Video shared on social media shows riot police using tear gas to clear a street where the vehicle was parked. Before the vehicle can leave, an officer jabs a knife-like object into the tires.
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According to the report, the manager of the nearby Buffalo Wild Wings called the cops to get help for the teens.
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In total, “over a dozen” police officers arrived on the scene, some with guns drawn, over what they wrongly claimed was a stolen vehicle.
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A recent speech by Attorney General William Barr portrays religious people in the United States as beset by a hostile band of “secularists,” in order to press for a right-wing political agenda.
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Tamika Mallory and Stephen Jackson speak passionately at rally for Greg Floyd who was murdered by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin
Dr. Armen Henderson, was handcuffed and detained outside his home Friday as he was … preparing for a volunteer shift to test homeless people for COVID-19. “I want the officer held accountable. There’s no way that you racially profile me and then you arrest me, detain me, during a pandemic, when you have no mask on, where hundreds of police officers throughout Miami-Dade County have tested positive,” says Dr. Henderson, who is an internal medicine physician, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Miami …
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Fifty-five years ago today, Malcolm X was assassinated ... at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said he was considering reopening the investigation ... after a new documentary series was released on Netflix called “Who Killed Malcolm X?” Ilyasah Shabazz, one of six daughters of Malcolm X, award-winning author Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, & Shayla Harris, a producer for the series, talk to Democracy Now.
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Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is … facing mounting scrutiny over her record as a district attorney in Minnesota … following a shocking investigation by the Associated Press. The report centered on the case of Myon Burrell, who was sentenced to life in prison over the 2002 murder of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards. Klobuchar led the case against Myon Burrell when she was Hennepin County’s district attorney … The Associated Press report shows how prosecutors had no DNA or fingerprints tying Burrell to the murder and that they relied on jailhouse informants, some of whom have since recanted their testimonies.
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More than 100 protesters gathered outside Drake University to demand a televised presidential debate on poverty. Led by Reverend William Barber, demonstrators carried a coffin to honor the 250K people who die every year from the impacts of poverty. According to the Poor People’s Campaign, 140 million Americans can’t pay basic living expenses
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In a Democracy Now! special report, California has become the poster-child for this economic and humanitarian disaster. The state is home to 12% of the country’s population but half of the country’s unsheltered people. As the crisis deepens, so has the criminalization of homelessness.
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Edward Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he was a Central Intelligence Agency employee and subcontractor. His new book "Permanent Record" is now available.
California moved to end the use of private, for-profit lockups in America’s largest state prison system as well as in federal immigration detention centers in the state under a measure signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom.
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The jury took five hours to decide Guyger had committed murder, rather than a lesser charge of manslaughter. Jurors will begin considering sentencing options Tuesday afternoon. Guyger faces a possible punishment of five to 99 years in prison.
African migrants in Mexico are protesting the country’s refusal to grant them transit visas to travel to the United States or Canada, where they want to apply for asylum. Many of them have been sleeping in tent cities, cooking on the streets and bathing their children in buckets … For African migrants, the journey to Mexico often takes months as they cross the ocean to reach South America and then embark on a dangerous trek through the Colombian jungle and multiple Central American borders.
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Norbert Pickett is the owner of Cannabliss, a new medical marijuana dispensary in Ward 7 — and only the second east of the Anacostia River.
In our final episode of White Lies, we contemplate James Reeb the man. Before the news of Reeb's death was broadcast across the country and cast him as a martyr, Reeb was a husband, father and trusted friend.
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An African-American family is suing the city of Phoenix, Arizona, after police held them at gunpoint because their 4-year-old daughter had allegedly taken a doll from a Family Dollar store. In a video officers point guns and yell at the family, and one officer even threatens to shoot the 4-year-old girl’s father, Dravon Ames, in the face. The girl’s mother is heard saying she is unable to hold her hands up because she is holding a child and that she is pregnant.
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William Portwood, who died less than two weeks after NPR confirmed his involvement in the 1965 murder of Boston minister James Reeb, poses for a photograph in front of his home in Selma, Ala.
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Pallbearers carry the casket of Jimmie Lee Jackson into a church in Marion, Ala., where a sign reads "Racism killed our brother."
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In Episode 4 of White Lies, we find an eyewitness to the attack on the Rev. James Reeb who says she has kept secret for more than 50 years who and what she saw on the night of March 9, 1965.
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