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Black Patient Arrested After Security Guard Accuses Him of Attempting to Steal an IV and Sell It on eBay
A video of a black Freeport, Ill., patient being arrested while taking a walk outside a hospital has gone viral after he shared the incident on Facebook. The video shows Shaquille Dukes, 24, walking outside FHN Memorial Hospital on June 9, wearing a hospital gown and attached to an IV. According to Dukes, who had…
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Connecticut Protesters Continue Week of Demonstrations After Officer-Involved Shooting of Unarmed Black Couple Near Yale Campus
Protesters say they won’t stop demonstrating until two officers involved in the shooting of two unarmed black people near Yale University’s campus are fired. The streets of New Haven and neighboring Hamden, Conn., have been filled with protesters each night for nearly a week, after a Hamden cop and a Yale police officer fired multiple…