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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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DC Police Investigating After 7-Year-Old Is Punched by Schoolmate’s Parent at Charter School
Washington, D.C., police are investigating after a parent was caught on cameras at KIPP DC Spring Academy punching a 7-year-old in the stomach, WJLA reports. In the video, little John Mclean can be seen in the hallway before a man, who has not been identified by authorities, leans toward the boy and hits him in…
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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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Miss. NAACP: White Students Put Noose Around Black Student's Neck, 'Yanked Backward'
White students at a Mississippi high school put a noose around a black schoolmate’s neck and “yanked backward,” the state NAACP revealed Monday, the Associated Press reports. According to the report, Mississippi NAACP spokesperson Ayana Kinnel said the incident took place Oct. 13 at a field house at the Stone County High School in Wiggins,…
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Fundraiser to Replace Bullet-Riddled Emmett Till Memorial Sign Exceeds $15,000 Goal
A fundraiser started to replace a memorial sign marking the place where Emmett Till’s brutalized body was discovered in Mississippi’s Tallahatchie River in 1955 has exceeded its $15,000 goal, the New York Daily News reports. The memorial sign captured nationwide attention last week after filmmaker Kevin Wilson Jr. posted a photo showing the sign riddled with…
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NC Woman Fatally Shot While in Town to Attend Funeral
Gastonia, N.C., police are searching for a gunman who opened fire on a home Saturday, killing a woman and injuring a teenager, WSOC-TV reports. According to the report, the woman, Jacobia Lane, was in town for her sister-in-law’s funeral. Lane and about 30 others were at her brother’s home around midnight Saturday when someone opened fire…
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Pregnant Wash. State Woman Fatally Shot by Deputies on Muckleshoot Tribal Land
A young Washington state mother was shot and killed by King County sheriff’s deputies who were supposed to be conducting a wellness check Friday night, the Seattle Times reports. Renee Davis, 23, was five months pregnant when she was killed at her home on Muckleshoot tribal land, and now her family is demanding answers. According to…
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