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  • Video Shows New Jersey Transit Police Dragging and Beating Defenseless Man

    A cellphone video showing a New Jersey Transit Police officer hitting and dragging a man outside of a Trenton train station is the subject of a new internal investigation, according to ABC affiliate WPVI in Philadelphia. The woman who shot the video, who has requested anonymity, said she witnessed the incident around 10:30 Saturday night.…

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  • Trump Ready to Issue First Veto As New Budget Calls for Budget Cuts

    They grow up so fast. One day, your new President is on the job for the first day. Wobbly and uncertain, you watched as he moved around Capitol Hill aimlessly, like a deer in headlights after a daring escape from the Doritos compound. He stumbled through his first top-level hires, invented a word, and gave…

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  • No Points for Guessing: Woman Attacked by Jaguar After Hopping Zoo Barrier

    See that scary-ass black cat? That’s not a dry seal or some kind of deceptively cuddly anime character. That’s a damn jaguar. Thanks to those among us who enjoy their potato salad as white as Dow Jones’ editorial staff, we’ve another predictable interaction between dangerous predatory animals and adventurous white folks. Animals, who jumped out…

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  • North Carolina State Supreme Court Appoints First Black Woman Chief Justice

    Chief Justice Cheri Beasley, the first black woman supreme court justice to lead the state Supreme Court, was sworn in this past weekend in front of more than 1,000 people, according to the Fayetteville Observer. Beasley, appointed to the state’s highest court in 2012 by Democratic governor Beverly Perdue, was sworn in by Associate Justice…

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  • Racist Maine Mayor Steps Down After Calling Old Black People 'Antique Farm Equipment' in Texts to Former Lover

    Lewiston Republican Mayor Shane Bouchard stepped down from his position as head of Maine’s second-largest city. Text messages between Bouchard and Heather Berube (née Everly), a woman who claims she had an affair with him during his mayoral campaign revealed a racist remark he sent her while they conspired to undermine an opponent. From the…

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  • Columbus Police Admit Arrest of Stormy Daniels Was Improper

    In July of last year, porn director/actress and former paramour to the president Stormy Daniels was arrested at a Columbus strip club on suspicion of inappropriately touching an undercover police officer. Prosecutors, who said the law under which Daniels, born Stephanie Clifford, was arrested only applied to performers who regularly danced at the venue. She…

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  • Mother Demands Answers and Policy Change After Her Son Was Forced to Urinate in Classroom Trash Can

    Sonia Mongol, mother of an 8-year-old student at Manhattan Place Elementary in Los Angeles, says her son was forced to urinate in a trash can after his teacher refused to let him use the bathroom, urinating on himself in the process, according to NBC12. A tearful Mongol told local media that she plans to take…

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  • The Simpsons Producers to Pull Episode Featuring Michael Jackson’s Voice Following Leaving Neverland

    Less than a year after The Simpsons creator Matt Groening confirmed one of the most persistent fan theories surrounding his most famous work—now in its 30th season—fans will hear Lisa’s birthday song far less often. Amid the fallout from the accusations made in the HBO documentary, Leaving Neverland, longtime Simpsons producer James L. Brooks has announced…

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  • Young Thug Shows Off Gucci 'Blackface' Sweater on Instagram During Studio Session

    Last month, luxury fashion retailer Gucci landed themselves in hot water with the release of their “blackface” polo neck sweater, which featured a balaclava-style cutout surrounded by bright red oversized lips. Worn by a white model in the ads—which caught the attention of Spike Lee and T.I.—Gucci’s “mistake” prompted the easiest boycott in the history…

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  • New York Peace Officer Charged After Punching and Kicking Homeless Man in Shelter Lobby

    New York has a problem: Its police have a penchant for brutalizing marginalized residents. After a verbal altercation at the Bellevue Shelter in Manhattan, on March 6, 2017, supervising sergeant Cordell Fitts and several other officers rushed and subdued a homeless man after he swung at Fitts in the shelter lobby. In surveillance footage made…

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