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NY Teen Arrested After She Rejected Cop’s Advances Settles Lawsuit for $45,000
New York City paid out $45,000 to a Bronx teen who filed a lawsuit after being arrested on drummed-up charges after rejecting a police officer’s advances, the New York Post reports. Natalie Erlich, who was 17 at the time, says that she was hanging out with two female friends, grabbing a snack, after school in…
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La. Deputy Allegedly Called Sheriff’s Office Employee ‘Stupid, Ungrateful N–ger’
A sheriff’s second-in-command in Louisiana is accused of discriminating against a co-worker and using a racial slur against the employee, the New Orleans Advocate reports. Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Jerry Ursin allegedly threatened employee Ronald Coleman Sr., calling him a “stupid, ungrateful n—ger” during an altercation involving parking last summer, the news site notes.…
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Black Bus Driver Says He Was Called ‘Monkey’ and ‘Blackie’ at Jewish School in Brooklyn, NY
“Monkey” and “blackie” were only two of the racially charged slurs that were allegedly hurled at the only black bus driver at an ultra-Orthodox Jewish school in Brooklyn, N.Y., Newsweek reports. Willis Baker claims in a lawsuit that while employed at the United Talmudical Academy of Boro Park Inc. last year, he was not only…
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Va. Mom Searches for Answers in Teen Son’s Unexplained Fatal Shooting by Police
William Chapman’s family believes that his case is akin to that of Michael Brown. However, unlike Brown’s death in Ferguson, Mo., in August, Chapman’s April 22 death barely made a wave among activists and the media, The Guardian reports. “I feel alone,” Chapman’s mother, Sallie, told the news site. “Because my son is gone and because…
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NC Police Allegedly Pull Guns on Former Duke Basketball Star
Former Duke University basketball star Nolan Smith tweeted about a confrontation with Durham, N.C., police in which officers making a traffic stop approached him, allegedly with guns drawn. Smith was in the state this week preparing for the annual K Academy College Basketball Fantasy Camp when the alleged encounter occurred. According to Sporting News, a…
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Mich. Man Brutally Beaten by Cop Settles for $1.4 Million
Floyd Dent, a Michigan resident who was brutally beaten by a police officer in Inkster during a traffic stop in January, settled his lawsuit for almost $1.4 million on Thursday, The Guardian reports, the same day the officer involved appeared in court to learn whether he would be headed to trial. According to the report,…
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High School Football Players Fulfill Dying Teammate’s Last Wish
His final wish was to go through the tunnel leading into his high school’s football stadium with his team one last time. Coffee County High School football players honored their teammate Malik Sparkman’s dying wish and carried the talented linebacker’s coffin through the tunnel and across the field to the end zone, WSB-TV reports. According…
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Bronx Cop Cleared of Rape Charges for Relationship With Teen Girl
A Bronx, N.Y., police officer who also works as a pastor and was facing multiple charges for allegedly being in a relationship with a 16-year-old girl was cleared of all charges Wednesday, the New York Post reports. A judge cleared Vladimir Sosa, an officer with the 46th Precinct, after prosecutors reportedly could not prove that…
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7-Year-Old Mass. Boy Shot While Riding Bike
Boston police are asking the public for any tips about the person who shot a 7-year-old while the child was riding his bike, ABC News reports. According to the report, second-grader Divan Silva was riding to the store to get water early Sunday evening in Dorchester, a neighborhood in the city, when he was hit…
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