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  • Detroit Woman Displays Real-Life Horrors for Halloween 

    A Detroit woman is getting a lot of attention for her controversial, conversation-inducing Halloween decorations, WJBK reports. The decorations depict the victims of police shootings, neighborhood violence and even the Flint, Mich., water crisis. According to the news station, it isn’t the first time the homeowners have shied away from the Halloween tradition of showing…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • The Moments When Being a Black Man Is The Shit

    2016 has been a rough year for black men.  We’re about to say goodbye to our first black president, Muhammad Ali died, Jay Electronica still ain’t dropped an album, and there’s a new Madea movie about to hit theaters.  Plus, cops keep shooting dudes that look like us like every week. It’s with that in…

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    Corey Richardson

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  • Police in NC Release Full, Graphic Video of Keith Lamont Scott Shooting

    Police in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., have released the full, graphic body-cam and dashcam footage of the shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte last month, Reuters reports. According to the report, a lawyer for Scott’s family said that the videos do not support police claims that Scott was holding a gun at the time of his…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Lawyer: Calif. Officers Who Killed Fleeing Black Man Should Face Murder Charges

    A lawyer for the family of a black man who was fleeing police called Monday for the two Sacramento, Calif., police officers who killed him to be charged with murder, Reuters reports. John Burris, the lawyer, told Reuters in a phone interview that dashcam video released last week suggests that the officers who shot and…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • #SittingOnPorchWhileBlack: Video Shows NC Cop Violently Arresting Black Man

    A Greensboro, N.C., police officer was stripped of his law-enforcement credentials last week via a vote by City Council members after body-camera footage of an arrest he made was made public, the Huffington Post reports. According to the report, the council voted unanimously Sept. 26 to permanently sanction Police Officer Travis Cole for his use…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Fla. Woman Charges That Cop Baked Her a 'Sorry I Tased You' Cake 

    A Florida woman has filed a civil lawsuit against a former Escambia County, Fla., deputy, charging that he shocked her with a Taser in her chest and neck without provocation, tried to cover up the incident and then later—adding insult to injury—apologized with a cake. According to the Pensacola News Journal, Stephanie Byron filed the…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Milwaukee Police Chief Won't Release Video of Sylville Smith's Fatal Shooting

    Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn announced Thursday that he will not release the video of the fatal police shooting of Sylville Smith, giving a nod to the advice of the state’s attorney general and local district attorney, the Associated Press reports. According to the report, the state Department of Justice has completed its investigation into the…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Texas Metro Officer Resigns After Video Shows Him Brutally Beating Man at Station

    A Texas metro officer resigned Monday after video was released showing him brutally beating a man who did not want to leave a station earlier this month, USA Today reports. Internal investigations concluded that Officer Jairus Warren, with the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, used excessive force in the Sept. 14 confrontation. “This incident…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • I Think About My Funeral When Police Stop Me

    What was Terence Cutcher thinking about before those Tulsa, Okla., police killed him? Every time cops stop me while I’m driving my car in the middle of the night, I begin thinking about how good my funeral will be. I think about a packed funeral home with standing room only. I have lots of friends,…

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    The Root Staff

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  • Sherry Hall (AKA "Officer Becky") And How The "Big, Bad, (Black) Dude" Is America's Boogeyman

    We keep cycling through the same macabre Groundhog’s Day events of learning of an egregious police shooting. Then protesting. Then simmering down. Then learning of yet another death. But perhaps the most ridiculous police-involved shooting in September shed no actual blood. Sherry Hall, a White female police officer from Jackson, GA, claimed a Black man…

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    Dara Mathis

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