Politics
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Dad of Alfred Olango Files Lawsuit Against El Cajon, Calif., Cops in Son’s Death
The father of Alfred Olango, Richard Olango Abuka, filed a civil rights lawsuit in San Diego federal court earlier this week, accusing El Cajon, Calif., police of using excessive, deadly force against his son, who was shot and killed during an encounter last year, the San Diego Union Tribune reports. According to the report, the…
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Wells Fargo Rejects Baltimore Teacher’s ‘Black Lives Matter’ Debit Card
Like many others who bank at Wells Fargo, a Baltimore schoolteacher wanted to design her bank card with something she felt was important. But when that “thing” turned out to be Black Lives Matter, the bank balked. Rachel Nash, 29, sought to take her bank up on its offer to personalize her debit card and…
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El Cajon, Calif., Cop Who Fatally Shot Alfred Olango Won't Face Criminal Charges
The El Cajon, Calif., police officer who gunned down an unarmed black man who was apparently having a mental breakdown will not face criminal charges, the San Diego County (Calif.) District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. “The law recognizes police officers are often forced to make split-second decisions in circumstances that…
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Read the Scathing 1986 Letter Coretta Scott King Wrote Opposing Sessions’ Federal Nomination
Updated Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, 1:02 a.m. EST: Elizabeth Warren attempted to read Coretta Scott King’s letter about Jeff Sessions on the Senate floor; but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) silenced her. Earlier: Coretta Scott King’s scathing letter in which she urged Congress to block the 1986 nomination of Jeff Sessions for a federal judgeship…
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Protests Erupt During Attorney General Confirmation Hearing for Jeff Sessions
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) could barely get through the opening lines of his speech during his confirmation hearing Tuesday before protests erupted. Two men dressed as Ku Klux Klan members greeted Sessions before the confirmation began, the Daily News reports. The two fake Klansmen were quickly escorted out as one of the men exclaimed, “You…
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W.Va. Teacher Suspended Over Racist Tweets Referencing 'Obama's Children'
Them Twitter fingers will get you into trouble real quick. A social studies teacher at Huntington High School in West Virginia has been suspended with pay and was asked to delete her personal Twitter account after the discovery of several racially charged tweets shared via that account for more than a year, the Herald-Dispatch reports.…
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Pa. Pizza Deliveryman Shot Multiple Times by Police Gets $4,400,000 Settlement
A Philadelphia pizza deliveryman who was shot multiple times after plainclothes police officers fired 14 times at his vehicle has agreed to a $4.4 million settlement with the city, the Associated Press reports. Philippe Holland still has bullet fragments in his brain and suffers from a seizure disorder after being hit in the head, neck…
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6 NAACP Members Arrested in Protest of Jeff Sessions Bid for US Attorney General
Six NAACP members were arrested late Tuesday at Sen. Jeff Sessions’ Mobile, Ala., office ending a sit-in to protest the nomination of Sessions (R-Ala.) as U.S. attorney general. According to CNN, five men and one woman, including NAACP President Cornell W. Brooks, were arrested and charged with criminal trespass in the second degree. The protesters…
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Black Teen Slammed to Ground at Texas Pool Party Sues Ex-Cop, City for $5,000,000
A Texas teen who was slammed to the ground and pinned down by a McKinney, Texas, police officer during a pool party in June 2015 has now filed a federal suit against the now former cop, the city and the McKinney Police Department, the Dallas Morning News reports. According to the report, Dajerria Becton and…
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Black Lives Matter Activist Faces Restraining Order From L.A. Police Commissioner
The president of the Los Angeles Police Commission filed a request for a temporary restraining order against a prominent member of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles. Matt M. Johnson, who has been president of the police commission since September 2015, said that he feared for his life and the safety of his family, and he…