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Fraternal Order of Police Endorses Donald Trump for President
The nation’s largest police labor organization announced its endorsement of Donald Trump for president on Friday. The Fraternal Order of Police, which has more than 330,000 members, said in a press release (pdf) that Trump has its full support. According to the statement, “For a candidate to receive the endorsement of the Fraternal Order of…
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Texas Youth Football Team Kneels During National Anthem, Receives Death Threats
After deciding as a team to take a knee before a football game Sept. 11, a youth football team in Beaumont, Texas, is now receiving death threats. Following the example of the San Francisco 76ers’ Colin Kaepernick, the Beaumont Bulls took their helmets off, knelt down and placed their hands on one another’s shoulders. Coach…
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Gas-Pipeline Leak in Ala. Could Cause Gas Shortage and Price Increases
A gasoline pipeline that runs from Houston to New York ruptured 30 miles south of Birmingham, Ala., leading to a major leak. Colonial Pipeline, of Alpharetta, Ga., which operates the pipeline, says that 519 workers are cleaning up the spillage, now estimated to involve as much as 336,000 gallons of fuel. The spill happened just 500 feet…
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Trump: ‘Clinton’s Bodyguards Should Disarm; Let’s See What Happens to Her’
During a campaign stop in Miami on Friday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested once again that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton could be assassinated if the Second Amendment—the right to keep and bear arms—weren’t in place to protect her, The Guardian reports: She goes around with bodyguards … I think that her bodyguards should drop…
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Rodney King’s Daughter Is Working With LAPD to Bridge Gap Between Police and Citizens
Twenty-five years after Rodney King was beaten in what has become one of the most infamous cases of police brutality in history, his daughter teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Department on Thursday to speak to young people about interacting with police. The message? It’s more important to build bridges with officers than to…
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3 Ore. Children Pepper-Sprayed, Called Racial Slur
A black Portland, Ore., family say they were attacked this week by a cyclist who used a racial slur as he shot pepper spray at their three children who were in a car, the Portland Mercury reports. According to the report, 62-year-old Patricia Garner and her daughter, 32-year-old Foia Frazer, were getting Frazer’s three children…
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Steve Jobs’ Widow Gives 2 Los Angeles Teachers $10,000,000 to Start School for Homeless and Foster Kids
Two teachers in Los Angeles—Kari Croft, 29, and Erin Whalen, 26—have won $10 million in XQ: The Super School Project, a high-school-redesign competition funded by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs, according to the Los Angeles Times. The school will be geared to homeless and foster children. RISE, the name of the project, stands for Revolutionary…
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Police Looking for Man Who Charged $12,000 on Stolen Credit Cards
This summer, a man stole two elderly women’s wallets on two different instances in Maryland and bought almost $12,000 worth of items on their credit cards, the Washington Post reports. The man stole a 71-year-old woman’s wallet in Bethesda in July and charged a $5,000 blue Santa Cruz bicycle to one of her credit cards.…
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Family of Teen Killed by Police Settles With Portsmouth, Va., for $1,000,000
The family of a black Virginia teen who was fatally shot by a white police officer last year has agreed to settle a lawsuit for $1 million, the Associated Press reports. Earl Lewis Jr., the spokesman for the family of William Chapman II, told AP that although Chapman’s mother has agreed verbally to the figure,…
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Man Gets 9 Years for Assaulting Gay Couple at NYC Restaurant
Bayna Lekheim El-Amin, 42, received nine years in prison for assaulting Jonathan Snipes and boyfriend Ethan York Adams at a Dallas BBQ restaurant in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, the New York Daily News reports. Apparently Snipes thought he heard El-Amin call the gay couple “f—gots,” and so he hit him with his canvas bag…