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29-Year-Old James Shaw Jr. Hailed as Hero for Stopping Tennessee Waffle House Shooting
James Shaw Jr. is a lot of things, an electrician, a father … and, as of now, a bonafide hero after he wrestled a gun away from an active shooter at a Tennessee Waffle House, putting an end to the gunman’s massacre. The early-morning Sunday shooting left four dead and several others injured. As The…
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Tennessee Mom Furious After Video Shows Teacher Dragging 7-Year-Old Boy Off School Bus by His Feet
A Memphis, Tenn., mom is demanding answers after horrifying video shows her 7-year-old son being dragged off a school bus by his feet … by a teacher who should know way better. In fact, Kimberly Hardin, the child’s mother, didn’t know what her son had gone through at the hands of the educator until another…
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Syracuse Fraternity Suspended Over Racist Videos Claims Horrific Behavior Was Just a ‘Satirical Sketch’
The Chads are really trying it. The brothers of the suspended Theta Tau chapter at Syracuse University have issued an apology for their racist videos but still insist that the behavior depicted was not meant to be racist, but instead was part of a “satirical sketch” showing an uneducated, intolerant person. “Each semester our new…
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Stephon Clark’s Brother Stevante Arrested on Suspicion of Threats; Meanwhile, the Cops Who Killed His Brother Are Back on Duty
Stevante Clark, the older brother of Stephon Clark, the unarmed man shot and killed by Sacramento, Calif., police, was arrested in that city Thursday on charges of suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and making death threats. The older Clark brother, 25, was taken into police custody around 10 a.m. and is currently ineligible…
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California Store Clerk Calls Cops on Black Man Who Asked for Refund; Black Man Gets Beaten Bloody
The Merced, Calif., Police Department has launched an internal investigation after a black man was brutally beaten and injured while in custody. William Colbert’s arrest photo shows the 39-year-old’s face bloodied and bruised and one of his eyes swollen shut. “I have spoken with Mr. Colbert and collected all the statements about what he said…
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‘When You Know That You Did Nothing Wrong, How Do You Really React?’: Men Arrested in Philly Starbucks Speak Out
The two men who were arrested for merely existing in a Philadelphia Starbucks are finally speaking out about their ordeal and how it left them in fear for their lives as they were forced to interact with the police over a nonissue. Rashon Nelson told the Associated Press that he originally thought nothing of it…
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Syracuse University Suspends Frat Over Videos Showing ‘Extremely Racist’ Behavior
It’s a day ending in “y,” so there’s yet another fraternity that is showing its whole entire (racist) ass to the universe, this time in video form. On Wednesday, Syracuse University decided to suspend its chapter of Theta Tau after online videos showed members of the frat engaged in behaviors that school Chancellor Kent Syverud…
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Texas Bar Owner Takes Down Sign With Racial Slur Following Facebook Posts, Insists It Wasn’t Meant to Be ‘Racial’
The owner of a Fort Worth, Texas, bar saw nothing wrong with a sign that read, “SHUT UP NIGGER,” to the point where said sign is only coming down, reluctantly, after two customers shared photos on Facebook. According to James Emerson, the owner of Jim’s Rodeo Tavern, the sign was a sort of memorial to…
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Milwaukee Civil Rights Icon Vel Phillips Dead at 94
Milwaukee civil rights leader Vel Phillips—whose life was marked by shattering glass ceilings and tireless activism—died Tuesday evening at the age of 94. Phillips was a pioneer, a giant among her people, recognized for the work she did for civil and human rights across Milwaukee and Wisconsin as a whole, Fox6Now notes. She was the…
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Virginia School District Investigating Video Showing 7-Year-Old Being Bullied on School Bus
The Greensville County Public Schools district in Emporia, Va., has launched an investigation into a now viral video that shows a first-grade student being bullied by other students on a school bus. In the heartbreaking video, students are seen filming the 7-year-old Gabriel on their own phones as well as laughing and teasing him, even…
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