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#AlfredOlango: El Cajon, Calif., Police Aware Unarmed Black Man Was in Mental Distress Before They Fatally Shot Him
Updated Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, 2:17 a.m. EDT: According to activists on the ground in El Cajon, Calif., the Police Department informed media that it was aware its officers were responding to a “5150” call when Olango was killed. The name of the police officer who killed Olango has not been released. A 5150 call…
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#DebateNight: Clinton's Chance to 'Speak Directly to White People'
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton faces off against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump tonight in their first debate of the 2016 election season, a spectacle that is expected to draw up to 100 million viewers, according to the New York Times. This debate is sure to focus heavily on women’s issues to draw stark parallels between Clinton…
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#Arabs4BlackPower Releases Movement for Black Lives Solidarity Statement
Arabs for Black Power—a circle of organizers from the United States and Arabic-speaking regions—has released a statement in solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives. The Movement for Black Lives, or M4BL, is raising global consciousness about state-sanctioned and state-perpetuated violence against people of color in the United States, as well as actively working to…
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Deaths of 3 Ga. Teens Killed in Car Crash, Including 2 Brothers, Stun Community
The tragic news that three East Point, Ga., teens had been killed in a fiery car accident, which spread quickly on social media among friends and classmates of the teens, has now been confirmed by 11Alive. Brothers Jarrett Mumford, 18, and Jaylen Mumford, 16, as well as Ibrahim Sankoh, 18, were all killed when the…
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Releases #KeithLamontScott Video
Updated Saturday, Sept. 24, 5:01 p.m. EDT: The dashcam and body-cam footage has been released in the police shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott. Warning: The video contains graphic and disturbing images. Earlier: As protests enter the fifth day, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is releasing the video showing the moment that one of their officers shot…
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Sherry Hall: Ga. Cop Who Lied About Being Shot by Black Man Faces 4 Felonies
Sherry Hall, a police officer in Jackson, Ga., has been “charged with four felonies, including evidence tampering and giving false statements to investigators,” after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation determined that she lied about being shot by an unidentified black man,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. “The investigation has revealed that there is no and never was a…
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Eyewitness to Carr Shooting in Charlotte, NC: ‘Riot Police Shot Him … They’re Fabricating All of This’
Jimmy James Tyson, 31, a community activist and first responder, was standing 10-15 feet from the riot-police line in front of the Omni Hotel in downtown Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday night—where hundreds of protesters had gathered in response to the police killing of Keith Lamont Scott, 43—when all of sudden, rubber bullets and tear gas canisters exploded into…
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Trump 'Troubled' by Tulsa, Okla., Police Shooting: Terence Crutcher Did 'Everything You're Supposed to Do'
As election 2016 winds down, the fight for “the Black Vote” continues. To that end, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he is “troubled” by the police shooting of Terence Crutcher and suggested that maybe his killer—Tulsa, Okla., Police Officer Betty Shelby—shouldn’t be a police officer, The Hill reports. Trump made this penny-with-a-hole-in-it statement Wednesday at New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland…
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Eyewitness to #KeithLamontScott Shooting: The Officer Who Shot That Man Was White
Updated Sunday, Sept. 25, 12:32 p.m. EDT: The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has released dashcam and body-cam footage that appears to contradict eyewitness Taheshia Williams’ statement that Keith Lamont Scott’s hands were up when he was shot by a CMPD officer—though Scott is not waving a gun or posing “an imminent deadly threat to the officers,” as CMPD…
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#CharlotteProtest: NC Gov. Pat McCrory Declares State of Emergency, Calls in National Guard
As fiery protests in Charlotte, N.C., stretch into the third day, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has issued a state of emergency, activating the National Guard to “assist local law enforcement” in silencing protests that exploded in the wake of police fatally shooting Keith Lamont Scott, 43. As previously reported by The Root: By early Wednesday morning,…
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