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  • Video Shows Ga. Deputies Using Taser on Unresisting Black Man From Behind 

    Video showing a black man standing up against a wall in the Richmond County (Ga.) Jail with his hands behind his back before deputies used a Taser on him directly contradicts a police report stating that the man had become combative, WSB-TV reports. Carlos Seals, the man in question, acknowledges that he used profanity toward the…

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  • Here's a Look at All the NFL Players Who Protested Sunday

    Colin Kapernick’s movement to protest police violence against unarmed men, women and children is spreading. Below is a look at the players who protested Sunday: Five players for the San Francisco 49ers also raised their right fists during the ceremony: Antoine Bethea, Rashard Robinson, Jaquiski Tartt, Keith Reaser and Mike Davis.

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  • 4 Redskins Players Defy Coach, Protest Police Violence During Anthem

    It took three games and two more deaths of unarmed black men for four Washington Redskins players to finally join the growing number of NFL players who are standing up against the over-policing of black and minority communities. On Sunday, DeSean Jackson, Niles Paul, Greg Toler and Rashad Ross all raised a fist during the national anthem before taking on…

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  • University of ND Investigating Yet Another Racist Photo Incident

    Things are looking bad at the University of North Dakota. The school is investigating its second racially charged photo in just about as many days, Valley News Live reports. The photo in question, which was posted to social media, shows four white people wearing black facial masks with the caption “Black Lives Matter,” the site notes.…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Identical Twin Confesses to 2003 Murder for Which Brother Was Convicted 

    Karl Smith took the witness stand at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago on Thursday and made a confession that stunned those present. Smith admitted to committing a 2003 murder for which his identical twin, Kevin Dugar, was put behind bars. “I’m here to confess to a crime I committed that he was wrongly…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Tommie Smith and John Carlos to Join 2016 Olympic Team at White House

    Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the U.S. Olympic sprinters who raised their fists during the 1968 Olympics, will join the U.S. Olympic team at the White House next week for its meeting with President Barack Obama, the Charlotte News & Observer reports. In the last week, the tide has continued to turn for the two…

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  • A Historic Museum Featuring #APeoplesJourney Opens on the National Mall

    Saturday morning marked a monumental day for America, a day that many believed would never come: the opening day of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the 19th museum of the Smithsonian Institution. NMAAHC was established by an act of Congress in 2003 under the authorization of President George W. Bush. But that, of course, was not…

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  • Watch: High School Football Team Lie on Their Backs With Hands Up as Colin Kaepernick Looks On

    And it don’t stop. The police killings continue, as do the protests against them. On Friday night, former NFL player Kirk Morrison shared a powerful photo showing San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem while players from Castlemont High School in Oakland, Calif., lay on their backs with their hands up.…

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  • Suspect in Wash. Mall Shooting Taken Into Custody

    Updated Sunday, Sept. 25, 10:40 a.m. EDT: The man accused of fatally shooting five people in a Burlington, Wash., mall is being held without bond and faces five counts of first-degree murder, USA Today reports. The suspect, identified as 20-year-old Arcan Cetin of Oak Harbor, Wash., was taken into custody Saturday night in Oak Harbor, Wash., about…

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  • NC Law That Limits Release of Police Video Goes Into Effect Next Week

    A North Carolina law that goes into effect exactly one week after the Keith Lamont Scott police shooting video was released effectively keeps the public from viewing or obtaining police video from dashboard or body cameras unless a judge rules to release it. Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, who signed the legislation into law two months…

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