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When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong: Seattle Police Sergeant Demoted After Sitting Outside a Black Man’s Job Waiting for an Apology
Police work isn’t easy, especially when you are a police sergeant with the Seattle Police Department who got called a “bitch,” a “ho,” a “punk” and thoroughly cussed out by a hardworking couple who had their car towed by him while they were sleeping. He was just doing his job, after all. Sgt. Frank Poblocki’s…
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How Does a California Department of Justice Review of the Sacramento Police Department Impact the Stephon Clark Case?
Last week, the California Department of Justice released a report and recommendations for improvements within the Sacramento Police Department specifically pertaining to its use-of-force policy. The 97-page “Sacramento Police Department Report & Recommendations 2019” (pdf) was released just days after the state DOJ turned over the findings from its independent investigation of the shooting and…
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Woman Who Filmed Aftermath of Botham Jean Shooting Says She Has Received Death Threats, Was Fired From Her Job as a Result
A woman who is a resident of the Southside Flats apartments in Dallas—where Botham Jean was killed by his police officer neighbor Amber Guyger—says she has been fired from her job and has been the target of death threats since she posted the video online. ABC News reports that the woman, who only wants to…
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Your Little ‘President’ Is a Pathological Liar
At this point, it should not be news to anyone that by all appearances, Donald Trump is a deranged lunatic who has a tenuous grip on reality. Nothing he says makes sense. He wouldn’t know the truth if it walked up to him, tapped him on the shoulder and pointed to the brightly colored “Hello”…
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Black Lives Matter Leaders Sue Sacramento Sheriff for Censoring Them on Facebook
It is unconstitutional for Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones to ban people from his public Facebook page based on their speech, identity or views. That is the basis of a lawsuit filed Wednesday on behalf of two leaders of the Sacramento chapter of Black Lives Matter by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California,…
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Chicago Police Identify ‘Potential Persons of Interest’ in Jussie Smollett Attack
After reviewing hundreds of hours of security camera video footage, Chicago police said Wednesday they had identified “potential persons of interest” in relation to the reported racist and homophobic attack against actor Jussie Smollett. Anthony Guglielmi, chief communications officer for the Chicago Police Department, tweeted Wednesday afternoon “CASE UPDATE: Hours ago #ChicagoPolice detectives located a…
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Stacey Abrams, Who Came ThisClose to Winning Georgia Governor's Race, to Deliver Democratic Response to State of the Union Address: Report
Reports are swirling across the internet that Stacey Abrams, who ran as the the candidate against Republican Brian Kemp for governor of Georgia during the 2018 midterm election, has been tapped to deliver the Democratic response to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address before Congress next week. MSNBC host Chris Hayes tweeted Tuesday afternoon…
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Former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger, Who Killed Botham Jean, Appears in Court
Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger made an appearance in court Tuesday morning along with her attorneys. The 30-year-old shot and killed the innocent and unarmed 26-year-old Botham Jean—a black man and native of St. Lucia who was in his own apartment—on Sept. 6. The Dallas Morning News reports that Guyger and her attorneys were…
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#StephonClark: Sacramento DA Says It Will Take Longer to Decide Whether Officers Will be Charged for Killing Unarmed Black Man
On the day attorneys representing the parents, grandparents and children of Stephon Clark filed a lawsuit against the city of Sacramento and the two police officers who killed the 22-year-old man in the backyard of his grandparents’ house, the district attorney’s office announced there would be a delay in its review of the case. In…
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Donald Trump on the State of the Union: Mother May I? Nancy Pelosi: Yes, You May
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to son the shit out of your little “president.” In her latest gathering of the sniffer-in-chief, Pelosi finally gave Donald Trump permission to give the State of the Union address he has been so desperate to deliver. In a letter made public via Twitter by her deputy chief of staff,…
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