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Baltimore Councilman to CNN Host: ‘Just Call Them N–gers’
Baltimore City Councilman Carl Stokes clashed with CNN’s Erin Burnett Tuesday evening after Burnett asked if “thugs” was not the appropriate word to use when describing the “bad actors” of the Baltimore protests. Burnett pointed out that Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and President Barack Obama also used the word to describe the individuals involved in…
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La. Oil Executive and Son Allegedly Killed by Armed Teens
Two teens have been charged with murder in the deaths of a Louisiana oil-company manager and his son, authorities revealed Sunday, according to the Daily Mail. Neither Haraqyon Degruy, 18, nor her friend Dexter Allen, 17, have any “significant” criminal history, officials say, and authorities are still trying to figure out the motive for the…
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Ga. Teacher Killed in Car Accident While Driving to School to Chaperone the Prom
A Georgia high school teacher lost her life on Saturday after a car she was driving collided with a vehicle carrying two students from her school, the New York Daily News reports. Both parties were en route to the school prom, where O’Brien was going to be a chaperone. Leah O’Brien, a teacher at Lakeside…
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Bronx Man Arrested After 18 Pounds of Pot Found in Checked Luggage at Airport: Report
A Bronx, N.Y., man preparing for a trip to the Caribbean was taken into custody at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, N.Y., after authorities found 18 pounds of pot in his checked baggage, the New York Post reports. According to the report, Kelvin Smith, whom the Post described as “a career … drug criminal,” was pulled…
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How Not to Go Broke
“Adulting” in this cold, crazy world as a newly graduated grown-up is hard. Seriously. It may be the first time you’re contending with bills and scheduling payments, making sure you have your finances in order and enough money to put on your bus pass (or put gas in the car), and eating enough so that…
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Va. Jail Bans Use of Tasers After Female Inmate Dies
Virginia’s Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office now prohibits the use of Tasers at its jail after a mentally ill inmate died after being shocked four times while being prepared for medical transport, WUSA 9 reports. Natasha McKenna, 37, was shocked several times while she was restrained and stopped breathing, according to WUSA. According to the report,…
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Watch: Teen Suffered Brutal Treatment at Rikers Island
May 2010 was the beginning of Kalief Browder’s three-year horror story inside Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex in New York City. He had been arrested in the Bronx for allegedly stealing a backpack, a crime that he insisted he didn’t commit. Browder, then 16, spent the next three years of his life in the…
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In Newly Released Video, Unarmed Black Man Had Cellphone in Hand When Shot by Fla. Deputy
Newly released dash-cam video has resulted in a lawsuit for one unarmed black man who was shot four times in the back by a Palm Beach sheriff’s deputy in Florida in September 2013, WPTV reports. Dontrell Stephens is seen riding his bike and talking on his phone that fateful Friday morning when, realizing that he’s…
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Defendant to Judge in Legal Brief: ‘You Are a Hoe. This Court Is a Hoe’
One “Floridian-American” sovereign citizen did not see eye to eye with a U.S. District Court judge who dismissed the civil rights lawsuit she filed on behalf of her husband and son, and she made her displeasure quite clear in a nine-page, profanity-ridden legal brief, Raw Story reports. Tamah Jada Clark had filed a complaint insisting that…
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After 5-Month Delay, Loretta Lynch Becomes 1st Black Female Attorney General
Updated Thursday, April 23, 3:45 p.m. EDT: Shortly after Loretta Lynch’s confirmation for the position of attorney general was announced, President Barack Obama released a statement declaring that America “will be better off” for the decision: Loretta has spent her life fighting for the fair and equal justice that is the foundation of our democracy.…
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