black football player and “yanked backward,” the Associated Press reports. Officials acknowledged that Stone High School’s conduct code was violated in the Oct. 13 incident, school-district attorney Sean Courtney said, adding that one student has…
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Another White Student Posts Photos in Blackface on Social Media
Another day, another white college student caught in blackface on social media. The latest incident has sparked student body and community outrage at Xavier University in Cincinnati, after the image of a white female student in blackface went viral, Raw Story reports. The caption under the problematic Snapchat photo read, “Who needs white when black…
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Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio Charged With Criminal Contempt of Court
Longtime Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio was officially charged with criminal contempt of court Tuesday for ignoring a judge’s order to stop profiling Latinos in his signature immigration patrols, the Associated Press reports. Although prosecutors promised two weeks ago to prosecute Arpaio, the charge was not officially filed until U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton…
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69-Year-Old Grandmother Punched by Man Outside NYC Deli May Never Fully Recover
The daughter of the 69-year-old grandmother who was knocked unconscious by a man outside a Queens, N.Y., deli is accusing the suspect’s family of hiding him from the police, preventing him from facing the consequences of his alleged actions, the New York Post reports. Marie Gentillon said that her mother’s life will never be the same…
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Justice Department Replaces NYC Team Investigating Eric Garner's Death
The Department of Justice has overhauled the Eric Garner investigative team, replacing the New York team of agents and lawyers looking into his 2014 death, the New York Times reports. The move, which the Times describes as a “highly unusual shake-up,” could put some steam into the long-stalled case and possibly put the department back on…
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Report: Texas Man Who Opened Fire on Police Taken Into Custody Unharmed
A 51-year-old Fort Worth, Texas, man was taken into custody over the weekend after he allegedly choked a female relative and opened fire on responding officers, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. Larry Trees is facing charges of assault on a family member and two counts of attempted capital murder in the incident, which took place…
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Va. Pastor, Wife Arrested in $1,200,000 Congregation Fraud Scheme
A Virginia pastor, his wife and a friend of theirs are all being accused of defrauding their Alexandria congregation out of more than $1 million, Fox 5 DC reports. According to the report, Terry Wayne Millender, who serves as pastor for Victorious Life Church in Alexandria; his wife, Brenda; and a friend, Grenetta Wells, who…
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