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Hillary Clinton Postpones Visit to Charlotte, NC, Citing Security Concerns
The Hillary Clinton campaign announced Friday that the Democratic presidential candidate would visit Charlotte, N.C., on Sunday, the day before the first presidential debate, only to reverse course hours later, citing security concerns and law-enforcement resources, according to the Wall Street Journal. The outlet reports that Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts asked for a delay to…
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Suspended Seattle Mariner Compared BLM to KKK, Unearthed Facebook Post Shows
Surprise, surprise. The man who basically said he is not a racist wrote a Facebook post in August disproving that point. Seattle Mariner Steve Clevenger, 30, who was recently suspended from his team for a series of hateful Twitter rants after the shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott by Charlotte, N.C., police—and gave a weird apology…
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Racist Message Written on Dorm Whiteboard at SUNY College: ‘N–gers Deserve to Die’
The College at Brockport, State University of New York, has launched an investigation after someone wrote “N—gers deserve to die” on a whiteboard in a college dorm earlier this week, WHAM reports. According to the station, students who live in the dorm are mostly people of color, a student said. University police are looking into the…
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Chris Bosh Fails Latest Physical. Is His NBA Career Over?
The Miami Heat has not cleared Chris Bosh to play in the upcoming season, and his plan to resume play is in jeopardy, according to a report by the Associated Press. “The Miami Heat regret that it remains unable to clear Chris to return to basketball activities, and there is no timetable for his return,” the…
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Sherry Hall: Ga. Cop Who Lied About Being Shot by Black Man Faces 4 Felonies
Sherry Hall, a police officer in Jackson, Ga., has been “charged with four felonies, including evidence tampering and giving false statements to investigators,” after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation determined that she lied about being shot by an unidentified black man,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. “The investigation has revealed that there is no and never was a…
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5 Questions That Remain Unanswered in the Keith Lamont Scott Shooting
Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., police have not been very forthcoming with information regarding the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott on Sept. 20. They refuse to release the body-cam footage. Their accounts of what happened in the moments leading up to the shooting have been directly refuted in video evidence as well as eyewitness testimony. The…
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North Carolina Congressman Says Charlotte Protesters 'Hate White People'
A North Carolina Congressman went on a BBC-TV news program Thursday and said that the protests in Charlotte, NC, stem from the fact that the protesters “hate white people because white people are successful and they’re not.” U.S. Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC) represents a district that includes parts of Charlotte that have had violent protests in…
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KG Out: Kevin Garnett Announces His Retirement
After 21 seasons, 15 All-Star appearances, four first-team All-NBA selections, one MVP award and one NBA championship, Minnesota Timberwolves player Kevin Garnett is ending his professional basketball career. Garnett posted a video to his official Instagram account Friday with the caption, “To be continued … ,” confirming the news first reported on Friday by the…
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Hillary Clinton Calls for Public Release of #KeithLamontScott Shooting Video
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton became one of the many people calling for public release of body-camera footage showing the Sept. 20 police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, N.C. On Friday, Clinton posted this appeal to her Twitter account: The Charlotte Observer reports that Clinton’s post comes after an earlier release from North…
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Eyewitness to Carr Shooting in Charlotte, NC: ‘Riot Police Shot Him … They’re Fabricating All of This’
Jimmy James Tyson, 31, a community activist and first responder, was standing 10-15 feet from the riot-police line in front of the Omni Hotel in downtown Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday night—where hundreds of protesters had gathered in response to the police killing of Keith Lamont Scott, 43—when all of sudden, rubber bullets and tear gas canisters exploded into…