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Cosby’s Lawyer Is ‘Confident’ That Sexual Assault Case Will End in Acquittal if Retried
Bill Cosby’s attorney is seemingly not bothered that prosecutors reportedly plan to retry his client, whose sexual assault case ended in a mistrial. Defense attorney Brian McMonagle has expressed confidence that if the case ends up being retried, Cosby will end up being acquitted. “What I would say to all of Mr. Cosby’s fans and…
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Myrtle Beach, SC, Shooting Caught on Facebook Live From Tourist on Balcony: ‘Multiple People Down!’
Bubba Hinson is a volunteer firefighter who was hanging around Myrtle Beach, S.C., for the South Carolina Fire Rescue Conference. That’s when he noticed a group of people stalling traffic on Ocean Boulevard and thought maybe he had happened across some sort of party or gathering. Instead, Hinson became the live cameraman for a shooting.…
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Apparently, Senate Republicans Don’t Believe White Men Are Terrorists
Hours after a white male opened fire on members of Congress, Senate Republicans hosted a hearing on violent extremism. Aside from a perfunctory mention of James T. Hodgkinson’s violent extremist act that very morning, GOP members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs called on a number of Islamophobic “experts” to sidestep…
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College-Bound 19-Year-Old Fatally Shot During Craigslist Transaction
A Florida 19-year-old who recently graduated from high school and had earned a scholarship to play college football in California was shot and killed last week during a Craigslist transaction. Brian Brown had graduated just two weeks ago from North Miami Beach Senior High School, where he was a standout on the football team, and…
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Cuba Calls Out Donald Trump, US: Don’t Get Hincty With Us, Racist Hypocrites
In response to President Donald Trump’s announcement Friday that he is reversing the Obama administration’s lifted restrictions with Cuba, the Castro government released a lengthy statement saying that the U.S. is in “no condition” to lecture them, especially given the sorry state of race relations in the U.S. “We have deep concerns by the respect…
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On 2-Year Anniversary of Massacre, Mother Emanuel AME Church Announces Memorial to Honor Shooting Victims
The Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., announced Saturday that it was retaining the designer of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum to craft a permanent monument to the nine victims who lost their lives to racist terror on June 17, 2015. Israeli-American architect Michael Arad was selected to create a…
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Sheriff ‘Black Guy for Trump’ Turns Down Job at the Department of Homeland Security
Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr.—you know, the black man who loves to chide black people in the name of his lord and master Donald J. Trump—won’t be taking the assistant secretary position at the Department of Homeland Security. “Late Friday, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. formally notified Secretary of Homeland Security John…
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Where the Hell Are the Police? Another Noose Found on National Mall
Surely, with all of the camera surveillance as well as several branches of police (federal, local, military, etc.) patrolling one of the most tourist-laden places in these United States, one would think that there would be an arrest or some movement in this noose-hanging frenzy going on all over the National Mall. However, these noose-placing…
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Prosecutor Announces Cosby Will Be Retried in Sex Assault Case
Updated Sunday, June 18, 2017, 10:15 a.m. EDT: Bill Cosby will be retried on sexual assault charges, the Montgomery County, Pa., District Attorney’s Office announced Saturday after a mistrial was declared earlier that day. In a press conference after the announcement, prosecutor Kevin Steele said that Andrea Constand is entitled to a verdict in the…