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Montrell Jackson, Baton Rouge, La., Officer Killed in Attack, Wondered if His 'City Loves Me' After Dallas Shootings
One of the Baton Rouge, La., police officers killed in Sunday’s shooting has been identified by family as Montrell L. Jackson, The Advocate reports. The 32-year-old had reportedly been injured once trying to save a toddler from a burning building and had only recently welcomed a son into his family four months ago before he…
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Outpouring of Kindness for Homeless Teen Who Biked 6 Hours to Get to College and Slept in Tent
Fred Barley is nothing if not persistent. Officers found the 19-year-old sleeping in a tent outside Georgia’s Gordon State College over the weekend and listened to his amazing story about why he was doing something that could have been considered trespassing, WSB-TV reports. Barley is homeless. He told officers that he had ridden his little…
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BLM Activists Speak on ‘Manipulative,’ ‘Disingenuous’ Town Hall on Race
Thursday’s ABC town hall with President Barack Obama was anticipated with bated breath. Many were looking forward to an honest conversation about race and about the current tensions between the black community and police officers in the aftermath of the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile and the attack in Dallas that left…
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Police Kill Gunman Who Shot at Plainclothes Officers in West Baltimore
Police shot and killed a gunman armed with an AR-15-style rifle, who opened fire on four plainclothes officers in an unmarked car Thursday night in West Baltimore, the Baltimore Sun reports. The incident unfolded after officers responded to reports of gunfire near apartments in Bridgeview-Greenlawn. Officers say that the unidentified gunman was shooting before they…
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Erica Garner, Daughter of Eric Garner, Says She Was 'Railroaded' by ABC News at Presidential Town Hall
During Thursday night’s presidential town hall on race, hosted by ABC News, Erica Garner, the daughter of Eric Garner, who was choked to death by New York City police in 2014, would not be silenced. According to BuzzFeed, the activist stormed out of a taping of the town hall after she said she felt she…
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Fresno, Calif., Police Release Video of Fatal Shooting of Unarmed White Man
Fresno, Calif., Police Chief Jerry Dyer has publicly released body-camera footage taken during the fatal shooting of an unarmed white man in June, acknowledging that “some of this video will answer many of the questions out there in this community,” the Los Angeles Times reports. Dyer said during a Wednesday news conference that he decided to…
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Philando Castile Laid to Rest in Minn.
Philando Castile, a Minnesota man who was fatally shot by a St. Anthony, Minn., police officer during a traffic stop, will be laid to rest Thursday following public funeral services, KARE-TV reports. According to the news station, the procession started near J.J. Hill Montessori Magnet School, where Castile was a beloved worker in the cafeteria,…
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Atlanta Teen's 'White-Boy Privilege' Poem Goes Viral
This 14-year-old Atlanta boy probably deserves a spot on the “Woke White People” list. Royce Mann, an eighth-grader at the Paideia School in Atlanta, has stirred up a lot of discussion after video of him performing a poem titled “White-Boy Privilege” at a slam-poetry competition at his school in May went viral. “Dear women, I’m…
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Relics From Slave Ship to Be Displayed in National Museum of African American History and Culture
As the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture continues to prepare for its grand opening in September, so does the collection that museum curators are pulling together to display for guests. The latest acquisition, according to WJLA, is iron ballasts recovered from a Portuguese slave ship that sank in the 1790s off…
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Family of Darrius Stewart Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit
The family of Darrius Stewart, a black teen who was shot and killed by a Memphis, Tenn., police officer in the aftermath of a traffic stop, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city, WREG reports. According to the news station, lawyers representing the family believe that a lawsuit is the only way to…
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