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Family of Tamir Rice Wants Biden Administration to Reopen Federal Investigation Into his Death
The family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by Cleveland police officers in 2014, is campaigning for the Biden administration to reopen the federal investigation into the boyâs death. According to Buzzfeed News, the Rice family is working alongside community organizers to pressure the Department of Justice to reopen its investigation…
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Former Texas Prosecutor Disbarred After Withheld Evidence Led to 2 Black Men Spending 14 Years in Prison Over Wrongful Conviction
It would be far easier to trust this countryâs legal system if it didnât feel like it was consistently the site of some new fuckery. For Example: A former prosecutor in Texas was disbarred after it was found he had withheld evidence that wouldâve likely prevented two Black men from spending 14 years in prison…
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Parents at New York School Upset After Students Receive Assignment That States George Floyd Didnât Die From Knee on Neck
Is there some sort of teacher lottery going on that I donât know about? I feel like every day a single teacher is chosen to do some unnecessarily racist shit. Like the Hunger Games, but the only thing the teacher has to kill is their whole career. In New York, a group of parents are…
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Ohio City Agrees to $10 Million Settlement for the Family of André Hill
Iâm somewhat surprised that we still havenât reached the point where legislators are pushing police reform. Even if theyâre unmoved by the loss of life, you would think they would grow tired of paying out millions over unnecessary deaths. Case in point: The city of Columbus, Ohio, has agreed to pay the family of AndrĂ©…
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President of the 2nd Largest Teachers' Union in Favor of Schools Returning to In-Person Learning
One of the continually controversial aspects of the pandemic has been how we should handle a return to in-person learning. For well over a year now, school has primarily been conducted in either a virtual classroom or a hybrid in-person/virtual environment. The head of the second largest teacherâs union in the country has called for…
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Coach at Illinois High School Resigns After an Alleged Racist Remark Leads to Bomb Threat
Iâm continually at a loss for why racists go into teaching. It never ends well for them. A coach at an Illinois high school has resigned from her position after a racist comment she allegedly made to a student resulted in so much outrage that someone called in a bomb threat. God, America really is…
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Minneapolis Judge Postpones Trial for the 3 Ex-Cops Charged in George Floydâs Death Until 2022
A judge ruled on Thursday that the trial of the three former Minneapolis cops charged in aiding and abetting the murder of George Floyd would be postponed until March of next year. According to NBC News, Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao were originally scheduled to stand trial in August. All three men,…
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Georgia Man Free After Spending 2 Years in Jail for a Crime He Didnât Commit
Itâs really hard to have faith in a system that routinely allows cops to get away with things that would see the rest of us locked up, while at the same time incarcerating innocent people over weak cases with questionable evidence. A man in Augusta, Ga., spent two years in jail for a crime he…
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Judge Rules Derek Chauvin Could Face Longer Sentencing Since He Treated George Floyd With âParticular Crueltyâ
When former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the murder in the death of George Floyd, there was slight relief but one nagging question in the back of many our minds: âOK, but whatâs the sentence going to be?â While there was, and still is, concern that Chauvin will face the lightest…
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Need a Ride? Biden Administration Partners With Uber and Lyft to Give Free Rides to Vaccination Sites
Now that vaccines are becoming more widely available, we have a genuine shot at being able to move into a new normal sooner rather than later. For some though, simply getting to a vaccination site can be an obstacle unto itself. To help combat that problem, the Biden Administration has partnered with Uber and Lyft…
