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Las Vegas Police Mistake Cellphone for Gun, Fatally Shoot Unarmed Man
Las Vegas police have released body-cam footage of the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old unarmed man. According to KSN, Keith Childress Jr. was wanted after failing to appear for sentencing in a 2013 Arizona home invasion during which Childress and other suspects stole computers and electronic equipment at gunpoint. Childress failed to appear at his scheduled…
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Camille Cosby Wins Emergency Motion to Delay Deposition
A Massachusetts judge ruled that Camille Cosby would not be deposed Wednesday in a defamation case brought by seven accusers against her husband, CNN reports. The Cosby matriarch’s deposition had been scheduled for Wednesday, but her legal team filed an emergency motion for a stay just days before she was set to make her statement. U.S.…
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Texas Trooper Who Arrested Sandra Bland Indicted on Perjury Charges
The Texas trooper who arrested Sandra Bland has been indicted on perjury charges. According to the Houston Chronicle, Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Brian Encinia was indicted by a Waller County grand jury Wednesday. If found guilty of the Class A misdemeanor, Encinia could face a $4,000 fine and up to a year in…
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Pa. Councilman-Elect Prohibited From Taking Office Because of 1993 Felony
More than two decades ago, McKeesport, Pa., Councilman-elect Corey Sanders faced a drug conviction. Sanders pleaded no contest to two felony drug counts in 1993 and was subsequently sentenced to, and served, four years in prison. On Monday, Sanders wasn’t allowed to be sworn in as a councilman in McKeesport, the Associated Press reports. In…
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Freddie Gray Case: Baltimore Officer Caesar Goodson’s Trial Begins
The hearing for Baltimore Police Officer Caesar Goodson Jr., the driver of the police transport wagon at the center of the Freddie Gray case, has begun with the judge denying the officer’s request to move the trial to another jurisdiction, the Baltimore Sun reports. Goodson is charged with second-degree depraved-heart murder, the most serious charge…
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Tuskegee University Scientist Wins $1,100,000 Cancer Research Grant
Hadiyah-Nicole Green is in a league of her own. She was the second African-American woman to receive a doctorate in physics from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. And today she’s an assistant professor at Tuskegee University and stands as one of fewer than 100 black female physicists in the U.S.—in a field that is still dominated…
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Update: Ore. Standoff Leader Did Not Compare Armed Group’s Effort to Rosa Parks’
Editor’s note: It turns out that Ammon Bundy does not have a Twitter account and did not tweet out a comparison to Rosa Parks. That fact was unearthed by the website Gizmodo after it fact-checked this widely circulated, but erroneous, report. The account @Ammon_Bundy was a parody. As if this story weren’t strange enough, on Wednesday…
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Black Ky. Judge Adds 60 Days to Man’s Jail Sentence for Yelling ‘Punk-Ass N–ger’
Usually, when in court, people tend to be on their best behavior. Adam Satterly, whose bond on drug charges was revoked Monday, apparently didn’t get the memo and earned himself an additional 60 days in jail for being in contempt of court, according to WDRB. Satterly didn’t take it well when Jefferson Circuit Court Judge…
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‘Obama Wants Your Guns’: Ted Cruz Campaign Reacts to President’s Speech on Gun Control
On the heels of President Barack Obama’s 40-minute speech on gun control Tuesday, this happened: “Obama wants your guns.” Said phrase, accompanied by what appears to be a photoshopped image of President Obama clad in black combat attire—helmet and all—headlines a page of Ted Cruz’s campaign website. Just below the headline, the Cruz campaign solicits backing:…
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African Boy Attacked by Chimps to Receive Reconstructive Surgery in NY
Two years ago Dunia Sibomana, his younger brother and a cousin were the victims of a chimpanzee attack. According to the Associated Press, his brother and cousin died in the assault—they were dismembered—while Dunia, now 8, was left severely disfigured. He is missing his lips and a finger, and his cheek was torn during the…