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‘You’re Gonna Burn’: Notes With Swastikas Left at Homes, Jewish Center in Calif. Neighborhood
The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office in California has created a task force to look into anti-Semitic notes found at homes and a Jewish center in an Oak Park, Calif., neighborhood over the weekend. The handwritten notes were discovered outside seven homes and the Chabad of Oak Park by residents in the Oak Park community, the…
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Mom of Miss. Infant Who Died in Hot Car Wants Charges Against Father Dropped
The mother of a Mississippi infant who authorities say died after being left in a hot car while in the care of her father has signed an affidavit asking for all charges to be dropped, the Jackson, Miss., Clarion-Ledger reports. Shanice Caradine, the mother of 8-month-old Shania Caradine, in the affidavit making her request called…
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Baltimore Rapper Lor Scoota Shot and Killed After Rallying to Stop City Violence
Tyriece Travon Watson, better known as rapper Lor Scoota, was working hard to try to stop violence in his hometown of Baltimore. Tragically, just a short while after leaving a charity basketball game he had hosted to promote such peace, Lor Scoota was shot and killed, the Washington Post reports. According to the report, police…
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Ga. 10th-Grader With Confederate Flag on Backpack Leads to School Lockdown Drill
Rockmart High School in Polk County, Ga., went into a lockdown drill after tensions broke out over a Confederate battle flag on campus, Fox 5 Atlanta reports. It reportedly began when a 10th-grade boy came to school with the infamous flag decorating his backpack. “He got dropped off out of his truck and came down…
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Report: Officer in Tamir Rice Shooting Death Ruled Unfit for Duty in 2012
Before Tim Loehmann—the officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice—joined the Cleveland Police Department, he had a brief career with the Independence, Ohio, police, a suburban department that ruled him unfit for police work, Cleveland.com reports. According to the report, a Nov. 29, 2012, letter from the Independence Police Department, kept in Loehmann’s personnel…
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Actress Thandie Newton: ‘There’s This Ghettoization of Makeup Right Now’
British actress Thandie Newton isn’t impressed with the lack of representation of products geared for dark skin in beauty stores, and is calling the industry out on it. According to the Daily Mail, the 41-year-old British and American film star accused chains, such as Boots, of only stocking dark shades of makeup when a line…
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