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Louisiana Sheriffs’ Association Says 1,300 People Have Been Held in Jail for 4 Years Without Trial
So much for the Sixth Amendment, which should guarantee a suspect the right to a speedy trial. According to the Louisiana Sheriffs’ Association, that is just not the case locally, with some 1,300 people being locked up in local jails for four years while awaiting their trials. About 70 people have been waiting for five…
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Yvonne Staples of the Staple Singers Dead at 80
Yvonne Staples, who served both as a background vocalist and as the business manager for her family’s musical group the Staple Singers, died Tuesday of colon cancer at her home in Chicago. She was 80 years old. Her death was confirmed to the New York Times by family friend Bill Carpenter. The Staple Singers were…
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California Police Balk as Calls Grow Louder for LAPD to Change Its Use-of-Force Policy
As more people look to the Los Angeles Police Department to change its use-of-force policy, a throng of police chiefs in Northern California came together on Monday to denounce proposed legislation that would raise the standard for legal review of such action—after the fact. The Mercury News reports that police chiefs gathered in Fairfield, Calif.,…
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Black Lives Matter Issues Official Statement Regarding Fraudulent Social Media Accounts
After it was revealed that the biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook was a fake and not at all related to either the global movement or any of the local chapter organizations, many people who have either supported or given money to BLM organizations have expressed concern about how they can determine whether a…
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Meet the Koch-Funded, White Supremacist Professor Teaching at Florida Atlantic University
On the surface, Marshall DeRosa’s résumé is extraordinary. He graduated magna cum laude from West Virginia University as an undergraduate and went on to receive a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston. He has served as a professor teaching constitutional law and political theory for more than three decades in some…
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Colin Kaepernick Gets His Day: Former Quarterback Deposed in NFL Collusion Complaint
NFL owners conspired to keep former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick out of the league. We know it. The world knows it. Now all Kaepernick has to do is prove that NFL owners did, in fact, work to keep him unemployed. Actually proving that this happened is completely different from just believing it. Nevertheless,…
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Ray Lewis, the Lawd’s Favorite Linebacker, Claims That Odell Beckham Jr. Has Removed God From His Life
Dancing Ray Lewis, the former Baltimore Ravens great who can’t seem to stop dancing, is now using his relationship with God to decide who does and who doesn’t have a relationship with the Lord. Shortly after Lewis pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice after being charged with two counts of murder in the 2000 brawl…
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Sheriff of America’s Deadliest Police Force Caught on Camera Admitting Killing Suspects Is ‘Better Financially’
A recently discovered video of a California sheriff talking to law enforcement officers shows Kern County’s chief lawman explaining that killing citizens is better than wounding or injuring them because it costs less money and makes the family “go away.” Although Kern County had a population of 875,000 people in 2015, its law enforcement officers…
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Kellyanne Conway, Is This Your Husband? If So, You Need to Get Him Off Twitter ’Cause He’s Destroying Your Boss
Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway has a husband. Her husband’s name is George. George is an Ivy League-educated attorney. There is a Twitter user named “George Conway” who has a sketch avatar of Kellyanne’s husband’s face. This George Conway has over 20,000 followers on Twitter, and on a daily basis he trolls the White…