A newspaper report has found that the Stand Your Ground self-defense statute in Florida is more likely to succeed when the victim is black. The Tampa Bay Times looked at 200 cases and found that in instances in which the victim was black, the person who invoked the defense went free 73 percent of the time. If the victim [...]
School psychologist, Mark Traina, is blaming “the liberal media” for a complaint filed by the federal government in response to various racist comments he made online, reports MSNBC.com. Traina who is employed by the Jefferson Parish Public Schools in Slidell, Louisiana in the suburbs of New Orleans, works with troubled students in the school system’s [...]
Continue reading …Within a collection of evidence officially released by the State Attorney’s Office on Thursday, was an audio recording of a 15-minute interview with George Zimmerman’s former co-worker. During the interview, the man, whose name was not given, says that Zimmerman racially targeted him and bullied him at work,ThinkProgress.com reports. According to the witness, Zimmerman singled him [...]
Continue reading …The number of radical hate groups and militias has exploded in recent years in reaction to the changing makeup of America, and new census figures showing the majority of babies born in 2011 were non-white could fuel those simmering tensions, experts who track hate groups warned. “White supremacist groups have been having a meltdown [...]
Continue reading …For 40 years, the Tuskegee syphilis study conducted in the state of Alabama subjected African Americans to one of the most insidious acts of racism ever endured. Fifteen years ago today, the U.S. government apologized to the survivors and their families for the study, with then-President Bill Clinton vowing that history would not repeat itself. [...]
Continue reading …Bobby Hines was fresh out of eighth grade when he and two older boys confronted a suspected drug dealer in Detroit whom they believed had stolen a friend’s coat. The confrontation turned into an argument and one of Hines’ buddies pulled out a gun and shot and killed the man. The shooter was later [...]
Continue reading …The latest numbers show the New York Police Department’s skyrocketing street stops increased to more than 200,000 stops during the first three months of 2012. The NYPD says officers stopped people on New York City’s streets 203,500 times from January through March. That’s up from 183,326 during the same quarter last year. The policy allows an officer [...]
Continue reading …LeRoy Smith thought he had hit rock bottom when he found himself trolling Atlanta’s gay district, looking to exchange s*x acts for a hot hit off a crack pipe. Then he wound up on a Florida farm near the small town of Hastings, being bilked blind, he says, by a man with a fifth-grade education, [...]
Continue reading …Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield says the General Assembly’s approval of his anti-gang crime bill will let police and prosecutors “cut the heart out of some of the worst gangs” in the city. “I’m very pleased,” the mayor said Tuesday after the House passed the bill on an 86-2 vote. It passed the Senate unanimously [...]
Continue reading …A criminal complaint filed in federal court in Harrisonburg said Christopher Hecker of Waynesboro made death threats against the president and threatened to bomb the White House, hotels and other places, including Philadelphia City Hall and the site of the former World Trade Center. An affidavit said the threats were emailed to various media outlets. The Harrisonburg [...]
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