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  • Mich. Police Officer Suspended After Driving With Confederate Flag Around Trump Protesters

    A Michigan police officer has been suspended with pay after he was seen off-duty driving a pickup truck with a Confederate flag around a group of people protesting Donald Trump’s presidential election win, the Associated Press reports. Traverse City Police Chief Jeff O’Brien announced Officer Michael Peters’ suspension Sunday. O’Brien said that an internal investigation…

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  • Mich. Middle School Students Chant 'Build the Wall'

    A video has captured a group of middle school students from Royal Oak Middle School in Michigan chanting, “Build the wall,” during lunch just one day after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, the Detroit News reports. “It is so sad. Latino children were crying,” said Dee Perez-Scott, who posted the video.…

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  • Mich. Man Charged With Pointing Gun at Children He Accused of Damaging Trump Lawn Sign

    A Michigan man is facing multiple felony charges after allegedly pointing a gun at six children whom he accused of destroying his Donald Trump lawn sign, the Michigan News-Herald reports. Michael Robert Kubek of Allen Park was arraigned Tuesday and charged with six counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of felony…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • On The Helplessness of Watching Your Parents Get Old

    Gospel artist Damon Little has a song out right now called, “I Won’t Be Defeated.” It’s a great song. Do you know who heard that song and was like, “n-word, please?” Time. Time is undefeated. Time ain’t lost a ‘bout yet. In the never-before-mentioned last level of Mike Tyson’s Punch Out, after Tyson whips your…

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    Panama Jackson

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  • Mich. Girl Mauled to Death by Dog

    Kiyana McNeal, 4, of St. Joseph County, Mich., was trying to train her brand-new dog with a treat when it jumped on her and mauled her to death, the New York Daily News reports. “The dog come and sniffed it and then stepped back. Then come, sniffed it again,” said neighbor Becky Davis. “And evidently the…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Mich. Woman Who Lied, Saying 4 Black Men Kidnapped, Raped Her, Gets Year in Jail

    A Michigan woman who said that four black men kidnapped, raped and beat her for two days will spend a year behind bars for making the incident up, MLive.com reports. Leiha Ann-Sue Artman, 25, pleaded guilty to making a false report of a felony, a crime punishable by up to four years. MLive reports that…

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  • Mich. Barbershop Gives Discounts to Kids Who Read Aloud During Appointment 

    A Michigan barbershop is attracting a lot of attention, giving $2 discounts to kids who read books aloud to their barbers while they are getting their hair styled, the Huffington Post reports. Most of the time, the $2 goes straight back into the kids’ hands. “Parents love it and the kids … well, they like…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Bill Clinton Bashes Obamacare During Rally, Then Tries to Moonwalk Away From His Statements

    Rule No. 1 when stumping for the next president who happens to be your wife: Don’t criticize the current president’s signature policy, especially when he and his wife are extremely popular and are also stumping for your wife. That’s exactly what Bill Clinton did during a Democratic rally in Flint, Mich., on Monday. In an…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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  • Autopsy Reports in-Custody Death of Mich. Man as Accidental  

    On Wednesday the Kalamazoo, Mich., Public Safety Department released an update of its investigation into the death of James Dunigan, who died in custody 90 minutes after being arrested in the emergency room at Bronson Methodist Hospital, WWMT reports. Dunigan had been admitted to the ER at 2:13 a.m. for treatment of chest pains. According to…

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  • 6 Mich. State Employees Facing Criminal Charges in Flint Water Crisis 

    Six Michigan state employees were criminally charged Friday morning in connection with the water crisis in Flint, the Detroit Free Press reports. According to the report, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services workers Nancy Peeler, Corinne Miller and Robert Scott, and Michigan Department of Environmental Quality employees Leanne Smith, Adam Rosenthal and Patrick Cook, have all been indicted…

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    Breanna Edwards

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