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Bill Enforcing Texas Law Enforcement Requirement to Report Shootings Heading to Governor’s Desk
Updated Tuesday, May 23, 2017, 9:40 p.m. EDT: House Bill 245 passed the Texas Senate on Tuesday by a vote of 28-3. The bill now heads to the desk of Gov. Greg Abbott to be signed into law. Rep. Eric Johnson (D-Dallas), who wrote the bill, told The Root that he was proud of his…
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UK Prime Minister Says Another Attack ‘May Be Imminent,’ Raises Nation’s Threat Level
Prime Minister Theresa May raised the United Kingdom’s threat level Tuesday night, saying that another attack “may be imminent,” just one night after a bombing at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, left 22 people dead. May raised the U.K.’s alert level from “severe” to its highest rating, “critical,” and deployed the military to…
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Radical Extremist Discovered Working in Police Department After Praising Terrorist on Facebook
According to the Capital Gazette, a civilian employee of the Anne Arundel County, Md., Police Department has been suspended after making an insensitive comment on Facebook about the slaying of Richard Collins III. Now let’s run this story through the media-bias algorithm and translate this story as if the offender were black: After an extremist…
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Day 2: Melania Trump Still Hates Her Husband and Doesn’t Want to Hold His Tiny Hand
Melania Trump thought she was signing up to marry a wealthy old man, and in turn, she was willing to act as if she at least liked him. But Donald Trump’s ego got the best of him and he decided to run for president, and since Russia’s given him the White House, Melania now finds…
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TrumPutin and President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon Face Off in the Handshake Yank-and-Pull
Like most things in TrumPutin’s administration, even the president’s handshake is really weird. Instead of a normal greeting in which an adult orange-faced man merely shakes a person’s hand, the president does this really obnoxious handshake arm-wrestling move wherein he starts with a normal shake and then tugs the shit out of the person. The…
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Black Man Found Not Guilty of Crime, Still Sentenced to 7 Years In Prison
In today’s example of how the American justice system treats black bodies, we take a look at Ramad Chatman, a 24-year-old man who was found not guilty by a jury of his peers but will serve seven years in prison because … Come on, you know why. Read the first two words of the headline…
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Betty Shelby Returns to Cushy Desk Job With Tulsa, Okla. Police Department After Killing Unarmed Black Motorist Terence Crutcher
Tulsa, Okla., Police Officer Betty Shelby is back working a “desk job,” keeping the community safe, after killing an unarmed black motorist whose car had broken down on a highway late last year, the Associated Press reports. Shelby was acquitted of manslaughter earlier this month in the shooting death of Terence Crutcher. Shelby claimed that…
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Bowie State Honors Richard Collins III, Student Killed at University of Md.
A moment of silence was held during the Class of 2017 commencement ceremony at Bowie State University in Maryland on Tuesday to remember the life of Richard Collins III. During the commencement speech, Mickey L. Burnim, president of the university, spoke about Collins and offered the moment of silence at the 2:14:25 mark in the…
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Black Lives Matter Awarded the 2017 Sydney Peace Prize
In a groundbreaking departure from tradition, the prestigious international award that recognizes peacemakers around the world for promoting human rights, nonviolence and “peace with justice” will not be awarded to an individual. Instead, The Guardian reports that the 2017 Sydney Peace Prize will go to the Black Lives Matter movement. Since 1998, Australia’s Sydney University…