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White Ohio Cop Fired for Detaining Daughter’s Black Boyfriend for No Reason: ‘We’ll Make Shit Up as We Go’
It seems too on the nose: a cop admitting, on camera, that he’ll make up charges on a young black motorist he’s just pulled over. It’s the sort of thing a white person might see on TV and say, “Oh, I just don’t know if that’s realistic.” But that’s exactly what a Lorain, Ohio, police…
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NYC’s Transportation Authority ‘Indefinitely’ Suspends Metro-North Supervisor Over Blackface Photo … 5 Years After Promoting Him
This is the kind of stuff you can’t make up. What happened to a white New York City transit supervisor after he was caught in full blackface years ago? Trick question. Nothing happened. Well, to be precise, he got promoted despite complaints from employees, raking in more than $200,000 a year. It was only after…
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Atlanta Mayor Sends Message to Trump That She Won’t Allow ICE Detainees to Be Housed in City’s Jails
On Wednesday, newly elected Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced that she is no longer allowing city jails to accept detainees from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On the same day that the president signed an executive order that would stop the separation of children from their loved ones at the U.S. border, Bottoms signed…
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Was That Boston Celtics Great Kevin McHale at a Trump Rally? Don’t Know, but His Wife Is Totally Trump Crazy
I’m not sure if it was Boston Celtics fans or their archnemeses, Los Angeles Lakers fans, but somehow, some way, somebody spotted someone who looked exactly like legendary Celtics power forward and NBA Hall of Famer Kevin McHale in the sea of whiteness that was President Donald Trump’s rally in Duluth, Minn., on Wednesday. And…
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Serena Williams: Young Boys, Men Should Be Included in Conversation on Stopping Domestic Violence
Tennis superstar Serena Williams is vocalizing a push to include men—particularly young boys—into the conversation about domestic violence, a conversation that she says shouldn’t just center on women. “I think expanding the conversation to men and expanding the conversation to young boys, it’s so important,” she said during an interview Wednesday, according to the Associated…
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Here’s What Trump’s Executive Order to End Family Separation at the Border Really Means
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump finally decided that he’d done enough damage in embarrassing America on a global stage and signed an executive order to end the separation of migrant children from their loved ones at the U.S. border. Didn’t matter that he could have done this weeks ago or that he never had to…
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Officer Who Shot and Killed 17-Year-Old Antwon Rose Was Sworn In Mere Hours Before the Fatal Encounter
The East Pittsburgh officer who fatally shot 17-year-old Antwon Rose in the back as he was fleeing from a traffic stop had barely been officially sworn in as an officer before the deadly encounter. Unidentified sources told news station KDKA-TV that the officer accused in the shooting, who is also still unidentified, had only been…
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Alabama Musician Whines About Being ‘Completely Screwed’ After Threatening to Shoot Immigrant Families on Social Media
There’s nothing like a fresh cup of karma in the morning. And a Birmingham, Ala., musician is facing some pretty sweet music after he went on an expletive-filled rant on Facebook, in which he stated that he didn’t care about the “shitty life” of those crossing the border and volunteered to “shoot their asses.” The…
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The Hell After: New Report Uncovers Years of Negligence and Physical, Sexual Abuse in Shelters for Migrant Youths
On Wednesday the Trump administration reversed itself on a policy that, until recently, it staunchly defended: forcibly taking migrant children from their families at the southern border. But while family separation may be coming to an end, there is no plan to reunify with their families the approximately 2,000 children sitting in cages in U.S.…
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Suspect Arrested, Charged With Murder of Rapper XXXTentacion: Report
Authorities have nabbed a suspect in connection with the fatal shooting of XXXtentacion. The New York Daily News reports that Dedrick D. Williams was arrested Wednesday, just two days after the rapper, whose real name was Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, was shot and killed in Deerfield Beach, Fla., outside a motorsports store. Authorities believe that the…