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  • Bengals’ Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones to Police: ‘I Hope You Die’

    I’m unclear as to how the Cincinnati Bengals’ Adam “Pacman” Jones still has a job. When it comes to playing football, he’s decent, but when it comes to causing trouble, he’s amazing. He’s literally world-class. Recently Jones was arrested for doing Pacman stuff (which usually means cursing someone out or spitting on someone or fighting…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Ohio Family's Home Trashed; Swastikas and 'White Power' Spray-Painted on Walls

    Pat Jude and her husband, Joe, left their Cincinnati rental home to visit their daughter. When they returned, the interracial couple found their place trashed and vandalized with swastikas. “They hit every cabinet with paint,” Pat Jude told NBC 4. “They hit every wall with paint. They hit every appliance, they poured paint into the…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Cincinnati Prosecutor to Retry Former Officer in Sam Dubose Shooting Death

    Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney Joseph Deters announced Tuesday that he will retry former Police Officer Ray Tensing in the fatal shooting of Sam Dubose, a black man, during a traffic stop last year, CBS News reports. “It is our belief that the public attention that has been focused on the Tensing case could have, in fact, seeped…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Another White Student Posts Photos in Blackface on Social Media

    Another day, another white college student caught in blackface on social media. The latest incident has sparked student body and community outrage at Xavier University in Cincinnati, after the image of a white female student in blackface went viral, Raw Story reports. The caption under the problematic Snapchat photo read, “Who needs white when black…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Cincinnati Police Department Reviewing Black Cop's Facebook Post About White Officers

    A black Cincinnati police officer has found himself the center of attention after making a Facebook post saying that white officers are just “looking for a reason to kill a black man,” the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. The Cincinnati Police Department is reviewing the post under its “social media procedure and our rules and regulations,” Police…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Endangered Gorilla Killed After Boy Falls Into Pen at Cincinnati Zoo

    A 4-year-old boy was hospitalized Saturday after climbing into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and falling about 10 feet into a moat that surrounded the habitat. A 17-year-old gorilla was shot and killed to protect the boy. USA Today reports that Cincinnati police and emergency crews responded to a report of a child…

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    The Root Staff

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