police
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Shaq ‘All Lives Matter’ O’Neal Will Run for Sheriff in 2020
Black people who desperately long to be police officers confuse me. They always have. Clearly, the good-ole-boy structure of the police force isn’t designed for black people. And yes, I get the idea of black people who want to be different and turn the force around so that they alone can change the perception of…
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Police Video Shows NC Cop Threatening to Kill Unarmed Man
Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., police are defending their use of excessive force on an unarmed man after they say he tried to run away after a traffic stop. According to police, on March 26, 2016, James Yarborough, a passenger in a car pulled over for a traffic stop, ran from police. Officers apprehended Yarborough and, for four…
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Police Video Shows 5 Black Mich. Kids Held at Gunpoint in Case of Mistaken Identity
Police in Grand Rapids, Mich., said they were just doing their job when they held a group of kids, ranging in age from 12 to 14, at gunpoint after receiving a phone call about a possible teen having a gun during a fight at a basketball court. Video of the March 24 incident was recently…
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Lawyer Asks Federal Judge to Dismiss Cop’s Lawsuit Against Black Lives Matter Activist
Campaign Zero co-founder and prominent activist in the Movement for Black Lives DeRay Mckesson is being sued by an unnamed Baton Rouge, La., police officer who claims he was injured during a protest in the city four days after a police officer killed Alton Sterling, and now an attorney for Mckesson is urging a federal…
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Jeff Sessions Believes Increase in Violent Crime Is Result of Lack of Respect for Police Officers
Jeff Sessions gave his first speech as U.S. attorney general on Tuesday, and in it he tied a recent increase in violent crime to a lack of respect for police officers. He vowed that his Justice Department would be more supportive of local police departments and “not diminish their effectiveness.” The Washington Post reports that…
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Ricky Williams Just Learned That a Hero Ain’t Nuthin’ but a Sandwich
Ricky Williams was once the pride of Texas; now he can’t even take a walk around the place without police being called on him. A place where he was once a hero. On Wednesday, Williams, a former running back for the Texas Longhorns, and who played 12 years in the NFL, was back at his…
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Adam 'Pacman' Jones Arrested; Reportedly Kicked Officer and Spit on Nurse
It seemed as if Cincinnati Bengals defensive back Adam “Pacman” Jones had finally turned it around after a series of arrests since entering the NFL in 2005. He’d demanded that NFL announcers call him Adam and not by his nickname, “Pacman,” when referring to him. For years, he seemed to stay out of trouble. But…
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Black People in Colo. Arrested at 3 Times Their Percentage of Population
African Americans make up only 4.2 percent of Colorado’s population but account for 12.4 percent of arrests and criminal summonses in the state, Reuters reports. “Communities of color for a long time have felt that they are stopped and arrested more than others,” said Dense Maes, public policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union’s…
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2 Ga. Police Officers Shot While Serving Warrant
Two Georgia police officers were injured in a shooting early Monday morning while serving a search warrant in Crawford County, ABC News reports. According to the report, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge J.T. Ricketson said that a multijurisdiction drug task force went to a home on State Highway 42 around 2:30 a.m.…