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Video showing Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies fatally shoot a black man Saturday whose back was turned to them has gone viral and caused a backlash. Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials say that at the time of the shooting, the man, 28-year-old Nicholas Robertson, was holding a gun, which he never let go of, even…

Marvin Banks, 29, had been arrested in the fatal shooting of two Mississippi police officers. On Friday night, Banks was found unresponsive in his cell and rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. According to NBC News, “Autopsy results showed Banks died of severe heart disease, but toxicology tests are still pending.”…

University of Mississippi defensive lineman Robert Nkemdiche is in stable condition after falling from a Buckhead, Ga., hotel-room window late Saturday night. According to CBS News, Nkemdiche reportedly broke a fourth-floor window at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, climbed out of the broken window, walked about 15 feet, then climbed over a wall and fell about 15…

Donald Trump slammed Chief Justice John Roberts and named Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas as his favorite judge on the high court, the Associated Press reports. “Justice Roberts really let us [conservatives] down. What he did with Obamacare was disgraceful, and I think he did that because he wanted to be popular inside the…

Authorities said Nicholas Robertson was armed and turning toward sheriff’s deputies when they fired a hail of bullets, killing him in Lynwood, Calif., Saturday. But a mobile phone video appears to show him walking away, KTLA reports. According to the official account, the deputies were responding to calls about a man firing a gun. They…

The South Boston, Va., NAACP held its first march Saturday to demand justice for a black man who died in 2013 while in police custody, the Associated Press reports. A video released last month shows three officers shooting stun guns multiple times to arrest a handcuffed Linwood Lambert Jr., 46, as he runs toward a hospital…

A lawyer representing Mario Woods’ family showed a new video of Woods’ fatal police shooting and announced that he has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. On Dec. 2, at least five San Francisco police officers fired at Woods, who was a suspect in a stabbing. Woods, 26, allegedly wielded…

The Bakhetle supermarket in Moscow issued an apology Thursday saying it was unaware that President Barack Obama’s image was superimposed over a monkey’s face on a cutting board, according to Agence France-Presse. The apology came after protests from the U.S. Embassy over the offensive cutting board that had an image of a family of monkeys,…

A working paper (pdf) from Harvard Business School released Wednesday found “widespread discrimination” by hosts against people with black-sounding names seeking home rentals, reports the New York Times. The Times writes that fictional guests set up by three researchers “with names like Lakisha or Rasheed were roughly 16 percent less likely to be accepted than identical…

After a jury found a former Oklahoma City police officer guilty of multiple charges of raping black women, two of those women spoke out about the pain and suffering they endured at the hands of a man who was supposed to protect them from criminals. Instead, he was the very man from whom they needed…