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Black Va. Schoolhouse Built in 1892 Defaced With ‘White Power’ Signs
The Ashburn Colored School opened in 1892, a single-room schoolhouse that gave black children in Northern Virginia the opportunity to receive an education, 30 years after the Civil War ended in the capital of the Confederacy. The school was horribly vandalized this weekend. For the past two years, CNN reports, local students had tirelessly worked…
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Protests Mount After Teen Carnell Snell Jr. Shot and Killed by LAPD
An 18-year-old was shot fatally by the Los Angeles Police Department after a foot chase that relatives said ended tragically in front of his home. The dead teen has been identified as Carnell “C.J.” Snell Jr., a young man neighbors say was into skateboards and his family, according to the Los Angeles Times. LAPD officers…
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Pasadena, Calif., Man Dies in Police Custody After Being Tased
Pasadena, Calif., police quickly released grainy security video and audio from a 911 call from the family of a man who died in their custody after being restrained and tased early Friday morning. Although authorities have yet to release the name of the dead man, relatives have identified him as Reginald “Junior” Thomas, a father of eight.…
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New Video Reveals Sacramento, Calif., Police Tried to Run Over Black Man Before Fatally Shooting Him
According to recently released dashcam video from a July altercation, two Sacramento, Calif., police officers attempted to run over an African-American homeless man—twice—before they shot and killed him in a hail of bullets. The Sacramento Bee reports that one of the officers said, “[F—k] this guy” in the final minute before they shot Joseph Mann.…
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Police Release #AlfredOlango Videos; Sister Heard Shrieking, ‘Don’t Shoot Him!’
El Cajon, Calif., police released two short videos of the shooting death of Alfred Olango, on Friday, “for the sake of the well-being of the community,” USA Today reports. One of the videos shows the unarmed black man backing away from a police officer before he was fatally shot Tuesday night. El Cajon Police Chief Jeff…
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Tommie Smith and John Carlos to Join 2016 Olympic Team at White House
Tommie Smith and John Carlos, the U.S. Olympic sprinters who raised their fists during the 1968 Olympics, will join the U.S. Olympic team at the White House next week for its meeting with President Barack Obama, the Charlotte News & Observer reports. In the last week, the tide has continued to turn for the two…
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Watch: High School Football Team Lie on Their Backs With Hands Up as Colin Kaepernick Looks On
And it don’t stop. The police killings continue, as do the protests against them. On Friday night, former NFL player Kirk Morrison shared a powerful photo showing San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem while players from Castlemont High School in Oakland, Calif., lay on their backs with their hands up.…
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Suspect in Wash. Mall Shooting Taken Into Custody
Updated Sunday, Sept. 25, 10:40 a.m. EDT: The man accused of fatally shooting five people in a Burlington, Wash., mall is being held without bond and faces five counts of first-degree murder, USA Today reports. The suspect, identified as 20-year-old Arcan Cetin of Oak Harbor, Wash., was taken into custody Saturday night in Oak Harbor, Wash., about…
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NC Law That Limits Release of Police Video Goes Into Effect Next Week
A North Carolina law that goes into effect exactly one week after the Keith Lamont Scott police shooting video was released effectively keeps the public from viewing or obtaining police video from dashboard or body cameras unless a judge rules to release it. Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, who signed the legislation into law two months…
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Terence Crutcher Laid to Rest in Tulsa, Okla.
More than 1,000 people came out Saturday night in Tulsa, Okla., to celebrate the life and mourn the tragic death of Terence Crutcher. Crutcher, who was 40 years old, died at the hands of Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby on Sept. 16. Crutcher was unarmed and reportedly had his hands in the air for much…
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