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BART Officer Lied About Conduct During Arrest of Oscar Grant
According to documents released last week under a new California police transparency law, former BART police officer Anthony Pirone assaulted 22-yer-old Oscar Grant, called him the N-word, and lied about what led to another officer eventually opening fire and killing the young father, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Pirone claimed that he was “fighting for…
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Mentally Ill Black Woman Complains of Contractions, Gives Birth Alone in Florida Isolation Cell
Tammy Jackson, a mentally ill pregnant woman, was forced to deliver her baby in an “isolation cell” in a Florida detention center in April, according to public defender Howard Finkelstein in a letter to Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony. According to the Washington Post, she was escorted to her cell alone, only to have a…
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Couple Releases Video of Arizona Doctor Dropping Baby After Hospital Withholds Apology
Derrick and Monique Rodgers say hospital staff dropped their newborn baby on its head moments after it was born. All they wanted was an apology. When they failed to receive one, they released a video of the incident. The Rodgerses say that Chandler Regional Medical Center in Arizona has given lip service. The couple were…
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Kellyanne Conway, Asked by No One, Offers Opinion on Obama After Clinton Loss in '16
Kellyanne Conway has managed to run afoul of quite a few people during her time as a member of Donald Trump’s braintrust. While using nearly every appearance on national television to muddy the waters of dialogue with half-truths, whole lies and missing hairspray, she has managed to flummox, flabbergast, and vex nearly every on-air personality…
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Minneapolis Awards $20 Million to Family of Woman Shot by Officer Mohamed Noor
The City of Minneapolis has agreed to pay $20 million to the family of an unarmed woman who was shot and killed by an officer after she approached his car when he was responding the her 911 call. The victim’s family had filed a lawsuit seeking more than $50 million from Minneapolis, saying that the…
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Obama Had Biden Pump His Breaks on '16 Presidential Bid: Report
According to a New York Times feature describing the relationship between the former presidential partners, President Barack Obama urged Joe Biden, his Vice President, not to run. According to the times, Obama “gently pressed” Biden on his 2016 aspirations over the span of a few weeks before having a strategist deliver a sobering assessment to…
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Trump Sends Migrants to Sanctuary Cities as DHS Asks Defense Department for Assistance at Border
After tweeting that his administration was considering a move to send undocumented migrants to sanctuary cities, Trump told a crowd gathered at a Wisconsin rally that the authorities have begun sending immigrants to cities around the country. According to The Hill, Trump took credit for the decision, calling it his “sick idea.” “Last month alone,…
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Police Confront Robbery Suspect in Texas, Shoot Three Children
Three children, aged five, four and one years old, were taken to a Tulsa, Okla.-area hospital after a police officer fired at a robbery suspect in a pickup truck. Their injuries are considered non-life-threatening, according to WKRG. Though authorities did not immediately release the ages or conditions of the children, Olivia Hill told Texas news…
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Police Say Iraq War Vet Targeted Assumed Muslims in Vehicular Attack
34-year-old Isaiah Joel Peoples plowed through a crowded street in Sunnyvale, Calif. on Tuesday, striking and injuring eight before crashing into a tree. Though no one was killed in the crash, the injured range in age from 9 to 52 years old. Police say the Iraq War veteran intentionally ran down the group of pedestrians…
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Shooter Kills 1, Injures 3 at Synagogue in Poway, Calif., Mayor Calls Incident ‘Hate Crime’ [Update]
Six months to the day an active shooter claimed 11 lives at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, 19-year old John Earnest has been detained by police in Poway, Calif., after a shooting at a synagogue has left one woman dead and three other people injured according to reports. Earnest drew inspiration from the…
