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#StephonClark: Bill Policing When Cops Can Use Lethal Force Advances in California
A little more than a year after Sacramento, Calif., police gunned down an unarmed Stephon Clark as the 22-year-old father of two stood in his grandparents’ backyard, California may be on the cusp of passing the nation’s strictest law governing when police can use deadly force. Under the proposed legislation headed to the state Assembly…
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Former Trump Chief of Staff Joins Board Overseeing 'Prison-like' Facility for Migrant Children
Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has joined the board of Caliburn International, owners of Comprehensive Health Services Inc., which operated a Florida facility for children described as “prison-like” by congressional Democrats. Kelly, who left the White House in January, was already on the board before his stint serving under Trump. He stepped…
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Mentally Ill Black Woman Complains of Contractions, Gives Birth Alone in Florida Isolation Cell
Tammy Jackson, a mentally ill pregnant woman, was forced to deliver her baby in an “isolation cell” in a Florida detention center in April, according to public defender Howard Finkelstein in a letter to Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony. According to the Washington Post, she was escorted to her cell alone, only to have a…
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Police Say Iraq War Vet Targeted Assumed Muslims in Vehicular Attack
34-year-old Isaiah Joel Peoples plowed through a crowded street in Sunnyvale, Calif. on Tuesday, striking and injuring eight before crashing into a tree. Though no one was killed in the crash, the injured range in age from 9 to 52 years old. Police say the Iraq War veteran intentionally ran down the group of pedestrians…
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Trump Hits Golf Course With Rush Limbaugh and Without a Hint of Style
Donald Trump seems to be rebounding from the Mueller report just fine. Saturday, the Donald took a break from his weekly visit to the White House to resume his duties as Golfer in Chief. This time, he was spotted with fellow busted can of biscuits, conservative radio show host and 13th-ranked used Dodge salesman in…
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Five-Year-Old Boy Pushed from Third Floor of Mall of America 'Showing Real Signs of Recovery'
Last week, Emmanuel Aranda allegedly threw a five-year-old boy from the third floor of the Mall of America in Minnesota, according to authorities. According to CBS, authorities had reason to hope this week. “We have good news to share with you on this Good Friday,” said attorney Stephen Tillitt on the family’s behalf. “Our miracle…
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US Supreme Court to Weigh In on Whether Census Can Ask Citizenship Status
It’s funny how the “construction” of the U.S. Constitution only really seems to matter to conservatives when said construct conforms to a belief near and dear to their hearts. Like, let’s say, the Second Amendment, and what it has to say about guns. So-called constructionists and gun advocates often argue that any changes to law…
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Rejection From Women Led Suspect to Throw 5-Year-Old Over Railing at Mall of America: Report
The 24-year-old man charged with hurling a 5-year-old boy over a railing at the Mall of America was “looking for someone to kill” after being rejected by women at the mall for years, police say in a criminal complaint. Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda, of Minneapolis, faces attempted murder charges, and is accused of grabbing the boy…
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Details Emerge on Suspect in Attempted Homicide of 5-Year-Old in Mall of America
Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda, 24, is being held at the Hennepin County Jail on an attempted homicide charge. Accused of throwing a five-year-old child from the third floor of Minnesota’s Mall of America, a fall of more than 40 feet. Police do not suspect any prior relationship between Aranda and the boy or their families. The…
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Wisconsin Teacher Reportedly Asks 7th Graders to Create 'Slave Games'
A Wisconsin physical education teacher has been suspended for suggesting that black students come up with some negro-centric games that slaves might have played because everyone knows cotton picking didn’t burn many calories and the cardio was usually limited to running away to freedom. According to Fox 6 News, Jan Zehren, a middle school PE…