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#WalterScott: Prosecutor Believed It Was a ‘Close Call’ Between Manslaughter and Murder
The South Carolina prosecutor who tried the now former North Charleston police officer responsible for shooting and killing the 50-year-old black unarmed motorist Walter Scott said in a pretrial hearing last year that Michael Slager’s shooting of Scott was a “close call” between manslaughter and murder, but that a case could be made for either…
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Racist Shirt Worn by DC Cop Leads to Gun-Case Dismissal
Last month an officer with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., was placed on “noncontact status” after he was accused of wearing a shirt bearing an image of the Grim Reaper, the name of his police unit and a symbol believed to represent racist ideology. On Tuesday a judge dismissed a gun-possession case over…
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Trump Is Clearly Trying to Start a Nuclear War With North Korea; Here Are 5 Things I’m Going to Miss When It Happens
On Tuesday, the president of back-road moonshine runners decided to have a full-on dick-measuring contest with the most unstable nation in the whole, entire world: North Korea. Think about this; North Korea is so incredibly unstable that the one American, out of the billions of Americans in existence, North Korea loves is Dennis Rodman, arguably…
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Spike Lee Promotes Colin Kaepernick Rally to Be Held at NFL Headquarters
Avid activist and famed film director Spike Lee posted information Tuesday about a rally that will take place Aug. 23 at the NFL’s New York City headquarters in support of Colin Kaepernick, the free agent quarterback who’s without a team because he protested the killing of unarmed black men, women and children by police. Lee…
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Trump Retweets Unnamed-Source Report on North Korea Condemned by UN Ambassador Because He Doesn’t Know What the Hell He’s Doing
Because Donald Trump has no clue what the hell he’s doing in office, and because no one in his staff can keep his dumb ass off Twitter, he tweeted out an anonymously sourced story (because, you know, Fox News), and within hours, United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley condemned the same story on Fox News. Trump…
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Minn. High School Security Guard Cleared in Altercation Involving Muslim Teen
School authorities have cleared a high school security guard in Minnesota who had been placed on leave after his involvement in an altercation between students in June, and police have also announced that no criminal charges will be pursued in the case. Jason Rieck, the guard in question, had been on leave from Apple Valley…
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Trump’s Bashing on Twitter Again, but Here’s What He Should Be Tweeting About
President Donald Trump might be the worst person in the world, but that doesn’t mean he has to act like it. At some point, it would be nice if the president of the United States actually acted presidential, and if that means he must use Twitter, then maybe he could spend 20 seconds (assuming no…
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Simone Askew Becomes 1st Black Woman to Lead West Point’s Corps of Cadets
Black women making history is one of my favorite things in the world, and last week, Virginia native Simone Askew made history after she was selected as first captain of West Point’s Corps of Cadets for the upcoming academic year. Askew, who is an international history major at West Point, will begin her duties in…
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4-Year-Old Boy Hospitalized After Being Shot in the Head While in His Mother’s Car
A 4-year-old Cleveland boy was seriously injured after a gunman fired multiple shots into his mother’s car. According to Cleveland 19, Cecilia Hill was in traffic Sunday behind a car containing two men that wasn’t moving and waited several minutes before deciding to go around the vehicle. “She honked her horn and went around the…