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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…
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Security Guard at Giant Grocery Store Charged With Assault After Allegedly Forcing Transgender Woman Out of Restroom
A Giant grocery store security guard has been charged with simple assault after allegedly forcing a transgender woman out of the women’s restroom, NBC Washington reports. Ebony Belcher, 32, said she went into a Giant store in Northeast Washington, D.C., and asked an employee where the bathroom was. On her way into the restroom, Belcher…
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Mothers of Black Fla. Teens Who Drowned After a Police Chase Speak Out
“They painted her as a criminal, despite the fact that she’s 15 years old and lost her life,” says Natasha Winkler, mother of Laniya Miller. Her daughter was one of three teens who died early on the morning of March 31 after a police chase. “Before I was notified that of her passing away, [police] had…
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Prominent Black Lives Matter Activist Arrested for Pimping 17-Year-Old Girl
Ferguson, Mo., activist Charles Wade, who has been a prominent figure in the Black Lives Matter movement and is credited with co-founding the nonprofit Operation Help or Hush, was arrested in April and charged with human trafficking and prostitution. According to the Daily Caller, Wade was arrested after an undercover officer answered a Backpage.com ad…
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Amina Ali, Recovered Chibok Schoolgirl, Meets With Nigeria’s President
Amina Ali, a Chibok schoolgirl who reportedly escaped from Boko Haram terrorists after being kidnapped more than two years ago, met with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa in Abuja on Thursday, CNN reports. President Buhari held the baby girl to whom Ali gave birth while being held captive by the extremist group. …