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Ohio’s 1st African-American State Trooper Dies at 85
Family, friends and dozens of local law enforcement gathered Monday to remember the life of Louis Sharp, a huge part of Ohio’s history as the state’s first African-American state trooper. According to WCMH, Sharp died last week at the age of 85. Sharp’s grandson, Justin Sharp, remembered his grandfather as a “strong” person. “I don’t…
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Video Shows Man Punching Security Guard in Her Face
A Chicago security guard is recovering after being brutally punched in the face during an attack early Sunday morning that left her with serious injuries. “He fractured a bone right below my eye,” Zoa Stigler, a security guard at the Six30 condo complex, told NBC Chicago. “He punched me and threw his water bottle all…
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Immigration Agent Tries to Question 4th-Grader, Gets Turned Away by School Officials
If you needed any further proof of how low the agents of this administration will sink to carry out its dictator’s mandates, a federal immigration agent showed up at an elementary school in Queens, N.Y., to question a fourth-grade student Thursday. A New York City spokesman told CBS New York that the incident happened at…
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Donald Trump Has a Big Mouth, Reveals Highly Classified Information to Russian Ambassador, Foreign Minister
Your president has a big mouth and apparently couldn’t hold water if he were a rain cloud. According to a report published Monday, Donald Trump revealed highly classified information during his meeting last week at the White House with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador, and his disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on…
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Donald Trump Will Light Up the White House in Blue to Support Police Who Face ‘Unfair Defamation and Vilification’
President Donald Trump believes that his fellow politicians are not as supportive to police as they should be, and he said Monday that officers on the beat are subject to “unfair defamation and vilification” that have made their jobs more dangerous. Trump spoke at an annual memorial for officers slain in the line of duty,…
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Recent College Graduate, Mother of 2 Killed in Fatal Shooting on I-95 in Va.
Two people were shot and killed as they were driving along on Interstate 95 in downtown Richmond, Va., early Sunday morning after another car pulled up and opened fire. According to WTVR, Tanna Gardner, 23, was driving the car, which contained six other passengers, when the shooting happened. Gardner and a passenger, 26-year-old Sharayne Holland,…
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Family Speaks Out After Video Emerges of Conn. Teenager Shot by Cops
Days after a Connecticut police officer fatally shot a teenager, the family of the victim spoke with The Root about the teen’s death, an alleged cover-up and a video from the scene of the incident. Jayson Negron, 15, was killed Tuesday when, law-enforcement officials say, Bridgeport Police Officer James Boulay fatally wounded Jayson after a…
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Supreme Court Rejects Appeal to Reinstate NC’s Strict Voter-ID Law
The Supreme Court on Monday said that it had zero time for North Carolina and its shenanigans, rejecting an appeal to reinstate its stupid voter-identification laws, which a lower court had ruled targeted African Americans “with almost surgical precision.” The justices instead let stand the lower court’s ruling, which struck down the photo-ID requirement and…
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14-Year-Old Carson Huey-You Becomes Youngest Person to Graduate From Texas Christian University
On Saturday, some 2,000 students received their undergraduate, graduate or doctorate degrees from Chancellor Victor J. Boschini Jr. during three ceremonies at Texas Christian University. Carson Huey-You was one of them, officially becoming the youngest person to ever receive a bachelor’s degree at the school as he walked across the stage at age 14. But…