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Indiana Teen Suddenly ‘Ashamed’ After Video of Him Shouting Racial Slurs Into Megaphone, Carrying Nazi Flag Went Viral
Life catches up with you—especially when you think it’ll be all fun and games to chant racial slurs into a bullhorn while wearing a Nazi flag draped over your shoulders. It’s a lesson 17-year-old Mat Blood is learning after video of his little stunt—with him marching up and down with the flag and yelling, “Fuck…
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Heroic Cop Suspended When Officers Complain After She Violently Attacks Their White Privilege
A Plainfield, Ind., policewoman was placed on administrative leave after she committed an act of blatant terrorism, injuring hundreds of white police officers by calling them out for their “white male privilege.” According to an RTV6 report, the Plainfield Police Department was taking a transgender-awareness training seminar sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice along…
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Indiana High School Employee Is Being Fired After Participating in Game of Hangman That Used Racial Slur: Report
A Kokomo (Ind.) High School employee is facing the music after he was recorded on cellphone video playing a game of hangman that used the n-word. As the Kokomo Tribune reports, the eight-second video shows a student and Greg Ostapa, a paraprofessional at the high school, playing the easily recognized game on a tablet. The…
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EEOC Sues Ind. Nursing Home for Allowing Residents to Be Racist Toward Black Employees
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing an Indiana nursing home for subjecting its black employees to harassment and honoring the racist preferences of its residents. The Indianapolis Star reports that the claim was filed Tuesday. The EEOC charges that Hamilton Pointe nursing home in Evansville, Ind., blocked its black employees from entering the rooms of…
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Ind. High School Bans Confederate-Flag Clothing
If students at Lapel High School in Indiana ever wanted to rock their bedazzled Confederate-flag clothing, they’re now out of luck. The school district has banned the racist symbol from clothing after several arguments between students over the last couple of weeks. “The banning of this symbol isn’t because of the symbol; it’s because of…
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Ind. High School Valedictorian, Several Classmates Banned From Graduation After Senior Prank Goes Wrong
More than two dozen seniors at an Indianapolis high school, including the class valedictorian, were banned from graduation ceremonies after a senior prank gone wrong caused significant damage to the school’s campus, school officials say. According to WRTV, as punishment, the students from Crispus Attucks High School were not allowed to walk in their graduation…
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Ind. Teen to Graduate From College Before Receiving High School Diploma
Indiana’s Miss Raven Osborne is not your average 18-year-old. The astute high schooler is scheduled to graduate with the rest of her classmates on May 22. But before hitting that milestone, she will first graduate from college on May 5, which is Friday. That’s right: Osborne is graduating from college before high school. “Yeah, they…
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Undocumented Immigrant Married to Trump Supporter Deported to Mexico
On Wednesday, a Trump supporter felt the full brunt of the current president’s strict stance against immigrants when her husband was deported to Mexico. Helen Beristain openly acknowledges voting for Donald Trump even though she is married to an undocumented immigrant. As CNN notes, back in November, she claimed she thought Trump would only deport…
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Wrongfully Convicted Ind. Man Says Pence ‘Abandoned Me’
Keith Cooper is still getting used to being an officially pardoned man. It’s only been a day, after all, since new Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb removed the wrongfully placed stain from his record, a stain put there because of a violent armed robbery Cooper did not commit, but for which he spent nearly a decade…
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Mike Pence Didn’t Pardon a Wrongfully Convicted Innocent Man, so His Replacement Did
Keith Cooper was wrongfully convicted of a crime he did not commit 20 years ago, and he patiently waited three years for then-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to use his executive power to issue a pardon and remove the mark from his record, to no avail. On Thursday, Pence’s replacement, Republican Eric Holcomb, got the job…