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University of Cincinnati Campus Officer Fatally Shoots Unarmed Black Man: Report
A father of 13, who was recently engaged, was reportedly shot dead by a campus police officer near the University of Cincinnati on Sunday, the Daily Beast reports. According to the report, the UC officer, Ray Tensing, pulled over 43-year-old Sam Dubose about a mile from the university because he did not have a license…
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Target Suing 4 Men Who Stopped Knife-Wielding Attacker on Stabbing Spree
Two years ago, Michael Turner went after a homeless, mentally ill Pittsburgh man who stabbed his friend Jobe Wright in the shoulder for no apparent reason. Turner and his three friends—Wright, Roland Smith and Tyreek Walker—learned that the man, 41-year-old Leon Walls, had gone inside a nearby Target, so they went inside to find the…
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Waller County District Attorney: Sandra Bland’s Death Being Treated ‘Like a Murder Investigation’
Despite police reports that Sandra Bland committed suicide three days after being arrested during a routine traffic stop, the Waller County, Texas, district attorney told news reporters that he is treating the incident “like a murder investigation.” Bland, 28, was stopped July 10 in Prairie View, Texas, by a state trooper for reportedly failing to…
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Youngest Convicted Murderer in US to Be Released From Fla. Prison
In 1999, 12-year-old Curtis Fairchild Jones and his 13-year-old sister, Catherine, were the youngest children to be tried for and convicted of murder. Florida Today reports that Curtis Jones may be freed, barring any setbacks, by the end of July, and his sister by the end of August. According to the newspaper, the then-children, who claimed…
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Ga. Transgender Woman Charges Repeated Sex Assaults in Prison, Again Sues for Safe Housing
Attorneys for a Georgia transgender inmate are attempting to have her moved or, at minimum, want to hear the state prison’s plan to keep her safe after she says she was again sexually assaulted while in prison custody, the Macon Telegraph reports. In February, as an imate at the Baldwin State Prison in Milledgeville, 36-year-old…
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Black Pro-Confederate-Flag Activist Killed in Miss. Car Crash
A black pro-Confederate-flag activist from Oxford, Miss., reportedly died in a car crash after believing he was being chased, the Clarion-Ledger reports. According to the report, Anthony Hervey, 49, was a fixture in Oxford, known for his support of the Confederate flag, for at least the last two decades. Hervey had attended a flag rally…
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Embassies in Cuba and US Reopen After 50 Years
For the first time in 50 years, Cuba and the U.S. will have embassies on each other’s soil, one more step in rebuilding the relationship that was shattered decades ago, USA Today reports. According to the report, on Monday the Cuban flag will officially be raised in Washington, D.C., as part of a daylong series…
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Family Says 19-Year-Old Killed by Tenn. Officer Was Mistaken for Someone Else
A Memphis, Tenn., teen was killed by a police officer over the weekend in what his family says is a case of mistaken identity, WSMV reports. Darrius Stewart, 19, was the passenger in a vehicle that a Memphis Police Department officer stopped for a broken headlight. The officer issued the driver a ticket and released…
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Texas Mom Charged With Abandoning Kids at Food Court Says She Was Nearby on Job Interview
A single mother of two was arrested and charged with abandoning her children after police found them in a Houston mall eatery, but the children’s mother argues that she didn’t abandon them and that her children were never out of her line of sight. According to KHOU, Laura Browder had a job interview with a…
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Family of Sandra Bland Has Ordered Independent Autopsy
The family of Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old woman whose body was found in a Texas jail three days after she was arrested, has ordered an independent autopsy as questions about how she died remain unanswered. “We want to understand how it is that this kind of played out and what will end up ultimately being…