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Persons of Interest in Fort Myers, Fla., Club Shooting Identified
The three individuals who were taken into custody after a shooting at a Fort Myers, Fla., nightclub that was hosting a teen event have been identified by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, WINK reports. Derrick Church, 19; Demetrius O’Neal, 19; and Tajze Battle, 22, were all booked into the Lee County Jail Tuesday morning, having…
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Noodles & Co. Chef Refused to Cook for Uniformed Alexandria, Va., Police Officer: Report
An Alexandria, Va., police officer was denied service at a local Noodle & Co. after the cook reportedly refused service, according to Fox5DC. Police say that the incident occurred Monday evening when the female officer, dressed in full uniform, decided to get a meal from the Noodles & Co. on Duke Street. According to the…
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Trump Supporter Yells Racist Slurs at Black Woman on Subway
“Put them back in the f—king fields where they belong!” On Saturday, a video emerged on YouTube of a white Donald Trump fan shouting out racist, sexist comments at a black woman who apparently had taken the last seat on the L train in Brooklyn, N.Y., according to the New York Daily News. In the video, you…
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PolitiFact Schools White People Who Refused to Believe White House Was Built by Slaves
It seems that some people may have failed history. Or maybe it’s more a sign of how broken the education system is that PolitiFact actually had to go out and fact-check whether the White House was built by slaves after first lady Michelle Obama mentioned that fact during her rousing speech at the Democratic National…
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Dallas Police Department Job Applications Almost Quadruple
The number of applications for employment at the Dallas Police Department has almost quadrupled since Police Chief David Brown told protesters, “We’re hiring” at a news conference shorty after the ambush that left five officers dead, according to the Washington Post. As reported by the Post, from July 8 to July 20, the Dallas Police Department received…
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Trump Disses Cory Booker on Twitter; Booker Responds With Love
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker isn’t at all disturbed by Donald Trump’s attack on him after Booker’s speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday. In fact, Booker has taken to responding to Trump with love, CNN notes. “I love Donald Trump,” Booker said Tuesday on CNN’s New Day. “I don’t want to answer his hate…
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NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton Announces Plans to Step Down by End of 2017
New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton confirmed Monday that he has no intentions of remaining the head of the Police Department past the end of 2017, CBS News reports. “I do not intend to stay into a second term,” Bratton said during an unrelated news conference with New York City’s mayor. According to CBS,…
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Who's Running the DNC? Black Women
Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) took her place as chair of the Democratic National Convention, and although the role was unexpected, NBCBLK notes, the Ohio congresswoman made a point to open with a call for unity and respect. “We’re all Democrats and we need to act like it,” Fudge said Monday, vowing a “different kind of convention than…
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Ohio Attorney Faces Jail for Refusing to Remove Black Lives Matter Pin
An Ohio attorney was sentenced to five days in jail after refusing to remove a Black Lives Matter pin she was wearing. According to the Washington Post, an Ohio judge had told attorney Andrea Burton that there had been complaints about her pin and that court officials were not allowed to wear political pins in…