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New Video Shows Ahmaud Arbery Being Harassed by Police in 2017; Family Wants Man Who Recorded Arbery's Death Arrested
Another video has been released in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, and unfortunately, it depicts a cycle of harassment known all too well by black men and women in this country. According to the Associated Press, a video from 2017 shows Arbery being harassed by Glynn County Police officers. An officer repeatedly asks Arbery if…
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Louisville Mayor Will Require All Officers to Wear Body Cameras In Aftermath of Breonna Taylor Shooting
The case of Breonna Taylor—the 26-year-old EMT who was fatally shot by Louisville police officers during the execution of a “no-knock” search warrant at the wrong home—has recently been receiving the attention it deserves after nearly two months of slow media coverage. Now, the mayor is instituting a new policy requiring all officers to wear…
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Lawsuit Accuses Missouri Police of Brutalizing Black Mother and Son Falsely Accused of Theft
A 68-year-old black woman is suing the city of Des Peres, Mo., and four white police officers who she accuses of brutalizing her and her 43-year-old son at a Sam’s Club store on March 23 after the officers wrongly suspected them of stealing a TV that they had paid for. The Associated Press reports that…
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Brooklyn Doctor Who Put Off Retirement to Fight Coronavirus Dies From COVID-19
For nearly 40 years, Dr. James Mahoney saw his patients through the most challenging events New York City faced. He worked on the frontlines of University Hospital in Brooklyn, helping patients weather the AIDS and crack epidemics. As the New York Times reports, he was at the “chronically underfunded” state-run hospital through the Sept. 11…
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Lawsuit Filed in 2019 Against Cop Involved in Breonna Taylor’s Death Claims He Was Vindictive, Planted Evidence
A civil lawsuit filed last year against one of the officers who raided 26-year-old Breonna Taylor’s Louisville, Ky., home in March accused him of being a vindictive, “dirty” cop who had no qualms about planting drugs on suspects. According to USA Today, Kendrick Wilson filed a federal lawsuit against narcotics detective Brett Hankison in October…
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Search Continues After Ex-WWE Star Shad Gaspard Goes Missing During Beach Swim
Shad Gaspard has had a storied career both in and out of the World Wrestling Entertainment. Unfortunately, an afternoon swim with his son has resulted in potentially tragic circumstances. TMZ reports the 39-year-old Gaspard went missing on Sunday after going for a swim at Venice Beach with his 10-year-old son. A strong rip current came…
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South Carolina Teacher Quits After Being Accused of Being a Neo-Nazi
Racism in American schools is, unfortunately, not all that uncommon. Whether it’s a teacher calling the cops on a student for not switching seats, telling a student to go back to their country or a 6-year-old black girl being sent to a mental institution, teachers have a surprisingly long track record of being trash. That…
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'They Broke My Son’s Face in 5 Places’: Des Moines Black Man Beaten in Potential Hate Crime
A black man was found brutally beaten in Des Moines, Iowa on Saturday, and he identified his assailants as three white men who used racial slurs during the attack. Now, his father and members of the Des Moines NAACP chapter are urging investigators to look into the possibility that a hate crime was committed. The…
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Georgia Keeps Releasing Misleading Data About Its COVID-19 Cases
Georgia’s Department of Public Health is being called out by epidemiology experts, elected officials and residents for releasing misleading information about COVID-19 numbers in the state, which was one of the first in the country to reopen in the midst of the pandemic. The DPH published a graph to its website last week that appeared…