Crime
Crime
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Man Faces Murder Charges After Ambushing South Carolina Cops
Frederick Hopkins, 74, has been charged with murder and six counts of attempted murder in an ambush on South Carolina police officers. According to CNN, Sgt. Terrence Carraway, a 30-year veteran of the Florence Police Department, was killed after arriving on the scene during the two-hour standoff. Hopkins was formally charged at noon Friday and…
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Sex Worker Stole Cop's Jeep. She Says He Was Just A 'Trick'
Taquanna Lawton has been charged with grand larceny for stealing an NYPD officer’s Jeep Wrangler in Brooklyn Tuesday morning after he left the vehicle to get money from an ATM to pay for her sex services. As Lawton, 20, explains it, she and 13-year veteran officer Ali Sheppard had a business relationship and that he…
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Members of California White Supremacist Group Charged in Connection With 2017 Charlottesville Riot
The U.S. Department of Justice has arrested and charged four members of a violent, racist, white supremacist group from California with traveling to the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., with the explicit purpose of inciting a riot and attacking counter-protesters. The U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Virginia said in a press…
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10 Thoughts I Had Watching a Kayaker Get the Shit Slapped Out of Him With an Octopus by a Seal
1. This is exactly why I don’t fuck with nature. This is also why God made me a black man. More on that later. 2. This might be uncouth, but that seal would catch those hands. No bullshit, I’d have to jump INTO the water, find the seal and we’d have to fight. I can’t…
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Bill Cosby Will Likely Only Get a 3-Year Sentence For Drugging and Sexually Assaulting Andrea Constand
Bill Cosby’s sentencing hearing for the drugging and sexual assault of Andrea Constand began in a Pennsylvania courtroom Monday. Cosby was facing a maximum of 30 years in prison, but the judge in his case said he will likely be imprisoned for less than three years. Despite a psychologist from Pennsylvania’s Sexual Offenders Assessment Board…
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Chicago Judge Exonerates 18 People Framed By Crooked Cops
On March 23, 2005, police officers arrested 32-year-old Ben Baker for dealing heroin in Chicago’s Ida B. Wells housing projects. After his arrest, Baker filed a complaint claiming he was framed by the officers. In December 2005, the same police officers arrested Baker and his wife during a traffic stop after officers said they found…
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Racist Charged With Stabbing Black Man in Times Square Says It Was 'Practice' for Killing Interracial Couples
In a taped confession, the white man who stands accused of brutally murdering a black man in Times Square with a sword showed no remorse, and explained the killing was just “practice” for a larger spree: killing black men with white women. James Harris Jackson’s confession was played at a pre-trial hearing last Thursday, reports…
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Sounds About White: Admitted Sexual Offender Avoids Jail and Keeps Teaching Certificate
Let’s play a game of “Guess the Color,” shall we? A 30-year-old Bronx high school teacher admitted to performing oral sex on her 14-year-old student. As part of a plea agreement, Dori Myers pleaded guilty to committing a criminal sex act. The New York Daily News reports that on Wednesday, Judge Michael Obus found Myers…
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There Was Another Mass Shooting This Weekend But No One Cares
“Black” is a magical word. Black is an adjective. Black is a noun. It is a verb, an adverb, pronoun, preposition … It is all the parts of speech in one. Yes, “black “ is a magical thing. In America, that simple word can render a thing invisible. It can make a whole human disappear…
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Why Does Violence in Chicago Attract So Much Attention, Even Though It's Not the Murder Capital of The U.S.?
It is no longer news that the violence that plagued Chicago during the Aug. 3 weekend was one of the deadliest weekends in the past two years in the city, ending in a spree of gun violence that left 74 people shot, including 12 dead. In almost predictable fashion, news media picked up the story…