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Texas Teen Slammed by Cop Speaks Out: ‘The Officer Getting Fired Is Not Enough’
Dajerria Becton, the 15-year-old McKinney, Texas, teenager who was slammed to the ground by a police officer while attending a pool party, is speaking out about the horrifying ordeal, describing how she wants the officer’s punishment to be severe, Fox 4 News reports. “He grabbed me, twisted my arm on my back and shoved me in the…
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NYC Teen Whose McDonald’s Beating Went Viral Is Arrested, Found With 2 Guns: Report
Elizabeth Ballinger, the 17-year-old who was viciously jumped by at least four other girls inside a Brooklyn, N.Y., McDonald’s in May, was arrested Saturday, accused of carrying two guns, the Nw York Daily News reports. The May assault—in which Ballinger was repeatedly pummeled, punched and kicked by her attackers while a crowd of several dozen…
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Jalen Rose Leadership Academy’s Entire Inaugural Graduating Class Headed to Promising Future
In 2011, Jalen Rose put his money where his heart is and started a school in his hometown of Detroit. On Saturday the 13-year NBA player-turned-ESPN and ABC analyst told the 100 young men and women of the school’s first graduating class, “The only person that you are destined to become is the person you…
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105-Year-Old Golden State Warriors Fan: ‘They Are Going to Win’
Ms. Sweetie is going to be 106 years old soon, but the spry “human being”—she doesn’t like calling herself an old lady—is an avid basketball fan, and nothing is going to stop her from cheering on her favorite team, the Golden State Warriors, as they play in the NBA Finals. In an interview with ESPN,…
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Young Man Who Spent 3 Years at Rikers Island as a Teen Without Being Convicted Kills Himself
Kalief Browder, 22, who struggled with readjusting to society after being jailed at New York City’s Rikers Island for three unexplained years without a conviction or even a trial, has died, the New Yorker reports. The young man reportedly ended his life over the weekend after pulling out an air conditioner in one of the…
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SC Grand Jury Indicts Ex-Cop in Walter Scott Shooting Death
The former North Charleston, S.C., police officer who killed a fleeing Walter Scott was indicted by a grand jury Monday on a murder charge, the New York Times reports. Michael T. Slager, who was fired from the North Charleston Police Department after the April 4 shooting that rocked the nation after citizen video became public,…
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Watch: Calif. Officers Beat and Use Taser on Mentally Ill Man
Salinas, Calif., police officers were called in Friday evening to help Jose Velasco, who suffers from an unspecified mental illness, according to family. The 28-year-old was reportedly running into traffic, so his mother called the police requesting assistance, Raw Story reports. Video of the incident, however, shows officers beating Velasco with batons and using a…
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McKinney, Texas: Rage Is Our Rightful Response to Anti-Black Racism
If those were my sons, somebody would have to post my bail money. That was my first thought when I watched the now-viral video of white police officers—allegedly responding to disturbances at a private pool party in McKinney, Texas—throwing black teenage boys to the ground and handcuffing them. When, in the same video, I watched…
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Here’s Everything We Know About the Pool Party in Texas
A pool party in McKinney, Texas, Friday has shocked the nation after footage went viral showing a white police officer cursing, threatening and ultimately slamming into the ground and handcuffing a 15-year-old African-American bikini-clad girl. At one point the officer is seen pulling out and pointing his service weapon at a group of teens. The…
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NY Woman Fights Off Man Who Tries to Rape Her
A 25-year-old woman fought off a man who followed her into her New York City apartment early Saturday morning and tried to rape her, the New York Daily News reports. The man made it into the foyer of the woman’s apartment and tried to sexually assault her, but she resisted, authorities say. Video surveillance captured…