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‘Donald Trump Will Stop You’: Video Shows Man Harassing Muslim Family on Texas Beach
Another day, another idiot comes out to play. This time, a man is facing the music—or, rather, criminal charges—after going on what authorities say was an obscenity-laced, anti-Muslim tirade at a family trying to enjoy themselves on a Texas beach. South Padre Island police arrested 35-year-old Alexander Jennes Downing of Connecticut after responding to reports…
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White Mich. Cop Faced Racial Taunts After Ancestry.com Test Showed He’s 18 Percent Black: Lawsuit
There are just some things you can’t make up, and apparently, a white Hastings, Mich., police officer is claiming that he has been subjected to racial taunts and other hurtful comments from within his own department after he took a genetic test on Ancestry.com that revealed he is 18 percent black. Sgt. Cleon Brown claims…
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Police: Va. Man Attacked Black Woman Because of Her Race, Spat on Cops During His Arrest
A Chesterfield County, Va., man is facing multiple charges after police say he dragged a black woman out of her car and attacked her based on her race and then later spat on officers as he was being arrested. Matthew R. Ellis, 27, is facing charges of abduction and kidnapping, two counts of assault and…
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2 More Plaintiffs Join Racial-Discrimination Suit Against Fox News Network
A racial-discrimination lawsuit filed against Fox News continues to grow as two additional plaintiffs joined on to the now 6-week-old suit that was filed in Bronx Supreme Court in New York City against multiple defendants, including the network, parent company Twenty-First Century Fox, Fox News, Fox Business Executive Vice President Dianne Brandi, and former Senior…
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Jury Selection to Start for Trial of Tulsa, Okla., Cop Who Fatally Shot Terence Crutcher
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday for the trial of Betty Shelby, a white Tulsa, Okla., police officer who shot and killed Terence Crutcher, an unarmed black man whose car had broken down on a highway. Shelby, 43, is facing charges of first-degree manslaughter, and as Reuters notes, she could face from four years…
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Calif. High School Students Sue School District for Suspending Them Over Liking Racist Instagram Posts
A California school district is being hit with a lawsuit after suspending four students for liking and commenting on racist Instagram posts. The students claim that the punishment violates their First Amendment and due process rights. The Washington Post reports that the four plaintiffs are among more than a dozen students at Albany High School…
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‘That’s Racist as Shit’: Students Confront White La. Schoolteacher Who Insists on Using N-Word
Students at Ben Franklin High School—named Louisiana’s top public high school—ended up having to school a white teacher earlier this week after he apparently thought it was cool to just flagrantly use the n-word because, as he put it, it was a “commoditized word.” I know, I know. I’m rolling my eyes, too. Anyway, according…
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Kappa Sigma Fraternity Chapter at Baylor University Suspended for ‘Cinco de Drinko’ Party
What is it with fraternities and hosting absolutely tasteless parties? Is it a prerequisite for existing? At any rate, in today’s frats-doing-racially-insensitive-shit column, the Kappa Sigma chapter of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has been suspended following a Mexican-themed “Cinco de Drinko” party, which drew the outrage of many. According to CNN, some of those…
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‘I Hate N–gers, and I’m Going to Kill Me 1 Today’: Texas Man Charged With Hate Crime After Trying to Stab Black Man
A Houston man was charged with a hate crime Wednesday after, authorities say, he hurled racial slurs before attempting to stab a black man at an apartment complex in northwest Harris County on Tuesday. James Scott Lee, 32, was heard saying, “I hate niggers, and I’m going to kill me one today,” before brandishing a…