"I don’t want to hear it. I’m done with it. You can leave or I will call the cops," the Portland, Maine, employee could be heard saying on video.
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“He forced her door open, pushed her back, pushed her down on a freezer, her top fell down, so she was exposed, her breasts and stomach were exposed and while she face-down he was pulling her arms back aggressively to handcuff her,” said Gelsomino.
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Dozens of black senior citizens in rural Georgia were ordered off a bus bound for the polls after county officials said the event constituted prohibited “political activity.”
Many Christians are wary of participating in social justice because of a deep-rooted fear of being labeled “liberal,” “progressive,” or “secular.” They don’t want to be associated with “secular” movements, and are uncomfortable delving into issues that go beyond their cultural comfort zones.
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The Supreme Court chose to stand by and allow the war against voting to continue. Just a little less than a month before midterm elections that will determine control of Congress, the court decided not to block North Dakota’s restrictive voter ID law, which will make it harder for people in that state to cast their ballots.
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A FEDERAL COURT in San Francisco has suspended the Trump administration’s termination of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrant refugees living in the United States.
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Is it ever legal to shoot cops? A growing number of states are passing laws that say that yes, in fact, sometimes it is well within a citizen’s rights to shoot a police officer.
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A federal judge a year ago ruled they didn't prove their case, in part because the fraud-based claims required a higher standard of proof.
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A Tennessee state House committee on Wednesday refused to vote on a resolution to denounce neo-Nazism, white nationalism and the alt-right as terrorist organizations.
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According to a new report … the government’s own data indicates that the campaign was far more expansive — and far more destructive — than previously acknowledged.
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Justice department says administration won’t challenge the strict law, in a shift from Obama-era opposition to such discriminatory laws
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Fort Worth is suffering a crisis of democracy – just 6% of electors voted in the last midterms – so why is it aggressively pursuing those who mistakenly cast ballots?
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Mason, in a case seen as emblematic of voter suppression, faces over five years in prison for a mistaken vote that was not counted.
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Jason Van Dyke, a Chicago police officer who killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, has been found guilty of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery.
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The verdict against Officer Jason Van Dyke marked a historical day in Chicago, which hasn’t seen a murder conviction for a police officer in nearly 50 years. But it was also a landmark moment on a national scale.
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Cosby is the first and only celebrity during the #MeToo era to be jailed after dozens of top celebrities were named by accusers who said they were sexually assaulted.
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NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has condemned Israel's recent actions while Justin Trudeau and Andrew Scheer remain silent.
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Attorneys for Lyndo Jones dispute the official police version and demand to see dash cam video.
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Fifty years after the 1968 DNC protests in Chicago, we continue our conversation with Black Panther Bobby Seale … and SDS activists/organizers Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers. They discuss decades of police repression, the police murder of Illinois Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, and the prison strike now underway nationwide.
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