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Okla. City School Resource Officer Who Punched Teen in the Face Is Charged With Assault: Report
An Oklahoma City high school resource officer has been arrested and charged with assault after surveillance video captured an incident on camera. According to KFOR, Thomas Jaha, a 25-year veteran with the Oklahoma City Police Department, was working at U.S. Grant High School when a 16-year-old male student appeared in the hallway without a hall…
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Black Man Files Discrimination Lawsuit Against Wash. Restaurant After Being Asked to Prepay for His Meal
A black Multnomah County, Ore., sheriff’s deputy is filing a discrimination lawsuit against a local restaurant after, he says, he was made to prepay for his meal even though white customers were not asked to do the same, The Oregonian reports. Brian Eason has filed a $100,000 discrimination suit against a Vancouver, Wash., Elmer’s Restaurant…
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Fla. Officer Who Fatally Shot Corey Jones May Not Have Been Qualified for Undercover Surveillance Assignment
The Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., police officer who fatally shot a stranded motorist earlier this month may not have been qualified for the undercover surveillance assignment that he was supposedly conducting, Yahoo! News reports. Corey Jones, 31, a church musician and public housing inspector, was waiting for a tow truck after his car broke down…
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Lawyer for Teen in SC School Assault Video Speaks on Injuries She Suffered, Whether She Is an Orphan and Fake GoFundMe Pages
On Thursday a lawyer for the South Carolina teen who was violently assaulted by a school resource officer appeared on activist Joe Madison’s radio show on Sirius to clarify remarks posted about the teen and the incident. On Monday, video of the incident between Spring Valley High School resource officer Ben Fields and the teen went…
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Eric Garner’s Son Arrested in NYC
On Tuesday police in New York City arrested Eric Garner’s son after they say he was in possession of a stolen bike, but his mother says it was all a misunderstanding. Emery Snipes, 16, was arrested after police discovered Emery and friends in the Cpl. John A. Seravalli Playground in Manhattan after dark. According to…
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La. Man Cashes In 500,000 Pennies Collected Over 45 Years
A Louisiana man finally decided to cash in hundreds of thousands of pennies that he’d been saving for more than half his life, raking in more than $5,000 total, the News-Star reports. As the report tells it, Otha Anders started more than 45 years ago when he found a penny on the ground and decided…
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Ex-Boxer Claims He Was Drugged After Learning He Was Filmed in Same-Sex Threesome
A retired Philadelphia-born boxer claims that he didn’t agree to perform with two male co-stars when he answered an anonymous Facebook offer to shoot a porn film, and he now believes that he must have been drugged. Yusaf Mack told the Philadelphia Daily News that in June 2014 he was strapped for cash, so he…
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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…