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The Most Confusing Questions to Come Out of the Sandra Bland Case
It’s been 10 days since Sandra Bland was found dead in her cell at a Waller County, Texas, jail, and still media—social and news alike—are searching for the answer as to what exactly happened to Bland. Throughout the outright demands for answers, suspicions have been incredibly high, given the number of officer-involved shootings and in-custody…
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Preliminary Autopsy Results Point to Suicide in the Sandra Bland Case, Prosecutor Says
A Waller County, Texas, prosecutor confirmed Thursday that, according to preliminary autopsy results, Sandra Bland had marijuana in her system at the time of her death, which was also ruled a suicide by hanging, consistent with original police statements, CNN reports. Prosecutor Warren Diepraam told reporters Thursday that Bland did not have any defensive injuries,…
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Detroit EMT Fired After She Refused to Enter Home to Save 8-Month-Old Baby
A Detroit EMT who refused to enter a family’s home May 30 to help save an 8-month-old baby who had stopped breathing has been fired. According to Click on Detroit, Detroit Fire Commissioner Edsel Jenkins fired Ann Marie Thomas after the veteran medic received a call about a baby, Aniyah Wright, who had stopped breathing.…
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Blackface Fundraiser for Police Indicted in Freddie Gray Case Nixed
Former Police Officer Bobby Berger wanted to raise money for the six Baltimore officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, so his plan was to hold a fundraiser where he would perform in blackface. According to the Baltimore Sun, Berger, 67, lost his job as a cop in the 1980s after receiving…
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Sandra Bland’s Voice Mail From Jail: ‘How Did Switching Lanes Turn Into All of This?’
An exasperated Sandra Bland left what is now a haunting voice mail on her friend’s phone shortly after seeing a judge. “I’m still just at a loss for words, honestly, at this whole process,” Bland said on the message obtained by KTRK. “How did switching lanes with no signal turn into all of this? I…
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Marco Rubio Blasts Obama: We Already Have a President With No Class
It seems as if Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) thinks that President Barack Obama and fellow presidential contender Donald Trump are two peas in the same pod when it comes to class or a lack thereof. The junior Florida senator took a shot at business mogul Trump during a Fox & Friends appearance,…
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#SandySpeaks: ‘I’m Here to Change History’
As I watched 28-year-old Sandra Bland assert her humanity by refusing to roll over and play slave for white Officer Brian Encinia, who had grown increasingly agitated by that refusal, the words of Zora Neale Hurston rang in my head through the numbness: “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say…
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Black Interim Police Chief Announced in Ferguson, Mo.
A black former police commander has been named the interim police chief in Ferguson, the Missouri city that has had to grapple with stark racial disparities since the shooting death of Michael Brown, a black teenager, at the hands of a white police officer in August 2014. According to USA Today, the new chief, 50-year-old…
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Alleged Charleston, SC, Church Shooter Dylann Storm Roof to Face Federal Hate Crime Charges
Dylann Storm Roof will face federal hate crime charges, NPR reports. The Justice Department intends to indict the 21-year-old on federal charges today. Roof, who is accused of murdering nine people, including state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, in a mass shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., already faces nine murder counts…
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Trump Employee to Co-Worker: ‘All You Motherf–king Immigrants Are Coming to This Country F–king Us Up’: Report
A Trump employee has accused co-workers of targeting him with derogatory statements. He filed an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission racial-discrimination claim back in 2013 in an attempt to address the situation, the Daily Caller reports. He also filed a lawsuit in federal court earlier this year. Bryan Lambert, who is originally from Jamaica, claimed that…