illinois
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White Ill. Family Reportedly Almost Drowns Black Teen During Racial-Slur-Laced Beating
An Illinois family is facing multiple charges after, police say, they beat up a black teenager while shouting racial slurs at a campground in Canton, WLS reports. Carrie Weller, 42, and her two sons—21-year-old Corry Weller and 19-year-old Shane Weller—are facing charges of battery, mob action and a hate crime for the late-Sunday-afternoon beating of the…
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An Ill. Woman Fired Warning Shots to Scare Off Man Who Had Just Killed Her Fiance. Now She Sits in Jail. How’s That Justice?
Here is what the law tells us: You have a right to protect yourself. Here is how the law is applied: If you are black and attempt to protect yourself, it’s highly likely that you will be arrested for protecting yourself. There is nothing new here. We all know that the application of the law…
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Ill. Woman Charged for Firing Warning Shots After Gunman Fatally Shot Fiance
Ashley Harrison, 26, and her fiance and father of her two children, Garvin Whitmore, 27, were stopped at a light on an Aurora, Ill., street when a gunman walked up to the car and shot Whitmore in the head. Frantic, Harrison grabbed a .357 Magnum inside the car and fired several times in the air,…