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In the latest allegation of fast food employees attacking customers with racist comments, two workers at a Wendy's in Arvada, Colorado, have been fired after reportedly leaving the N-word and other slurs in a kids' meal.
Could you raise a transgender child? One mother speaks about raising her daughter…as a boy. “One day I asked Penelope, “What’s the matter, love? Why are you so angry all the time?” Penelope responded with a flood of tears, “Because everyone thinks I’m a girl, and I’m not.” I knew at that moment it was important […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore police disbanded an overnight occupation of City Hall by activists opposed to moves to make the city’s interim police commissioner permanent, and at least 12 people could be seen being led away early Thursday to police vehicles. At least 25 police officers converged outside the building hours before dawn as activists […]
A Black teenager from the D.C. area inspired protests after a recording showed him being brutally detained by police officers for making a White customer at a local bank feel "uncomfortable."
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — An off-duty officer was not taking “official police action” when he was killed in a shootout with a neighbor, and there is not enough evidence to charge the neighbor with murder, a police chief said Tuesday. Police Director Toney Armstrong told reporters that witnesses gave authorities different stories about what happened […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said Wednesday that he will retire after a 47-year career in law enforcement as the administration of the mayor that brought him to the city comes to an end. Mayor Michael Nutter brought the 65-year-old Ramsey to Philadelphia in 2008 when he took office after stints in Washington […]
Roland Martin talks to Texas city councilman Jonathan Miller after being arrested and tasered when he intervened as officers questioned his friends outside his apartment. “We had just got back form a community service project. We showed up to my house. There was about four of us. I was in the house watching the game. They were […]
After being denied entry into a house party, police are reporting that three students were shot near Tennessee State University early Wednesday morning. Fox 13.com reports: Police say a large house party was held on Albion Street right across from TSU’s campus when 3 black men arrived and wanted to get in. Officers say the […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina wants to go to trial before the federal government in the Charleston church shootings as it seeks the death penalty for Dylann Roof. “That is our preference,” state prosecutor Scarlett Wilson wrote in a letter late last week to U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel, who is presiding over the […]
The Baltimore Police Department says it has searched through its databases to find an incident report involving GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson being held up at gunpoint at a Popeyes restaurant in the city – but have been unable to locate such a record. The retired Johns Hopkins Hospital neurosurgeon made headlines recently for suggesting that people […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The former head of Chicago Public Schools pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges in an alleged scheme to steer $23 million in no-bid contracts to education firms for $2.3 million in bribes and kickbacks. Barbara Byrd-Bennett, who ran the nation’s 3rd largest school district for nearly three years, entered her plea in federal […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A convicted felon charged in the fatal shooting of an off-duty Memphis police officer is set to make his first court appearance in the case on Tuesday. The officer — Terence Olridge, 31 — was headed to work when he and a neighbor got into an argument in the normally quiet […]
