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NYC Cop Who Killed Dwayne Jeune Shot Another Mentally Ill Man Last Year: Report
The officer who shot and killed 32-year-old Dwayne Jeune on Monday reportedly shot another man in mental distress late last year. On Monday the New York City Police Department identified Officer Miguel Gonzalez of the 67th Precinct in the borough of Brooklyn as the cop who pumped five bullets into Jeune after his mother called…
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Just When Jeff Sessions’ Seat Is Up for Special Election, a Judge Rules That Ala. Doesn’t Have to Tell Felons They May Be Able to Vote. Hmmm
Although there are small victories holding against the tide of voter suppression, there is still a long way to go. A federal judge ruled Friday that Alabama election officials don’t have to tell those affected about a change in state voting qualifications that may give thousands of convicted felons the right to vote. HuffPost reports:…
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Minn. Police Training Fund Won’t Be Named After Philando Castile After All Because That Would Be Too Much Like Right
In an 8-2 vote on Thursday, the Minnesota peace officer training board declined to name a police training fund after Philando Castile, a 32-year-old black man shot and killed by police last year for … driving while black. As reported by The Root, on the one-year anniversary of Castile’s shooting death at the hands of…
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NYPD Guns Down Yet Another Black Person in Mental Distress, This Time in Brooklyn, NY
This story is becoming frighteningly more common and ever more distressing. A person calls 911 to help a loved one in a mental-health crisis, and said loved one is then shot and killed by police. Sometimes the person is “armed” with a bat or a knife, sometimes not. This sad tale was told once again…
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Shady Phaedra Parks Caught in Yet Another Whopper, This Time About Trying to Rent Out Her House
In the latest installment of When the Good Checks Stop Coming In, Phaedra Parks, attorney and, apparently, former cast member of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, tried to quietly make a few bucks by renting out her new home. She was bounced from the show just a few months after purchasing a $1.91 million, six-bedroom,…
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Shame on You Jeff Bezos! Amazon Data Center Threatens a Century-Old Black Va. Neighborhood
More than a few outraged citizens turned out this weekend to protest the fact that behemoth company Amazon.com, via its lackey Dominion Virginia, is attempting to seize 50 acres of land belonging to a mostly elderly African-American Northern Virginia community that dates back to slavery. The move would pave over residents’ homes and build power…
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Brooklyn, NY, Man Shot and Paralyzed by Cop 28 Years Ago Dies; Coroner Rules It a Homicide
And for those who think that police brutality is a new thing because of video evidence, think again. On March 31, 1989, a Brooklyn, N.Y., man was shot and paralyzed by a cop’s bullet. He recently died, and authorities have now ruled his death a homicide. Brian Evans, 46, died of kidney failure July 11,…
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The Mooch Is Officially a Douche: He Texted His Wife After She Gave Birth, Saying ‘Congratulations,’ According to Report
You know you want to get the hell out when you file for divorce and you’re nine months pregnant. But that’s exactly what Deidre Scaramucci, née Ball, did when she filed for divorce from her husband of three years, Anthony Scaramucci, the vulgar new White House communications director, while she was full with child. The…
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Mad ‘Preacher’ Mows Down 6 in Queens, NY, Before Driving Into Pond
A wacked-out man dressed in preachers’ flowing white robes plowed into six people, critically injuring two, before driving into a pond Saturday evening. “Hallelujah!! Praise Jesus!” said the unidentified driver after emerging from a Ford Econoline van with the words “Psalm 24” and “Psalm 27” written on the back. According to the New York Daily…
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Is the Pied Piper’s Music Finally Fading? R. Kelly Ticket Sales Way Down
Though there have always been pockets of disgust amid the black community’s seemingly undying support for R. Kelly—the R&B singer who has allegedly preyed upon young black girls and young women for decades—it looks like folks are finally getting the message about Mr. Creepy. Kellz, currently on the After Party Tour, has been reportedly singing…
