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Fla. High School Athlete Dead, 1 Severely Injured After Single-Car Accident on Prom Night
Another night of celebration unexpectedly ended in tragedy after one Deerfield Beach (Fla.) High School football player was killed and another seriously injured after a single-car accident on prom night. According to the Miami Herald, 19-year-old receiver Taletrius Bradley was killed and 17-year-old standout cornerback Demetrius Palmer was severely injured in the horrific crash over…
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NJ Trooper Threatened to Arrest Woman Unless She Gave Him Her Phone Number, Authorities Say
For the second time in six months, a New Jersey state trooper has been suspended and criminally charged after being accused of pulling over women to ask them out. According to NJ.com, Trooper Eric Richardson, 31, was charged Wednesday with records tampering after an internal investigation found that he repeatedly pulled over two women to…
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Calif. High Schooler Uses Blackface for ‘Promposal’ 1 Month After Another Student Used a Lynching Reference
It seems that the ghost of promposals is still haunting us, and while a lot of high school students are guilty of doing the utmost, two students at the same California high school went way too far by using blackface and lynching references in their own promposals. Fact: It’s never cute to be racist when…
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NYC Police Officer Arrested for Shooting Death of Mentally Ill Black Woman: Report
Law-enforcement officials say that a New York City police sergeant was arrested Wednesday in the shooting death of an elderly, mentally ill woman inside her Bronx apartment in October. The New York Times reports that the arrest of the police supervisor, Sgt. Hugh Barry, comes after months of investigations into the deadly encounter with 66-year-old…
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Birmingham, Mich., School District Launches Investigation After Parents, Kids, Speak Out Against Blatant Racism in School
Parents and children are speaking out against the blatant racism that some kids are allegedly facing at a school within Michigan’s Birmingham School District, demanding answers for the uncalled-for behavior exhibited by other students, as well as punishment. According to WXYZ, one parent, Maia Nelson, has said that she has told the school, Berkshire Middle…
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Fla. College Student Arrested After Detaining Professor Against Her Will, Begging to Make Up Exam
I’m sure we all know (or remember) that sinking feeling when we didn’t get the grade we wanted in one of our classes. Some of us accept it. Some of us may try to cajole our professor into giving us some sort of makeup assignment or test. One student at Santa Fe College in Gainesville,…
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Muslim Groups Unite, Raise More Than $500,000 for Families of the 3 Portland, Ore., Heroes
Two Muslim nonprofit organizations have come together and raised more than $500,000 in about four days for the families of the Portland, Ore., heroes who were violently attacked while defending two young women from a raging white supremacist yelling anti-Muslim insults. Last Friday, the two girls were verbally attacked by Jeremy Joseph Christian while riding…
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Protesters Gathered Outside White Nationalist Richard Spencer’s Va. Offices After Racist Flyers Were Found in Alexandria
White nationalist—and overall devil’s spawn—Richard Spencer became the target of protests over the weekend after racist signs were found in Alexandria, Va. According to NBC 4, a number of protesters gathered outside Spencer’s Virginia offices Sunday just one day after flyers with messages such as “Stop the blacks” and “You’re losing your country, white man”…
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Black Doll Found Hanging by a Noose Outside Wakefield High School in NC
It’s the Tuesday after a long weekend, and some idiots apparently decided to use their time to hang a black doll by a noose from a building at Wakefield High School in Raleigh, N.C., next to a sign that read “Make Wakefield TRIPP again #smartlunch.” According to ABC 11, the school’s principal confirmed that someone…
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Cleveland Police Department Fires Timothy Loehmann, Officer Who Shot and Killed 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice
Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann, who fatally shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, was fired Tuesday, two-and-a-half years after the November 2014 incident, the city announced at a news conference. The New York Times reports that Officer Frank Garmback—who was driving the patrol car that pulled up near Tamir seconds before Loehmann fired the fatal shots—will…
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