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Federal Prosecutors Want to Charge Cop Who Put Eric Garner in Choke Hold
Prosecutors in the Department of Justice have recommended federal civil rights charges against the police officer whose arms just happened to be wrapped around Eric Garner’s neck when he died on a Staten Island, N.Y., sidewalk in 2014, but some officials within the Justice Department are reportedly hesitant to do so. After the state of…
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Hillary Clinton Told Campaign Aides That She Was Tired of Hearing About How ‘Nobody Likes’ Her: Report
Hillary Clinton was aware that she was having trouble connecting with voters. One of the biggest concerns was that Clinton just wasn’t a likable candidate. But according to a new book, around July 2016, right as President Donald Trump became the Republican nominee, Clinton stopped caring that people didn’t like her. “A week earlier, she’d…
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Tennessee Mom Furious After Video Shows Teacher Dragging 7-Year-Old Boy Off School Bus by His Feet
A Memphis, Tenn., mom is demanding answers after horrifying video shows her 7-year-old son being dragged off a school bus by his feet … by a teacher who should know way better. In fact, Kimberly Hardin, the child’s mother, didn’t know what her son had gone through at the hands of the educator until another…
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Syracuse Fraternity Suspended Over Racist Videos Claims Horrific Behavior Was Just a ‘Satirical Sketch’
The Chads are really trying it. The brothers of the suspended Theta Tau chapter at Syracuse University have issued an apology for their racist videos but still insist that the behavior depicted was not meant to be racist, but instead was part of a “satirical sketch” showing an uneducated, intolerant person. “Each semester our new…
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Watch: Boxer Adrien Broner Proves Once Again That His Press Conferences Are Better Than His Fights
Four-time world champion boxer Adrien “the Problem” Broner has all the moxie of Floyd Mayweather Jr. but only one-third the talent. Maybe Broner has more of the moxie, who knows. The problem with the Problem is that he focuses entirely too much on cussing out his opponents instead of actually training hard to out-box them.…
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James Comey’s Memos: Putin Told Trump That Russia Had Some of the ‘Most Beautiful Hookers in the World’
Because the news cycle never stops with the Trump administration, former FBI Director James Comey’s memos detailing conversations he had with the president were handed over to Congress on Thursday. As news sites are still combing through Comey’s notes, the most damning and arguably believable news to hit the interwebs is that Comey wrote that…
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Stephon Clark’s Brother Stevante Arrested on Suspicion of Threats; Meanwhile, the Cops Who Killed His Brother Are Back on Duty
Stevante Clark, the older brother of Stephon Clark, the unarmed man shot and killed by Sacramento, Calif., police, was arrested in that city Thursday on charges of suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and making death threats. The older Clark brother, 25, was taken into police custody around 10 a.m. and is currently ineligible…
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‘Ain’t Nobody Got Time for This’: Former Houston 911 Operator Jailed for Hanging Up on Emergency Callers
A former 911 operator in Houston received jail time this week after being found guilty of hanging up on thousands of emergency calls, including ones for homicides and robberies, during her time as a dispatcher. On Wednesday, a jury found 44-year-old Crenshanda Williams guilty of interfering with emergency telephone calls, a misdemeanor charge. As a…
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3 Kansas Men Found Guilty of Plot to Bomb Muslims, Kill Obama
After a four-week trial, it took a Wichita, Kan., jury one day to convict three white dudes who watched too many episodes of The A-Team of hatching a convoluted plan to kill government officials and bomb a Garden City, Kan., apartment complex where Somali Muslims lived. A federal jury found Curtis Allen, 50; Gavin Wright,…