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Brutal Viral Video Shows Police Dog Mauling Black Man
A video of a San Diego police dog viciously attacking a handcuffed black man has caused outrage after millions of people viewed it on social media. NBC San Diego reports that police received reports of a man screaming, jumping on cars and acting out in downtown San Diego. When officers arrived on the scene, they…
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Texas Police Promised to Drop Charges Against 2 Teens if Mom Surrendered Video Footage of Arrest, Activists Say
Activists in Arlington, Texas, have accused local officers of promising to drop charges against two teenagers in exchange for a video that their mother took of their arrests. According to the Dallas Morning News, Next Generation Action Network, a Dallas-based organization that lobbies against police brutality, posted the video of the incident, which the organization…
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Jason Whitlock Says Protesting Racial Injustice Is ‘Stupid’
The bulging, over-full colostomy bag who somehow maintains his rotund, deflated kickball-shaped figure despite participating in the daily yoga routine of perpetually contorting himself to always end up on white America’s side of any issue while criticizing and castigating anything or anyone remotely connected to blackness has opened his bile-spewing mouth again. Or—as some people…
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Here Are the Major 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Nominations
Shemar Moore and Anna Chlumsky announced the 69th annual Primetime Emmy Awards Thursday morning from the Wolf Theatre in the Saban Media Center in North Hollywood, Calif., and some of our faves made the cut. From Donald Glover’s series and role on Atlanta to Viola Davis for her role on How to Get Away With…
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2 Live Crew Rapper Fresh Kid Ice Dead at 53
Fresh Kid Ice, one of the founding members of the Miami hip-hop group 2 Live Crew, has died at 53. Born Christopher Wong Won in 1964 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, he co-founded 2 Live Crew with DJ Mr. Mixx and Amazing V in 1984 and eventually was joined by Luther Campbell. “My Condolence goes…
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The President of the US May Have an Imaginary Friend Named Jim
The president of the United States is in Paris to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron. I wonder if Donald Trump has any plans to meet with his friend “Jim.” According to the president, Jim used to love Paris, but now Jim doesn’t go anymore because the city is fraught with foreign extremists. I wonder…
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Autopsy Reveals That Black Motorist Was Shot in the Back by NC Trooper
Two days after family members of Willard Scott Jr. gathered in Durham County, N.C., to demand answers in the shooting death of their loved one, an autopsy report has been released showing that the motorist was shot in the back by a North Carolina highway patrolman. Scott, 31, was shot and killed Feb. 12 after…
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Beavercreek, Ohio, Officer Won’t Face Federal Charges in Death of John Crawford III
It’s been almost three years since a Beavercreek, Ohio, police officer fatally shot a black Walmart shopper who was holding a pellet gun that he had unboxed on a store shelf. On Tuesday, federal investigators announced that they would not seek federal charges against the officer in the shooting death of John Crawford III. As…
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‘Stealthing’ One Step Closer to Being a Form of Sexual Assault in Calif.
In May, California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) introduced a bill that would define “stealthing” as a form of sexual assault, and on Tuesday the state Senate Public Safety Committee advanced the bill while acknowledging that it was unclear whether or how such a law would be enforced. Stealthing is the act of intentionally tampering…