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Video Shows Denver Police Tripping Pregnant Woman
Denver police have come under scrutiny after a witness, bearing video evidence, says that they used excessive force in restraining a suspect, tripped a heavily pregnant woman and tried to cover it all up by deleting the video from the witness’ tablet, Fox 31 reports. Levi Frasier was recording the shocking arrest of David Flores…
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Thanksgiving Away From Home? Here Are Some Rules for the Road
I haven’t been home for Thanksgiving in almost 10 years. I typically reserve trips home to Houston for Christmas, weddings and family reunions (and that more somber occasion that starts with an “f”). For the several years that I spent Thanksgiving in Washington, D.C., I would spend the day with various combinations of cousins and…
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Sharpton: Public Outrage Was Exacerbated by Prosecutor’s ‘Frontal Attack’ on Michael Brown’s Character
Two days after a grand jury refused to indict Ferguson, Mo., police Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, Brown’s parents appeared with the Rev. Al Sharpton at the Harlem headquarters of National Action Network, the civil rights organization founded by Sharpton in 1991. They remain determined to keep the legacy…
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Watch: Cleveland Police Shoot 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice Within Seconds of Arriving on Scene
Cleveland has released video showing the moment that 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot dead by police, Cleveland.com reports. In the video, which lacks audio, Tamir can be seen getting up from a bench at a West Side recreation center, and walking as a police cruiser pulls up. In a split second, an officer exits the…
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Former Model and Restaurateur B. Smith Is Found
Updated Wed., Nov. 26, 2:45 p.m. EST: CBS Evening News tweeted confirmation that B. Smith has been found at a New York City diner, following reports of her being missing. Earlier: B. Smith, the renowned former model and restaurateur, has gone missing while traveling from New York City to Sag Harbor, N.Y., MyFoxNY reports. According to…
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Michael Brown Family’s Church Set on Fire, Center of Arson Probe
After the Monday announcement of the grand jury decision not to indict Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, the Brown family has suffered another blow: Their church was set on fire that night, NBC News reports. According to the report, federal investigators are looking into the…
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Watch: Driver Hits Michael Brown Protesters in Minneapolis
A car that drove into a group of protesters Tuesday afternoon in Minneapolis hit several people who were rallying for justice for Michael Brown a day after a St. Louis grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting Brown. According to video taken by helicopter for news station KSTP, a vehicle…
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Darren Wilson and Wife Expecting a Child; Would Love to Teach on Use of Force
Being a police officer was the job of his life. He thought that he would work for 30 years and then make sergeant and then retire. But Aug. 9 changed all of that for Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed unarmed teen Michael Brown. In the second installment of an hour-and-a-half…
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Hispanic and Arab Americans Want Their Own Racial Categories on the 2020 Census
Civil rights groups are on different pages about the proposed changes that census officials might make to the racial and ethnic categories that appear on the 2020 census. According to Al-Jazeera, the changes are meant to reconcile the concerns of Hispanic and Arab American groups that don’t feel as if the current slate of racial…
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44 Arrested as Tension in Ferguson Grows
The second day of protests continued in Ferguson, Mo., as police arrested some 44 people, but authorities considered Tuesday’s protests to be more calm overall, and attributed that to the some 2,000 National Guard troops deployed to the St. Louis suburb. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar noted…