Crime
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Pastor Faces Eternal Damnation (and 10 Years in Prison) For Stealing $35,000 From Church
“Food gained by fraud tastes sweet, but one ends up with a mouth full of gravel.” – Proverbs 20:17 I’ve never tasted $35,000 worth of gravel before, but I would imagine it tastes like either pruno or an under-seasoned felony conviction. But one individual who will have all the time in the world to find…
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Police and Media Royally Botch Response to First Recorded Murder of Trans Woman in 2019
We’ve started 2019 by continuing to fail black trans women. On Sunday night, 31-year-old Dana Martin was found left for dead with a gunshot wound “in a car that had crashed in a ditch” in Montgomery, Ala., according to AL.com. Police think the shooting happened near the vehicle, and no arrests have been made. Despite…
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Bowling Alley Shooting in California Leaves 3 Dead, 4 Injured
At least three men were killed and four more were injured in a shooting at a Torrance, Calif. bowling alley, according to the Los Angeles Times. The shooting, which was apparently preceded by a fight, was reported at 11:54 p.m. at Gable House Bowl on Hawthorne Boulevard, near Sepulveda. Officers arriving at the bowling alley discovered…
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Career Criminal Learns His White Privilege Extends to Kicking Black Toddlers and Bonding Out (for Free) Hours Later
I’ve always maintained that unlike Kanye’s MAGA hat, White Privilege is an actual superpower. While not quite invisibility or flight, it bestows its possessors with the unique ability to circumvent suspicion, culpability, or other negative experiences that people of color routinely endure. It also includes a wide assortment of systemic benefits and advantages that I…
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Instead of Waiting for the Ball to Drop, Utah Implements Strictest DUI Law in the Country One Day Before New Year’s Eve
For Utah residents looking to spend their New Year’s Eve getting white girl wasted, a hangover just officially became the least of their concerns. Because Sunday morning, a new law went into effect that drops the state’s blood alcohol content limit from 0.08 to 0.05—the strictest DUI standard in the entire country. Happy New Year!…
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Driver Tries to Finesse Tolls by Hiding Plates with Chicken Sticker. He’s My New Hero
There are times when the media will be reporting on a crime story, and as we sit there taking in all the details of the crime—whether horrific or just stupid in nature—we are saying a silent prayer that the suspect is not black. Don’t bother lying. We all have done it. We all do it.…