New York City has settled a lawsuit with a group of wrongly accused citizens, known popularly as the Soundview Five, to the enormous tune of $40 million. The 4 men and one woman served nearly two decades behind bars after being imprisoned unjustly for the death of 2 people in 1995. It …
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Trump’s America: Disturbing New Ad For Congressional Candidate Mike Pape Oozes Xenophobia
New TV ad advocating for Kentucky Republican seeking first Congressional district filled with ugly stereotypes about Latino immigrants simply entitled “Stop” Mike Pape is a Republican running for a congressional seat in Kentucky’s first district. He is also an enthusiastic supporter of Donald Trump’s nativist, anti-immigration ideology and has presented …
Read More »Oklahoma Legislature Sends Bill To Governor Which Will Effectively Ban All Abortions (And Certainly Send O.K. To Fed. Court)
Both the Republican-led House and Senate of Oklahoma have approved a bill which would strip doctors who perform abortions of their medical licenses, a move that would end the availability of abortions in the state. The bill has been alarming to many because, as it is widely understood, it is …
Read More »Trans teen forcibly grabbed and tossed from Ted Cruz rally in Maryland
“When trying to explain what had happened to the Cruz volunteers outside, they just laughed at us” A transgender teenager and his mother were forcibly removed from a Ted Cruz rally yesterday in Maryland before it began, even though they had tickets to the event and were peacefully (and silently) protesting …
Read More »NYC Board Of Elections Suspends Top Clerk In Investigation Of Disenfranchised Primary Voters
The New York City Board of Elections suspended a top official late Thursday. In a press release, the board announced that Chief Clerk Diane Haslett-Rudiano from the Brooklyn Borough office has been suspended without pay. After voters in Brooklyn found their names absent from voter rolls in Tuesday’s primary election–in …
Read More »“Better Dead Than Addicted” Maine Gov. LePage Vetoes Bill Equipping Pharmacies With Opiate Overdose Reversal Drug
“Naloxone does not truly save lives; it merely extends them until the next overdose,” says unapologetic Governor. Republican Governor Paul LePage vetoed a bill Wednesday that would allow pharmacists to dispense the anti-overdose drug Naloxone without a prescription, rationalizing it much in the way abstinence-only activists explain their stance against condoms …
Read More »250 Anti-Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence Groups Condemn “Bathroom Bills” Targeting Transgender Population
The National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women released a statement Thursday opposing anti-transgender initiatives–such as North Carolina’s notorious HB2–because they will inevitably increase violence against transgender people rather than protect women from violence. 250+ Anti-Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence Orgs: Support Trans Community https://t.co/xI41ybQWw3 #ProtectEveryone …
Read More »BLACK LIVES MATTER $5,000 Bail For Activist Arrested Protesting No Jail Time For Cop Who Killed Akai Gurley
This article originally appeared in Filming Cops and has been re-posted with permission. [Update and Correction Below] A Brooklyn judge has set bail at $5,000 for one activist arrested protesting the sentence of former NYPD officer Peter Liang in front of the Brooklyn District Attorney’s house on Tuesday night. The activist, Jason …
Read More »Viral Video Shows Milwaukee High School Teacher Slam, Choke And Curse Student In Class, Controversy Follows N-Word And Violent Attack
A 17-second video recorded by a high school student is now making its run on social media. The video, published and shared via YouTube, shows a high school teacher’s aide slamming a student into a desk and then shoving him to the floor, before holding him to the ground with …
Read More »Shocking Video Shows Officers Watching Teenagers Drowning And Doing Nothing To Help
“They’re done. They are 6-7, dude.” In today’s episode of “Who do you actually protect and serve?” shocking new video footage has emerged from a police cruiser dash cam showing sheriff’s deputies deliberately making no attempt to save three drowning Florida teenage girls who drove into a cemetery pond after stealing …
Read More »School to Prison Pipeline Alive And Well: Elementary School Students Arrested For Watching Playground Fight
Lawmakers calling on TBI, Dept of Justice to investigate Murfreesboro child arrests At least 10 children ages 6 to 11 were arrested at Hobgood Elemetary School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee for reportedly not breaking up a fight that not only did not occur on school grounds–rather at a neighborhood basketball game–a …
Read More »Ben Carson Wants To Put Harriet Tubman On A Bill Nobody Uses, Says Slaveowning President Jackson Was “Tremendous”
“I love Harriet Tubman. I love what she did. But we can find another way to honor her.” [email protected]: "I love Harriet Tubman. I love what she did. But we can find another way to honor her." @TeamCavutohttps://t.co/2QkQy0rt5L — FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) April 20, 2016 As though endorsing the most …
Read More »Two NYPD Detectives Charged With Assaulting US Postal Employee As “Revenge”
Repeatedly stalked and harassed postal employee who unknowingly gave directions to cop-killer Ismaaiyl Brinsley Two New York City police detectives have been indicted on assault charges after viral photos and evidence of them surfaced assaulting a uniformed U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee who had just finished his shift on October of …
Read More »Three To Face Criminal Charges In Flint Water Crisis
Two state, one local official to be charged on 13 counts Three Michigan officials will face charges to be announced in full detail at a press conference Wednesday afternoon in connection to their role of allowing lead contamination to persist for several years in Flint’s municipal water system, multiple government sources …
Read More »Broken machines, locked doors, and untrained workers: NYC Primary Voting A Disaster; Probe Launched to Investigate
NYC residents coming out to vote in Tuesday’s primary elections were met with a bungled process across the board, if a record number of voter complaints were any indication. Now the city’s Board of Elections will undergo a full-scale investigation into what went wrong. The problems began to surface early …
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