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LAPD Officers Will Not Be Charged in Fatal 2015 Shooting of Woman They Say Had a Knife
The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that it will not be filing criminal charges against the two police officers who shot and killed a woman in 2015, once again going against a ruling of the Los Angeles Police Commission. Prosecutors reviewed evidence that included video footage captured by the officers’ body cameras before…
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The Pretrial Profit System: How Corporations Make Billions Arresting Poor Blacks
In 2008, 18-year-old Demorrea Tarver was out with some friends when he was stopped by the police. Officers found a handgun in the handbag of a minor who was riding with Tarver (Tarver said he didn’t know about the gun) and a small amount of marijuana. The cops arrested Tarver and charged him with three…
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45 Years After the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ended, the Legal Fallout Lives On in Federal Court: Report
It has been some 45 years since the horrific “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,” also known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, came to an end after it was exposed that medical workers, working with the U.S. Public Health Service, were withholding treatment from nonconsenting and unsuspecting black men infected with syphilis—which…
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Trump Gives 1st Interview Since Firing FBI Director Comey and Sounds Like a Mob Boss
In a different time—you know, like, a week ago—James Comey was still the FBI director and President Donald Trump was scheduled to have a sit-down with NBC News’ Lester Holt. Trump was set to boast about his health plan. And then Comey was fired and the White House was ablaze in rumors; press secretary Sean…
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Report: Black Girls 5 Times More Likely to Be Suspended From School Than White Girls
Black girls do not present more frequent or serious discipline problems. They are not slower learners; nor do they struggle academically more than any other student. But according to a new report from the National Women’s Law Center, black girls are twice as likely as any other student to be suspended, and 5.5 times more…
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Trump’s Latest Claim Shows Just How Crazy He Really Is
Steve “Big Poppa” Bannon needs to come and get his son President Donald Trump ’cause he’s out here making up stuff again. During a recent interview with The Economist published Thursday, Trump laid claim to a commonly used phrase in economics, proving that at this point, he may just be crazy. Trump told editors at…
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14-Year-Old Graduating From Texas Christian University With Physics Degree as Brother, 11, Prepares to Start TCU
There’s intelligent, and then there’s Carson Huey-You intelligent. Carson just wrapped up his last final exam at Texas Christian University on Tuesday and is all set to graduate Saturday with a degree in physics and a double minor in math and Chinese. Carson is also only 14. “It didn’t come easily. It really didn’t,” Carson…
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‘Donald Trump Will Stop You’: Video Shows Man Harassing Muslim Family on Texas Beach
Another day, another idiot comes out to play. This time, a man is facing the music—or, rather, criminal charges—after going on what authorities say was an obscenity-laced, anti-Muslim tirade at a family trying to enjoy themselves on a Texas beach. South Padre Island police arrested 35-year-old Alexander Jennes Downing of Connecticut after responding to reports…