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Police Use Mace on Anti-Trump Protesters in Columbus, Ohio
A Monday-evening protest in downtown Columbus, Ohio, was abruptly ended after police used mace on the demonstrators who were apparently blocking traffic, WBNS reports. According to the news station, the Columbus chapter of Socialist Alternative announced the rally on its Facebook page, saying that it was protesting President Donald Trump’s policies on everything from immigration…
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Ohio Mom Charged in Taping of 2-Year-Old Son to Wall in Facebook Live Broadcast
A young Ohio mother is facing a felony charge after authorities got hold of a Facebook video that appeared to show her taping her 2-year-old son to a wall, CBS News reports. According to the network, the video was brought to the attention of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, police by local ABC affiliate WSYX, which obtained the…
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Ohio Family's Home Trashed; Swastikas and 'White Power' Spray-Painted on Walls
Pat Jude and her husband, Joe, left their Cincinnati rental home to visit their daughter. When they returned, the interracial couple found their place trashed and vandalized with swastikas. “They hit every cabinet with paint,” Pat Jude told NBC 4. “They hit every wall with paint. They hit every appliance, they poured paint into the…
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Olive Garden Donates Money to Comedian's Charity After Waitress Refuses to Serve Him Because He's Black
What’s a black man to do when he can’t even get endless breadsticks and salad because a waitress refuses to serve him? Comedian Ricky Smith took those complaints to social media, and the world and Olive Garden listened. Smith said Tuesday that he tried to have a meal at an Olive Garden in Ohio, but the…
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Ohio Officer Who Fatally Shot Sam Dubose Was Wearing Confederate Flag T-Shirt Under Uniform: Report
A T-shirt featuring the Confederate battle flag, reportedly worn by former University of Cincinnati Police Officer Ray Tensing under his uniform when he fatally shot Sam Dubose—an unarmed black man—was part of the presentation of evidence Friday in Tensing’s murder trial, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. According to the report, the shirt was submitted as evidence…
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The Swing State Strikes Out: Cleveland Loses the World Series and Ohio Politics May Never Be the Same
The Cleveland Indians lost the World Series Wednesday to the Chicago Cubs, blowing a seemingly insurmountable 3-1 series lead. Even if you don’t like baseball, the game was a classic. Game-saving home runs, questionable manager decisions, a “God Hates Cleveland”-inspired, momentum-killing rain delay and extra innings that ran until almost 1 a.m. Of course, there…
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Dallas Cowboys Running Back Ezekiel Elliott Could Face 6-Game Suspension
Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott is having a breakout rookie season, but all of that could come to a crashing halt. If the NFL determines that he violated its domestic-abuse policy, Elliott could be facing a lengthy suspension, according to CBS Sports. Elliott reportedly had five complaints filed against him for domestic abuse while…
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Donald Trump: Cancel the Election and Declare Me the Winner
Donald Trump wants to end it all now and be declared the winner. He doesn’t care that he’s trailing Hillary Clinton in all battleground states less than two weeks from Election Day. “Just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump,” the Republican presidential nominee said…
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Another White Student Posts Photos in Blackface on Social Media
Another day, another white college student caught in blackface on social media. The latest incident has sparked student body and community outrage at Xavier University in Cincinnati, after the image of a white female student in blackface went viral, Raw Story reports. The caption under the problematic Snapchat photo read, “Who needs white when black…
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94-Year-Old Black Judge Writes Scathing Dissent in Ohio’s Longest-Running Civil Rights Case
Federal appeals judge Damon Keith is one of several black judges involved in Ohio’s longest-running voting lawsuit, one that strikes at the heart of voter suppression in one of the most significant of the “battleground states.” And he’s not the only one. In the decade-old case, Judge Keith said he was “deeply saddened and distraught”…