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Four Years Later, NYPD Prepares to Discipline Cop in Eric Garner's Death
1,462 days after Eric Garner wheezed the words “I can’t breathe” before giving up the ghost on a Staten Island sidewalk, the New York Police Department has decided to discipline Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer whose arms just happened to be wrapped around Garner’s neck at the time. Well … maybe “Based on our most…
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'I Thought It Would Be My Last Day of the World': Teens Speak Out After Being Held at Gunpoint By Cops
A group of boys who were detained by police officers last week told reporters about the harrowing incident that included racial slurs, cops pointing guns at teenagers and the unsolved mystery of a 911 call. On Wednesday, Brianna Lindell posted a video to her Facebook page of Minnesota Park Police detaining four teenagers at Minnehaha…
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Racial-Profiling Pool Patrol Goes International: Black Canadian Family Say They Were Singled Out at Neighborhood Pool Over Whether They Belong
Don’t look now, but #PoolPatrolPaul appears to have a Canadian cousin out here doing his mayonnaise lord’s work. A black family in British Columbia, Canada, is alleging that they were racially profiled at a pool in their townhouse complex last Thursday. According to them, in the two years since they bought their home, this is…
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20-Year-Old Poet, College Student Charged with Murder of Former Star Quarterback
Pennsylvania authorities charged a 20-year-old Morgan State University student with murder after an alleged confrontation with a white, former star athlete and real estate developer turned into a fatal stabbing. There are two stories. The first is the one being reported by multiple news outlets, including NBC 10 in Philadelphia. According to the station and…
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Dark-Skinned Babies? 'I Ain't With That': GlocKKKNine, Self-Hate and Colorism in America
Some conspiracy theories are real. When planes flew into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, it was the result of an actual conspiracy—whether it was an inside job or a plan composed by nine hijackers. Either Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin or white people’s “racial resentment” conspired to elect a president with the intellectual capacity…
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Watch: New Details Emerge in Case of Minnesota Cops Pulling Guns on Black Kids After Fake 911 Call
The Root has obtained exclusive footage and spoke to an eyewitness who filmed a now-viral video that seems to contradict many of the cops’ initial claims after Minnesota Park Police pulled their guns and detained children in a Minneapolis area park. After Brianna Lindell’s Facebook video of the Tuesday incident went viral, Minneapolis Park Board…
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Man Screaming Racial Slurs at Black Teenage Girl Arrested For Threatening to Kill Me, You, Your Mama and Your Cousins Too …
Police arrested an Oregon man after passersby stopped him from allegedly attacking and screaming racist remarks at a 17-year-old black girl while reportedly threatening to murder her, me and presumably all the black people in the world. Ain Avila, 21, was stopped at a red light on a Beaverton, Ore., street when he noticed a…
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#SummerJobWhileBlack: Child Gets Cops Called on Him for Delivering Newspapers
For many kids and their families, summer jobs are a rite of passage: a way of imparting lessons about responsibility and hard work, and finally having a response to the age-old parental question, “you have McDonald’s money?” But one Ohio family says their summer job instead turned into a lesson on racial profiling. As WABC…