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Okla. ‘Play’ Cop Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison for Fatally Shooting Unarmed Man
Tulsa County, Okla., Reserve Sheriff’s Deputy Robert Bates, who fatally shot an unarmed black suspect, was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday. The 73-year-old volunteer sheriff’s deputy maintained that he had been reaching for his Taser during an April 2015 undercover sting operation when he accidentally grabbed his gun and shot Eric Harris as…
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5 Texas Teens Face Charges After Reportedly Confessing to Spray-Painting ‘Whites Only’ Over School Drinking Fountain
A group of Arlington, Texas, teens are facing a felony offense after allegedly tagging racist graffiti on the exterior of a rival school, CBS DFW reports. The graffiti has been classified by some as school-rival retribution, but some are classifying it as an act of hate. All five teens face a year in jail if…
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Parents of 4-Year-Old Boy Who Fell Into Gorilla Habitat Are Under Media Scrutiny
The parents of the 4-year-old boy who fell 15 feet into a gorilla-exhibit moat at the Cincinnati Zoo on Saturday, resulting in the death of the 17-year-old silverback gorilla Harambe, are now the subject of intense scrutiny on social and online media. Photos of the couple have been circulating online, and online publication the Daily…
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Bronx, NY, Man Charged With Fatally Beating Man Who Allegedly Tried to Rape His Wife
A New York City man has been arrested and charged after, police say, he fatally beat the man who allegedly tried to rape his wife inside their Bronx apartment, CBS New York reports. Mamadou Diallo, 61, is now facing charges of manslaughter. According to the report, police responded to emergency calls at the apartment building just…
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Ill. Woman Charged for Firing Warning Shots After Gunman Fatally Shot Fiance
Ashley Harrison, 26, and her fiance and father of her two children, Garvin Whitmore, 27, were stopped at a light on an Aurora, Ill., street when a gunman walked up to the car and shot Whitmore in the head. Frantic, Harrison grabbed a .357 Magnum inside the car and fired several times in the air,…
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Body of Ariz. Woman Who Went Missing After Date Found; Suspect in Custody
The body of a missing Arizona woman who was last seen April 19 while on a date with a man has been found in a shallow grave. According to CBS 5, 25-year-old Angela Russo’s body was found in a desert area in Maricopa County last week. Police announced that Lashawn Johnson, who was already in…
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Madonna Claps Back at BET for Its Dig After Her Prince Tribute
With bated breath we all waited for Madonna to do a befitting tribute to Prince Rogers Nelson, her “contemporary,” at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards. But even before the Material Girl hit the stage, there were (legitimate) gripes that black women, whom the recently departed pop icon championed his entire life, were excluded from the…
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Native American Activist and Prisoner Leonard Peltier Asks Obama for Clemency
In 1977 Native American activist Leonard Peltier was put behind bars, where he has remained in federal custody ever since, for the murder of two FBI agents. But he hasn’t given up on being released: A petition for clemency was sent to the White House in late March, according to the New York Daily News.…
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Missing Ivy League Student Tells Why She ‘Disappeared’
Nayla Kidd, the Columbia University sophomore whose disappearance during finals at Columbia University went viral and scared mothers everywhere, was found by police more than two weeks after she seemingly vanished into thin air. It turned out that Kidd, who hails from Lexington, Ky., and was majoring in engineering and social science at the school,…
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Watch: Chilling Video Combines Trump Rhetoric With ’60s-Era Lunch Counter Protests
When Donald Trump talks about the “good old days” of how protesters were treated, he jokes about them being taken out on stretchers or being ripped out of their seats. But there’s nothing funny about how civil rights protesters were violated in the 1960s as they fought to end Jim Crow in the South. They were beaten, harassed and…