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Betty Shelby, the Tulsa, Okla., Cop Who Killed Terence Crutcher, Allowed to Return to Active Duty
The Tulsa, Okla., police officer who shot and killed Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black motorist, but was later acquitted of manslaughter in the controversial case will be allowed to return to the police force for active duty, Tulsa Police Chief Chuck Jordan announced Friday. If your brain cannot process what is happening, welcome to the…
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Watch: Complex Premieres Documentary Before the Hashtag: Sean Bell
He was only 23 years old, and on the day of his wedding in 2006, Sean Bell was shot and killed by five undercover officers. The shooting took place shortly after a bachelor party in Queens, N.Y. According to the New York City police commissioner at the time, Raymond Kelly, a fight broke out outside…
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Judge Rules That Prince’s Siblings Will Inherit $200,000,000 Estate
No one will ever know what Prince wanted done with his estate after he passed away because he didn’t leave a will. But on Friday, a judge ruled that his siblings will inherit his $200 million estate. Minnesota’s County Carver County District Judge Kevin Eide said that the rightful heirs to the estate were Tyka…
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Video Shows L.A. County Deputies Forcibly Removing 76-Year-Old Woman From Reserved Seating in Union Station
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies are under scrutiny after video surfaced of them forcibly removing an elderly woman from her seat in a reserved area in a downtown train station. According to CBS Los Angeles, a witness said that the 76-year-old, whom she identified as a friend, often comes to Los Angeles’ Union Station to…
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Minorities Who ‘Whiten’ Résumés More Likely to Get Interview
Black and Asian students who find ways to erase evidence of their race from their résumés are more likely to find jobs, according to a new study reported by Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, and a lesser-known report authored by the entirety of black America entitled, “We’ve been saying this shit for years!” Katherine DeCelles,…
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Kobe Bryant Retweets Kid’s Request and Gets a Whole Class Out of Final Exam
Kobe Bryant just gave kids at one Indiana high school a nice assist; that’s because Black Mamba just got an entire class out of taking a final exam. William Pate, a high school senior at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis, reached out to Bryant via Twitter with a full-court heave: If the Black Mamba…
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Ex-FBI Director James Comey Hid Among Curtains to Avoid Trump: Report
Because the president of the United States doesn’t understand how government works, he kept trying to make James Comey his friend when Comey was FBI director. Donald Trump didn’t seem to understand that while the person who heads the FBI serves the president, he isn’t the president’s servant. Now news has emerged that the former…
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Chicago Police Department Investigating After Video Shows Cop Repeatedly Striking Black Man in the Face
The Chicago Police Department has launched an investigation into a video shared on social media that shows a plainclothes policer repeatedly hitting a black man in his face while subduing him on the ground. According to NBC Chicago, family members shared the video, which they said was taken around 7:30 p.m. on Monday in the…
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Creepy Anthony Weiner to Plead Guilty in Latest Sexting Scandal
Disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner is expected to plead guilty Friday in federal court to an official charge of transferring obscene material to a minor, related to his sexting a teen. The former New York Democratic congressman will enter the plea in a federal courtroom in Manhattan in his latest sexting scandal, involving a 15-year-old…
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Nev. May Become the 2nd State to Require Law Enforcement to Wear Body Cameras
Police officers in Nevada may soon have a new piece of equipment that they are required to clip on after a measure regarding body cameras was sent to Gov. Brian Sandoval for his signature Thursday. According to Reuters, the proposal, which has already been approved by the state Legislature, would make Nevada the second state…