Civil Rights Data Collection released grim findings Tuesday morning showing a clear racial gap in how disciplinary measures are enforced in public schools nationwide. New findings from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) shows that the America’s public schools suspended significantly fewer students in 2014 than they did in 2012, however …
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28 April
Police Shoot And Injure 14-Year-Old With Toy Gun On Anniversary Of Freddie Gray’s Funeral In Baltimore
Just after 4 PM yesterday a 14-year-old boy who did not pose a real threat to anyone was shot by a police officer in East Baltimore. It was the one year anniversary of Freddie Gray’s funeral, the event two weeks after Gray’s death from spinal injuries in the care of police …
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27 April
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Admits To Molesting Teenagers Decades Ago, Receives 15 Months In Banking Violations Case
Dennis Hastert, former U.S. Speaker of the House, was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday to 15 months in federal prison with two years of supervised release in his hush money case. The sentence also requires the man who once was the second in line for the presidency to comply with …
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21 April
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 …
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21 April
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 …
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20 April
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 …
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15 April
Sheriff Sees No Wrongdoing In Viral Video Of Kindergarten Student Paddled By School Admins.
A mother in Jasper County, Georgia posted a video to her Facebook page Wednesday that shows her son, a kindergartener, crying for his mother and struggling against the school’s principal and assistant principal as they attempted to paddle the five-year-old. The video circulating now on social media is available here. The …
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13 April
Protest Erupts In Chicago After Officer Shoots And Kills 16-Year-Old Pierre Loury
Chicago now reels from the loss of 16-year-old Pierre Loury, the third person to die this year in a Chicago police-involved shooting. An officer whose identity has not yet been released to the public fatally shot Loury in the chest Monday night after a brief foot chase. The officer says …
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12 April
San Antonio School District Fires Cop Who Body-Slammed 12 Year Old Girl
A San Antonio school police officer caught on video physically picking up a 12 year old girl and violently tossing her to the ground has been fired, school officials confirmed Monday. School resource officer Joshua Kehm, of the San Antonio School District, was initially put on paid administrative leave after footage …
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11 April
Teacher Arrested For Beating High School Student In Class In Beaumont, Texas
A teacher in Beaumont, Texas has been charged with assault after a video of her repeatedly slapping a high school student was posted online. @pside_prince this. pic.twitter.com/ItIkgq9Pw1 — khay (@khay2you) April 8, 2016 According to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, Mary Hastings, a math teacher at Ozen High School was arrested …
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7 April
Chicago Cop Gets Away With Molesting 9-Year Old, Judge Can’t Decide If Fondling Is Sexual
Dennis Barnes caught kissing and fondling the child of a fellow Chicago police officer A Cook County judge opted to clear longtime Chicago police sergeant Dennis Barnes of the molestation and sexual assault of a colleague’s young daughter, convicting him instead on the far-lesser charges of misdemeanor battery. As a …
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7 April
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert Accused By Four Men Of Sexually Abusing Them As Teenagers When He Was Wresting Coach
As former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert awaits his April 27 sentencing by a federal judge for charges related to evading banking laws, the Chicago Tribune has reported that unidentified sources within law enforcement can confirm that four men have filed “credible allegations” which accuse the 74-year-old Republican with sexual …
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7 April
WATCH: San Antonio School Police Officer Body Slams 12-Year-Old Middle School Girl, Placed On Leave
A viral video showing a 12-year-old girl slammed to the ground by a school police officer is making headlines in San Antonio this week. The girl lands on a cement floor, hitting her head so hard it is audible over the roar of shouting and laughing students. The girl is …
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7 April
Texas Youth Pastor Beaten By Witnesses Catching Him Molesting A Kindergartner
Police arrest children’s minister Willie Lee Bell Jr, 29, at First United Church of Cedar Hill as he’s caught in the act of molesting a 6-year old Witnesses beat a Texas youth pastor caught in the act of sexually a 6-year old boy he lured behind an apartment building before …
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6 April
Former Pastor And Missionary Charged With Sexually Assaulting Two Young Girls In Orange County
80-year old Douglas Whinery of Tustin, California was arrested last week and on charged on Tuesday. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office said Whinery was charged with sexually assaulting a 10-year-old and an 80-year-old girl. If convicted of the charges, Whinery could face a 100 year to life sentence. He faces …