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Police Remove Hate Group’s Memorial to White Woman Killed by Black Officer
A display honoring a woman killed by a Minneapolis cop was removed by police when authorities discovered that a white supremacist organization had created the tribute and placed it outside the city’s police headquarters. NBC News reports that the Minneapolis Police Department cleared an Identity Evropa memorial to Justine Damond, the “Australian bride” shot by…
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This 12-Year-Old Colorado Girl, Concerned About the Water Crisis in Flint, Mich., Invented a Lead Detector
What have you done with your life lately? How have you shown up and shown out for your fellow man? Because there’s a 12-year-old girl all the way in Colorado who saw what was going on in Flint, Mich., with the water crisis due to lead poisoning and decided to invent a lead detector. According…
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Can I Get a Window Seat? United Passenger Big Mad Over Losing 1st-Class Seat to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee became the subject of one United Airlines passenger’s ire after the customer alleged that the Texas Democrat had been assigned a first-class seat that was originally hers. Jean-Marie Simon, a 63-year-old attorney and private school teacher, according to the Houston Chronicle, said that she booked a first-class seat Dec. 3 for…
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97-Year-Old WWII Vet About to Be Evicted From His NYC Home. Merry Effing Christmas
A 97-year-old World War II veteran—one who was at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked by the Japanese—is being kicked out of his Brooklyn, N.Y., home, according to a report. The Rev. James Blakely says that he’s being evicted from his apartment in the New York City borough some five years after, he says, it…
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Thanks to Fundraiser, Infant Mauled by Raccoon Will Be Able to Live in Safer Housing
The family of a 4-month-old Philadelphia infant will be able to search for a safer place to live after a GoFundMe set up to help her family find a home to rent exceeded its fundraising goal. The campaign smashed its $2,000 goal, with 701 people contributing a whopping $23,215 as of Tuesday morning over a…
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Washington, DC’s El Centro D.F. Restaurant Removes ‘No Sneaker’ Policy, Fires Racist Bouncer After Black Man Is Denied Entry
Updated Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2017, 6 a.m. EST: Days after a black man, Brian Gordon, was denied entry to Richard Sandoval’s El Centro D.F. restaurant in Washington, D.C., because he was wearing sneakers, even though white patrons wearing sneakers were allowed entry, Ayyaz Rashid, managing partner of the Sandoval Restaurant Group, informed The Root that…
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‘Neo-Nazi’ Teen Charged With Killing Girlfriend’s Parents After Mom Asked Her to Break Up With Him
A 17-year-old “outspoken neo-Nazi” was charged with two counts of murder after allegedly shooting and killing his 16-year-old girlfriend’s parents Friday morning after her mom convinced her to stop dating him, according to the Washington Post. Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, 43, and her husband, Scott Fricker, 48, were killed at their home in Reston, Va., around 5…
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Naked Postal Worker Allegedly Shoots and Kills 2 Supervisors
A United States Postal Service employee appeared naked at a Dublin, Ohio, post office and allegedly killed one of his supervisors before killing another supervisor at her home Saturday, according to the Columbus, Ohio, Police Department. DeShaune Stewart has been charged with aggravated murder in the deaths of his supervisor, Lance Herrera-Dempsey, and Dublin postmaster…
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Colorado Teen Charged With Murder After Allegedly Stabbing Stepdad and Posting Video on Snapchat
A Colorado teenager has been charged with first-degree murder after allegedly stabbing his stepfather Friday night at their home in the city of Aurora and posting video of the dying man on Snapchat, according to the Denver Post. In the video, Nickolas Vinson, 19, is seen saying, “Hey, guys, I just killed him. I just…