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L.A. City Council Agrees to $2,000,000 Settlement With Family of Man LAPD Shot and Killed in His Driveway
The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday approved a $2 million settlement with the family of a man who was shot and killed by police in his driveway after his family called for help because he was exhibiting suicidal behavior. Christopher Eaddy, 26, had a history of brain injury, and the Los Angeles Times reports that his…
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NYPD Officer Reprimanded for Tweeting #BlackLivesMatter From Her Personal Twitter Account
An officer with the New York City Police Department’s 76th Precinct is in hot water with her superiors after she reportedly replied to a department Twitter post with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. Police Officer Gwendolyn Bishop is black, and the New York Daily News reports that she was hit with departmental charges and accused of inappropriately writing…
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Lawyer Asks Federal Judge to Dismiss Cop’s Lawsuit Against Black Lives Matter Activist
Campaign Zero co-founder and prominent activist in the Movement for Black Lives DeRay Mckesson is being sued by an unnamed Baton Rouge, La., police officer who claims he was injured during a protest in the city four days after a police officer killed Alton Sterling, and now an attorney for Mckesson is urging a federal…
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Student’s Violent Threat Against Her Md. School Thwarted Because Her Parents Turned Her In
Authorities in Frederick County, Md., said that they were able to stop a teenager who was planning violence at her high school because her parents alerted them to her plan. The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office identified the 18-year-old Catoctin High School student as Nichole Cevario and said she was transferred to a hospital for emergency…
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Innocent Man in Los Angeles Freed After Serving 20 Years for Attempted Murder
File this under “Our messed-up justice system just righted an incredible wrong”: A man who spent 20 years behind bars for a gas station shooting he didn’t commit was freed Tuesday by a Los Angeles County judge. Marco Contreras, 41, was convicted in 1997 of attempted robbery and attempted murder for a 1996 shooting at…
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23 People File Complaint Asking Justice Department to Begin Criminal Probe of Its Boss
A complaint sent to the U.S. Department of Justice Monday alleges that Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied in his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee about his communications with the Russian government and later tried to cover up the lie, and asks the department to launch a criminal inquiry of its boss. The complaint names…
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#Flint: Lawsuit Settlement Guarantees Service-Line Replacements, Not Water Delivery
A civil lawsuit that originally sought door-to-door delivery of bottled water to residents of Flint, Mich., was settled with a guarantee to replace 18,000 lead and galvanized service lines in the city. According to MLive, the settlement agreement was filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit on Monday, and comes close to bringing to an…
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NYPD Detective Charged With Being a Disgusting Creep Who Preys on Women
A detective with the New York City Police Department has been arrested and charged after police say he went around peering in bedroom windows with a flashlight and then exposing himself to those inside, and three of those alleged victims are under the age of 16. NBC New York reports that Robert Francis, a 17-year…
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Fla. Man Kills Girlfriend, Shoots 5 Other People, Including Her 2 Young Sons: Report
A man in Sanford, Fla., reportedly killed his girlfriend and shot five other people, including the woman’s 7- and 8-year-old sons, Monday in what the Sanford police chief describes as a domestic incident that went wrong. Police Chief Cecil Smith told the Orlando Sentinel that Allen Dion Cashe, 31, had an argument with his girlfriend,…
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GSA Gives Trump a Pass on His Conflict of Interest With the DC Trump International Hotel
While we were all distracted by the collapsing Jenga tower that is this current administration and its antics, President Donald Trump got good news Thursday when the General Services Administration said in a letter that the Trump Organization is in “full compliance” with its lease on its Washington, D.C., hotel. GSA oversees the 3-year-old lease…
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