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On Saturday, CNN’s John Blake penned a piece centered around a white woman from western Ohio named LaKiesha. According to Blake, his article was put together in an attempt to highlight what it would be like to be a white person with a “black-sounding” name but a lot of people felt this missed the mark. […]
NYPD union lawyers believe Eric Garner‘s poor health led to his death, not Officer Daniel Pantaleo‘s chokehold. Pantaleo’s attorney, Stuart London, told the court that his client should be cleared of all fault because Garner “died from being morbidly obese.” “He was a ticking time bomb that resisted arrest,” London said during an administrative hearing. “If he […]
The Phoenix Police Department has launched an investigation after several of its officers were accused of using excessive force on a black family. A portion of the incident was captured on a cellphone video that shows an unidentified officer handcuffing 22-year-old Dravon Ames before throwing him against a vehicle and sweeping one of his legs. The officer […]
An independent report ordered by the city of Vallejo, California, found officers had acted “reasonably” in the fatal shooting of Willie McCoy, a 21-year-old Bay Area rapper who went by the stage name Willie Bo. The report, authored by retired peace officer David Blake, revealed Vallejo cops had fired 55 rounds in 3.5 seconds during the February incident. Officers […]
Social media users around the world are going #BlueForSudan. Over the past several days, a growing number of people have changed their profile pictures to a plain blue image in support of the north African country, where peaceful demonstrators are being met with military violence. The months-long protests began with a 2018 uprising against then-President Omar al-Bashir, a brutal […]
A South Carolina mother was arrested after illegally entering her son’s elementary school to confront his alleged bullies, Fox affiliate KTVU reports. According to a police report, Jamie Rathburn walked into Greenbrier Elementary School without approval and was seen yelling at a class of third-grade students and a teacher. The director of communications for the […]
U.S. soldier K.T. Robbins met Jeannine Ganaye in 1944 while stationed in northeastern France during World War II. The two fell in love, but their romance was cut short when Robbins was assigned to fight on the Eastern Front. When the war was over, Robbins returned to United States where he got married to another woman. Despite having a constant of […]
Kim Kardashian returned to the White House on Thursday to announce a partnership with Lyft that will help provide former prisoners with gift cards which can be used to help get them to and from job interviews, work, etc. “Everyone wants the community to be safe, and the more opportunity we have and that they have and the support that we […]
Jessica Biel has reignited anti-vaxx rumors. The 37-year-old actress was recently spotted at the California State Assembly where she reportedly lobbied against SB 276—a bill that aims to crack down on fraudulent vaccine exemptions for children. Proponents say the measure could combat the return of the measles virus, as it is expected to cut medical exemptions by about 40 percent; […]
Former Stanford University head sailing coach John Vandemoer received one day in prison for his role in the national college admissions scandal. He will also pay a $10,000 fine and have two years of supervised release with six months of home detention with electronic monitoring. Vandemoer is the first person associated with the scam to receive his sentence. Vandemoer acknowledged accepting $610,000 in bribes to help […]
