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Biker Clubs Instead of Thugs? This Is How Racism Works
On Sunday in Waco, Texas, violence erupted when an altercation between members of two rival motorcycle gangs spilled out from a bathroom at the Twin Peaks restaurant into the main area of the eatery and eventually into the parking lot. When it was over, the bloody encounter left nine dead and over a dozen people…
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Ala. Man Receives Death Threats for Removing Confederate Flags From Grave Sites
Myron Penn, a prominent attorney in Union Springs, Ala., removed small Confederate flags that were placed at the grave sites of Confederate soldiers in a local cemetery, WSFA reports. As a result, he has drawn the ire of some locals. Penn explained why he felt compelled to remove the flags. “The reason why we picked…
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Jackson, Miss., Officer Injured in Weekend Shooting
A Jackson, Miss., officer was injured during a shooting Sunday night in an incident that reportedly left the local Police Department stunned, according to the Clarion-Ledger, coming just a week after the shooting deaths of two other police officers. No one was killed in the latest incident, but several shots were fired, one of which…
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Mo. Jury Recommends 60-Year Sentence for Former College Wrestler Convicted of Exposing Man to HIV
A St. Charles County, Mo., jury recommended six decades in prison for 23-year-old Michael L. Johnson, who was convicted of infecting one of his sexual partners with HIV, the Associated Press reports. According to the report, the jury recommended a 30-year sentence for infecting one partner with the virus that causes AIDS. With Johnson’s other…
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Zimmerman Shooter: ‘I Hope I Got Him This Time’
The man who allegedly shot at George Zimmerman during a traffic dispute in Florida is not exactly remorseful: Cops note that they overheard him saying, “I hope I got him this time,” WESH reports. Matthew Apperson, the 36-year-old who has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon…
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Duke Professor: Asians Didn’t Feel Sorry for Themselves; Blacks Shouldn’t Be Told to, Either
Duke University professor Jerry Hough is receiving backlash after he posted a response to a New York Times editorial on the Times website. In his response he expressed disdain for what he said was a message being given to black Americans to feel sorry for themselves with regard to racism, WTVD reports. “The blacks…
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Military Weapons Used in Ferguson to Be Restricted by Obama Task Force
President Barack Obama is moving to restrict the type of military-style equipment that police departments can have, according to a report from the President’s Task Force on 21st-Century Policing. The task force was established Dec. 18, 2014, after the issue of police brutality received international attention in the wake of Michael Brown’s death by a…
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How Did a 26-Year-Old Iraq War Veteran Die Serving a 2-Day Jail Sentence?
Twenty-six-year-old James Brown served two tours in Iraq. He didn’t make it two days in a Texas jail. In 2012, Brown was arrested in El Paso, Texas, where he was living with his family while on active duty, and sentenced to two days in the El Paso County Detention Facility for a DWI. According to…
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Wis. Man Exonerated After 10 Years in Prison Graduates From Law School
In 1996 a 17-year-old Jarrett Adams told his parents he was staying at a friend’s house. Adams and two friends ended up at a campus party at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. “I had no business being up there,” Adams told the Chicago Tribune. “It was [a] … recipe for disaster.” The three friends…
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Everyone’s Watching Baltimore: So, Now What?
Baltimoreans are a bit touchy about the attention their city is receiving from “outsiders”—everyone from a rainbow of volunteers from faith-based or social-justice-oriented groups around the nation who see Baltimore as their next mission, to the U.S. attorney general to national figures like the Rev. Al Sharpton, Cornel West and even Prince, who performed a peace…