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Camille Cosby on Bill’s Infidelities and Drugging Women: ‘I Have No Opinion’
In a newly unsealed deposition filed in a case involving seven women suing Bill Cosby for defamation, Cosby’s wife of more than 50 years, Camille Cosby, repeatedly says she has “no opinion” on everything from her husband’s extramarital affairs, to his admitted procurement of Quaaludes for women. MSNBC reports that the full transcript of the…
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Watch: NYC Cop Loses Badge for Punching, Drawing Gun on Bystanders During Violent Arrest
As warmer weather heats up in the streets of Harlem, young men on dirt bikes and ATVs take to the streets in loud, boisterous fashion, annoying and thrilling residents of the rapidly gentrifying community. On Thursday, an enraged plainclothes officer arrested one of these dirt bikers, and whipped out his handgun on bystanders who were…
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Ex-NBA Baller Blows Up Racist Woman on Amtrak
Social media has morphed from a cute little platform for sharing funny pics and links to a truth-telling device that confirms that racism is alive and well in America. Ask ex-Washington Wizard player Etan Thomas; he knows how to use it to his advantage. Thomas, a universally accepted all-around great guy, adoring father, and advocate…
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1 Person Shot Near White House, Prompting Lockdown
The White House was placed on lockdown Friday afternoon after one person was shot by law enforcement near the premises, ABC News reports. The president was not at the White House at the time of the shooting, which occurred at 17th and E streets. Vice President Joe Biden was reportedly “within the complex” at the…
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Ariz. TV Reporter Arrested After Reportedly Defecating on Lawn While Covering Story
A Phoenix TV reporter is in a whole heap of trouble after being caught defecating on a front lawn near the home of his story’s subject, the New York Daily News reports. Jonathan Lowe, a reporter for KPHO, was arrested earlier this week after he was seen by a neighbor who was picking up papers…
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Trial Set to Begin for Pittsburgh Man Who Was Sued by Target After He Stopped a Stabbing Inside the Store
In 2013, Leon Walls stabbed Michael Turner’s friend on a Pittsburgh street. Turner and three other men went looking for Walls shortly after the stabbing, planning to hold him for police. Turner heard that the man had gone inside a nearby Target, in East Liberty, so Turner and the men followed. Once inside, they found…
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Questions Arise Around Culpability in 2nd Officer’s Trial Over Death of Freddie Gray
Closing arguments concluded Friday after a weeklong bench trial for Officer Edward Nero in the death of Freddie Gray. The trial for Nero focused less on the facts of how Gray died and more on the particulars of laws regarding detaining, arresting and transporting prisoners, and general orders from the Baltimore Police Department on procedures…
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San Francisco Police Chief Resigns Hours After Black Woman, 27, Fatally Shot by Cop
Hours after a San Francisco police officer fatally shot a young black woman, the city’s mayor called for Police Chief Greg Suhr’s resignation. According to the Associated Press, Suhr had been under fire since December, when five officers were caught on video shooting a young black man, Mario Woods, who was wielding a knife. Then,…
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2nd Nigerian Schoolgirl Rescued, Army Says
A second schoolgirl who was among the more than 200 girls kidnapped two years ago from their school in Chibok, Nigeria, by the terrorist group Boko Haram has been rescued, a spokesman for the Nigerian army said Thursday. The Chibok schoolgirls are among thousands of women and girls Boko Haram has kidnapped over the years,…
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Los Angeles Lawyer Who Wore KKK Hood to Council Meeting Arrested
A Los Angles attorney who wore a Ku Klux Klan hood adorned with a swastika to a meeting at Los Angeles City Hall was arrested Wednesday after authorities say he called the Los Angeles Council president a racial slur and drew a picture of him hanging from a tree. “A cross that’s burning, an individual…