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Mich. High School Responds to ‘Deplorable’ Video of Students’ Racist Rant
A Michigan community is outraged after high school students were seen in video saying horrific, racist things, prompting a widespread response at their school. In an email sent to students, parents and teachers Wednesday, Grosse Pointe South High School Principal Moussa Hamka described the video, blasting it as “deplorable” and a clear violation of the…
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UCLA Gunman Identified as Former Doctoral Student Who Accused Victim of Stealing His Computer Code
Authorities have identified the UCLA gunman in the murder-suicide on campus Wednesday as Mainak Sarkar, a former doctoral student who accused his victim of stealing his computer code and giving it to someone else, the Los Angeles Times reports. Sarkar reportedly killed himself after fatally shooting 39-year-old UCLA professor William Klug in Engineering Building 4. Klug,…
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Report: Prince Died From Opioid Overdose
Autopsy reports show that Prince died from an opioid overdose, according to a law-enforcement official who spoke with the Associated Press. Since news of Prince’s death surfaced, so have rumors claiming that the 57-year-old singer suffered from an addiction to pain medication. According to the official, who is reported to be close to the investigation…
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White Ill. Family Reportedly Almost Drowns Black Teen During Racial-Slur-Laced Beating
An Illinois family is facing multiple charges after, police say, they beat up a black teenager while shouting racial slurs at a campground in Canton, WLS reports. Carrie Weller, 42, and her two sons—21-year-old Corry Weller and 19-year-old Shane Weller—are facing charges of battery, mob action and a hate crime for the late-Sunday-afternoon beating of the…
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Ex-Fla. Officer Who Fatally Shot Musician Corey Jones Arrested, Charged
Prosecutors Wednesday charged a former Florida police officer with manslaughter and attempted murder in the fatal shooting of a black musician whose car had broken down on the side of a highway. Former Palm Beach Gardens Officer Nouman Raja, 38, was arrested for the Oct. 18, 2015, shooting of 31- year-old Corey Jones. Prosecutors, in…
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NC Senator Wanted to Drop Tuition at State HBCUs to $500. How’d He Get Labeled a Racist?
North Carolina state Sen. Tom Apodaca claimed that he was only trying to make tuition at some of the state’s historically black colleges and universities affordable when he proposed Senate Bill 873, which would have dropped tuition to $500 a semester. But the North Carolina NAACP said that the Republican senator’s bill was a shady…
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Head of Minneapolis Police Union: ‘Black Lives Matter Is a Terrorist Organization’
Moments after it was announced that police officers involved in the fatal shooting of 24-year-old Jamar Clark would not face federal charges, the president of the Minneapolis police union spoke out against the Black Lives Matter movement, calling it a “terrorist organization.” Speaking at a press conference Wednesday, Lt. Bob Kroll criticized Minneapolis Mayor Betsy…
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NYC Man Spent Nearly 5 Months in Jail Because He Didn’t Know His Bail Was $2
A Queens, N.Y., man was locked up at New York City’s Rikers Island jail for nearly five months without knowing that his freedom could have been obtained with loose change, the New York Daily News reports. Aitabdel Salem, 41, remained at Rikers from November 2014 to April 2015, despite the fact that his bail cost only…
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2 Fatally Shot at UCLA; Campus on Lockdown
Updated Wednesday, June 1, 3:30 p.m. EDT: Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck declared the UCLA campus safe after confirming that the shooter was one of two men killed in a small office in a building on the campus’s engineering complex, the Los Angeles Times reports. “The campus is now safe,” Beck told reporters in…
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Calif. Mom Facing Charges After Allegedly Lying About Daughter Being Missing
Sacramento, Calif., police were allegedly led on a wild-goose chase, expending resources looking for a missing 10-year-old girl who, it turns out, was not missing at all, ABC 10 reports. According to the report, the girl’s mother lied to police in order to make it look as if the child’s father had done something wrong;…