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  • Woman Records Alleged Rape by Parole Officer so Cops Will Believe Her

    A South Florida woman videotaped her parole officer sexually assaulting her so that she could prove to police that she was, in fact, raped and so that the officer couldn’t revoke her parole, a claim the victim says he made several times, according to WSVN. According to police who spoke with the news station, 50-year-old…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 30, 2015
  • Retired St. Louis Cardinals Player Punched, Told to ‘Go Back to Ferguson’

    A former St. Louis Cardinals outfielder claims that a white man punched him and yelled, “Go back to Ferguson” in an unprovoked attack that now has the man rethinking whether he can even live in the city where he once played baseball. “I was sucker-punched, blindsided,” Curt Ford, 54, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “I…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 27, 2015
  • Detroit Mom Forced Children to Put Sister’s Body in Freezer: Report 

    On Tuesday a Detroit mother was arrested shortly after authorities serving an eviction notice found the bodies of two of her four children in a freezer. On Thursday the Detroit Free Press reported that the mother tortured the children before killing them and reportedly had her surviving children place their 13-year-old sister’s body in the…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 27, 2015
  • UVA Student Martese Johnson Makes 1st Court Appearance Since Bloody Encounter With Authorities

    Images of University of Virginia honor student Martese Johnson’s bloody face went viral shortly after his encounter with Alcoholic Beverage Control officers outside a Charlottesville, Va., bar March 18. Johnson’s arrest and disturbing images of him lying prone on the ground made national news, and on Thursday the 20-year-old Chicago native made his first court…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 26, 2015
  • Co-Pilot’s Intention in Germanwings Crash Was to Destroy Plane: Report

    After listening to the final horrifying minutes of Flight 9525 on Tuesday, heard on its black-box voice recorder, French investigators have concluded that the Germanwings jet co-pilot locked himself in the cockpit and intentionally crashed the plane “full speed into the French Alps, ignoring the captain’s frantic pounding on the cockpit door,” the Associated Press…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 26, 2015
  • SAE Frat Member Apologizes for Singing Racist Song

    Surrounded by black leaders and clergy at an Oklahoma City church on Wednesday, Levi Pettit, the 20-year-old former University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity member, apologized for his part in a racist sing-along that went viral after it was caught on video. “There are no excuses for my behavior. I never thought of myself…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 26, 2015
  • A Young Black Man Is Dead—So Why Are They Talking About the Maserati He’s Driving?

    Father. Son. Unarmed. Employee. The press could have chosen to use any of those descriptors in detailing how police shot a 25-year-old Georgia man outside his job at Goodyear Tire. Instead, countless headlines included the fact that a young black man was in a Maserati at the time of his death. Here’s what we know:…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 25, 2015
  • Why Does This Texas Man Owe $21,000 in Child Support if the Child Isn’t His?

    Willie Carson has been paying child support for 13 years—or, rather, because he has been behind in his child support payments, his wages have been garnished for 13 years. There are days when the Houston resident has been unable to eat and has had to go without electricity. And here is the kicker: The 13-year-old…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 25, 2015
  • Bodies of 2 Detroit Children Found in Freezer; Mother Arrested

    Wayne County, Mich., sheriff’s bailiffs made a grisly discovery Tuesday morning while executing an eviction notice at the Martin Luther King Apartments in Detroit. According to the Detroit News, authorities found the bodies of two of the homeowner’s children—identified as a boy who would have been 11 now and a girl who would be 14—stuffed…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






    Published

    March 25, 2015
  • Ga. Police Fatally Shoot 25-Year-Old Man Outside His Job

    A Georgia family is left wondering what happened Tuesday when police shot and killed a 25-year-old man outside his job in Cobb County. Channel 2 News reports that the victim was Nicolas Thomas, but police have not confirmed his identity. “I guess now I just want to understand what happened, because I hear so often,…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    March 25, 2015
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