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12 Arrested in Baltimore After Peaceful Protests Turn Confrontational
Twelve people were arrested late Saturday after peaceful protests in Baltimore against police violence erupted in anger as demonstrators, officers and fans who turned out for an Orioles baseball game clashed in the streets, CNN reports. Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said that the arrests came after a clash between demonstrators, officers and Orioles fans…
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Michelle Obama Shines at White House Correspondents’ Dinner
President Barack Obama may have gotten big laughs Saturday at the 89th annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but first lady Michelle Obama stole the show in a shimmering silver gown and ringlets of curls. Obama dished out one-liners about everything from 2016 Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent media woes…
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Seattle Woman Punched by Cop During Arrest Files $1,000,000 Lawsuit
A Seattle woman who was punched in the face by a police officer during an arrest on charges of domestic violence has filed a $1 million claim against the city, saying that her rights were violated, the city clerk’s office said Friday, according to Reuters. Miyekko Durden-Bosley, 23, suffered a fractured eye socket in the…
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Fla. Deputy Fired After Finishing Pizza Instead of Answering 911 Call of Dying Woman
A Florida sheriff’s deputy in Lee County has been fired after an investigation found that he ignored a 911 call from a woman having a heart attack so that he could finish his pizza, according to television station WZVN. According to an internal report released Wednesday, Lee County Deputy Yvan Fernandez was first dispatched to…
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2009 Probe of Tulsa Reserve Officer Raised Concerns About His Training
An internal investigation by the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office appears to have determined in 2009 that training policies were bent in favor of the reserve deputy who killed Eric Harris this month when he mistakenly fired a gun instead of a Taser, according to CNN. Robert Bates, 73, the Tulsa, Okla., reserve deputy who fatally…
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Baltimore Cops Admit Failing to Provide Freddie Gray With Medical Treatment
In an admission that came after a week of protests demanding information about what happened during the arrest of Freddie Gray by police officers in Baltimore, Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts on Friday said that mistakes were made, including a failure to provide Gray with timely medical treatment, CNN reports. Batts made the observation amid…
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Va. Jail Bans Use of Tasers After Female Inmate Dies
Virginia’s Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office now prohibits the use of Tasers at its jail after a mentally ill inmate died after being shocked four times while being prepared for medical transport, WUSA 9 reports. Natasha McKenna, 37, was shocked several times while she was restrained and stopped breathing, according to WUSA. According to the report,…
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Chicago Mother Turns in Teen Son Accused of Beating, Robbing Woman on Train
The mother of a 15-year-old boy who allegedly beat, sexually assaulted and robbed a woman on a Chicago subway train turned her son over to police after she saw surveillance photos of the attacker that had been captured on subway cameras. According to the Chicago Tribune, DeShawn Isabelle was on an empty subway car around 3…
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Watch: Teen Suffered Brutal Treatment at Rikers Island
May 2010 was the beginning of Kalief Browder’s three-year horror story inside Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex in New York City. He had been arrested in the Bronx for allegedly stealing a backpack, a crime that he insisted he didn’t commit. Browder, then 16, spent the next three years of his life in the…
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In Newly Released Video, Unarmed Black Man Had Cellphone in Hand When Shot by Fla. Deputy
Newly released dash-cam video has resulted in a lawsuit for one unarmed black man who was shot four times in the back by a Palm Beach sheriff’s deputy in Florida in September 2013, WPTV reports. Dontrell Stephens is seen riding his bike and talking on his phone that fateful Friday morning when, realizing that he’s…