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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…
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Va. Man Wanted Hot Chicken; Instead He Got a Chicken Box Full of Money
James Minor only wanted some hot Bojangles’ chicken when he pulled into the drive-thru of the Henrico County, Va., fast-food chain last week. But shortly after receiving his chicken, he realized it was cold. “I sent it back to the person who was working the window and I asked them to get some fresh chicken,”…
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Report: Former NFL Player Is Deadbeat Dad to His Disabled Daughter
Davia Bradshaw says that for three years she has been in a legal battle with her ex, former Indianapolis Colts linebacker Clint Session. The 36-year-old Florida woman says that despite “a Broward [County] judge’s February judgment ordering Session to make regular support payments for the couple’s ailing daughter, Ashton,” he has paid very little of…