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Trump Unfazed by White Supremacists’ Praise: ‘Everybody Likes Me’
Donald Trump’s name has made headlines in connection with two different white supremacists. A North Dakota supremacist wanted to rename a small town after Trump because he admired the Republican presidential candidate. A short time after that report, Trump seemingly hit the mother lode when notorious former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke endorsed…
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St. Louis Cop Takes 5-Year-Old Who Witnessed His Mother’s Slaying on Back-to-School Shopping Spree
On Aug. 12, a gunman fatally shot 24-year-old Whitney Brown as she sat in her car on a North St. Louis street. Her 5-year-old son, Jakeem, was in the backseat. On Tuesday, a St. Louis County police officer and his wife, both of whom were saddened by the story but wish to remain anonymous, took…
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Driver Who Flew Confederate Flag From Vehicle Runs Over 4-Year-Old Black Boy, Gets Beaten: Report
A white, 18-year-old driver in Minnesota was reportedly beaten by 10 people after he allegedly ran over a 4-year-old black child, the Daily Mail reports. The teen, identified only as “Ryan,” reportedly was known for flying a Confederate flag from his pickup truck before the flag was burned by neighborhood kids last month, WKOW reports.…
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Va. Gunman May Have Worked as a Male Escort and Other Strange Findings From the WDBJ Shooting
Early Wednesday morning, Vester Lee Flanagan II, reportedly upset over being fired from Virginia news station WDBJ7 in 2013 as well as the June church massacre in Charleston, S.C., targeted two of his former colleagues and fatally shot them during a live broadcast. If that wasn’t horrible enough, after killing WDBJ7 journalists Alison Parker and Adam…
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Suspected Gunman in Killing of 2 TV Journalists: Charleston, SC, Shooting Was Tipping Point
ABC News reports it received a fax from a man claiming to be alleged gunman Bryce Williams, legal name Vester Lee Flanagan II, in the form of a 23-page document titled a “Suicide Note for Friends and Family,” shortly after two reporters were shot and killed. According to ABC, the author wrote that the recent Charleston, S.C.,…
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Civil Rights Icon Amelia Boynton Robinson Dies at 104
Iconic civil rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson, who almost died while helping to lead the march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., during “Bloody Sunday” in 1965, has passed away at the age of 104, her son, Bruce Boynton, confirmed to the Associated Press. Boynton Robinson was among the many individuals fighting for civil rights who…
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All the Bizarre Facts We Know About Vester Lee Flanagan II, aka Bryce Williams, the Suspect in Va. Journalist Shootings
Updated Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015, 2:35 p.m. EDT: Vester Lee Flanagan II, 41, the suspect in the fatal shooting of two journalists on the air in Virginia, was arrested in critical condition after reportedly shooting himself. He has died from those wounds, according to Yahoo News. The news station notes that around 11:30 a.m., a…
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Marcy Borders, 9/11 ‘Dust Lady,’ Dies of Cancer at 42
Her name was Marcy Borders, but the world knew her as the “Dust Lady” after a now-iconic image showed Borders covered in dust during the attacks on New York City’s twin towers Sept. 11, 2001. Photographer Stan Honda was working for Agence France-Presse when he captured the image, which was snapped just moments before the…
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Va. Reporter, Cameraman Fatally Shot During Live Broadcast
Updated Wednesday, Aug. 26, 10:45 a.m. EDT: Authorities have identified the suspected shooter accused of killing two WDBJ7 employees early Wednesday morning, CNN reports. “We do not know the motive. We do not know who the killer is,” WDBJ7 General Manager Jeff Marks said. “We do know the Franklin County sheriff … they are working…
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Texas Street Where Sandra Bland Was Arrested Is Renamed After Her
Sandra Bland moved back to Texas in July to take a job with her alma mater, Prairie View A&M University. On July 10 a traffic stop ended in Bland’s arrest, with jail officials claiming a few days later that she was found hanged in her Waller County cell. On Tuesday evening, the Prairie View City…