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2 Virginia Police Officers Hit With Misdemeanor Charges Related to Conduct During George Floyd Protests
You don’t need me to tell you that cops absolutely showed their asses during the protests that initially arose from the death of George Floyd. Surprisingly, two Virginia cops are actually facing charges as a result of their conduct during one of those protests. According to ABC News, Richmond police detectives Mark Janowski and Christopher…
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Virginia Judge Says Robert E. Lee Monument Can be Removed From Richmond Pending Appeal
2020 has been quite the year for a soldier of white supremacy who’s been dead for just over 150 years. It’s been nearly 5 months since Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam declared that “Richmond is no longer the capital of the Confederacy” and announced plans to remove the city’s iconic statue of Confederate General Robert E.…
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Richmond Judge Won’t Let Virginia be Great, Extends Injunction Preventing the Removal of Robert E. Lee Monument
For people who want so badly for black people to just forget about slavery, conservative white people sure seem bound and determined to hold on to the very monuments that immediately remind black folk of what our ancestors endured. Many of us were beside ourselves with joy after we learned that the 130-year-old statue of…
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Tennis Great Arthur Ashe Honored With Street Naming Ceremony in Virginia
In 1968, a year fraught with violent civil rights protests and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., tennis legend Arthur Ashe became the first black male athlete to win the U.S. Open. But beyond his groundbreaking accomplishments on the tennis court, Ashe’s tireless activism off of it is equally commendable. And to celebrate his…
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‘I Ain’t Serving No Police’: Va. Officer Allegedly Denied Service at Local McDonald’s
A Henrico County, Va., McDonald’s says it has taken “appropriate action” after the wife of a Virginia Conservation police officer claimed that he was denied service because of his uniform. “At our restaurants, we are dedicated to serving all of our customers, including all authority figures who protect our wildlife and natural resources,” the McDonald’s…
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2 White Men Assaulted Black Teen Near His Home in Campaign to Run Interracial Family Out of Va. Neighborhood: Lawsuit
A black teenager was called racial slurs and attacked by two white men near his home in Virginia as part of an effort to run his interracial family out of town, a federal lawsuit claims. Yes, this is in 2017. Well, to be precise, the attack occurred in 2015. The men involved in the attack…
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Recent College Graduate, Mother of 2 Killed in Fatal Shooting on I-95 in Va.
Two people were shot and killed as they were driving along on Interstate 95 in downtown Richmond, Va., early Sunday morning after another car pulled up and opened fire. According to WTVR, Tanna Gardner, 23, was driving the car, which contained six other passengers, when the shooting happened. Gardner and a passenger, 26-year-old Sharayne Holland,…
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Va. Woman Charged With Beating 3-Year-Old Goddaughter to Death Pleads No Contest
A Richmond, Va., woman faces five to 40 years in prison after pleading no contest to second-degree murder in the death of her 3-year-old goddaughter, Latrice Walden. Danielle L. Turner, 25, is scheduled to be sentenced June 23. According to WTVR, Turner was initially charged with felony child neglect, but those charges were later upgraded…
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Say Cheese? Black CVS Customer Asks for Cheese and Employees Hide and Call Police
Maybe “cheese” sounded like “freeze” to the Richmond, Va., CVS workers who ran to the back and called the police on a young black man who asked for sliced cheese. That’s right; Ricky Berry had the audacity to ask a store worker for cheese, and for some reason—which I’m sure has nothing to do with…
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I Don’t Understand Richmond, Va., Mayoral Candidate and Alleged Pervert Joe Morrissey
I don’t understand how Joe Morrissey is still here. I don’t understand how, in 2013, a then-56-year-old Morrissey was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates when he hired a 17-year-old black girl to work in his law office. The old white man raped the teen and then lied about the nature of their…