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Pa. Family Sues Cops Who Charged Into Home to Take Cellphone
Three Collingdale, Pa., police officers are facing a lawsuit accusing them of unlawful arrest, malicious prosecution, retaliatory arrest and unlawful search after barging into a home to confiscate a cellphone that was being used to record one officer’s aggressive questioning, NBC 10 reports. Michael and Kia Gaymon, 35 and 38 years old respectively, also included…
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Ben Carson Likely to Run for President
Ben Carson, the Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon-turned-Republican star, believes that the “likelihood is strong” that he will end up running for president in 2016. “Unless the American people indicate in November that they like big-government intervention in every part of their lives, I think the likelihood is strong,” he said Monday on radio’s The Hugh Hewitt Show,…
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From Slavery to Ferguson: America’s History of Violence Toward Blacks
Recent events haunting black communities like ghosts of a violent era that many thought long gone—such as the tragic deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Michael Brown—hark back to a collective memory of enslavement. John Matteson, Distinguished Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, believes that the…
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Okla. Man Beheads Co-Worker After He Is Fired From Job: Report
A community in Moore, Okla., was left shocked after a fired food-plant worker stabbed two women at his former workplace, beheading one and wounding the other, the New York Daily News reports. The brutal attacks have prompted an investigation by the FBI. It was revealed that the suspect, 30-year-old Alton Nolen, had recently converted to…
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Fla. Mom Put Baby in Trunk to Avoid a Ticket for Not Having a Car Seat
It was all a mistake. That’s what 19-year-old Breona Watkins said in a court appearance on Wednesday after she was arrested when authorities found her baby in the trunk of her car during a traffic stop, CBS News reports. According to the report, the discovery started out as a routine traffic stop over a broken…
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Attorney General Eric Holder to Resign
Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to publicly announce his resignation on Thursday, following his highly controversial five-and-a-half-year stint in the position, NPR reports. Two sources confirmed that Holder, who is the first black U.S. attorney general, will step down from leading the Justice Department the minute his replacement is confirmed. However, that process could…
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Watch: SC Highway Patrol Trooper Shoots Man Going for His License
Editor’s note: This story includes video footage that some may find disturbing. Video has been released of a South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper approaching a man regarding a traffic violation and then shooting him, seemingly for no reason, The State reports. Officer Sean Groubert has been arrested and charged with assault and battery of a…
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Alaska Reporter Who Quit on Air Allegedly Harassed Neighbors With Her Marijuana Habits
Charlo Greene, the Alaska reporter who stunned viewers when she abruptly quit her job on air to devote her time to marijuana advocacy, is probably not going to win any employee-of-the-month awards, and she apparently isn’t neighbor of the year, either. According to the New York Daily News, an Alaska father filed a restraining order against…
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Obama Mentions Ferguson in Address to the UN General Assembly
In remarks prepared for the United Nations General Assembly, President Barack Obama referenced the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., as one of the nation’s shortcomings as it grapples with racial and ethnic tensions. In his speech on Wednesday, the president called for leadership in dealing with the current conflict between Israel and Palestine, as well as…
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Watch: Pregnant Woman Thrown to the Ground Belly-First by NYPD Officer
Sandra Amezquita was trying to come to the aid of her son, 17-year-old Jhohan Lemos, who was being arrested by police. However, one New York City Police Department officer didn’t take too kindly to her intervention and tossed the 44-year-old, who is five months pregnant, to the ground, stomach-first, before straddling her back, with her…
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