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Cops Just Won't Stop Handcuffing Black Children: 11-Year Old Girl Detained Despite Proof She'd Been Misidentified
Is it really that hard to not put handcuffs on black children? One would think that given report after report after report on cops handcuffing or otherwise using excessive force on black children as young as 8-years old, people in law enforcement would get the message that the practice is unnecessarily cruel. And yet, here we…
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White Reporter Resigns After Using N-Word in Twitter Direct-Messaging Convo
Valerie Hoff, a veteran reporter with Atlanta’s 11Alive news, resigned over the weekend after trying to get the scoop on a video of a white cop punching a black man turned into her using the n-word in conversation with the man who posted the video to social media. On April 13, Curtis Rivers posted a…