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NYPD Releases 1st Bodycam-Recorded Video Showing Officers Shooting Mentally Ill Bronx Man
The New York City Police Department has just made public its first-ever recorded video of a police shooting. The footage shows officers opening fire on a mentally ill Bronx, N.Y., man holding a knife after police repeatedly warn him to drop his weapon. According to the New York Daily News, NYPD officers were called to…
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Mich. Teacher ‘Violently’ Drags Black 6th-Grader Out of His Seat After He Declines to Stand for the Pledge of Allegiance: Report
Everybody is all about freedom of speech and expression until a black person (hey, Colin Kaepernick; hey, Jemele Hill) decides to exercise his or her right to do so. And in this particular case, a black sixth-grader out of Michigan says he was assaulted by his homeroom teacher all because he was exercising his rights…
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Motel 6 Corporation Issues Statement On Phoenix Locations Turning Undocumented Guests in to ICE
Updated Thursday Sept. 14, 11:39 p.m. EDT: The Root received the following statement issued by the Motel 6 corporation: “Over the past several days, it was brought to our attention that certain local Motel 6 properties in the Phoenix-area were voluntarily providing daily guest lists to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). As previously stated, this…
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White Campus Security Guard Shoots Himself, Then Blames Black Man Who Doesn’t Exist to Cover It Up
A campus security officer at a Minnesota college accidentally shot himself in the shoulder Tuesday night, and because he was afraid that he would get in trouble for the incident, he made up a story about a black gunman to cover up his mistake. The Star Tribune reports that St. Paul police were immediately skeptical…
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Shirtless Looters Outchea Stealing Telephone Poles
Please disregard that insensitive, clickbait headline. I misspelled the sentence: “Jacksonville Citizens Apprehended for Illegally Acquiring Communications Equipment.” Simple mistake. Anyway, according to Jacksonville.com, Blake Lee Waller, 42, and Victor Walter Apeler, 46, were arrested in Jacksonville, Fla., Wednesday morning when cops stopped two men with a telephone pole perched atop their vehicle as if…
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Darryl Strawberry Criticizes Jemele Hill and Praises Donald Trump as a ‘Great Man’
I’m not a betting man, but if there were an enterprising oddsmaker or bookie taking bets on who’d be the first black athlete to castigate Jemele Hill, I probably would have put a couple of dollars down on Charles Barkley or Ray Lewis. I might have parlayed it with Jason Whitlock, who played college football…
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More and More Black Women in Chicago Are Taking Their Safety Into Their Own Hands, Obtaining Concealed-Carry Gun Permits
It was Malcolm X who said, among other poignant notes, that “the most unprotected person in America is the black woman.” But black women have been living this reality since the beginning of time. At this point, they have started to take it upon themselves to make sure that they are prepared and armed, literally,…
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Aramis Ayala, Selected as Part of the ‘Politico 50,’ Is the Future of Our American Criminal-Justice System
Politico has published its annual “Politico 50,” a list of “50 ideas blowing up American politics (and the people behind them).” Among those included in this year’s list is Florida State’s Attorney Aramis Ayala, who made headlines earlier this year when she announced that she would not pursue the death penalty in the case of…
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Kwame Kilpatrick Files Appeal, Says He Doesn’t Owe City of Detroit a Damn Thing
Kwame Kilpatrick, the disgraced former mayor of Detroit, is asking a federal judge to wipe his $1.5 million debt clean. The embattled politician, who is currently serving a 28-year sentence in Oklahoma for corruption, claims that he cost the city of Detroit no financial losses during his tenure, reports the Detroit Free Press. Kilpatrick was…
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To All the Black Men Watching the NFL, Here’s What Philadelphia Eagles Owner Thinks About Colin Kaepernick
The Philadelphia Eagles have a bit of a history dealing with controversial players. First they signed Michael Vick to a contract after he was sentenced to 23 months in prison for his involvement in a dogfighting ring that included killing dogs that weren’t fit to fight. They also offered wide receiver Riley Cooper a contract…