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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies shot and killed the half-brother of Robert Fuller, a Black man found hanged in a tree in a Southern California town earlier this month, after a traffic stop in the city of Rosamond on the afternoon of Wednesday, June
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Famous Dex Listed As Suspect In Domestic Violence Incident After SWAT Team Was Called To His Crib
TMZ is reporting that Famous Dex's home was the site of a standoff between the law enforcement and himself after the police believed he might have put hands on his ex-girlfriend. Eventually, the cops were so worried about what weapons might be in his possession that they even called in Swat.
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Edwin Buggage Editor-in-Chief What’s Going On As the World is dealing with the global pandemic that is COVID-19, America is again at a crossroads in respect to one of the original sins of a nation [...]
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Driver Rams Into Officers at Capitol, Killing One and Injuring Another
The attack shocked a Capitol slowly returning to normalcy after the Jan. 6 riot, raising new questions about securing the complex.
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Officer Who Shot Daunte Wright Resigns, Along With Police Chief
Kim Potter tendered her resignation amid calls for justice for the family of the 20-year-old Black man she fatally wounded.
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Jail time for 2 Limpopo cops who asked foreign national for R500 bribe | News24
Two Limpopo police officers are to spend the next five years in jail for asking an undocumented immigrant for a R500 bribe to avoid arrest.
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Man Charged In Ahmaud Arbery Murder Allegedly Used Racist Slur As Victim Lay Dying
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OP-ED | Defining Defunding the Police to Help our Community - African American News Today - EIN News
If we asked 25 different people what “defund the police” means, we would likely get 25 different definitions. Our definition focuses on where the investment should take place...
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Op-Ed: Derek Chauvin Murder Trial Highlights Cruel Irony in the Justice System • EBONY
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#StayWoke The Oklahoma Eagle Editorial: Langston Justice, BLM Relevant and Another Police Stop | The Oklahoma Eagle
Langston: Compensation Is Not The Same As Justice The 17-year-old dispute between Langston University and Oklahoma State University is stumbling to a painful conclusion. Like many battles where the small is right they are eventually ground to a decision because of the considerable resources of the
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Protest forces T&T to deal with at-risk youth
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Reports describe a shockingly insensitive act in the midst of protest.
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New Jersey Cop Killed Black Man With ‘His Hands Up’ And ‘Backing Away,’ Witnesses Say
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Man held with guns after threats of violence
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House Passes George Floyd Justice In Policing Act - Milwaukee Community Journal
Washington, D.C. – Today, the House passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, by a bipartisan vote of 236 to 181. The legislation is the first-ever bold, comprehensive approach to hold police accountable, change the culture of law enforcement, empower our communities, and build trust between
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Justice For Shaheen Mackey: Graphic Video Shows Prison Guards Taser Shackled Inmate In Medical Distress Before Death
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Check It Out: Banning the banned chokehold | New Pittsburgh Courier
by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier During the 2000 presidential race, civil rights organizations demanded a federal ban on racial profiling. Democrat Al Gore said, racial profiling ran counter to what the United States was all about, and if entrusted with the presidency, ending racial
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Cops salute murdered officer who was shot with his own gun - The Mississippi Link
On a day when 11 people were shot, two fatally, amid months of soaring gun violence in Chicago, a memorial honored a police officer who was shot 10 years ago in the back with his own gun and then, as he lay fallen, shot in the head at close range. Chicago Police holds a memorial []
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Minneapolis City Council announces plans to dismantle police department
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By Dianne Lugo, Staff George Gascon was sworn in as Los Angeles’ new District Attorney on Monday and announced sweeping new changes that point to an era of criminal justice reform in the nation’s largest local prosecutor’s office. Gascon was elected after defeating incumbent District Attorney
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The Congressional Black Caucus has introduced the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, legislation designed to make the nation’s police more accountable to the nation’s citizens, especially its Black citizens, in the wake of the brutal death of George
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