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Eric Garner Was Not ‘a Violent Man,’ Says
Eric Garner’s widow told a crowd Saturday that her husband was not “a violent man,” the Associated Press reports. Garner, 43, who was as big as or bigger than a professional football player in stature, “was not a violent man—in any way, shape or form,” Esaw Garner said in her first public remarks since her…
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Shanesha Taylor Left Sons in Car ‘in Moment of Desperation’
In a candid interview on the Today show, Arizona mom Shanesha Taylor said she left her sons alone in a car while she went on a nearby job interview in “a moment of desperation.” “It was me knowing my family was in crisis and knowing that I had to make a choice between providing for…
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Watch: NYPD Cop on Desk Duty After Allegedly Stomping Suspect
Oh, no. Not again. New York City Police Department officials have stripped an officer of his gun and placed him on desk duty following allegations of excessive force, which was captured on viral video. Last week, Officer Daniel Pantaleo was removed from the streets after apparently tackling Eric Garner, 43, on a sidewalk in Staten…
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Eric Garner’s Widow Calls for Civil Rights Probe
After her husband’s public death last week when he was apparently put in a choke hold by an officer with the New York Police Department, Eric Garner’s widow urged federal prosecutors Friday to open a civil rights investigation, Reuters reports. While city officials have promised to investigate the death, the widow, Esaw Garner, says a…
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Aide: White House Taking Impeachment Threat Seriously
The Obama administration is not discounting the possibility that House Republicans could pursue impeachment of the president, Senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer told reporters Friday, the Associated Press reports. “I saw a poll today that had a huge portion of the Republican Party base saying they supported impeaching the president. A lot of people…
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US Senator Touts Fed Gun Intelligence Center in Chicago
After a spate of shootings across Chicago that left over a dozen dead and nearly 100 wounded, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Friday toured a new federal Gun Crime Intelligence Center, saying, “You can’t fight a war without intelligence,” the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Led by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the…
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Report: HIV Diagnoses Fall in US, Rise Among Some Gay Men
The Journal of the American Medical Association reports that the rate of HIV diagnoses in the United States have fallen more than 30 percent over the past decade, but has surged among some gay men, according to Philly.com. There has been a dramatic 132.5 percent increase in the rate of HIV diagnoses among men who…
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Watch: NYC Cops Purportedly Failed to Help Eric Garner After ‘Choke Hold’
Stunning new video footage posted online claims to show more than seven additional minutes of circumstances involving the death of Eric Garner, the Staten Island father who was put in a choke hold by a New York City police officer and died, the Washington Post reports. Authorities say that Garner died Thursday of a heart…
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22 Shot, 2 Dead During Violent Chicago Weekend
Just two weeks after gunfire racked the streets of Chicago over the July Fourth holiday, 22 people were shot and two killed during a 12-hour spate of violence this weekend, ABC News reports. Chicago Police Department spokesman Officer Jose Estrada told ABC News that 22 people were shot between the hours of 3 p.m. Friday…
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Jury Awards Widow $23,600,000,000 in Tobacco Case
In one of the largest verdicts ever against a tobacco company, a Florida jury has awarded a stunning $23.6 billion in punitive damages to the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer, Agence France-Presse reports. The jury in the case Cynthia Robinson v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. voted Friday in favor of Robinson,…
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