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46 of 47 Arrested in Low-Level Marijuana Stings Were Black, So Minneapolis Police Put an End to the Operations
Minneapolis police will no longer conduct sting operations targeting small-scale marijuana sellers after a gaping racial disparity was uncovered in the practice. Basically, they realized that everyone being arrested was black—as in, literally, 46 out of the 47 people arrested this year in these stings have been black—and they actually decided to do something about…
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Childhood Friends Slam NYC Police for Wrongly Identifying Them as Shooting Suspects and Arresting Them
Two childhood friends have filed Internal Affairs Bureau and Civilian Complaint Review Board complaints against the New York City Police Department after they were wrongly identified as shooting suspects in Harlem and then arrested. According to the New York Daily News, Anthony Ross, 30, and Saquan Eadie, 29, ran into each other last month at…
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UPS Employee Fired After Posting That Black ‘Thugs’ Deserve Police Violence
Another day, another Tabatha out of a job after being racist and nasty online. Just another day ending in “y.” According to WSB-TV, Atlanta-based UPS human resources supervisor Gwendolyn Carder is now jobless after posting online that a black suspect was a “thug” and insinuating that the suspect deserved police violence. Carder’s post appeared in…
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Georgia Cop Fired for Ramming Fleeing Suspect With Patrol Car Gets New Job as Sheriff’s Deputy in Neighboring County
Well, well, well. White privilege is a hell of a drug. Imagine being fired from your job one day for running over a fleeing civilian, and getting another job, in the same field, in a matter of days. I need those kinds of odds in my life. And that’s the kind of life Taylor Saulters,…
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Florida Man Sets Black Neighbor’s ‘Flashy’ Car on Fire, Calls Him Racial Slur: Report
Jealousy is never cute, beloved … especially on a white man. But here we are once again in Florida, this time in South Daytona, where a white man called his black neighbor a racial slur before setting the neighbor’s “flashy” car on fire. Florida, man. Ronald Sweet was outside, washing and waxing his silver 2002…
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Texas Teen’s Story About Being Abducted and Assaulted by White Supremacists Was Not True, Police Say
After an investigation, Houston police have determined that a Texas 13-year-old’s story about being abducted and attacked by a group of five white men, who further threatened him, is not true. According to ABC 13, authorities found no evidence to support the claims made by 13-year-old Zavion Parker. Last month, the story sent police on…
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Florida Strikes Again: White Woman Captured on Video Spewing Curses, Racial Slurs at Black Family
I won’t even bother making a quip about Florida today because we all know what’s up. So let’s get right into the story. Facebook user Covey Banks, who is a physician, exposed some ugly racism that occurred at the Omni Orlando Resort over Memorial Day weekend, sharing footage of a white woman screaming racial slurs…
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NOOOOO!!! Serena Williams Pulls Out of French Open Because of Injury
It seems that we’ll have to wait a little longer to see Serena Williams dominate on the tennis courts once more. The superstar called off her grand-slam comeback and pulled out of the French Open on Monday because of a pectoral injury shortly before she was due to face archnemesis Maria Sharapova in a highly…
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11-Year-Old Connecticut Boy Fights Off Man Who Tried to Steal Father’s Car
An 11-year-old boy was not having it when a stranger hopped into his father’s car and drove off, fighting off the suspect and forcing the man to flee. According to NBC Connecticut, the incident occurred Saturday morning around 8:30 at a McDonald’s in Hartford. The boy’s father had left him in the running vehicle while…
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Oprah Winfrey Celebrated With New Exhibition at National Museum of African American History and Culture
Who is more iconic in contemporary black history than Oprah Winfrey? That was a trick question, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture is celebrating the media powerhouse and trailblazer as such, launching a new exhibition that is all about Winfrey. According to the Washington Post, the new exhibition, titled, “Watching Oprah:…
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