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Detroit Cop Suspended After Getting Caught Wearing Murder Victim’s Watch
A murder victim’s expensive, German-made watch was found on a Detroit homicide sergeant, who has since been suspended, the Detroit News reports. According to the report, Sgt. Alex Vinson was in charge of a case involving an unidentified murder victim who was wearing the fancy watch, police Chief James Craig confirmed. According to police protocol,…
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Okla. Family’s Obama Halloween Tombstone Offends Neighbor
Halloween is known to bring up some pretty problematic (and sometimes very racist) themes in America, and one Oklahoma woman was particularly affronted when she noticed her neighbors’ Obama tombstone, KOCO reports. According to the report, Jamilla Phillips of Edmond was “absolutely offended” when she saw the fake tombstone across the street on her neighbors’…
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Redrawing Virginia: A Chance for a New, Fair, Competitive State
On Tuesday a federal court ruled Virginia’s congressional map unconstitutional, finding it to be in violation of the 14th Amendment and ordering it to be redrawn by next spring. This, Hampton University professor Wayne Dawkins thinks, creates an opening for a fairer, healthier and more competitive political atmosphere to be born. “We have people who…
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Watch: NYPD Officer Allegedly Knocks Out Cigarette-Smoking Teen
A Brooklyn teenager was allegedly knocked out by a New York City police officer for smoking a cigarette, the Brooklyn Paper reports. Video footage captured on a cellphone shows the plainclothes officer punching Marcel Hammer, even as he lay on the ground in a gutter trying to protect his face, saying, “It’s just a…
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Watch: NYPD Officer Allegedly Takes $1,000-Plus From Construction Worker
A New York City Police Department officer is being accused of snatching more than $1,000 from a construction worker’s pocket during a stop-and-frisk search in the borough of Brooklyn, the New York Daily News reports. The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office is investigating the incident, which was captured in cellphone video footage and turned over to…
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NC Police Pepper-Spray Black Teen in White Foster Parents’ Home
One Wake County, N.C., family is outraged after police pepper-sprayed their son inside his own home after he was mistakenly reported as a burglar by a neighbor, ABC 11 reports. DeShawn Currie has been with Ricky and Stacy Tyler and their three young children, his foster family, for about a year. The Tylers love their…
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Florida Inmate Beaten to Death After Aunt Reported Guard’s Threats
She was supposed to walk free in about seven months, when she would have completed her 22-month sentence for grand theft. However, on Oct. 1, Florida Lowell Correctional Institution inmate Latandra Ellington was found dead in her cell in solitary confinement, according to the Miami Herald. According to the report, Ellington, 36, had written a…
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Woman’s Throat Slashed in NYC After She Turns Down Date
An unidentified woman is in critical condition after a man slashed her throat for rejecting his invitation to go on a date, the New York Post reports. According to the site, the man came up to the woman in the lobby of an apartment building in the Jamaica, Queens, section of New York City on…
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Detroit Cop Who Killed 7-Year-Old Will Face Only Misdemeanor Charge
The most serious charge against Joseph Weekley, the elite Detroit police officer who says he accidentally shot 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones while conducting a raid for a murder suspect, has been dropped, the Associated Press reports. On Monday, Michigan’s appeals court upheld the dismissal of the manslaughter charge. Wayne County Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway originally dismissed…
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Mother of 3 Killed in Detroit After Rejecting a Man’s Advances
An unidentified man is behind bars and is expected to be arraigned on murder charges after killing a Detroit mother and injuring five members of the same family early Saturday morning, WJBK reports. Mary “Unique” Spears had reportedly just left a relative’s funeral and arrived at the Joe Louis Post rental hall on Detroit’s east…
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