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Report: Fla. Musician Was on Cellphone With Roadside Assistance Before He Was Shot Dead by Police
A call log from Corey Jones’ company cellphone shows that the 31-year-old church musician called roadside assistance just minutes before he was fatally shot by a plainclothes Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., officer Oct. 18, ABC News reports. According to the report, the call began round 3:10 a.m. and lasted just under an hour. ABC did…
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SC Senior Deputy Ben Fields Is Fired
Ben Fields, the South Carolina school resource officer who was caught on video knocking a female student out of her seat and then throwing her to the ground, has been fired from the Richland County Sheriff’s Department, Sheriff Leon Lott noted in a press conference Wednesday. Lott said that after reviewing the footage and speaking…
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US Citizen Seeks Refuge in Canada in Fear of His Life Because He’s Black
One U.S. citizen is trying to claim refugee status in Canada, citing instances of police brutality against black people in his examples argued before Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board in Vancouver, CBC News reports. According to the report, Kyle Lydell Canty crossed over the American-Canadian border in September, telling border agents that he was there…
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Ariz. Woman Who Posted Cotton-Picking Photo With Caption ‘Our Inner [N–ger] Came Out Today’ Speaks
Black Twitter has claimed another victim: A 20-year-old intern has been fired for posting a photo of herself and a friend in a cotton field with the caption, “Our inner [n—ger] came out today.” Shortly after the tweet was posted, it went viral. The guilty party was a Gilbert, Ariz., woman named Erika Escalante. Several…
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Ind. Woman Attacks Black Meter Reader Who Pepper-Sprayed Her Dogs After They Rushed Her: Report
An Indiana Vectren Corp. meter reader had to be taken to the hospital after she was allegedly assaulted by a woman while doing her job, the Evansville Courier & Press reports. WFIE reports that meter reader April Miller-Johnson, 54, was released from the hospital Thursday and was recovering at home after being found by local…
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FBI, Justice Department Open Civil Rights Probe Into Violent Arrest of SC Student
Richland County, S.C., Sheriff Leon Lott has asked for federal help since placing Sheriff’s Deputy Ben Fields on leave for tossing a female high school student to the floor at a school in Columbia, S.C. On Tuesday, Lott got it, with the Associated Press reoprting that the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI have opened…
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Report: Grand Jury Finally Hears Evidence in Tamir Rice Shooting
Evidence is finally being presented to a Cuyahoga County, Ohio, grand jury in the police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was fatally shot last year while playing with a toy gun at a playground near his home. Although a spokesman for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty declined to confirm whether the grand jury…
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Widow of Slain Jogger Allegedly Killed by Former Texas A&M Football Player Commits Suicide: Police
The widow of a Dallas jogger stabbed to death in a random attack earlier this month reportedly took her own life in the wake of her husband’s murder, police say, according to NBC News. A mere week before taking her own life, Patti Stevens, 54, spoke to the Dallas Morning News about her husband. “Dave…
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Former NBA Player Glen Rice Jr. Shot in Leg, Charged for Half-Pound of Marijuana
Former NBA player Glen Rice Jr. was shot during an argument outside an Atlanta restaurant and ended up being charged with possession after police found a bag with a half-pound of marijuana in it, the Huffington Post reports. Rice, the son of former NBA All-Star Glen Rice Sr., reportedly got into an argument with a…
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SC Cop Involved in Classroom Incident Was Sued by Black Army Vet in 2005 for Excessive Force: Report
The South Carolina sheriff’s deputy and school resource officer seen on video throwing a female student across a classroom was involved in another incident in 2005 in which the victim says the officer snapped after he called him “dude,” adding that the encounter led to his divorce and discharge from the military. In a New…