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Lawsuit Details Brutal Attack on Innocent Man by Shreveport, La., Cops Who Allegedly Beat and Sodomized Him
A Houston man has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Shreveport, La., and several police officers who he alleges falsely arrested and brutalized him, including sodomizing him with a nightstick while he was in the back of a patrol car, the Shreveport Times reports. According to the lawsuit, Desmond Lewis was walking away…
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Car-Theft Suspect Tried to Chew Off Fingerprints to Avoid Being Identified
A man accused of stealing a Mercedes-Benz in Florida thought that the best way to avoid being identified was to gnaw at his fingertips to forgo the fingerprinting process, the Huffington Post reports. Kenzo Roberts was arrested July 30 after Lee County sheriff’s deputies saw a 2015 Mercedes-Benz automobile that had been reported stolen. According…
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NYC Teacher Says She Passed Student Who Deserved to Fail Because of Pressure
A teacher at a school in the New York City borough of Queens explained in an interview with the New York Post that she passed a senior who deserved to fail because of the “tremendous amount of pressure” to just graduate kids. Andrea McHale, an instructor at William Cullen Bryant High School, admitted to passing…
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Pro-Confederate Man With KKK Tattoo Confronted for Wearing FUBU Sneakers
Is a Confederate-flag-waving, Ku Klux Klan-tattoo-having but FUBU-wearing person a walking oxymoron? The irony sailed right by an unidentified man who was attending a rally in support of the Confederate flag at State Mountain Park in Georgia, Raw Story reports. A video, posted to YouTube, opens with the man arguing about his constitutional right to…
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Watch: Ray Tensing, Officer Charged in Killing of Sam Dubose, Involved in Aggressive Traffic Stop
In May 2014, Ray Tensing, the University of Cincinnati police officer charged with murder in the death of Sam Dubose, stopped a vehicle carrying two young black men. The bumper was dragging on the car Sexton Henley was driving. Demetrius Pace was a passenger. The two believed the officer was harassing them, so Pace started…
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Police Hunt for Memphis, Tenn., Man Wanted in Fatal Shooting of Cop
Memphis, Tenn., police are searching for Tremaine Wilbourn, 29, in the fatal shooting of Officer Sean Bolton after the officer reportedly interrupted a small-time drug deal. According to the Associated Press, Wilbourn has been identified as a suspect and faces a first-degree-murder charge in the 33-year-old officer’s death. Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong told those…
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Donald Trump: Obama Has Done Nothing for African Americans
President Barack Obama has done nothing for African Americans and “set the bar very low,” according to Donald Trump, who also says he thinks Obama’s done such a bad job, there won’t be another black president for a long time. In an interview with ABC News Sunday, the Republican presidential candidate said that President Obama…
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Former Eagles Player Says Ex-Coach Isn’t Comfortable Around ‘Our Culture’
Former Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Brandon Boykin wants to make it clear that he doesn’t believe his ex-football coach is a racist; he just feels that he has trouble relating to men of “our culture.” Boykin explained to CSN Philly in a series of text messages that he wasn’t trying to call Chip Kelly a bigot,…
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40 New State Laws Sparked by Michael Brown’s Death in Ferguson
Who said protesting is ineffective? Since Michael Brown, an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, Mo., was shot and killed Aug. 9, 2014, by white then-Officer Darren Wilson, lawmakers in nearly every state have proposed changes to the way police deal with the public, according to the Associated Press. An analysis by AP shows that 24…
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Watch: Memphis, Tenn., Police Search for Suspect in Fatal Cop Shooting During Traffic Stop
On Sunday, Memphis, Tenn., police investigators searched for a suspect in the death of a 33-year-old officer who was shot during a routine traffic stop, reports the Associated Press. Officer Sean Bolton, who was shot multiple times, died after he was transported to a local hospital in critical condition. No arrests have been made, and the…