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Chicago Cops Treated Black Suspect Like Hunting Trophy
The photo is problematic, to put it lightly, and the Chicago Police Department reportedly wasn’t too keen on the public seeing it, but a Cook County judge refused to keep the photo sealed, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The image in question shows two white officers—Jerome Finnigan and Timothy McDermott—in plain clothes holding hunting rifles and…
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Groups Across Southern States Burn and Symbolically Bury the Confederate Flag
At a Memorial Day gathering outside Atlanta, poets expressed their feelings about the Confederate flag before symbolically burying it. “A lot of lives have been lost around this Confederate flag,” the event’s organizer, Terone Allen, told WTVM. People in 13 Southern states “buried” or burned the Stars and Bars in their own unique way. The…
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Once-Youngest Death Row Inmate Dies From Apparent Suicide
Paula Cooper, once the nation’s youngest person on death row, was found dead in Indianapolis Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. Authorities said that the 45-year-old, who had been released from prison in 2013 after the Indiana Supreme Court set aside her death sentence, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. “It’s an unusual ending to a…
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Ariz. Woman Who Ran Over Her Husband Because Obama Won 2012 Election Is Sentenced
Holly Nicole Solomon was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for running her husband over with her SUV when she found out that he didn’t vote in the 2012 presidential elections, the Associated Press reports. Solomon, a 31-year-old Mesa, Ariz., resident, thought the political contest was especially important because Barack Obama was up for re-election—and subsequently…
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97-Year-Old Army Vet Goes on Field Trip to the White House, Meets President Obama
Vivian Bailey, a 97-year-old Army veteran and Maryland resident, had one of her wishes come true Tuesday when she went on a field trip to the White House and met President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, My Fox DC reports. The trip was especially meaningful since Bailey grew up in the segregated South…
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Kenyan Lawyer Seeks Malia Obama’s Hand for 50 Cows, 70 Sheep and 30 Goats: Report
So today in weird (read: creepy) news, The Nairobian is reporting that an East African lawyer is seeking Malia Obama’s hand in marriage; he is offering a bride price of 50 cows, 70 sheep and 30 goats. According to the report, Kenyan lawyer Felix Kiprono is ready and willing to meet with President Barack Obama to discuss…
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77-Year-Old Md. Woman Who Began Sprinting Last Year Now Holds Record
At 77, Rose Green is still brushing off her cleats and maintaining her status as one of the fastest sprinters in her age group, My Fox DC reports. It’s a pretty impressive feat, not only because of her age but also because she took up the sport just last year and rose to the top of the…
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Elderly Texas Man Sues After Officers Allegedly Stormed His Home, Broke His Hip and Left Him Unattended
Herman Crisp was just sitting outside, smoking a cigarette, in late September when, he says, Georgetown, Texas, deputies in full SWAT gear approached him with no warning and threw a “flash bang” explosive device at his residence. The explosion, he says, knocked him out of his chair. Then, the 82-year-old claims, officers slammed him to…
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Grandmother of 3-Year-Old Found Dead on Swings Opens Up: Daughter Would Never Harm Son
A Maryland grandmother is trying to set the record straight about her daughter, a young woman who, she says, would never hurt her son, WUSA9 reports. On Friday, Romechia Simms was swinging her son for an “unusual amount of time,” according to investigators, in a La Plata, Md., playground. She eventually drew the attention of…
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Fla. Man Tried as an Adult at 16 Set Free After 44 Years in Prison
Prince Johnson, a 60-year-old Miami man, was freed from prison Friday after serving 44 years for participating in a robbery that led to the killing of a woman in 1971, the Associated Press reports. Johnson was tried for murder as an adult and given a life sentence in 1971 when he was only 16 years…