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Michael Dunn Takes Stand, Racist Letters Take Center Stage Online
Michael Dunn, the man who pumped nine shots into a parked Dodge Durango full of teenage boys, killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis after a dispute over the kids’ loud music, took the stand Tuesday in his defense, telling the jury, “I thought I was going to be killed.” Dunn, 47, claimed that he saw what he…
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Jesse Jackson Wants to Go to North Korea to Bring Kenneth Bae Home
Jesse Jackson is no Dennis Rodman, but he is hoping that he can be the one to get Kenneth Bae, an American missionary imprisoned in North Korea, set free, and he has the full blessing of the State Department, Buzzfeed reports. “At the request of the Bae family, I think people are aware that Rev.…
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Report: US Attorney General Eric Holder to Step Down This Year
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder plans to step down some time this year, according to the New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin, whose feature story is slated to run in the magazine’s Feb. 17 issue, the Washington Times reports. The first African-American attorney general told the writer that he planned to remain “well into” 2014, but he…
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Rap Mogul Murder-for-Hire Trial Under Way
When James Rosemond, aka Jimmy Henchman, was out on the street, he was living two lives. As James Rosemond he was a well-respected music industry executive who worked with popular artists like Brandy, Salt-n-Pepa, Sean Kingston, the Game and Akon. As Jimmy Henchman, he was a well-respected gangster whose beef with rapper 50 Cent’s G-Unit…
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Michael Dunn’s Girlfriend Fights Tears on Stand in Jordan Davis Trial
In a rare Saturday court session in the trial of Michael Dunn, Rhonda Rouer took the stand to tell her side of what happened Nov. 23, 2012, the night her boyfriend, Dunn, fatally shot 17-year-old Jordan Davis. Rouer told the jury that her boyfriend had “maybe three or four” rum and sodas at his son’s…
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Marcus Smart Suspended 3 Games for Shoving Fan
The punishment is in, and Oklahoma State star Marcus Smart is going to watch his team play without him for three games. He was suspended for shoving a Texas tech fan in the final seconds of Saturday’s game, ESPN reports. The three-game suspension was announced Sunday by Cowboys coach Travis Ford. “I want to apologize…
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Have a Coke and a Bigot
The Coca-Cola commercial that debuted during the Super Bowl wasn’t supposed to be controversial; it was supposed to be a celebration of diversity, with several cultures represented to sing a multilingual version of “America the Beautiful.” The bigots didn’t see it that way, so they took to the 21st-century bigot platform, aka Twitter, to type…
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Set to Launch YouTube Show
Can’t get enough of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford? Now you can watch his antics all the time as he and his brother, a city councillor, are launching a YouTube show called Ford Nation that is set to air Feb. 10, the Associated Press reports. In a preview for the show posted Thursday, Ford asks that…
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High School Football Players Claim White Rivals Called Them ‘N–gers’
A heated rivalry between two high school football teams erupted in a huge sideline-clearing brawl, which five black high school football players from Long Island are claiming started after they were called the n-word by the players and coaches, the New York Daily News reports. The black players from Amityville High School, which would lose…
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Family of Man Firefighters Refused to Help Wants Justice
Medric Mills, 77, and his daughter had just finished dropping off a broken computer at a repair shop on Jan. 25 when he collapsed onto the sidewalk. His daughter ran back into the store to have them call 911. Since they repair shop was across the street from a fire department, people ran there for…
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