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Iowa Man Who Wears Surgical Mask Because He’s ‘Allergic to Black People’ Charged With Hate Crime
An Iowa City, Iowa, man who reportedly wore a surgical mask so as not to catch black people’s germs has been charged with a hate crime for fighting a man because he is black. According to CBS 2, police responded Sunday to a call about two men fighting. When they arrived, the victim told police…
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Homeless NH Man Who Won Lawsuit Against Cops Is Found Dead in Cell
A homeless Nashua, N.H., man who had won settlements against two police departments in New Hampshire over arrests concerning panhandling and vagrancy was found dead in his cell at a Manchester, N.H., jail Sunday, the New Hampshire Union Leader reports. Jeffrey Pendleton was arrested last week on a misdemeanor charge for possessing marijuana and was…
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San Bernardino, Calif., 12-Year-Old Killed in Hail of Gunfire While Walking to Convenience Store
Authorities are asking for the public’s assistance in finding the killer of a 12-year-old boy who died in a hail of bullets as he and a cousin walked to a convenience store in San Bernardino, Calif, the Associated Press reports. The boys—Jason Spears, 12, and Terrance Spears, 14—were reportedly walking to the store around 10…
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Somali Teen Shot by Utah Police Awakes From Coma
Abdi Mohamed, a 17-year-old Somali refugee who was seriously wounded in a police shooting in Salt Lake City, has emerged from a coma and is talking. Abdi’s cousin Muslima Weledi told the Associated Press that the teen was awake from the medically induced coma but remains on painkillers. Weledi visited him Saturday but said that he…
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Report: Md. Cop Was Killed by Friendly Fire in Ambush; Shooter’s Brothers Filmed Attack
Michael DeAndre Ford, 22, wanted to die Sunday afternoon, authorities charge. So, officials say, he videotaped a last will and testament and drove with his brothers—Elijah Ford, 18, and Malik Ford, 21—to the Prince George’s County police headquarters in Landover, Md., and opened fire on both the police station and passing cars. Authorities say that…
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Watch: ‘You’re Going to Live!’ Moment Teen Learns He’s Going to Receive a Heart Transplant
Albert Jeffries, who goes by Al-J, was only 4 months old when doctors diagnosed him with cardiomyopathy, a heart condition that, according to doctors, meant he wasn’t going to make it. “His heart was barely squeezing,” Albert’s mom, Tina Turner, told Fox 8 in December. “That was the beginning of our journey. The doctor said…
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Former SC Trooper Pleads Guilty to Shooting Unarmed Man Who Was Reaching for License
Former South Carolina State Trooper Sean Groubert has pleaded guiilty to charges of shooting an unarmed man at a Columbia, S.C., gas station in September 2014, WLTX reports. On Monday, inside a courthouse in Richland County, S.C., Groubert entered the plea to charges of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature in the…
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Wrongly Convicted NC Man Found Dead in Car
Darryl Hunt, who spent 19 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, was found dead in a car in Winston-Salem, N.C., early Sunday, the Charlotte Observer reports. Officers got a call about a person believed to be dead in a car near the Wake Forest University campus, where they found Hunt unresponsive.…
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Man Fatally Shot by Houston Police After Allegedly Ripping Down Road Sign, Charging at Officers
A Houston man reportedly ripped down a road sign and charged after officers before he was fatally wounded in an incident Saturday, KHOU reports. According to the report, the officer who fired the shots attempted to stop and help the man when he lunged at the officer. The officer tried to tase the man twice,…
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Report: Police Aren’t Charged in 96 Percent of Civil Rights Complaints
Federal prosecutors declined to bring charges against U.S. law-enforcement officers in a majority of cases involving charges of civil rights violations between 1995 and 2015, an investigation by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has revealed. The newspaper reportedly delved into almost 3 million records from the Department of Justice related to how the 94 U.S. attorney’s offices…