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‘I Know What a Thug Black Guy Looks Like’: Jury Deliberates in Trial of White Man Who Killed Black Man Over $50: Update
Updated Friday, June 23, 2017, 10:57 a.m. EDT: After deliberating for four hours, a South Bend, Ind., jury found Michael Young guilty of murder on Thursday, ending his three-day trial for shooting 27-year-old Markest Flowers in downtown South Bend. The South Bend Tribune reports that the jury could have considered a lesser charge of reckless homicide,…
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Seattle Police Release More Video of Charleena Lyles Shooting
Seattle police released the 911 call, additional surveillance video and details of the Charleena Lyles shooting on Thursday, less than a week after officers opened fire on the pregnant mother with her children present in her Seattle apartment. Taken from a surveillance camera in the hallway of Lyles’ fourth-floor apartment, the video shows the 24…
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Ohio State Recruit Breaks Internet With Wokest Shirt Ever
A 17-year-old created a buzz when he showed up on a recruiting trip to one of college football’s most vaunted programs wearing one of the blackest shirts of all time. Cleveland19 reports that Tyreke Smith, a high school junior football player, is one of the most sought-after athletes in Ohio. The Cleveland Heights High School…
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White Men Can’t Murder: Why White Cops Are Immune to the Law
Philando Castile was not murdered, because white police officers don’t murder black men. If that statement upsets you, allow me to cheer you up with a joke: What’s rarer than getting struck by lightning, being killed by a terrorist or winning the lottery? Well, in the past 10 years, 123 people or groups have hit…
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College Campus Shut Down After Professor’s #LetThemFuckingDie Hashtag Scares White People
In a twisted narrative that includes butt-hurt wypipo, conservative trolls, a black college professor, a racist congressman and an online essay, a Connecticut college shut its campus down for what it called “threats received” after a professor at the college shared an article suggesting that first responders should let bigots die. About a week ago,…
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Video of a White Woman Demanding a White Doctor Shocked Everyone … Except Black Doctors
A viral video of a woman at a Canadian clinic demanding to see a white doctor has the internet buzzing about her demands. While many are shocked by the woman’s insistence that she will allow only a white doctor to treat her son, there is one group of people who are not shocked by the…
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The Ku Klux Klan’s Big Recruiting Weekend
As neo-Nazis, Confederate leagues, “alt-right” fight clubs and emo, lone-wolf white boys compete in the crowded arena for the white supremacist world championship, everyone seems to have forgotten about the old-school, perennial powerhouse that has reigned supreme since the Civil War. The Ku Klux Klan are the New York Yankees of white supremacy; the Alabama…
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Audio Released of Pregnant Woman Killed After Calling Police
Updated Monday, June 19, 2017, 12:47 p.m. EDT: Seattle police have released audio of the police shooting that ended with Charleena Lyles dead in front of her children. The audio, linked to dashboard cameras in the two patrol cars responding to the initial call, is redacted in certain areas, according to the Seattle Times. The…
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Apparently, Senate Republicans Don’t Believe White Men Are Terrorists
Hours after a white male opened fire on members of Congress, Senate Republicans hosted a hearing on violent extremism. Aside from a perfunctory mention of James T. Hodgkinson’s violent extremist act that very morning, GOP members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs called on a number of Islamophobic “experts” to sidestep…
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This Lying, Murdering Whore Called America
Today—almost a year after a man who took an oath to protect and serve sent a bullet into the skull of another human being at point-blank range who was absolutely no threat to anyone on earth—12 jurors, a judge and and the entire American justice system stood on the grave of Philando Castile, took an…
