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Vandals Trash Fla. Church, Write ‘Charleston 2’ on Bishop’s Truck
A black Melbourne, Fla., church was vandalized, its property damaged and a truck belonging to the bishop found submerged in a pond with “SS. Charleston 2” scrawled on the side, My News 13 reports. Police have officially classified the attack as a hate crime, Police Cmdr. Dan Lynch told Florida Today. According to My News…
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NYC Woman Alleges Police Revenge for Filming Eric Garner’s Death: Lawsuit
A Staten island, N.Y., woman is accusing New York City police officers of falsely arresting and harassing her because she captured Eric Garner’s last moments on video, a lawsuit claims, according to the New York Daily News. Taisha Allen described how she was cornered in February in the Sound Beach section of the New York…
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NAACP Calls for Removal of Confederate Flag From Ala. State Troopers’ Cruisers, Uniforms
Huntsville, Ala.’s NAACP is calling for the removal of the Confederate flag from the state’s Highway Patrol vehicles. Currently it is plastered on every state trooper vehicle, as well as on a patch that every uniformed officer wears, WAFF reports. In keeping with the recent national shunning of all symbols of the Confederacy, the local…
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Texas High School Coach Called Black Student Player’s Hair ‘Nappy and Nasty’: Report
A Texas family is questioning the lack of serious punishment after a high school softball coach reportedly made several racial remarks about a black student player, Raw Story reports. According to the report, over the weekend, dozens of people rallied in support of the Richland High School’s mascot name, “the Rebels,” which is a nod…
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Eric Garner’s Family Accepts $5.9 Million to Settle Wrongful Death Case: Report
Updated Monday, July 13, 8:15 p.m. EDT: The city of New York settled with the family of Eric Garner on Monday for $5.9 million, according to family attorney Jonathan Moore, the New York Times reports. The city had until Friday to settle the case before the family filed a lawsuit. Other investigations into the case—by…
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White Chicago Woman Claims Black Youths Attacked Her for Being in the Wrong Neighborhood
A Chicago woman is coping with fear and anxiety after she was allegedly attacked by a group of young people near the University of Chicago campus over the weekend, WLS-TV reports. Susan Pedersen had just finished dropping off a friend at the university around 9 p.m. Friday, with her two young children in the backseat,…
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Press Demands Release of Video in Fatal Calif. Police-Involved Shooting
The Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg are demanding the release of police dash-cam footage of a fatal 2013 shooting of an unarmed man, AP reports. A lawyer for the three outlets is arguing that the public has the right to see video that was captured on the cameras in three police vehicles.…
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Group Petitions for Bill Cosby’s Presidential Medal of Freedom to Be Revoked
Bill Cosby is the very opposite of the man of the hour at this point. As more companies pull support and distance themselves from the embattled TV dad in light of unsealed court documents in which Cosby admitted to buying drugs for women for the purpose of sex, a sexual-violence awareness group is now petitioning…
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Memphis, Tenn., Votes to Exhume Body of Confederate General, KKK Leader Buried in City Park
Memphis, Tenn., city leaders unanimously voted on Tuesday night to exhume the body of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader who is buried in the city’s Health Sciences Park, and move him to a private cemetery, Fusion reports. According to the report, the City Council also voted to move…
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SC Legislature Passes Bill to Take Confederate Flag Off Statehouse Grounds
The Confederate flag that flies on South Carolina Statehouse grounds is one signature away from being removed after the state House of Representatives passed its final vote on the measure early Thursday morning, Reuters reports. According to the report, state representatives, on their third and final vote, passed the measure with a sweeping 94-20 vote…
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