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San Antonio Officer Who Fatally Shot Unarmed Man Suspended Indefinitely
The San Antonio police officer who claimed that he feared for his life when he shot and killed an unarmed man has been placed on indefinite suspension. According to the Associated Press, Police Officer John Lee has been issued an “indefinite suspension for placing himself unnecessarily in a tactical situation wherein he felt compelled to…
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Obama Meets With Republican Leaders Over Scalia’s Supreme Court Seat
On Tuesday, President Barack Obama met unsuccessfully with Republican leaders about choosing a nominee for the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia Feb. 13. Obama, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid met in the Oval Office for less than…
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Congressional Republicans Vote Against Naming Post Office After Maya Angelou
On Tuesday, when Congress took on the rather routine task of naming a post office after icon, writer, activist and poet Maya Angelou, nine members saw fit to vote against the mostly symbolic measure. Mind you, this is a woman who already has a postage stamp with her likeness on it. NBC News reports that…
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4 Miss. Men Ordered to Pay $840,000 for Brutal, Racially Charged Killing of Black Man
On Monday, four white men were ordered by a federal judge in Mississippi to pay $840,000 in restitution to the estate of James Craig Anderson, a black man who died as a result of their racially charged cruelty, the Washington Post reports. Deryl Dedmon, 23; John Rice, 23; Dylan Butler, 24; and William Montgomery, 26,…
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Louis Farrakhan on Donald Trump: ‘I Like What I’m Looking At’
Politics can make strange bedfellows, with Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan finding a commonality in Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump. Trump “is the only member who has stood in front of the Jewish community and said, ‘I don’t want your money,’” Farrakhan said during a weekend sermon, Politico reports. “Any time a man…
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Police Shooting in Utah Triggers Protests
Protesters took to the streets Monday night after police shot and seriously injured a 17-year-old Somali refugee in Salt Lake City, the Associated Press reports. Abdi Mohamed, who immigrated to the U.S. with his family in 2004, was reportedly shot twice in the torso as officers intervened as he and another person allegedly attacked a…
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NC Man Shot 7 Times While Running Away from Police, Mother Says
A Raleigh, North Carolina police officer has been placed on administrative duty pending the investigation of the shooting death of a young black man, who was wanted on a warrant, ABC 11 reports. Officers declined to identify the dead man on Monday, however Rolanda Byrd said that the man who was fatally wounded by officers…
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Texas Man Accused of Screaming ‘F–k the N–gers’ While Shooting at Campaign Office of Black Candidate for Sheriff
Police in Beaumont, Texas, arrested a white man and were questioning others after an allegedly racially charged shooting at the campaign headquarters of Jefferson County, Texas, sheriff candidate Zena Stephens, who is black, KMBT reports. Stephens told the news station that she was standing outside the headquarters with a group of people when a white…
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Family of Ala. Man Fatally Shot by Cop Outside His Home Wants Answers
On Thursday a Montgomery, Ala., police officer shot and killed Greg Gunn, 58, steps away from Gunn’s home. On Monday, Montgomery Mayor Todd Strange and Police Chief Ernest Finley held a press conference, where Gunn’s brother Franklin Gunn asked them both for five minutes. Five minutes, he said, that had his brother been afforded the…
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Army Sgt. Accused of Killing Wife and Va. Cop Working Her 1st Shift
Prince William County Police Officer Ashley Guindon, 28, completed her official ceremony to join the Virginia force Friday and was working her first full shift Saturday when she responded to a domestic violence call with two other officers. When Guindon and her fellow officers arrived at the front door, “the subject opened fire,” Prince William…