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Another McDonald’s Beating Suspect Is Caught in Atlanta Before She Flees to Jamaica
A 15-year-old girl, suspected in the savage beating of another teen girl that was captured on video at a McDonald’s in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, was picked up by authorities at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, reports the New York Daily News. According to the report, police say she was pulled off a…
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Oakland, Calif., Mother Dies While Trying to Shield Her 2 Kids From Gunfire
Chyemil Pierce, 30, had just picked up her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son from a Bay Area, Calif., day care when she heard shots ring out in front of her home. Pierce rushed toward her children to protect them and told them to run. When police officers arrived on the street to investigate the shooting…
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Army Sergeant Sentenced to 2 Years for Organizing Prostitution Ring at Fort Hood Base
Sgt. Gregory McQueen’s role at an Army base in Fort Hood, Texas, was to support sexual assault survivors at the same time he was reportedly organizing a prostitution ring at the base. McQueen was sentenced to two years in prison for “pandering and conspiracy to solicit prostitution,” the Daily Mail reports. McQueen recruited female soldiers…
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Middle School Basketball Players Walk Off Court in Defense of Cheerleader
Take out a tissue and prepare yourself for some Friday feels, because humanity just found some new superheroes. Three members on the team noticed what was happening and immediately took action. They walked off in the middle of the game and demanded that the bullies stop before they continued, ESPN reports. “So when I heard…
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Changes in Wikipedia Pages on Police-Brutality Cases Linked to NYPD: Report
Pretty much anybody can make edits to Wikipedia pages. As it turns out, Internet Protocol addresses from the New York City Police Department have been linked to changes in Wikipedia pages about several controversial police-brutality cases, Capital New York reports. According to the report, IP addresses in the computer network at the NYPD’s 1 Police…
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NYC Teen Arrested in McDonald’s Beating Has Long Rap Sheet
Police arrested a 16-year-old girl Thursday in connection with the savage beating of a teenage girl caught on tape inside a McDonald’s in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. According to the New York Daily News, Aniah Ferguson, who police note can be seen during the three-minute attack wearing a hoodie and then only…
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Spelman and Bennett College Choirs Organize Joint Concert for Women’s History Month
The only two historically black female colleges still up and running in the nation—Spelman College in Atlanta and Bennett College in Greensboro, N.C.—are commemorating Women’s History Month by having their choirs perform together at a joint concert March 16, WFMY News 2 reports. The gig—a first for both schools—is aptly called a “her-storic” event and will take…
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3 NYC Women, Wrongly Accused of Using Stolen Credit Card and Arrested, Will Sue
Instead of having a luxurious spa day to celebrate a birthday, three women had four police officers come into their private room at a Brooklyn, N.Y., spa Feb. 19 to ask if the credit card they had used to pay for the services was, in fact, stolen, the New York Daily News reports. And even…
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Giuliani: Obama Is to Blame for Shooting of Ferguson Cops and Needs to Adopt Bill Cosby’s Views on Race
One would never know that Rudy Giuliani was once a fairly moderate mayor of a liberal Northeastern city like New York, judging by the string of controversial comments he’s made recently. A few weeks after saying that President Barack Obama doesn’t love America, during a radio interview Thursday he suggested that Obama is to blame…
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Detroit Teen Gunned Down on His Way to Work
A Detroit teen lost his life after being gunned down by suspects in a vehicle while he was on his way to work, WXYZ reports. Patrick Jones, 19, had just gotten $3 from his sister Chania Ventura to take the bus to work when he was attacked. Ventura said the $3 was all he had…