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The Police Call Was Supposed to Be a Wellness Check on a Friend. So How Did Travis Jordan End Up Dead?
Travis Jordan, 36, had been living with his friend and co-worker Paul Johnson and his wife in the couple’s Minneapolis home. On Friday, Johnson became concerned about Jordan and called police. Jordan had been “having a lot of suicidal thoughts because, um, depression, anxiety, but he’s not taking any pills for that. Um, he’s just…
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Top Congressional Leaders on Both Sides Passed on Visiting Pittsburgh With Trump Because He’s Trash
Top Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle declined to join the president on his trip to Pittsburgh on Tuesday, in the wake of the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue, which left 11 people dead and several others injured. According to the Hill, “House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader…
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Sarah 'Suckabee' Sanders Continues Defense of Hatemonger, the President of Whitekanda
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders aka “Suckabee” aka “The Devil’s Mouthpiece” continues to be the runaway leader in the administration’s competition for the “Worst Person Not Named Trump” award. In another standout performance since Saturday’s massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue that left 11 people dead, Sanders double-down on the president’s statement…
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Black Navy Sailor Attempting to Help ‘Stranded Motorist’ Shot and Killed
Active duty Navy sailor Curtis Adams, 21, was driving in San Diego, Calif., Saturday morning when he spotted a man near a vehicle Adams believed the man needed help with. Adams, who was with his girlfriend, pulled over to offer assistance. He didn’t know the man was attempting to steal the car. The “stranded motorist” shot…
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Progressive Jewish Leaders to Trump: You're Not Welcome in Pittsburgh
Progressive Jewish leaders have a simple message for President Trump in the wake of the tragic shooting that left 11 people dead at the Tree of Life synagogue: Don’t bother coming to Pittsburgh until you fully denounce white nationalism. Oh, and stop being an absolute racist, xenophobe who hates refugees. According to The Washington Post,…
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Wannabe Cop Who Shot and Killed a Black Man Says He's Sorry But He Shouldn't Have Been Sent to Prison
Remember Robert Bates? Sure you do. He was the old, white Oklahoma man who wanted desperately to be a cop, so he donated loads of money to his local police force and, in turn, was allowed to be a volunteer deputy and participate in ride-alongs and even had a real working gun, which he used…
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Man Faces Murder Charges After Ambushing South Carolina Cops
Frederick Hopkins, 74, has been charged with murder and six counts of attempted murder in an ambush on South Carolina police officers. According to CNN, Sgt. Terrence Carraway, a 30-year veteran of the Florence Police Department, was killed after arriving on the scene during the two-hour standoff. Hopkins was formally charged at noon Friday and…
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Texas Senator Ted Cruz Thinks Beto O'Rourke Shouldn't Blame Dallas Officer For Shooting Botham Jean in His Home
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the grown-up Eddie Munster, thinks that challenger Rep. Beto O’Rourke was wrong to rush to judgment when he criticized the shooting of Botham Jean, the 26-year-old black man who was shot dead in his own home by a Dallas police officer. “It’s possible what happened was a horrifying and horrific misunderstanding,…
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Botham Jean Attorney: Nothing In Amber Guyger's Story Makes Sense
An attorney for Botham Jean—the 26-year-old innocent black man who was shot and killed inside his own home—is looking to set the record straight. Despite several stories that Jean and his attacker, Amber Guyger, knew one another, attorney S. Lee Meritt claims that the two were merely neighbors as Jean lived directly above Guyger. “The…
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The Stand Your Ground Law Protects Shooter Who Killed Black Man Over Parking Space, Sheriff Says
Two men, Markeis McGlockton and Michael Drejka, got into an argument in a convenience Circle A Food store parking lot in Clearwater, Fla., over a parking spot. It’s been reported that Drejka was arguing with McGlockton’s girlfriend about them being parked in the handicap spot without a proper tag. That argument ended with McGlockton, who…