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Former University of Cincinnati Cop Who Killed Sam Dubose Awarded $350,000 Settlement
Talk about adding insult to injury. Not only did former University of Cincinnati Police Officer Ray Tensing walk away with zero repercussions after shooting and killing an unarmed black man, but apparently, he’ll be paid handsomely for his trouble after receiving a settlement from the university. According to the Cincinnati Enquirer, Tensing will receive almost…
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Trump Ousts McMaster and Replaces Him With Warmonger John Bolton
As of Thursday, Donald Trump is on his third national security adviser. He has ousted Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster and replaced him with former American Ambassador to the United Nations John R. Bolton, a known warmonger and Fox News contributor. As the New York Times reports, McMaster—who never had a good relationship with Trump—was meant…
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Why ‘He Should Have Just Complied’ Does Not Apply to Stephon Clark
Since reporting Tuesday night on the shooting death of Stephon Clark at the hands of the Sacramento Police Department, I have gotten many of the same responses from people both on Twitter and in the comments section on The Root. Why didn’t he just comply? Why was he running from the police? Why was he…
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Perry Wallace, the 1st Black Southeastern Conference Basketball Player, ‘Wasn’t a Candy-Coated or Candy-Assed Pioneer’
In 1966 Perry Wallace was a 6-foot-5-inch small forward who helped his Pearl High School team in Nashville, Tenn., go undefeated. He was being heavily recruited by major college programs, but Wallace, a high school All-American, would choose to stay close to home and go to Vanderbilt University. He was one of two black basketball…
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Cory Booker and Jeff Flake Had a Snowball Duel, and I Have Questions … a lot of Questions
I miss the old Cory Booker, the Newark, N.J., mayor who was so grassroots that he was like a New Jersey-born superhero who literally was saving people from burning buildings and pushing snowed-in cars to safety. Oh, Hurricane Sandy knocked your power out? No biggie, just slide over to Booker’s crib to watch Netflix and…
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Scottish Man Convicted of Hate Crime After Posting Video of Dog Giving Nazi Salute
As it turns out, Scotland does not play around when it comes to hate speech, “jokes” or not. A 30-year-old man was recently convicted of committing a hate crime after he filmed his girlfriend’s dog giving Nazi salutes, as well as responding to statements such as “gas the Jews,” the BBC reports. Mark Meechan filmed…
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Trump’s Lead Lawyer Abandons White House Titanic After Realizing He’s Been Working for an Idiot: Report
Being the lawyer for a client who won’t listen has to be difficult. Being a lawyer for the “president of not listening” even when objectives are written in all caps has to be impossible. So on Thursday, the president’s lead lawyer for the special counsel investigation, John Dowd, decided that he’d been working for a…
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Did a Price Jump Just Push Diddy and Steph Curry Out of the Running to Own the Carolina Panthers?
The man making Cam Newton’s clothes must be setting the price for the Carolina Panthers because the embattled team owner now wants $2.5 billion, which would set a record for a U.S. professional sports franchise, and has pushed the major financial arm of Sean “Diddy” Combs and Steph Curry’s bid for minority ownership out of…