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Mom Slams School After Daughter Is Reportedly Sexually Assaulted Twice in Same Week
A 29-year-old woman says she is infuriated with education officials for failing to protect her daughter from being sexually assaulted at her Brooklyn, N.Y., middle school, the New York Daily News reports. “It’s disgusting for a parent to learn her daughter was almost raped inside a school building,” she said. The attacks reportedly occurred at…
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Antonio Cromartie's Wife Believes Team Let Him Go Because of Protest
The Indianapolis Colts released cornerback Antonio Cromartie last month, and his wife says she thinks she knows why: his protest during the national anthem. Terricka Cason Cromartie took to Instagram to respond to Colts owner Jim Irsay’s comments that NFL games aren’t the place for protest. “You are nothing more than an entertainer. Just shut…
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Former NJ Priest Charged in Choking of 4-Month-Old at Kansas Wal-Mart
A former pastor is facing charges of attempting to choke a 4-month-old baby he did not know at an Overland Park, Kan., Wal-Mart, the Kansas City Star reports. Oleh Zhownirovych, 54, a former pastor at the Ukrainian Orthodox Holy Church in Clifton, N.J., was charged in Johnson County (Kan.) District Court with felony aggravated battery and…
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5 Teens Charged in Vandalism of Historic African-American Schoolhouse in Va.
Five Virginia teens have been charged in the racist vandalism of a historic African-American schoolhouse, WJLA reports. The Ashburn Colored School, now called the Old Ashburn Schoolhouse, was built in 1892, and earlier this month it was defaced with “white power” signs, swastikas, drawing of genitals and other derogatory messages. The five teens were identified earlier this…
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Milwaukee Cop Who Fatally Shot Sylville Smith Is Now Facing Charges of Sexual Assault
The Milwaukee police officer who shot and killed Sylville Smith is now being accused of sexually assaulting a man in an incident that occurred just two days after the fatal shooting, CNN reports. According to a criminal complaint, Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown was watching TV coverage of the turbulent protests that followed Smith’s Aug. 13 death at a…
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Emmett Till Memorial Sign Discovered Riddled With Bullet Holes
A memorial sign that marks the location where Emmett Till’s brutalized body was discovered in a Mississippi river in 1955 was found riddled with bullet holes, the New York Daily News reports. According to the report, it is not the first time that the sign has been vandalized since it was put in place in…
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Infant Will Likely Never See, Hear Again After Babysitter Threw Him for Pulling PlayStation Cord
A Colorado babysitter is facing serious charges after allegedly throwing a 7-month-old baby over a video game, CBS8 reports. Caleb Collins, 24, is facing charges of attempted first-degree murder and child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury. This week, unsealed documents revealed this week that the child will “likely never see, hear or have purposeful…
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Students Walk Out of Lecture After Professor Says Everyone Descends From Africa
Some students from Texas State University in San Marcos got up and left their lecture hall after their professor, Jon McGee, said that all people originated from Africa, The Tab reports. Apparently the day’s lesson was supposed to be on race. He began talking about the Black Lives Matter movement and how it had come about…
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University of Louisville Coach Rick Pitino Charged in Prostitution Scandal
The University of Louisville was rocked last year with claims that former players and recruits were lured to the school with sex from prostitutes hired by a former university employee. On Thursday the NCAA “formally charged current and former staff members in its men’s basketball program, including Coach Rick Pitino, with major rules violations related…
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Trump's 'Nasty Woman' Comment Backfires as 'Nasty Women' Rise Up for Clinton
Donald Trump turned his ratchet ridiculousness up to epic levels last night during the third and final presidential debate. Shortly after Trump boasted that “no one has more respect for women than me,” he called Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman.” During the debate, Clinton said: “My Social Security payroll contribution will go up, as will…