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Watch: A St. Louis Train Rider’s Refusal to Answer Ferguson Question Sparks Attack
St. Louis police are searching for an African-American man in his 20s who assaulted a white man Monday supposedly for declining to answer a question about Michael Brown, the unarmed black 18-year-old who was fatally shot last August by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., CNN reports. The attack occurred late Monday aboard a…
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Mourners Flock to Vigil for Detroit Siblings Entombed in Freezer
Detroit residents gathered Friday to bid farewell to two siblings whose bodies were found this week in a freezer—allegedly put there by their mother—and to call on the community to unite against child abuse, according to the Detroit News. Autopsies conducted Friday on Stoni Blair, 13, and her brother Stephen Berry, 9, determined that they…
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Racist SAE Frat Chant Taught at National Leadership Event
Nearly two weeks after issuing a strong condemnation of a racist chant that reverberated across the nation and resulted in the closing of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter, SAE leaders on Friday acknowledged that the song was likely taught at a national event four years ago, CNN reports. Members of the group’s…
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Taraji P. Henson Apologizes to Police for Racial-Profiling Allegation
Taraji P. Henson was roundly applauded on social media this week over actions she took after claiming that police in Glendale, Calif., racially profiled her son, Marcell, during a traffic stop. In a recent interview with Uptown magazine, she said she was sending her son to Howard University after he was profiled on the campus…
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DOJ Brings Civil Rights Charges Against Ole Miss Student Suspected of Tying Noose Around a Black Statue
The Justice Department announced Friday that it would be bringing civil rights charges against the student suspected of tying a noose around the neck of a statue depicting an African-American civil rights leader stationed on the campus of the University of Mississippi. According to a DOJ press statement, Graeme Phillip Harris, a former freshman at the school,…
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Retired St. Louis Cardinals Player Punched, Told to ‘Go Back to Ferguson’
A former St. Louis Cardinals outfielder claims that a white man punched him and yelled, “Go back to Ferguson” in an unprovoked attack that now has the man rethinking whether he can even live in the city where he once played baseball. “I was sucker-punched, blindsided,” Curt Ford, 54, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “I…
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2 Chicago Cousins Arrested on Charges They Plotted Terrorist Attack Against the US
Two Chicago-area cousins have been arrested and charged by federal authorities with plotting to orchestrate an attack against a U.S. military facility, the Associated Press reports. Hasan R. Edmonds—a 22-year-old National Guardsman in Illinois—and his cousin, Jonas M. Edmonds, 29, communicated their plans to undercover federal agents, authorities said. Hasan Edmonds was en route to Egypt,…
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Ala. Policeman Caught on Video Slamming Indian National to Ground Is Indicted
A Madison, Ala., police officer seen on video slamming an Indian man to the ground as he attempted to question him has been indicted on a charge related to use of unreasonable force, Reuters reports that federal prosecutors confirmed Friday. Officer Eric Parker, whose department has since recommended his termination, was indicted by a grand jury…
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Neb. State Senator Won’t Apologize for Saying He’d Shoot a Cop
A Nebraska state senator is standing firm and refusing to apologize for saying he’d shoot a cop if he had a weapon as he compared law-enforcement agents to terrorists, Fox News reports. According to the news site, Sen. Ernie Chambers, an independent from Omaha, refused to back down and ignored his colleagues’ demands for apologies…
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Calif. Deputy Police Chief Arrested for Plan to Distribute Drugs
Fresno Deputy Police Chief Keith Foster, a 29-year vet with the department, was among four people arrested on Thursday on federal drug charges, including an alleged plot to distribute oxycodone and heroin, the FBI has revealed, according to the Associated Press. The 51-year-old deputy was arrested and charged alongside Fresno residents Rafael Guzman, Jennifer Donebedian…