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Wife of Chicago Cop Charged in Death of Laquan McDonald Says Job Offer Pulled Because of Case
The wife of Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke says that a job offer for her to become a Cook County sheriff’s deputy was abruptly pulled because of her husband’s controversial case. According to the Chicago Tribune, Tiffany Van Dyke was set to begin training last week as a deputy after finishing a year of…
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White Supremacist Who Stabbed Black Man to Death Regrets Victim Wasn’t ‘Young Thug’ or ‘Successful Older Black Man’
The self-proclaimed white supremacist charged with fatally stabbing a New York City man to death last week voiced regret that the victim was not a young black man, or else a more successful older black man. The New York Daily News secured an exclusive Rikers Island jail interview with 28-year-old James Harris Jackson, who is accused of…
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NYPD Officer Who Fatally Shot Ramarley Graham Quits Before Being Fired
It seems as though 35-year-old Police Officer Richard Haste decided to leave the New York City Police Department before the department had a chance to dismiss him, five years or so after his involvement in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager in his Bronx, N.Y., home. According to the New York Times, Haste…
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Hundreds Gather to Remember Quanice Hayes, a Black Teen Killed by Police in Oregon
A memorial for Quanice Hayes, a black teen killed by police in Portland, Ore., brought out hundreds on Friday, who mourned the 17-year-old and took to the streets in protest afterward. The Oregonian reports that about 200 people filled the Philadelphia Missionary Baptist Church in Northeast Portland for the afternoon service, days after a Multnomah…
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1 Dead, Several Critically Wounded in Cincinnati Nightclub Shooting
One person was killed and 14 injured in a shooting at a Cincinnati nightclub early Sunday morning. Cincinnati Assistant Police Chief Paul Neudigate said that there was “only one reported shooter” at the Cameo nightclub, and several victims have life-threatening injuries and are undergoing surgery. There are currently no suspects in custody, and police are…
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Mayor Muriel Bowser Creates Task Force on Missing DC Teens
Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced Friday that the city will create a series of new initiatives including a task force to assist in finding missing children and teens in the District. The mayor’s message comes days after a heated town hall meeting about the city’s missing teens—primarily black and Latinx girls—as well as…
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La. Cop Convicted of Killing 6-Year-Old Autistic Boy in Shooting Spree
A Louisiana police officer has been convicted of killing a 6-year-old autistic boy after he and his partner pumped rounds of bullets into a car the child was riding in with his father. Marksville Deputy Marshal Derrick Stafford was convicted Friday of manslaughter and attempted manslaughter charges in the death of Jeremy Mardis. His father,…
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Black Lawmakers Call on Justice and the FBI to Help With Missing DC Girls
The Congressional Black Caucus recently reached out to the Justice Department and FBI, asking the federal agencies to help local police investigate a rash of black and Hispanic missing teens in the nation’s capital.* The letter, obtained Thursday by the Associated Press, was sent by Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.) and Del.…
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Black Georgetown Employee Finds Out School Sold His Great-Great-Great-Grandmother
One Georgetown University employee recently found out that he was tied to the school by more than a paycheck. Jeremy Alexander, an executive assistant in Georgetown’s Office of Technology Commercialization, recently found out that his paternal great-great-great-grandmother, Anna Mahoney Jones, was one of the hundreds of slaves sold by two Jesuit priests at Georgetown to…
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GSA Gives Trump a Pass on His Conflict of Interest With the DC Trump International Hotel
While we were all distracted by the collapsing Jenga tower that is this current administration and its antics, President Donald Trump got good news Thursday when the General Services Administration said in a letter that the Trump Organization is in “full compliance” with its lease on its Washington, D.C., hotel. GSA oversees the 3-year-old lease…