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US Department of Justice Opens Investigation Into the Fatal Shooting of Jordan Edwards
The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the police shooting death of Jordan Edwards, an unarmed black teenager, in Balch Springs, Texas, a spokesperson for the local district attorney’s office confirmed Thursday. Now former Balch Springs Police Officer Roy Oliver, 37, is facing murder charges in connection with the April 29 shooting…
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45 Years After the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ended, the Legal Fallout Lives On in Federal Court: Report
It has been some 45 years since the horrific “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,” also known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, came to an end after it was exposed that medical workers, working with the U.S. Public Health Service, were withholding treatment from nonconsenting and unsuspecting black men infected with syphilis—which…
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14-Year-Old Graduating From Texas Christian University With Physics Degree as Brother, 11, Prepares to Start TCU
There’s intelligent, and then there’s Carson Huey-You intelligent. Carson just wrapped up his last final exam at Texas Christian University on Tuesday and is all set to graduate Saturday with a degree in physics and a double minor in math and Chinese. Carson is also only 14. “It didn’t come easily. It really didn’t,” Carson…
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‘Donald Trump Will Stop You’: Video Shows Man Harassing Muslim Family on Texas Beach
Another day, another idiot comes out to play. This time, a man is facing the music—or, rather, criminal charges—after going on what authorities say was an obscenity-laced, anti-Muslim tirade at a family trying to enjoy themselves on a Texas beach. South Padre Island police arrested 35-year-old Alexander Jennes Downing of Connecticut after responding to reports…
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NYC Substitute Teacher Fired After Ripping Hijab Off 8-Year-Old Student’s Head: Report
A New York City substitute teacher was fired after he ripped a hijab off the head of a second-grader from the Bronx, officials confirmed Tuesday. According to the New York Daily News, police sources said that 8-year-old Safa Alzockary was misbehaving in class at Public School 76 May 2 when Oghenetega Edah, 31, told her…
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Opening Statements Begin in Trial of Betty Shelby, White Tulsa, Okla., Cop Who Fatally Shot Terence Crutcher
Opening statements began Wednesday in the trial of Tulsa, Okla., Police Officer Betty Shelby, who is facing manslaughter charges in the fatal shooting of Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black motorist, after a judge seated a jury of nine women and three men, as well as two alternates. The jury selected consists of two black women,…
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Former W.Va. Cop Sues City of Weirton, Claims He was Fired for Not Shooting at Suspect
A former Weirton, W.Va., police officer filed a lawsuit against the city Wednesday, claiming that he was fired for allegedly endangering colleagues after he opted not to shoot and kill a man who had brandished a gun during a domestic dispute. According to Reuters, Stephen Mader, the former cop in question, responded to the dispute…
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Passengers Get Into Fistfight on Southwest Plane Shortly After It Lands in Calif.
I am really not sure what is going on in the world today, with all this controversial airline news—from racism by the airlines themselves to horrible and even threatening “customer service,” to petty fights on board between passengers—but apparently no airline is safe. Some passengers aboard a Southwest plane that landed in Burbank, Calif., got…
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White Mich. Cop Faced Racial Taunts After Ancestry.com Test Showed He’s 18 Percent Black: Lawsuit
There are just some things you can’t make up, and apparently, a white Hastings, Mich., police officer is claiming that he has been subjected to racial taunts and other hurtful comments from within his own department after he took a genetic test on Ancestry.com that revealed he is 18 percent black. Sgt. Cleon Brown claims…
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Police: Va. Man Attacked Black Woman Because of Her Race, Spat on Cops During His Arrest
A Chesterfield County, Va., man is facing multiple charges after police say he dragged a black woman out of her car and attacked her based on her race and then later spat on officers as he was being arrested. Matthew R. Ellis, 27, is facing charges of abduction and kidnapping, two counts of assault and…
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