Politics
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W.Va. Teacher Suspended Over Racist Tweets Referencing 'Obama's Children'
Them Twitter fingers will get you into trouble real quick. A social studies teacher at Huntington High School in West Virginia has been suspended with pay and was asked to delete her personal Twitter account after the discovery of several racially charged tweets shared via that account for more than a year, the Herald-Dispatch reports.…
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Pa. Pizza Deliveryman Shot Multiple Times by Police Gets $4,400,000 Settlement
A Philadelphia pizza deliveryman who was shot multiple times after plainclothes police officers fired 14 times at his vehicle has agreed to a $4.4 million settlement with the city, the Associated Press reports. Philippe Holland still has bullet fragments in his brain and suffers from a seizure disorder after being hit in the head, neck…
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6 NAACP Members Arrested in Protest of Jeff Sessions Bid for US Attorney General
Six NAACP members were arrested late Tuesday at Sen. Jeff Sessions’ Mobile, Ala., office ending a sit-in to protest the nomination of Sessions (R-Ala.) as U.S. attorney general. According to CNN, five men and one woman, including NAACP President Cornell W. Brooks, were arrested and charged with criminal trespass in the second degree. The protesters…
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Black Teen Slammed to Ground at Texas Pool Party Sues Ex-Cop, City for $5,000,000
A Texas teen who was slammed to the ground and pinned down by a McKinney, Texas, police officer during a pool party in June 2015 has now filed a federal suit against the now former cop, the city and the McKinney Police Department, the Dallas Morning News reports. According to the report, Dajerria Becton and…
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Black Lives Matter Activist Faces Restraining Order From L.A. Police Commissioner
The president of the Los Angeles Police Commission filed a request for a temporary restraining order against a prominent member of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles. Matt M. Johnson, who has been president of the police commission since September 2015, said that he feared for his life and the safety of his family, and he…
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Lawyer Releases Video of Fort Worth, Texas, Police Officer Shooting Black Man in Back
On Tuesday a video was released showing a Fort Worth, Texas, police officer shooting a black man in the back as he walked away. However, as NBCDFW notes, the police and the man’s lawyer are not seeing eye to eye on whether the July shooting, which left the man paralyzed, was justified. David Collie released…
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Full-Length Version of Viral Video of Fort Worth, Texas, Police Officer Posted Online
The full, nearly 30-minute version of the viral video showing an unidentified white Fort Worth, Texas, police officer antagonizing and then arresting a black mother and her two daughters was posted on YouTube on Friday. It does not reveal any new information about the arrests, but it contains graphic and explicit language, so viewer discretion…
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Fort Worth, Texas, Police Chief: Officer Acted ‘Rude’ but Not Racist in Viral Video
Officials in Fort Worth, Texas, said Friday that they were disturbed and outraged by the video of a white police officer arresting a black woman and her two daughters after she called police to report an assault on her son. The now viral video of Wednesday’s incident was posted to Facebook, causing many to accuse…
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Black Judge Removed From Philando Castile Shooting Case
Lawyers representing St. Anthony, Minn., Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez in the shooting death of Philando Castile filed a notice to remove a black judge—Ramsey County, Minn.’s second-most-senior judge—from the case, the Star Tribune reports. According to the report, the notice to remove Ramsey County District Court Judge Edward Wilson was filed Thursday, citing a rule…
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UPDATE: Lana Sprayberry, Dallas Principal Under Fire After Her Fort Worth Post Went Viral, Resigns
Updated Saturday, Dec. 24, 7:01 p.m. EDT: Lana Sprayberry, principal of Inspired Vision Academy Elementary School in Dallas, has resigned amid calls for her to be fired. Good riddance. See the statement from A+Charter Schools Inc. below: Earlier: Lana Sprayberry, principal of Inspired Vision Academy Elementary School in Dallas, is under fire after her post…