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George Zimmerman Arrested in Domestic Violence Case
George Zimmerman, the former volunteer neighborhood watchman who was acquitted in the shooting death of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin, was arrested Friday in a domestic violence case, CNN reports. He was arrested about 10 p.m. in Lake Mary, Fla., near Orlando and charged with aggravated assault and domestic violence with a weapon, according to…
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Watch: Fox Reporter Suggests Color Helps Identify Bad Guys
In typical Fox News fashion, a correspondent essentially equated bad guys with, well, the color of their skin in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo this week. Washington, D.C.-based Fox News correspondent Shannon Bream, who covers the Supreme Court, made the comments Wednesday during an appearance on Outnumbered. She…
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Wish You Could Get That Text Back? There’s an App for That
We’ve all been there. Staring down in horror at our phones at a text we did not mean to send but did anyway for reasons ranging from carelessness to extreme anger to intoxication. Or maybe a friend thought it was funny to prank us and sent the unsendable message as a joke. Regardless of the…
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Former FAMU Student Sentenced to 6 Years for Marching-Band Hazing Death
Dante Martin—the former de facto student president of the hazing rituals conducted by Florida A&M University’s marching band—was sentenced to 77 months in prison (almost six-and-a-half years) for the 2011 hazing death of FAMU student and drum major Robert Champion, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Before Martin’s sentencing on manslaughter charges in Champion’s death, his family,…
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College Student Dies in Ga. Jail Cell; 2 Officials Placed on Administrative Leave
Matthew Ajibade, a 22-year-old Nigerian native who was in the U.S. studying computer science at Savannah Technical College, died last week in a Georgia holding cell while he was in police custody. Two sheriff’s deputies have been placed on administrative leave without pay until the investigation into Ajibade’s death is concluded, CNN reports. Ajibade was…
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3 of the 4 Suspects Tied to Paris Newsroom Massacre Are Dead
On Friday, French officials announced that Cherif and Said Kouachi, the two brothers suspected of gunning down staffers in the Paris newsroom of the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, were shot dead by police in front of a printing plant in Dammartin-en-Goële, a town outside Paris, CNN reports. French law-enforcement officials also described how they engaged another…
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Wanted: Anyone Who Is Young, Fabulous and Female in Washington, DC
Attention, all the young, black and gifted women in Washington, D.C.: The Root’s Young, Fabulous and Female series will kick off 2015 in D.C. on Jan. 27 with on-air personality and journalist Jummy Olabanji (Good Morning Washington, ABC7 News at Noon) as the event’s moderator. For those who are unfamiliar with YFF, join The Root…
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Md. Dump Truck Driver Charged With Attempted Murder in Attack on Police
Police have charged a Maryland dump truck driver with attempted murder, saying that he purposely hit two Prince George’s County police cruisers with his dump truck Wednesday morning, WUSA9 reports. Gene Thomas Brandon Jr. is currently being held without bond on two counts of attempted murder and two counts of first-degree assault. According to the…
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2nd Straight Week of Sharp Declines in NYPD Arrests
On Monday night a New York judge saw only 30 defendants come before him instead of the usual 60 to 90. One arraignment courtroom was used instead of two, the New York Times describes, and the judge closed down shop 45 minutes early because there were “no more cases to call.” According to the Times,…
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A Mother Fears for Her Daughter’s Lost Innocence
The news is littered with stories of people being killed by law-enforcement officials as well as by each other. Protesters have filled our streets demanding justice on both sides of the law. You would have to live under a proverbial rock to be unaware of at least some of the terror that lives within our…