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Mistrial Declared in Trial of Texas Cop Who Shot Black Man Holding Barbecue Fork in His Own Yard
A Tarrant County, Texas, judge declared a mistrial Wednesday morning in the case of a white Fort Worth, Texas, police officer who shot a black man holding a barbecue fork in front of his own home. According to WFAA, at approximately 3:30 a.m., June 23, 2015, Police Officer Courtney Johnson was in a residential neighborhood…
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#FarmingWhileBlack: Black Va. Farmer Says ‘Nervous White Women in Yoga Pants’ More Dangerous Than Blatant White Supremacists
When discussing the dangers of “____ while black” in this white-settler colonial project known as the United States, the media focus is typically on expensive shops, wealthy white enclaves, airports, parks, city sidewalks, predatory hypermarkets—you know, any place where white people are known to click their heels three times—9-1-1—and lock all the Negroes away—or have…
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Mark Adkins Identified as Man Tased to Death by San Diego Sheriff’s Deputies
A Lemon Grove, Calif., man who died Saturday morning after two deputies tased him multiple times has been identified by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department as Mark Roshawn Adkins, 54. According to NBC San Diego, authorities were responding to calls that a black man was jumping fences and attempting to enter townhouses. “The callers…
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Watch White Liberalism in HD: Bill Maher Exploits Police Killing Black People to Score Political Points for Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton cares more about police officers getting away with killing black people than Donald Trump does, according to Real Time host Bill Maher. And on his HBO show Friday night, Maher exploited the brutal slayings of Terence Crutcher and Walter Scott in an effort to get Cornel West to agree with him. As previously…
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Black Judge Profiled for Speaking Against Racial Bias in Policing Will Not Step Aside in White Cop’s Murder Trial
After a reportedly contentious hearing Thursday morning, black Alabama Judge Greg Griffin denied a motion filed Monday by defense attorneys for white Montgomery, Ala., Police Officer Aaron Smith requesting that Griffin recuse himself from Smith’s murder trial, AL.com reports. Smith, who is white, is charged with murder in the death of 58-year-old Gregory Gunn, a…
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Balch Springs, Texas, Cop James Young Caught Tasing Handcuffed Black Man Was Field Training Officer for Jordan Edwards’ Killer
Sgt. James Young—the Balch Springs, Texas, police officer responsible for training Roy Oliver, the officer who killed 15-year-old Jordan Edward—has been identified as the officer in newly released dashcam footage tasing Marco Stephenson, a black man handcuffed with his hands behind his back. Attorney Lee Merritt, legal counsel for Jordan’s family, confirmed to The Root…
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Woman Who Lost Her Son to Police Brutality Needs Black Men and Boys to Write Letters to Mothers Like Her
“After my son Clinton was killed, I remember digging into my pain asking God to help me understand why this happened,” Collette Flanagan told The Root in an exclusive interview. “He just didn’t deserve to die.” In 2013, Flanagan’s 25-year-old son, Clinton Allen, was shot and killed by a Dallas police officer in an area…
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NJ’s Bill Brennan Might Be the Realest Politician You’ve Never Heard Of
“Yoooo, have you heard of this dude named Bill Brennan?!” My friend intentionally does not use exclamation points as an act of resistance against manufactured cyber emotion; so when I received that excited message last week, I quickly went through my mental Rolodex because it felt as if I should have heard of Bill Brennan…
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Black Lives Matter Activists Bail Black Women Out of Jail for Mother’s Day
The Black Lives Matter movement is working to have an impact on the lives of black women in dozens of jails across the country this week by providing them with their freedom, just in time for Mother’s Day. The women have not been convicted of crimes, but they remain in jail because they have been…
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#FreeBresha: Bresha Meadows Offered Plea Deal
Updated Monday, May 22, 3:02 p.m. EDT: Bresha Meadows, 15, entered a plea of “true” Monday before a Trumbull County, Ohio, juvenile judge to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of her father. Read here: Bresha Meadows, 15, has been offered a plea deal and could be released from jail in…
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