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White Mich. Cop Faced Racial Taunts After Ancestry.com Test Showed He’s 18 Percent Black: Lawsuit
There are just some things you can’t make up, and apparently, a white Hastings, Mich., police officer is claiming that he has been subjected to racial taunts and other hurtful comments from within his own department after he took a genetic test on Ancestry.com that revealed he is 18 percent black. Sgt. Cleon Brown claims…
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Police: Va. Man Attacked Black Woman Because of Her Race, Spat on Cops During His Arrest
A Chesterfield County, Va., man is facing multiple charges after police say he dragged a black woman out of her car and attacked her based on her race and then later spat on officers as he was being arrested. Matthew R. Ellis, 27, is facing charges of abduction and kidnapping, two counts of assault and…
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‘Hero’ SC School Bus Driver Evacuates 56 Students in Less Than a Minute During Fire
Not all heroes wear capes. Some are bus drivers. And one Spartanburg County, S.C., bus driver is being aptly dubbed a hero after managing to evacuate 56 students in under a minute after a school bus caught fire Tuesday morning. According to Fox Carolina, the school bus being driven by Teresa Stroble somehow caught fire…
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#WalterScott: ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Sign Put Up Near Where Killer Cop Gunned Down Unarmed Black Motorist
Even with former North Charleston, S.C., Police Officer Michael Slager pleading guilty in his federal civil rights trial for Walter Scott’s death, the unarmed black motorist who was gunned down in cold blood still cannot rest peacefully, it would seem. The Post and Courier reports that police sympathizers have paid to have a “Blue Lives…
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FBI Director James Comey Has Been Fired
FBI Director James Comey has been relieved of his duties and dismissed from his position by President Donald Trump, according to White House press secretary Sean Spicer. “The president has accepted the recommendation of the attorney general and the deputy attorney general regarding the dismissal of the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Spicer…
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Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Other 2008 Boston Celtics Champs Really Hate Ray Allen
Kevin Garnett’s Area 21 on TNT might be the best talk show that doesn’t include DJ Akademiks and Joe Budden. On Monday the Big Ticket hosted members of the 2008 title-winning Boston Celtics, including Glen “Big Baby” Davis, Kendrick Perkins, Paul Pierce and Rajon Rondo. Ray Allen wasn’t invited, and that’s because, like a bitter…
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Teen Accused of Throwing 68-Year-Old Woman Into Swimming Pool Given Home Detention
A Florida 16-year-old who was seen on video throwing a 68-year-old woman into a swimming pool during a rowdy party over the weekend has been given home detention until his next court appearance. According to WPLG, on Tuesday, Judge Carlos Rebollo ordered that the teen stay home unless going to school, church or basketball practice.…
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Aaron Hernandez’s 2015 Murder Conviction Is Thrown Out
Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez had his 2015 murder conviction posthumously overturned by a judge Tuesday. Superior Court Judge E. Susan Garsh vacated Hernandez’s first-degree murder conviction for the 2013 shooting of Odin L. Lloyd because he died before he was able to appeal the conviction. “Abatement remains the law in this…
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Shaq ‘All Lives Matter’ O’Neal Will Run for Sheriff in 2020
Black people who desperately long to be police officers confuse me. They always have. Clearly, the good-ole-boy structure of the police force isn’t designed for black people. And yes, I get the idea of black people who want to be different and turn the force around so that they alone can change the perception of…
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Journalists Kicked Out of Kushner Family’s Pay-for-Play Visa Event in China
A Beijing-based correspondent for the Washington Post claimed that she and a colleague were kicked out of a “Kushner event featuring Jared’s sister.” She also says the other journalist had part of her video and audio recordings deleted. Emily Rauhala attended the event in China in which Nicole Kushner Meyer, the sister of White House…