Bradford's father said his son was a 21-year-old Army veteran with a permit to carry a weapon. The statement police released early Monday suggested Bradford shouldn't have pulled it out.
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Despite repeated warnings over the past two decades, federal law enforcement officials in the United States have ignored the threat of violence from far-right extremists. Now, they have no idea how to stop it.
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Marc Lamont Hill for giving a speech at the United Nations supporting Palestinian rights. Democracy NOW speaks with him about the international attention his comments have received … and why he feels it’s more important than ever to speak out about Israeli human rights abuses.
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Democracy NOW speaks with Intercept columnist Mehdi Hasan. His latest piece is titled “The Ignored Legacy of George H.W. Bush: War Crimes, Racism, and Obstruction of Justice.”
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Jennifer Young with a photo of Jermaine McBean, her son, who was shot dead in 2013 by a Broward County sheriff’s deputy.
Newly elected congresswoman Rashida Talib articulates her motivations for running for office and the basis for her political platform.
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THIS is the kind of engaged leadership we need in this country. It isn't an issue of partisanship, it's an issue of humanity and morality!
The assessment is based on unsubstantiated grouping of unrelated police shootings and has drawn much public scrutiny for its apparent advocacy of racial profiling. Rakem Balogun … is considered the first person to be targeted as a “Black Identity Extremist”.
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Some 1,500 of the 9,400 firefighters currently battling fires in California are incarcerated. They make just a dollar an hour, but are rarely eligible to get jobs as firefighters after their release. According to some estimates, California saves up to $100 million a year by using prison labor.
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In Venezuela … the country has been engulfed by runaway inflation, rampant crime, food and housing shortages. The crisis is clearest in one building in downtown Caracas. It's called the Tower of David - an unfinished skyscraper … It's now home to thousands of squatters. They police it, renovate its rooms, and plumb it into the city's electricity and water, and all for peppercorn rent.
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Australia is detaining, cuffing and deporting more New Zealanders than any other group. Guest reporter Peter FitzSimons finds it’s riling Kiwis and straining relations across The Ditch.
Israelis and Palestinians come together to find a middle ground. Can they look past the deep conflict to understand one another?
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STEFANIE ANGLIN IS a grandmother, business owner, and convicted felon, though when she’s out on the streets of Orlando, Florida, knocking on prospective voters’ doors, she introduces herself by the latter.
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Reintegration back into society after spending, at times, up to half on your life in prison is one of the biggest hurdles for exonerees. We document Gregory Counts' experience reintegrating after being falsely accused of gang rape and serving 26 years in prison.
We speak with Hagai El-Ad, executive director of the human rights group B’Tselem, who testified Thursday in front of the United Nations Security Council about the crisis in Gaza and the West Bank.
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This is Part 2 of our conversation with El-Ad, executive director of the human rights group B’Tselem, in our New York studio.
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In a sharp turn of events, a San Francisco judge slashed a dying cancer patient's $250 million punitive award from Monsanto down to $39 million.
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And so it continues, with the vicious beating of a 14-year-old girl, whom a big grown ass cop can be seen punching twice in her side as she lays prone with her face in the dirt, with his knee in her back, gripping and yanking her by the hem of her jean shorts …
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Schumer, 37, told her Instagram and social media followers she "personally" informed her representatives to reject any offers to participate in Super Bowl advertisements. She called on the band Maroon 5 to back out of performing at the Super Bowl halftime show as Rihanna did.
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This passenger was filmed shouting racial abuse at a woman in her seventies on the Ryanair flight. The airline says the matter has been reported to police.
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