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7-Year-Old Mich. Boy With ADHD Handcuffed by Cop Who Loses Key
A 7-year-old Flint, Mich., boy with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder was at an after-school program Oct. 12 when his mother says she received a call telling her that her son was in handcuffs and that she needed to come pick him up. When Chrystal McCadden arrived at the Brownell STEM Academy, she demanded that the handcuffs be taken…
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Aspiring Model, on Her Way Home to Sign Her 1st Contract, Killed in Chicago Drive-By
Kaylyn Pryor’s life was looking up. On Sept. 24 the 20-year-old from Evanston, Ill., won hairstylist Mario Tricoci’s “Mario, Make Me a Model” contest. On Monday, Pryor and a 15-year-old boy were leaving her grandparents’ house when a car pulled up next to them, opened fire and sped off. Pryor and the teen were taken…
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Spirit Airlines Accused of Discrimination After 6 Black Passengers Kicked Off Plane
A discussion about an overbooked seat led to six black passengers being kicked off a Spirit Airlines plane at Los Angeles International Airport Monday, and those passengers are claiming discrimination. According to CBS News Los Angeles, a flight attendant asked a couple to change seats because the airline had overbooked. Witnesses say the couple told…
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Black Yale Student Turned Away From Frat Party, Told ‘White Girls Only’
A black Yale University student took to social media Saturday to say that she wasn’t allowed into a fraternity party because it was a “white girls only” affair. “I’d just like to take a moment to give a shoutout to the member of Yale’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter who turned away a group of girls…
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Gay-Porn Website Comes Out Swinging, Claims That Boxer’s Story of Drugged Sex Is Untrue
DawgPoundUSA.com has come out swinging after a Philadelphia man claimed that someone at the online porn site drugged him and filmed him engaged in a same-sex threesome. Earlier this month, Yusaf Mack, 35, a retired boxer who won several world championships, claimed that he had no memory of shooting a same-sex porn scene until people…
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Minn. Transit Cop Who Beat Autistic Teen Is Fired: Report
The St. Paul, Minn., Metro Transit officer who assaulted an autistic teen has been dismissed from his job. According to KARE 11, Metro Transit spokesman Howie Padilla told the news station that the officer, who was on the force less than a year, did not pass the probationary period, but he did not say if…
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Okla. City School Resource Officer Who Punched Teen in the Face Is Charged With Assault: Report
An Oklahoma City high school resource officer has been arrested and charged with assault after surveillance video captured an incident on camera. According to KFOR, Thomas Jaha, a 25-year veteran with the Oklahoma City Police Department, was working at U.S. Grant High School when a 16-year-old male student appeared in the hallway without a hall…
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Lawyer for Teen in SC School Assault Video Speaks on Injuries She Suffered, Whether She Is an Orphan and Fake GoFundMe Pages
On Thursday a lawyer for the South Carolina teen who was violently assaulted by a school resource officer appeared on activist Joe Madison’s radio show on Sirius to clarify remarks posted about the teen and the incident. On Monday, video of the incident between Spring Valley High School resource officer Ben Fields and the teen went…
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Eric Garner’s Son Arrested in NYC
On Tuesday police in New York City arrested Eric Garner’s son after they say he was in possession of a stolen bike, but his mother says it was all a misunderstanding. Emery Snipes, 16, was arrested after police discovered Emery and friends in the Cpl. John A. Seravalli Playground in Manhattan after dark. According to…
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Ex-Boxer Claims He Was Drugged After Learning He Was Filmed in Same-Sex Threesome
A retired Philadelphia-born boxer claims that he didn’t agree to perform with two male co-stars when he answered an anonymous Facebook offer to shoot a porn film, and he now believes that he must have been drugged. Yusaf Mack told the Philadelphia Daily News that in June 2014 he was strapped for cash, so he…
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