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  • New Video Shows Cop Stepping on NBA Guard Sterling Brown’s Ankle While Discussing Potential Backlash

    New video of the violent arrest of Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown appears to show one officer stepping on Brown’s ankle while he had already been tased and handcuffed while the officers discussed the backlash around taking down a black NBA player. The new bodycam and squad-car videos obtained by WISN-TV and posted online Sunday…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • White Man Once Again Arrested in Connection With 2 Possibly Racially Motivated Killings and a Shooting at Home of Black Family 

    Suspected racist killer Kenneth Gleason is once again back in police custody and is now expected to be booked on multiple charges in connection with two possibly racially motivated killings. Gleason, 23, has also reportedly been connected to a third shooting in which he allegedly shot at the home of a black family, although, thankfully,…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Empire Actor Arrested for Domestic Violence

    Morocco Omari, 41, the actor who plays Lucious Lyon’s bitter half-brother on Fox’s Empire, was arrested this week after allegedly brutalizing a woman in Chicago. According to TMZ, Omari pushed a 24-year-old woman to the ground during an argument Wednesday night, and she was left with visible bruises on her neck. The actor was arrested…

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  • Seattle Seahawks QB Arrested After Car Crashes Into Bar

    Seattle Seahawks backup quarterback Trevone Boykin was arrested early Monday morning after a car he was in crashed into a Dallas bar, injuring five people. Boykin, a former standout at Texas Christian University, was a passenger in the car that crashed into Sidebar Bar around 2 a.m., Fox 4 News reports. According to the news…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • How a Nosy Woman Got a Doctoral Candidate Beaten and Arrested

    Lawrence Crosby, a black man and an engineering doctoral candidate at Northwestern University, was fixing his car in a suburb outside Chicago on Oct. 10, 2015, when a woman passing by called police. “Hi, somebody’s trying to break into, somebody’s trying to break into a car,” the woman told the dispatcher, according to Fox 32.…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Man Charged With Murdering His Ex-Teacher and Their Son in NYC

    Isaac Infante, 23, of Bethlehem, Pa., was arrested and charged with two counts of first- and second-degree murder Tuesday in the deaths of his son, Miguel Barahona, 4, and the boy’s mother, Felicia Barahona, 36, in New York City, Reuters reports. Felicia Barahona was once Infante’s high school teacher. On Monday, police, responding to an emergency…

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    The Root Staff

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  • 5 Malnourished Kids Found Living in Car at Fla. Wal-Mart

    Donell Barron, 34, and Rikki Hart, 34, were arrested Sunday after authorities say a deputy found five malnourished children living in a car at a Wal-Mart in Greenacres, Fla., the Palm Beach Post reports. It’s unclear what the relationship is between Barron, Hart and the five kids, ages 4, 5, 6, 8 and 14. The…

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    The Root Staff

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  • When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong: Mannequin Challenge Leads to 2 Arrests

    The Mannequin Challenge has jumped the shark, but apparently those in Alabama weren’t made aware of this, since two men were arrested after video was posted showing them aiming guns. Kenneth Fennel White, 49, and Terry Brown, 23, were busted after being spotted in the heavily armed video, WHNT reports. It’s not clear whether the…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Series of Arrests and Troubling Mug Shot Photo End Once Promising Football Career

    Cliff Harris once had a promising career. He was an All-American cornerback and returner with the Oregon Ducks, but several arrests got him booted from the team. On Sunday a disturbing mug shot was released showing the depths to which Harris has fallen. In 2010, arguably the height of Harris’ career, the now 25-year-old helped…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Report: Hairstylist Pepper-Sprays Unhappy Customer

    A hairstylist, Maryam Simpson, 35, was arrested Monday, almost two weeks after authorities say she pepper-sprayed a client after she expressed that she was unhappy with the haircut Simpson gave her, according to the New York Daily News. Simpson, who advertised her hairstyling services online, was working at the client’s apartment when the two began arguing…

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    The Root Staff

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