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Why Jeff Sessions’ Final Act Could Have More Impact Than Expected
Just before he left, the departing attorney-general adopted a policy to limit the Justice Department’s ability to oversee abusive police departments. That same policy could also hamper the department’s role in environmental, voting-rights, and other cases. By Ian MacDougall.
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Jeff Sessions Dealt Police Reform One Final Blow On His Way Out The Door
One of the former attorney general’s final acts was to make it nearly impossible for federal civil rights lawyers to rein in police abuse. By Ryan J. Reilly.
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Woman Is Fired After Video Shows Her Blocking a Black Man From His Condo
First she blocked his entry to the St. Louis building, demanding proof that he lived there. Then she followed him. And then the police showed up.
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Man who wanted country 'cleansed of white people' found guilty of hate speech
The Equality Court has declared Velaphi Khumalo guilty of hate speech after he called on Facebook for the country to be "cleansed" of white people, in the same manner Adolf Hitler targeted Jews. "The utterances of the respondent are declared to be speech prohibited in terms of Section 10(1) of the Equality Act," ruled Judge Roland Sutherland. He interdicted Khumalo from repeating the utterances and ordered him to remove all references to the utterances off any social media or other forms of public communication.
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White House: We cannot guarantee there's no tape of Trump using N-word
As the remarkable public spat between Donald Trump and former adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman continued on Tuesday, the White House was unable to guarantee that no recordings exist of the president using the “N-word”. At a White House briefing, press secretary Sarah Sanders was asked if she could say no such recordings would emerge.
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Arkansas police officer fired after investigation of viral video
An Arkansas police officer has been fired after he was recorded telling two black men, "You don't belong in my city." England Police Chief Danna Powell said in a news release Wednesday that Michael Moore had been fired from the department. Moore was fired after an internal investigation that began about two weeks earlier over a viral video. The video, which was recorded around July 21, shows a group of young black men interacting with Moore.
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To Doxx a Racist
How a dead white supremacist sparked a debate over the tactics used against the extreme right. By Vegas Tenold.
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Two Canadian women arrested for 'shoot an Indian day' social media posts
Two women in Canada have been arrested and charged after social media posts discussing killing indigenous people and holding a “shoot a [sic] Indian day”. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said on Tuesday that a 32-year-old from Manitoba and a 25-year-old from Saskatchewan were charged with uttering threats and public incitement of hatred.
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'I would kill your children': Police looking at confrontation as possible hate crime
A Stoney Creek man has been charged with threatening death after a heated confrontation in a Walmart parking lot that police are also reviewing as a possible hate crime. The 47-year-old has also been charged with dangerous driving and failing to remain at the scene of an accident in connection with the Friday afternoon incident.
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Trevor Noah responds to boycott calls over racist joke about Aboriginal women
Comedian Trevor Noah has responded to criticism of a racist joke he made about Aboriginal Australians in 2013, after footage of the routine was circulated on social media, saying he had “vowed never to make a joke like that again”. A number of prominent Indigenous Australians called for the boycott of Noah’s upcoming tour of Australia after the video of a standup routine in which he made racist jokes about Aboriginal women and their appearance resurfaced online.
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Facebook is giving special protection to racists, investigation shows
Facebook gives special protections to Tommy Robinson and allows people to racially abuse immigrants, according to a new report. Graphic images and videos of children, violent hate speech and racist content are not immediately or automatically removed from the site, according to footage taken by Channel 4’s Dispatches. An undercover reporter filmed the people who review content to decide whether it should stay up to be viewed by the public, gaining an unprecedented insight into what is allowed to be posted on the platform.
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Home Depot worker fired after encounter with 'racist' customer is rehired
After a man last Thursday (July 12) approached the checkout at a Home Depot in Albany, New York, staff member Maurice Rucker asked him to leash his dog. That's when the man exploded. Rucker, a 60-year-old black man, claimed he was fired Tuesday after defending himself from a customer who, he told the Union Tribune, went on a racist tirade. But after the news media covered his story, the company changed its mind.
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The chief wanted perfect stats, so cops were told to pin crimes on black people, probe found
An internal report found that Miami-area police commanders in Biscayne Park, Florida, pressured officers to make false arrests to look good for leaders. Former brass deny the allegations, which resulted in the indictment of the former chief. By Charles Rabin, Jay Weaver, David Ovalle.
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Man claims he was racially profiled in Long Beach
A man told his story about an experience he described as racial profiling in a neighborhood where he was parked in his car.
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91-year-old man beaten with brick, told 'go back to Mexico'
Tears glistened on the black and purple bruises covering 91-year-old Rodolfo Rodriguez's face as he described being attacked by a group of people while going for a walk on the Fourth of July. "I can't walk anymore," Rodriguez said in Spanish. "I'm in so much pain."
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A Day After Report, Violent White Supremacist Loses Job With Defense Contractor
The CEO of Northrop Grumman told employees he was saddened by ProPublica and Frontline’s report concerning Michael Miselis, an aerospace engineer who took part in the violence in Charlottesville last year. By A.C. Thompson.
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Netflix Fires PR Chief After Use of N-Word in Meeting (Exclusive)
In lengthy internal memo, CEO Reed Hastings addressed letting go top communications executive Jonathan Friedland: "His descriptive use of the N-word on at least two occasions at work showed unacceptably low racial awareness and sensitivity."
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Immigrant children: WWJD?
Jeff Sessions uses Scripture to justify detaining immigrant children but ignores a core Christian message
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US police officer uses patrol car to hit fleeing suspect in Georgia
A Georgia police officer has been fired after using his car to hit a fleeing suspect. Athens-Clarke County police department has released bodycam footage that shows Taylor Saulters pursuing Timmy Patmon, culminating in the officer using his patrol car to bring Patmon to a stop
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The Long Journey to Remember One of History's Worst Lynching Massacres
Mary Turner and her unborn baby were killed by a racist mob in 1918 in an atrocity that was nearly forgotten. By Michael Sainato.
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