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Black ICE Agent Accuses New Mexico Sheriff’s Department of Racial Profiling After Being Pulled Over Multiple Times
It’s a clash of law enforcement agencies. A black female Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is pointing the finger at a New Mexico police department, accusing officers of racial profiling after she was pulled over several times by sheriff’s deputies for no apparent reason. The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico filed the lawsuit…
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Blood and Glasses Found in Parking Lot in Case of Missing New Jersey Nurse
Police have issued an alert and are seeking the public’s help in finding a 24-year-old New Jersey nurse who has gone missing. Shanaya Coley of Paterson, N.J., was last seen at her home shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday. A nurse’s aide, Coley was set to work that night at Eastern Christian Children’s Retreat in Wyckoff,…
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Virginia Man Charged With Hate Crime Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity in Terrifying Attack on Black Woman
A Virginia man who was facing multiple charges, including committing a hate crime after police said he dragged a black woman out of her car and attacked her based on her race, has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, 27-year-old Matthew R. Ellis was found not guilty by…
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Roy Moore Thinks America Was Better When Slavery Was in Place
Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore has been accused of a lot of things. He’s referred to Asian Americans and Native Americans as “yellows” and “reds” like they’re fucking M&M’s. Multiple allegations have come forth suggesting that he has a predilection for underage girls. The man is seriously problematic, and for some reason, many in…
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Attorneys for Girls Writer Accused of Rape Retract Claim That Accuser Demanded Money
Girls writer and Lena Dunham friend Murray Miller has been accused of raping actress Aurora Perrineau. When the news broke last month about the alleged rape, Miller’s attorneys stated that Perrineau and her family had asked for a substantial amount of money for damages. But apparently that was not the case at all, and Miller’s…
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Rep. John Lewis Is Boycotting Trump’s Visit to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Opening
Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) announced Thursday that they will be skipping Saturday’s opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson because Donald Trump will be in attendance—something they consider to be “an insult” to the black heroes commemorated there. Thompson and Lewis issued a joint statement that said, “President Trump’s…
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Former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr. Fired After Woman Says He Harassed Her
Investment banking behemoth Morgan Stanley fired former Democratic Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr. on Thursday for what it called “conduct inconsistent with our values” in the latest case of a high-profile man to lose his livelihood for allegedly acting terribly with women in a professional setting. HuffPost broke the story, and spoke to a woman…
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Man With Life Sentence Escapes Prison, Does TV Interview to Proclaim His Innocence
A man sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole escaped from an Alabama correctional facility but took a few minutes from his busy schedule of evading authorities to do a television interview. On Monday, Ronald Odell King and Antwone Wilson, both 27 years old, escaped the St. Clair Correctional Facility in Springville,…
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Department of Justice Video Confirms Widely Held Belief That Jeff Sessions Is a Complete Asshole
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has historically been an asshole. This isn’t debatable. He’s such an asshole that God’s greatest grandma, Coretta Scott King, once wrote a letter to block Sessions from becoming a federal judge. One of his major policies since becoming attorney general has been green-lighting policy that allows police to take the cash…