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Kimani Gray's Mom Sobs Through Wake
Carol Gray, the mother of slain teen Kimani Gray, was inconsolable at her son’s wake, held on Friday in Brooklyn, N.Y., reports the Daily News. Carol Gray was unable to contain her emotions as she saw her child lying motionless inside a coffin dressed in a black suit and bow tie, mourners said. She had…
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Why Cops, Community Are at Odds in Brooklyn
(The Root) — It’s 9:30 p.m. on Friday, March 15, in the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., and a gaggle of people have gathered at East 55th Street and Church Avenue to remember Kimani “Kiki” Gray and protest his death. NYPD cars and paddy wagons line Church Avenue and color the heavily West Indian…
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Speaker Boehner Agrees With Obama on Debt — to a Point
On Sunday, House Speaker John Boehner said he agreed with President Obama’s comment last weekend on ABC News that America is not “immediate crisis in terms of debt,” reports ThinkProgress. “We do not have an immediate debt crisis,” Boehner said on ABC News’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos.” “But we all know that we have…
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Why the Right to a Lawyer Isn't Available to All
In America, every citizen has the right to a lawyer, but not everyone is in the financial position to enjoy that right, reports the New York Times. Fifty years ago, on March 18, 1963, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that those accused of a crime have a constitutional right to a lawyer whether…
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Tone Loc Collapses Onstage in Iowa
Rapper Tone Loc collapsed onstage on Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa, during a concert, reports USA Today. The seriousness of the incident was not immediately apparent. It happened at the Bridge Bash, being held at the Court Avenue bridge over the Des Moines River. Three Des Moines Register employees said Tone Loc finished a song,…
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2 Steubenville Teens Found Guilty of Rape
High school football stars Ma’lik Richmond and Trent Mays were found guilty in the highly publicized rape case of a teen girl in Steubenville, Ohio, reports CNN. Judge Thomas Lipps announced his decision after reviewing evidence presented over four days of testimony in the case against 17-year-old Trent Mays and 16-year-old Ma’lik Richmond, who were…
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Kimani Gray's Principal Supports Teen's Character
Last Saturday, two New York police officers fatally shot 16-year-old Kimani Gray in Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Flatbush neighborhood. Some witnesses say Gray was adjusting his waistband, while police say he was wielding a gun and was also a member of the Bloods gang. Today, Matt Willoughby, the late teen’s principal at Manhattan’s Urban Assembly School of Design…
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Sarah Palin Mocks President Obama at CPAC
On Saturday, former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin brought her folksy charm to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland with a speech in which she made fun of President Obama for his support of gun control and background checks, reports USA Today. During her address to the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC,…
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14 People 'Functionally Cured' of HIV
The medical world is inching closer to a cure for HIV/AIDS. ABC News reports that 14 people in France have been “functionally cured” of the virus. Fourteen patients who were treated within the first two months of infection were later able to stop combination antiretroviral therapy without an HIV rebound, according to Asier Sáez-Cirión of…
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Kimani Gray's NYPD Shooters Have 5 Lawsuits Between Them
Sgt. Mourad Mourad and Officer Jovaniel Cordova, the two New York City police officers who shot 16-year-old Kimani Gray, have had a number of civil rights lawsuits filed against them, reports the New York Daily News. Sgt. Mourad Mourad racked up three suits while he was a plainclothes cop on Staten Island, and Officer Jovaniel…
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