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Man Arrested on Charges He Choked NYC Woman to Death
Authorities say that Rolanso Lexune, 32, was caught harassing Deneisha Smith, 27, on video footage inside the cellphone repair shop where she worked around 1 p.m. Saturday, the New York Daily News reports. Two months earlier, according to the News, Lexune had been court-ordered to stay away from Smith after he had assaulted her. Now,…
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NYC Cop Suing After Her Arrest on Charges of Stealing Home
New York City Police Officer Blanche O’Neal is suing the city for $50 million as a result of her arrest last year by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office on charges she stole a three-family row house in the city’s borough of Brooklyn, the New York Daily News reports. State Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun ultimately threw out…
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LeBron James Endorses Hillary Clinton Because Who Else Was He Going to Endorse? Willie Wilson?
Everyone can settle down now and stop the speculation that three-time NBA champion and four-time NBA MVP LeBron James was thinking about going another route with his vote for president. On Sunday the Cleveland Cavaliers star forward made it official, with an op-ed posted by Business Insider, that he will be voting for Hillary Clinton…
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NYC Cops Search for Man Seen With Woman Hours Before She Was Killed
Jennifer Cohen, 35, was found beaten to death in a Brooklyn, N.Y., skate park around 9:10 a.m. Thursday, the New York Daily News reports. Cohen had multiple lacerations to her head. A man was seen on video walking with her a couple of hours before she was killed, authorities said. The two were seen walking…
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Redskins Player Wears Custom Cleats to Protest Police Violence Against Blacks
On Sunday, Washington Redskins wide receiver Desean Jackson wore custom cleats designed with police caution tape to protest police violence against African-American men, women and children. “I felt the need to do it,” Jackson said after the game, the Washington Post reports. “I felt like I’ve been silent long enough. It’s a bigger problem out…
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#SittingOnPorchWhileBlack: Video Shows NC Cop Violently Arresting Black Man
A Greensboro, N.C., police officer was stripped of his law-enforcement credentials last week via a vote by City Council members after body-camera footage of an arrest he made was made public, the Huffington Post reports. According to the report, the council voted unanimously Sept. 26 to permanently sanction Police Officer Travis Cole for his use…
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Texas Sonic Drive-In Customers Upset at 'Racist' Receipts
A Fort Worth, Texas, man is demanding answers after he and his friend noticed that the receipts for their Friday lunch included racial slurs, Fox4DC reports. Tyrone Moseley and a co-worker stopped at a local Sonic drive-in for their meal and ordered on the patio, where, according to Moseley, the servers usually take his name.…
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Ind. Woman Gives Birth to Twins at Age 60
A 60-year-old Indiana woman has become a mother for the first time, giving birth to fraternal twin boys last week, WFIE reports. “I cried. I was like, you know, you look at TV and you see other people in the delivery room and … it’s like, oh my goodness. And it was me. So, joy,…
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Black Va. Schoolhouse Built in 1892 Defaced With ‘White Power’ Signs
The Ashburn Colored School opened in 1892, a single-room schoolhouse that gave black children in Northern Virginia the opportunity to receive an education, 30 years after the Civil War ended in the capital of the Confederacy. The school was horribly vandalized this weekend. For the past two years, CNN reports, local students had tirelessly worked…
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Protests Mount After Teen Carnell Snell Jr. Shot and Killed by LAPD
An 18-year-old was shot fatally by the Los Angeles Police Department after a foot chase that relatives said ended tragically in front of his home. The dead teen has been identified as Carnell “C.J.” Snell Jr., a young man neighbors say was into skateboards and his family, according to the Los Angeles Times. LAPD officers…