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Chicago Judge in Jussie Smollett Special Prosecutor Case Reassigns Matter to New Jurist
The judge who was to decide whether to appoint a special prosecutor to look into how all charges came to be dropped against Jussie Smollett has decided to let a different judge handle it. Judge LeRoy Martin Jr. said Friday he was not recusing himself from the case, merely reassigning it. Martin came under scrutiny…
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3 White Women Harassed a Black Gardener for More than a Year. He Got Hit With Stalking Charges
For more than a year, three white women made Marc Peeples’ life hell—all for the sin of building a community garden in their Detroit neighborhood. As the Detroit Metro Times reports, throughout 2017 and early 2018, the women harassed Peeples, who is black, and called the police on him multiple times, alleging that he was…
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Prosecutors Say Story of White Man Peeing on 5-Year-Old Black Girl Was Fabricated
Many of us were horrified (and beyond furious) when we heard news of a white man urinating on a black girl child and calling her a racial slur in an alley in Western Michigan. Yet prosecutors in the case are now saying the children involved in the incident made the story up. The AP reports…