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Md. Man, 21, Dies After Fight With Baltimore County Police
A 21-year-old Essex, Md., man who was hospitalized after a fight with Baltimore County Police has died. According to KTTS, police responded to 911 calls that included a man and a woman screaming around 3 a.m. Sunday. The woman told officers who arrived at the residence that her boyfriend, Tawon Boyd, was acting “crazy” and…
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White College Students Post Racist Snapchat Photo: 'We Locked the Black B–ch Out'
A group of University of North Dakota students took to Snapchat to post images of themselves after reportedly locking a black student out of her own dorm. The photo shows three laughing white female students with the caption, “Locked the black bitch out,” according to Raw Story. UND student Etonde Maloke took to Facebook on…
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Watch: Did a Former St. Louis Cop Plant a Gun on a Suspect After Fatal Shooting?
A former St. Louis police officer is facing first-degree murder charges in the 2011 fatal shooting of a driver authorities said was believed to have been involved in a drug deal. New video of the incident, obtained by several news outlets, appears to show the officer pointing a personal weapon at the driver and then,…
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Eyewitness to #KeithLamontScott Shooting: The Officer Who Shot That Man Was White
Updated Sunday, Sept. 25, 12:32 p.m. EDT: The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has released dashcam and body-cam footage that appears to contradict eyewitness Taheshia Williams’ statement that Keith Lamont Scott’s hands were up when he was shot by a CMPD officer—though Scott is not waving a gun or posing “an imminent deadly threat to the officers,” as CMPD…
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#CharlotteProtest: NC Gov. Pat McCrory Declares State of Emergency, Calls in National Guard
As fiery protests in Charlotte, N.C., stretch into the third day, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory has issued a state of emergency, activating the National Guard to “assist local law enforcement” in silencing protests that exploded in the wake of police fatally shooting Keith Lamont Scott, 43. As previously reported by The Root: By early Wednesday morning,…
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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Takes #NoDAPL Fight to the United Nations
Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II asked the United Nations for help Tuesday in preventing the Dakota Access Pipeline from being built. Archambault spoke at the 33rd session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, which runs Sept. 13-30 in Geneva. Archambault told the council that oil companies are causing the deliberate destruction of “our…
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Justin Carr: Man Shot During Charlotte Protest Has Died
Updated Thursday, Sept. 22, 8:30 p.m. EDT: Justin Carr, 26, a man shot in Charlotte on Wednesday while protesting the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott, has died, reports the Charlotte Observer. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police claim they found Carr after “responding to a call of an assault with a deadly weapon.” Before Carr was officially identified, his…
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Elizabeth Warren Tears Into Wells Fargo CEO During Senate Banking Committee Hearing
“Mr. Stumpf, the Wells Fargo Vision and Values statement [pdf], which you frequently cite, says, quote, ‘We believe in values lived, not phrases memorized. If you want to find out how strong a company’s ethics are, don’t listen to what its people say; watch what they do.’ So, let’s do that.” So began Democratic Sen.…
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Charlotte, NC, Police Say Keith Lamont Scott Had a Gun, but Was That Enough to Detain Him?
Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., police insist that 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott was carrying a gun and not complying with officers’ orders when he was shot Tuesday afternoon, but why did police initiate contact with him in the first place? According to the police statement, officers were at the Village at College Downs apartment complex to serve an…
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Federal Court Says It’s Totally Not Racist to Ban Dreadlocks at Work
A federal appeals court ruled that employers who ban dreadlocks in the workplace are not engaging in racial discrimination, according to the Huffington Post. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 3-0 last week to uphold a lower court’s dismissal of a 2013 lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of Chastity…