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Video Shows Fontana, Calif., Cops Fatally Shooting Legally Blind and Mentally Ill Man
Surveillance video from a convenience store shows police in Fontana, Calif., cornering and fatally shooting a legally blind and mentally ill man they say was armed with a rock and a knife. According to the Los Angeles Times, the recording of the Nov. 22, 2015, incident was made public by attorneys for the man’s family…
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El Chapo in Custody and Extradited to the US
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the drug lord who famously escaped a Mexican prison in July 2015, has been extradited to the United States and will stand trial in Brooklyn, N.Y., on drug-trafficking and murder conspiracy charges, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. The Los Angeles Times reports that a U.S. official confirmed…
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Will We Be Getting Reparations From Sallie Mae-Navient?
Navient, the nation’s largest servicer of student loans, has misled borrowers for years with respect to its policies and practices, costing them millions of dollars, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a federal regulator. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the same agency that went after Wells Fargo and aired out all its dirty laundry,…
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Flint, Mich.’s Water Crisis Continues; Latest Events Prove It’s Far From Over
The people of Flint, Mich., still do not have clean water, and there does not appear to be a definite end in sight to the need for water filters and bottled water for everything from bathing to cooking more than a year after Mayor Karen Weaver called a state of emergency because of elevated lead…
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Widow of Gunman in Pulse Nightclub Shooting Pleads Not Guilty to Federal Charges
The widow of the Pulse nightclub shooter pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges against her in connection with the shooting. Noor Zahi Salman, 30, stood before U.S. District Judge Donna Ryu in a California courtroom as she entered her plea. According to the Orlando Sentinel, prosecutors say that Salman knew about Omar Mateen’s plan…
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Chicago Cop Charged With 1st-Degree Murder in Off-Duty Shooting of Unarmed Man
A Chicago police officer was arrested Wednesday and charged with first-degree murder in the off-duty shooting of an unarmed man earlier this month. Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, told the Chicago Tribune that Cook County prosecutors filed charges against Lowell Houser in the shooting death of 38-year-old Jose Nieves…
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Suspected Orlando, Fla., Cop Killer Markeith Loyd Captured and in Custody
The man accused of shooting and killing Orlando, Fla., Police Lt. Debra Clayton was captured and taken into custody Tuesday after a nine-day manhunt. Markeith Loyd, 41, was found and captured in an abandoned home in West Orlando at 7 p.m. Tuesday, and the Orlando Sentinel reports that Clayton’s handcuffs were used to take him…
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Repealing Major Parts of Affordable Care Act Would Cause 18,000,000 to Lose Coverage in 1st Year
According to a report released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday, repealing portions of the Affordable Care Act would cause 18 million people to lose their coverage in the first year, and that number would increase to 32 million by the year 2026. The budget office created the report by analyzing the probable…
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White Fragility Leads to White Violence: Why Conversations About Race With White People Fall Apart
Why do conversations about race fall apart when we have them with white people? I have been thinking about this for the last few weeks, ever since I attempted to speak with Grey’s Anatomy actress Ellen Pompeo about it on Twitter. As with many conversations I’ve had on race with white people, that one quickly…
