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Disturbing Video Shows NC Police Officer Slamming High School Girl to the Ground
A police officer in Rolesville, N.C., is on administrative leave after video posted to Twitter on Tuesday showed him picking up a female high school student and slamming her violently to the ground. The eight-second video shows a group of students at Rolesville High School crowded together, and then the officer slams the girl to…
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Chicago Police Investigating 2 Officer-Involved Shootings Mere Days Into the New Year
It’s mere days into the New Year, and already authorities are investigating two separate shootings of unarmed men by Chicago police officers, the Chicago Tribune reports. According to the report, just about two hours after midnight Jan. 1, an officer shot a man after a car chase on the Far South Side. The suspect apparently…
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House GOP Reverses Vote to Gut Ethics Committee
Updated Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, 1:08 p.m. EST: Even President-elect Donald Trump thought Republicans focused their attention on the wrong issues after they held a closed-door vote to weaken the independent ethics committee created to keep lawmakers honest. On Tuesday, Trump tweeted: According to Politico, GOP members heard the president-elect and public’s displeasure with their…
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Adam 'Pacman' Jones Arrested; Reportedly Kicked Officer and Spit on Nurse
It seemed as if Cincinnati Bengals defensive back Adam “Pacman” Jones had finally turned it around after a series of arrests since entering the NFL in 2005. He’d demanded that NFL announcers call him Adam and not by his nickname, “Pacman,” when referring to him. For years, he seemed to stay out of trouble. But…
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Chicago Ends a Violent 2016 With 762 Murders
Chicago ended 2016 with a record number of shooting incidents and the most homicides in two decades, ABC News reports. According to the report, Chicago closed out the year with 3,550 shooting incidents—in which more than 4,000 people were shot—and 762 murders. That averaged out to more than two murders and almost 10 shootings every…
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NM Mother Who Allegedly Beat and Sexually Assaulted Her Son Arrested
Police in Albuquerque, N.M., say a mom accused of beating and sexually assaulting her son before taking her six other children and fleeing police has been arrested, KRQE reports. Genoveva Fazio was arrested Sunday in Arizona and taken to the Navajo County Jail in Holborok. Fazio had been on the run from police since Friday…
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SC Church Shooter Dylann Roof Deemed Competent to Face Penalty Phase of Trial
A federal judge has once again deemed white supremacist Dylann Roof competent to face trial, the New York Times reports. According to the report, on Monday, Judge Richard M. Gergel echoed the decision he made in a separate ruling in late November when Gergel found that Roof did not meet the legal standard to be…
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Iconic Hollywood Sign Defaced to Read ‘Hollyweed’
A creative prankster changed the iconic ”Hollywood” sign over Los Angeles by manipulating it to read “Hollyweed,” CNN reports. The vandal used tarps to change the O’s in the sign to E’s. He (police think the perpetrator is probably a man) was caught on security-camera footage between midnight and 2 a.m. local time Sunday, but…