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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…
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TSA to Conduct Anti-Discrimination Training to Avoid Hair-Based Racial Profiling: Report
Two black women filed a complaint with the Transportation Security Administration claiming that their sisterlocks made them targets for TSA agents at airports. Now, they say, their complaint has prompted the agency to put measures in place to stop the singling out of women based on hairstyles, Raw Story reports. It all started when Malaika…
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Detroit Mom Forced Children to Put Sister’s Body in Freezer: Report
On Tuesday a Detroit mother was arrested shortly after authorities serving an eviction notice found the bodies of two of her four children in a freezer. On Thursday the Detroit Free Press reported that the mother tortured the children before killing them and reportedly had her surviving children place their 13-year-old sister’s body in the…
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Ga. Uber Driver Is Assaulted and Called the N-Word by a College Lecturer
Chiddi Stober, a Georgia history teacher who works as an Uber driver part time, says that he was assaulted and called the n-word by a passenger who works as a lecturer at a local state university, WSBTV reports. Stober said the ride began normally. He picked up the passenger—whose name is being withheld because he…
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UVA Student Martese Johnson Makes 1st Court Appearance Since Bloody Encounter With Authorities
Images of University of Virginia honor student Martese Johnson’s bloody face went viral shortly after his encounter with Alcoholic Beverage Control officers outside a Charlottesville, Va., bar March 18. Johnson’s arrest and disturbing images of him lying prone on the ground made national news, and on Thursday the 20-year-old Chicago native made his first court…