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Bodycams Don’t Mean Shit
After the death of Michael Brown and the subsequent uprising in Ferguson, Mo., police departments across the country underwent massive campaigns to integrate bodycam technology into their cache of crime-fighting equipment. Or maybe it was after Freddie Gray died in Baltimore. Perhaps it was after Walter Scott was gunned down in North Charleston, S.C. Or…
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Cop Fired Following ‘Absolutely Unacceptable’ Conduct in Tasing of Fort Worth, Texas, Woman
A Fort Worth, Texas, police sergeant has been fired after an investigation into his use of force in the apprehension of a black woman that proved to be “absolutely unacceptable,” the Fort Worth Police Department announced Monday. Now-former Police Sgt. Kenneth Pierce was terminated for violating the department’s code of conduct, ABC News reports. According…
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The President Believes That He ‘Repealed’ Obamacare. He Didn’t, but Don’t Tell Him That
Turns out that nestled inside that handout to the rich known as the tax bill was a sleeping hand grenade that the president believes effectively blew up the remaining parts of Obamacare as we know it. And you know how we know this? Because the president couldn’t contain his excitement to gloat over the fact…
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Texas Dad Finally Gets Custody of Son Just in Time for Christmas as Mom Faces Charges for Medical Child Abuse
Christmas is going to be really special this year in Ryan Crawford’s household. The Texas dad was granted temporary managing conservatorship of his 8-year-old son after the boy’s mother was accused of forcing the perfectly healthy child to undergo numerous invasive procedures, including 13 major surgeries. The Star-Telegram reports that Christopher Bowen will soon be…
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3 Georgia Cops Indicted for Tasing an Unarmed Black Man to Death
Eurie Lee Martin’s niece figures that when he walked out of his Milledgeville, Ga., group home on July 7, he was headed to see his family for his birthday. Sandersville, Ga., was more than 20 miles away, so it makes sense that he would have stopped by a random house in Deep Step, Ga., during…
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Restaurant Owner and Stunt Queen Brings the North Pole to North Philly in Epic Neighborhood Block Party
How do you top hiring a live-ass camel for your son’s Dubai-themed prom? If you’re Saudia Shuler and the occasion is Christmas, the answer should be pretty obvious. Reindeer. Bring on the damn reindeer. Shuler was back at her extravagant best Wednesday night, throwing a massive block party and toy giveaway she called “North Pole…
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Exclusive: God Responds to Ben Carson’s Weird Prayer Thanking the Lord for Trump and the Tax Bill
Before a Wednesday Cabinet meeting, the Grinch Who Stole the Middle Class’s Christmas informed the members of the press that they should stay for a few minutes to join Snow White Supremacist and the Seven Demons in prayer. Led by the successful surgeon, failed dick-stabber, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, the…
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NYC Man Exonerated After Serving 30 Years for Rape He Didn’t Commit
Thirty years ago, three men broke into a Brooklyn, N.Y., Burger King, robbing the store and gang-raping an 18-year-old worker who had been closing up the eatery. But the brutal attack—and the subsequent police investigation—landed four men behind bars. The fourth was a then-17-year-old named Mark Denny, whom the 18-year-old identified in a police lineup.…
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Oklahoma Mom Reports Son ‘Missing,’ Only to Find Out He Was Trying to Make Money to Buy Her a Christmas Gift
One Oklahoma City boy’s secret mission to surprise his mom for Christmas snowballed into a larger surprise for his whole family after their local police officers banded together to ensure that the family had an amazing Christmas. According to KFOR-TV, single mom Sophia Reed had used the last of her extra funds, including Christmas money,…
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In the Dark of Night, 2 Confederate Statues in Memphis, Tenn., Come Down
For 113 years, a bronze statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest—a man who rose above his station thanks to the slave trade, a Confederate general who orchestrated the massacre of black soldiers at Fort Pillow, and the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard—loomed over downtown Memphis, Tenn. At 9:01 p.m. Wednesday, a time the New York…