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White Underage Drinker Doesn’t Get Citation After Beating Texas Cops in Rock-Paper-Scissors
One underage drinker, who happens to be white, got off scot-free from a citation after beating Texas cops at rock-paper-scissors, Raw Story reports. Cellphone video of the encounter, which took place over the weekend at the Chilifest country music festival in Snook, appears to show the unidentified college student holding her face in relief and cheering…
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SC After Walter Scott: More Politics Than Protest
In South Carolina, home of Palmetto trees and weird New South racial politics, the aftermath of the Walter Scott shooting has been notably different from responses elsewhere. Protesters in New York City shut down the Brooklyn Bridge in frustration over Scott’s tragic death, but 800 miles away, South Carolina has been comparatively serene since the…
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Minn. Father Charged With Murder in Son’s Death
A Minnesota father has officially been charged with murder after his 10-year-old son’s body was found in the Mississippi River over the weekend, KARE-TV reports. The 33-year-old father, Pierre Collins, is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Barway Collins, although Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman believes that there is enough evidence for the…
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Judge Frees Another Person Framed by Crooked Brooklyn Detective Louis Scarcella
A Brooklyn, N.Y., judge has ordered the release of Rosean Hargrave, a man convicted in 1991 of murdering an off-duty corrections officer, the New York Daily News reported. Hargrave’s case is the latest overturned conviction involving former New York City Detective Louis Scarcella, who has been accused many times of framing suspects. “The finding of…
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Dozens Arrested in Coast-to-Coast Protests Against Police Violence
The recent police shooting of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, in North Charleston, S.C., sparked a fresh wave of national protests against police violence. Authorities arrested scores of demonstrators from coast to coast as part of a national day of action to end police killings of unarmed minorities, according to Reuters. In New York…
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Los Angeles Man Accuses Officers of Retaliation After Police Beating Caught on Camera
Last year Clinton Alford Jr. sued the Los Angeles Police Department, accusing officers of holding him down and beating him. On Wednesday, Alford’s attorney announced intentions to add new allegations to the lawsuit, claiming that Alford and his family have since been harassed by officers in retaliation, the Los Angeles Times reports. Alford told reporters…
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The FBI Launches Investigation Into the Police Killing of Chicago Teen Laquan McDonald
Several police officers were already working to detain 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was walking though the Chicago streets wielding a knife, when another police vehicle pulled up and one of its officers fired 16 shots into Laquan’s body, killing him. The FBI announced Monday that it is launching a criminal investigation into the actions of…
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Bill O’Reilly: It’s ‘Open Season’ on White Men and That’ll Help Hillary Clinton’s Campaign
Cry for white men, Argentina. It seems that’s how it ought to be if you ask Bill O’Reilly. The Fox News TV host described Monday how he feels people are coming down on white men, Raw Story reports, and all of that dumping, O’Reilly suspects, will give Hillary Clinton a leg up during her 2016…
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Ariz. Police Officer Seen Ramming Suspect With Car in Dash-Cam Video
An Arizona police officer is being backed by his chief after he drove his police cruiser into an armed suspect who was walking on the sidewalk, USA Today reports. Marana Police Chief Terry Rozema released footage of the Feb. 19 crash, and the moments leading up to it, this week, according to the news site.…
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Jury: Aaron Hernandez Guilty of 1st-Degree Murder
Aaron Hernandez has been found guilty of first-degree murder by jurors after a lengthy trial in Fall River, Mass., CNN reports. The conviction means that the former New England Patriots tight end faces life in prison without the possibility of parole for the shooting death of Odin Lloyd, whose body was found in June…