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Police Officers Were Startled by a ‘Loud Sound’ Before Justine Damond Was Fatally Shot: Report
One of the two Minneapolis police officers involved in the shooting death of Justine Damond (who was also known by her birth name, Justine Ruszczyk) told investigators in an interview last week that he was startled by a “loud sound” near the squad car just before the fatal shooting. According to CNN, immediately after that…
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Former Texas Dentist Faces Charges After 4-Year-Old Suffers Brain Damage
A former dentist in Texas was indicted Monday in connection with a 2016 case that left a 4-year-old patient with brain damage. Bethaniel Jefferson, whose license to practice was revoked by the state in November, turned herself in to the Montgomery County Jail after a judge issued a warrant for her arrest Tuesday, Click2Houston reports.…
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Unlicensed Ga. Summer Camp Shut Down After 5-Year-Old Drowns
The state of Georgia has shut down a day camp after the tragic drowning of a 5-year-old boy. Benjamin “Kamau” Hosch III drowned last week while on a field trip with the Camp Cricket Summer Day Camp to the Cochran Mill Nature Center near Atlanta. On Tuesday, state officials filed a “cease and desist” order…
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Fake Street Signs Rip Police After High-Profile Shooting Deaths in Minn.
The people have spoken and continue to speak in new and innovative ways. At least two illegal street signs with the message, “Warning: Twin Cities police easily startled,” were posted Sunday in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., showing an international symbol for a police officer shooting his weapon in random and dangerous directions. The signs—which…
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2 Arrested at Baltimore City Council Hearing That Proposes Mandatory Minimum for Handgun Possession
All hell broke loose and two people were arrested at a Baltimore City Hall hearing for a proposed mandatory one-year sentence for possession of an illegal handgun—a bill that some say will continue to exacerbate the mass incarceration of young people of color. The Baltimore Police Department says that two unidentified men, a 29-year-old and…
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Today Would Have Been Emmett Till’s 76th Birthday if a White Woman Didn’t Lie on Him
Emmett Till would have turned 76 today, July 25, had a white woman not lied on him. Maybe he would have had a wife and a family. Maybe he would have been surrounded by grandkids celebrating his big day right now—quietly, of course, for none of us would have ever had a cause to know…
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Football Has an Even Bigger Concussion Problem: Nearly All Donated Brains From Deceased NFL Players Had CTE
Out of 202 brains of deceased football players studied, CTE was diagnosed in 177 of them, a number that includes NFL, college and even high school athletes. According to the Associated Press, “It’s the largest update on chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a brain disease linked with repeated head blows.” While the nearly 90 percent…
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LeBron James Wants to Beat Kyrie Irving’s Ass: Report
OK, now this is really getting good. According to sources who spoke with the always yelling Stephen A. Smith, King James—the lead singer of King James and the Jamettes by way of the Cleveland Cavaliers—wants to beat current but soon-to-be-former teammate point guard Kyrie Irving’s ass. Don’t believe me? Here’s audio of Smith’s loud-talking ass…
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Fla. Petition Calls for Confederate Monument to Be Replaced by Statue of Beloved Manatee, Because Why Not?
Anything is better than a Confederate monument, so I can’t even be mad that one grieving Florida community is petitioning for said monument to be replaced by a statue of Snooty, a beloved manatee who died over the weekend in a tank accident at the South Florida Museum aquarium that has been described as “tragic.”…
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Trump’s Ex-Campaign Chair Paul Manafort Is Going to Snitch
Donald Trump’s ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort, aka Fumbleruski, aka Big Daddy Butt Chin, aka “I’m in a pee-stained Russian bed,” has been subpoenaed by the Senate Intelligence Committee and is expected to appear at the hearing Wednesday. Manafort, whose name seems to come up so much in this administration’s Russia probe that I assumed he was…