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  • Florida Police Officer Resigns After Being Caught on Camera Calling Black Man a ‘Piece of Shit [N-Word]’

    A St. Petersburg, Fla., police officer has resigned hours after being captured on cellphone video using a racial slur while responding to a dispute. Probationary Officer Michael Naples, who had only been sworn in last July, was seen on video calling a black man who was recording his encounter with police a “piece-of-shit nigger.” The…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    June 13, 2018
  • ‘Your Language Sounds Nasty’: Woman Captured on Viral Video Going on Racist Rant at Florida Nail Salon

    Looks like this Becky’s beauty is definitely only skin-deep. An unidentified woman was captured on video going on an offensive, racist rant at a Hillsborough County, Fla., nail salon. “If they don’t understand the language, they should go back to their own country, period,” the woman is heard saying in the video, which has spread…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    June 12, 2018
  • Missouri Waitress Fired Over ‘N-Word Hunting’ Video Swears She Isn’t Racist, Claims to Have Black Friends

    We all knew it was only a matter of time before good ole Tabbie came back with the tears and the apologies, crying that she’s not racist. Turns out it didn’t take that long for the Jefferson County, Mo., resident to start her apology tour, claiming that she was drunk at the time she was…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    June 12, 2018
  • Biological Mom of Kamiyah Mobley Reveals She Is Not Speaking With Her Daughter: ‘I Shouldn’t Have to Compete With a Kidnapper’

    It’s been over a year since Kamiyah Mobley, who was kidnapped as a newborn, was found alive and well, living happily with the woman who kidnapped her. In that time the kidnapper, Gloria Williams, was tried and recently sentenced to 18 years in prison, and Kamiyah was reunited with her biological family. But what may…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    June 12, 2018
  • 73-Year-Old NYC Man Who Recently Scored $10,000 in the Lottery Is Found Stabbed to Death in His Apartment

    Police are looking for answers after a 73-year-old man was found stabbed to death in his Bronx, N.Y., apartment, just days after scoring $10,000 in the lottery. According to the New York Daily News, cops went to Owen Dillard’s Beekman Avenue apartment in the New York City borough just after 8:30 p.m. Monday after his…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    June 12, 2018
  • Bye, Tabbie: Missouri Waitress Fired After Horrific Racist Video About ‘N-Word Hunting’

    A Jefferson County, Mo., waitress is out of a job after she was filmed in a horrific racist video that went viral. The video shows Tabitha “Tabbie” Duncan, 20, riding on top of a pickup truck down a dark country road. “So we’re going nigger hunting today or what?” a man off camera asks. “We’re…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    June 11, 2018
  • More Than 70 Criminal Cases Tossed Out After Missouri Highway Patrol Trooper’s Conduct Called ‘Unacceptable’ and ‘Questionable’

    Concerns about the conduct of a Missouri Highway Patrol trooper have led to the dismissal of dozens of suspected criminals as well as the review of hundreds of traffic tickets. Of course, because police accountability is as elusive as Big Foot, the identity of the trooper involved in the case has not been revealed. Local…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    June 11, 2018
  • 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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    Breanna Edwards






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    June 11, 2018
  • 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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    Breanna Edwards






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    June 11, 2018
  • 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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    Breanna Edwards






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    June 6, 2018
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