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National Action Network Calls for Review of All Cases Related to Ga. Cop Who Was Caught on Camera Saying, ‘We Only Kill Black People’
Cobb County, Ga., Police Lt. Greg Abbott may have retired in order to avoid any accountability for his inexcusable actions after being caught on camera saying, all casual-like, “Remember, we only kill black people.” However, the National Action Network is not quite through with him. Youth Director Mary-Pat Hector and local chapter leader the Rev.…
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Texas Secretary of State Turns Down Hurricane Harvey Aid From Canada and Asks for Prayers Instead: Report
As reports continue to roll in estimating the damage that Hurricane Harvey has caused to parts of Texas, the news that Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos reportedly turned down help from our friends in Canada is beyond troubling. According to Pathos, Quebec Minister of International Relations Christine St-Pierre called Pablos to offer blankets, beds,…
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Ga. Cop, Caught on Viral Video Saying ‘Remember, We Only Kill Black People,’ Retires as Department Moves to Fire Him
The Cobb County, Ga., police officer who was seen in shocking dashcam footage telling a white female passenger that she would not be harmed during a DUI traffic stop because police “only kill black people” retired Thursday after officials in the department sought his termination. Another cop out via cop-out, it seems. Is police accountability…
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Philando Castile’s Legacy of Helping His Students Pay for Their Lunches Lives On
Philando Castile was known as a caring man at the St. Paul, Minn., school where he worked as a cafeteria supervisor. He cared so much for the children he served that he often paid for their lunches himself when they were unable to, and now, thanks to a local college professor, that generosity will continue…
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Trump Energy Official Resigns After Claiming Controversial Comments Attributed to Him Were the Result of Hacking
William C. Bradford, appointed by Donald Trump to head the Department of Energy’s Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs, resigned Thursday afternoon in the midst of a scandal involving disparaging comments he allegedly made online regarding former President Barack Obama and his mother. On Tuesday, CNN’s KFile reported on evidence it found that suggested…
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Controversial Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke Resigns Without Explanation
David Clarke Jr.—the black sheriff from Milwaukee who has done everything in his power, including endorsing Donald Trump, to prove that he is different from all the rest of us black people—resigned from his job without explanation on Thursday. Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson told the Associated Press that he received a letter of resignation…
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LaVar Ball May Have Ruined Youngest Son’s NCAA Career With Signature Shoe: ‘Who Cares? If He Can’t Play, Then He Can’t Play’
LaMelo Ball is the youngest Ball brother, and now, at just 16 years old, he is the first high school player to have his own signature shoe. And, surely, the NCAA will have something to say about this, which, of course, must trouble the outlandish patriarch of the Ball clan. Doesn’t it? “We’ll worry about…
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#StayWoke: White House Removes Sexual Assault Prevention Report From Its Website
For some reason unbeknownst to anyone, the White House has quietly removed from its website a 2014 sexual assault report done by the Obama administration. Alexandra Brodsky, a civil rights attorney and co-founder of KnowYourIX, an anti-sexual-violence organization, told HuffPost that she noticed that the “Rape and Sexual Assault: Renewed Call to Action” report was…
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Shit Might Hit the Fan in St. Louis Tomorrow
Chemists define an explosion as “a sudden, violent change of potential energy to work, which transfers to its surroundings in the form of a rapidly moving rise in pressure called a blast wave or shock wave. The shock wave can cause substantial damage.” I was there when Ferguson, Mo., exploded. When Officer Darren Wilson pumped…