steve stephens

  • Facebook to Hire an Additional 3,000 People to Review Videos of Crime, Suicide 

    With the advent of Facebook Live, the social media website has seen an uptick in livestreamed suicides, killings, sex crimes, abuse—the painful list goes on and on. Now Facebook is slated to hire 3,000 more people to review videos and posts of crime and other questionable content, following the seeming increase in the number of…

  • Jesse Jackson Calls for Facebook Live Moratorium

    The Rev. Jesse Jackson is echoing the thoughts and feelings of many by calling for an end to Facebook Live—at least temporarily. Jackson and other Chicago officials want the company to drop its live function for 30 days In the wake of the death of 74-year-old Robert Godwin, who was shot and killed by Steve…

  • The Tragedies of Black Masculinity 

    I remember the feeling I had last week when I saw the text come in from a friend back home. The text read, “Y’all hear about North Park Elementary?” All I could do was think about the feeling I had in the pit of my stomach when I got the same text about the terrorist…

  • Steve Stephens’ Ex-Girlfriend Joy Lane Meets With Robert Godwin Sr.’s Family

    Joy Lane’s name became a topic of conversation after Steve Stephens mentioned her during his recorded manifesto before he killed 74-year-old Robert Godwin Sr. Stephens told the elderly man that Lane was the reason he was being killed before shooting the Cleveland man in the head. On Tuesday, in an interview with a local Ohio…

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    Facebook Chastened After Broadcasting a Killing

    Cleveland Reports on Another Horror Obama Indicated He Understood the Hatin’ ‘Not an Emmy Big Enough’ for Oprah in Docudrama Stories of How Racial, Environmental Justice Cross 2013 Destruction in Calif. Presaged Standing Rock Reality Check: Police Still Kill People of Color ‘Weeks and Months Without a . . . Latino Expert’ Undefeated Wins Praise…

  • Steve Stephens, Accused Facebook Killer, Fatally Shoots Himself in Pa.  

    Steve Stephens, who sparked a nationwide manhunt after posting a Facebook video in which he randomly shot and killed an elderly man in Cleveland over the weekend, has killed himself in Erie, Pa., state police report. According to NBC Philadelphia, Stephens was spotted by Pennsylvania State Police troopers Tuesday morning and fatally shot himself as…

  • Family of Robert Godwin Sr., Facebook-Shooting Victim: ‘Each One of Us Forgives the Killer’ 

    Some people embody more grace than should be humanly possible. The family of Robert Godwin Sr. are one such example, with family members saying that they forgive their loved one’s killer, despite the tragic and senseless circumstances of the 74-year-old Cleveland man’s death. “The thing I would take away most from our father is that…

  • Facebook Murder Suspect Still on the Loose; Cleveland Police Announce $50,000 Reward

    The Cleveland Police Department announced Monday that a $50,000 reward has been posted by Crime Stoppers for any information leading to the arrest of the man accused of killing Robert Godwin Sr. and then posting the horrific video on Facebook. Fox News reports that the police have now launched a nationwide search for 37-year-old Steve…

  • Sometimes a Bitch-Ass N–ga Is Just a Bitch-Ass N–ga

    Considering the considerable stigmas still attached to mental health—how we talk about it, how we treat it, how we regard people who have mental-health issues—our collective tendency to shoehorn some sort of untreated psychological disorder into the profiles of people who’ve committed especially heinous crimes is (somewhat) understandable. It allows us to finally have the…

  • Steve Stephens Is at Fault for Robert Godwin Sr.’s Death. He and He Alone. Not Joy Lane or Anybody Else. Stop That Shit.

    I don’t remember the first time I heard the phrase “toxic masculinity” but it has stuck with me ever since. It’s not a hard concept to define or understand. Effectively, and simply, it’s a label placed on actions and behaviors attributable to “manhood” that are destructive, often violent, and naturally come with extremely negative consequences…