Crime
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Black Lives Finally Matter? The FBI Will Launch a Database to Keep Track of Deadly Police Encounters
According to the Associated Press, the federal government will roll out a national database that will keep track of when law enforcement officers use deadly force. In doing so, the intent is provide more transparency about these encounters, as they continue to remain commonplace. The FBI national database, announced recently and being launched in January,…
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Alleged Gunman, His Girlfriend, a Police Officer and 1 Other Dead in Shooting at Chicago Hospital [Updated]
One person is reported dead and at least three others—including one police officer—were wounded after a gunman opened fire at a Chicago hospital on Monday afternoon. The incident happened around 3:20 p.m. at Mercy Hospital & Medical Center. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told the Chicago Tribune that the suspect was found inside the hospital. He…
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Former Rutgers Football Player Charged In Murder Plot He Allegedly Confessed To
This story is just weird. Know that up front. Izala Bullock is a 22-year-old former linebacker for Rutgers University. On Tuesday, he was charged with two-counts of first-degree attempted murder and two counts of first-degree conspiracy to commit murder after police and prosecutors say he “initiated a plot to murder the family members of an…
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New Developments in the Death of Lyric McHenry Lead to an Arrest
Lyric McHenry was celebrating her 26th birthday when she left her party at New York City’s Dream Hotel without saying a word to the gathered guests. Early the next morning, on August 14, she was found dead on an overpass above the Major Deegan Expressway in the Highbridge area of the Bronx with “scraped knees…
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‘Whites Don’t Shoot Whites,’ Said Alleged Kroger Shooter Who Killed 2 Black People
A man who walked into a Louisville, Ky., area Kroger supermarket Wednesday afternoon and opened fire on unsuspecting shoppers, killing two people, reportedly told a man outside that he didn’t have to worry about being shot because “whites don’t shoot whites.” Gregory Alan Bush, a 51-year-old white man, was arrested and charged with two counts…
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Pooch Hall Facing 6 Years in Prison After DUI Involving 2-Year-Old Son
Although may be best known as a player on the Showtime series, Ray Donovan, most of us got to know and love Marion “Pooch” Hall from BET’s The Game. But what the 44-year-old actor is facing is anything but. TMZ reports that Hall has just been criminally charged with one count of child endangerment and…
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8 Observations About a Ridiculous Beer Robbery in Texas
When I was alerted to a beer robbery in Arlington, Texas, that happened last week, I assumed some white dude ran into a convenience store, pulled a pistol out, and headed out with some hops. I assumed as much because that story would make sense, or as much sense as any crime can make. That’s…
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Man Faces Murder Charges After Ambushing South Carolina Cops
Frederick Hopkins, 74, has been charged with murder and six counts of attempted murder in an ambush on South Carolina police officers. According to CNN, Sgt. Terrence Carraway, a 30-year veteran of the Florence Police Department, was killed after arriving on the scene during the two-hour standoff. Hopkins was formally charged at noon Friday and…
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Sex Worker Stole Cop's Jeep. She Says He Was Just A 'Trick'
Taquanna Lawton has been charged with grand larceny for stealing an NYPD officer’s Jeep Wrangler in Brooklyn Tuesday morning after he left the vehicle to get money from an ATM to pay for her sex services. As Lawton, 20, explains it, she and 13-year veteran officer Ali Sheppard had a business relationship and that he…