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Denver Public High School Blasted for Racially Insensitive Posters
This particular teaching moment went badly wrong when a poster put up throughout a Denver public high school drew criticism from students for being racially insensitive and offensive, Fox 31 reports. According to the report, students acknowledged that their educators at the Martin Luther King Jr. Early College were attempting to send positive messages to…
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Black Death as Reality TV: Is Watching the Videos Too Much?
The state-sanctioned desecration of black bodies by police officers is a reality that plays on a haunting loop throughout the United States. We learn their names. We tweet their hashtags. We watch them publicly executed in grainy surveillance or cellphone recordings. Then we wait for another judge, cop or politician to tell us that we…
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‘I Felt My Life May Be in Danger’: Man Who Recorded SC Cop Shooting Speaks
The video is stunning. A black man appears to be running away from a South Carolina police officer when he is fatally shot in the back. What’s even more difficult to believe is that not only did the officer, Michael Slager, report that the man, Walter Scott, tried to steal his Taser, but the video…
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Attorney for SC Cop Who Killed Walter Scott Dropped Client After Watching Video
For Charleston, S.C., attorney David Aylor, it was over as soon as he saw the disturbing video that showed North Charleston, S.C., Police Officer Michael Slager opening fire on 50-year-old Walter Scott, shooting a reported eight times as Scott was running away. In an exclusive interview with the Daily Beast, Aylor didn’t go into details…
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5 Times Police Officers Blatantly Lied About the Arrests or Shootings of Black Men
Sometimes police officers lie. It’s a scary thought when you consider how much prosecutors, defense attorneys, juries and judges—hell, everyone who works in the criminal-justice system—rely on the testimonies of police officers, and the information they put in police reports, to determine whether a person ought to be indicted for, charged with, tried for or…
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White SC Officer Charged With Felony in Fatal Shooting of Black Man in His Driveway
A white South Carolina public-safety officer who was indicted on a misdemeanor charge after a 2014 fatal shooting of a black man in his driveway has been arrested and charged with a felony, according to the Washington Post. The arrest and additional charge against North Augusta Officer Justin Gregory Craven, 25, happened Tuesday, the same…
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GoFundMe Tosses Campaign to Raise Money for SC Cop Who Shot Walter Scott
If you’re a supporter of North Charleston, S.C., Police Officer Michael Slager and want to donate money to his case, you’ll not be going through GoFundMe, for sure. According to ThinkProgress, the crowdfunding site refused the campaign in Slager’s name, claiming that it violated the site’s terms and conditions. “After review by our team, the…
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Judge: Female Teacher Sending Explicit Photos to Male Student Was ‘Dangling Candy’
A Pennsylvania judge compared sexually explicit photos of a woman who was involved with an underage student to “dangling candy” and sentenced the 35-year-old wife and former teacher to just 30 days in prison, the Huffington Post reports. According to the report, the former teacher pleaded guilty last year to sexual assault and spreading sexually…
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Ark. Alderman Misspells Black Resident’s Name as ‘Cooningham’
Even amid calls for his resignation, an official in Pine Bluff, Ark., is refusing to step down after continually misspelling a black resident’s name, apparently to play on a racial slur in a Facebook argument, Raw Story reports. According to the report, the Pine Bluff City Council passed a 7-0 no-confidence vote asking Alderman Bill…
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Here Is What You Need to Know About SC Officer Michael Slager
Before North Charleston, S.C., Police Officer Michael Slager fatally shot 50-year-old Walter Scott, he had been subject to two complaints, including a separate complaint about inappropriate use of force, for which the 33-year-old cop was exonerated, NBC News reports. According to documents released by the North Charleston Police Department, the news site notes, the U.S.…