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Aurora, Colo., Police Apologize After Handcuffing and Detaining Black Children Wrongly Suspected of Riding in Stolen Car
When we talk about systemic racism in policing, we’re not just talking about the extrajudicial executions of unarmed Black people. It’s not just about the shootings and the chokehold, but it’s also about racial profiling, harassment and the general disregard for the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of any Black person that police suspect have…
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'Back the Blue' Mural in Tampa Is Almost as Ugly as the Message It Sends
Over the weekend, a group of people who likely think “racial profiling” refers to white people using Black emojis on their social media posts painted a “Back the Blue” mural on a street outside the Tampa Police Department headquarters. At least I think it reads “Back the Blue.” It might also read “Bock the Blup,”…
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KFC Trinidad Getting Dragged for Celebrating Emancipation Day With a Chicken Drum-Black Fist Image Is So 2020
KFC Trinidad and Tobago is apologizing for its ill-advised decision to recognize Emancipation Day.
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‘The Aryan Nation Will Rule the World’: Florida White Supremacists Charged With Battery After Assaulting Server
Bruh… How is it that the state of Florida manages to collect so many of America’s craziest white people, why are those white people so often passionate racists, and why are those racists always Trump supporters? The last part of that question definitely answers itself, but still. On Friday, a white man covered in swastika…
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120 Anti-Racism Protesters Were Arrested in Omaha. Protesters and Police Tell Different Versions of What Happened
Around 120 anti-racism protesters were arrested in Omaha, Neb., Saturday after police officers in riot gear blocked off both exits of the highway overpass that protesters had marched onto. Surprising to absolutely no one, police officers and protesters have very different accounts of what happened that night. The Omaha World-Herald reports that protesters marched from…
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Florida Man Charged With False Imprisonment After Detaining Black Teen and Lying to Police
We joke a lot about Karens and their male counterparts. We give them funny nicknames like, “BBQ Becky” and “Permit Patty,” and we enjoy indulging in our own wit and pettiness—roasting roast-worthy people is kind of our thing—it’s part of the culture. But don’t get it twisted: we also call for them to be fired…
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Colorado Department of Public Health to Investigate the Use of Ketamine by Paramedics to Sedate Elijah McClain
When it comes to the August 24, 2019 death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain, plenty has been said in condemnation of the Aurora, Colo., police officers who approached him while he was walking home and placed him in a chokehold, but not nearly as much is mentioned about the paramedics who administered the drug ketamine to…
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The American Academy of Pediatrics Formally Apologizes to 2 Black Doctors Denied Membership Due to Racism
Just over 80 years ago, two Black doctors applied for membership to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and there were rejected repeatedly for six years. On Wednesday, the AAP issued an official apology to the two physicians for the racism that kept them out of the academy from 1939 to 1945, when they were…
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Nevada Sheriff Threatens to Stop Responding to 911 Calls From Library Over Its Support for Black Lives Matter
Is anyone else beginning to feel like cops are really just a bunch of babies? It’s as if they spent generations in the top five of white suburban kids’ “What I want to be when I grow up” lists and, for 32 seasons, had the show Cops calling them “bad boys” and making policing look…
