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  • Don Lemon: National Guard Member in Ferguson Called Protesters the N-Word

    As the nation still grapples with the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, CNN host Don Lemon told folks watching and listening to the network’s town hall event about how his producer, who had a run-in with the National Guard, heard one of the officers call protesters “n—gers,” Raw Story…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 20, 2014
  • WSJ Editor: Holder Should Tell Ferguson to ‘Stay Out of Trouble, Pull Up Their Pants and Take Care of Their Kids’

    As U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder journeys to Ferguson, Mo., to be briefed on the ongoing investigation into the killing of unarmed teen Michael Brown by a law-enforcement official, some are discussing which messages Holder should focus on. According to Mediaite, while on a panel on Fox’s Special Report, Wall Street Journal editorial board member…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 20, 2014
  • Holder: DOJ Investigation in Ferguson Will Be Full, Fair and Independent

    U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will be in Ferguson, Mo., Wednesday to meet with community leaders and FBI agents to be briefed on the federal civil rights investigation into unarmed teen Michael Brown’s death. Penning a piece for the local newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Holder promised that the Department of Justice’s probe would be…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 20, 2014
  • Darren Wilson’s Friend: Cop Is a Good Person ‘Struggling’ With Shooting

    Darren Wilson isn’t the “cold-blooded murderer” that people are making him out to be and is really “struggling” with what happened during the shooting. That’s what a friend, who wished to remain unidentified, told ABC News in an interview. “Darren’s a good person, and people have immediately labeled him as a cold-blooded murderer, and that’s…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 19, 2014
  • Eric Garner Choke Hold Case to Go Before Grand Jury

    The case of the Staten Island, N.Y., father of six who died after an altercation with New York City Police Department officers will go before a grand jury, the New York Times reports. After reviewing evidence gathered by his own office’s investigation and an autopsy conducted by a medical examiner, Staten Island District Attorney Daniel…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 19, 2014
  • Campus Police Officers in Compton, Calif., to Be Armed With AR-15 Rifles

    Campus officers in Compton, Calif., have been authorized to carry AR-15 assault rifles, KPCC reports. The argument in favor of the military-issued assault weapons, which follows a vote that the school board passed in July, is that campus officers are currently not adequately equipped to handle a terrorist attack or mass shooting, according to Compton…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 19, 2014
  • Michael Brown’s Grandfather: It’s 1,000 Percent Wrong That Officer Hasn’t Been Arrested

    The grandfather of slain Ferguson, Mo., teen Michael Brown called the lack of an arrest in his grandson’s killing “1,000 percent wrong” in an interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC. “It’s 1,000 percent wrong. If you take the scenario and turn it around, if I was to go out there and brutally murder…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 19, 2014
  • Missouri KKK Chapter to Raise Funds for Ferguson Cop Who Killed Michael Brown

    Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo., police officer who killed unarmed teen Michael Brown on Aug. 9, has enjoyed his share of supporters, and a Missouri chapter of the Ku Klux Klan is adding its voice to the mix, USA Today reports. “All money will go to the cop who did his job against the Negro…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 19, 2014
  • Sybrina Fulton and Ron Davis Discuss Policing and Race at UN Review in Switzerland

    As protests continue in Ferguson, Mo., calling for justice in the slaying of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, activists from the United States, most notably Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, and Ron Davis, the father of Jordan Davis, were in Geneva as part of a delegation calling for a United Nations committee to review…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 19, 2014
  • Obama: Attorney General Eric Holder Will Be in Ferguson on Wednesday 

    President Barack Obama, back from vacation at Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, once again stood before the nation to address the racial tensions in Ferguson, Mo., as well as the tensions between law enforcement and the black community, saying that he has spoken with state officials and plans to dig deeper into the circumstances of unarmed…

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    Breanna Edwards






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    August 18, 2014
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