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Two New York police officers have been cleared of any wrongdoing after footage of them pushing an elderly activist to the ground caused outrage back in 2020. On June 4, 2020 - amid the Black Lives Matters protests that surged following the murder of George Floyd - cell phone footage…
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A teacher is under investigation after she was accused by students of playing a high-pitched ringing noise in an apparent punishment for the class. As reported by NBC 5, the unnamed first-year teacher is accused of playing a "dog whistle" YouTube video for 40 minutes. The video emitted a ringing…
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The man accused of shooting Lady Gaga's dog walker was accidentally released from jail this week, NBC News reports. James Howard Jackson made headlines last year when he and two others ambushed the musician's dog walker, Ryan Fischer, and stole her French bulldogs while they were on an evening stroll…
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Police have arrested a suspect in the Sacramento shooting on Sunday that killed six people in the city's deadliest gun-related crime in history, ABC News reports. The Sacramento Police Department has arrested 26-year-old Dandrae Martin, describing the man as a "related suspect". Martin has been charged with assault and illegal…
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Ecuador has become the first country in the world to formally grant wild animals legal rights, Inside Climate News reports. The South American nation's Constitutional Court upheld non-human legal rights this month when they ruled in favor of a woolly monkey called Estrellita, who was confiscated from her home to…
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A 911 caller has claimed that the teenager who fell to his death from a free-fall ride at a Florida amusement park ride was not strapped in properly. Tyre Sampson was just 14 years old when he lost his life in the tragic accident at ICON Park last Thursday (March…
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Chris Rock will not be pressing charges against Will Smith after the actor slapped him at last night's 94th Academy Awards, the Los Angeles Police Department has confirmed. The 53-year-old actor left the world stunned as he darted out of his seat to strike the 57-year-old comic after the latter…
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With gas prices spiking, a group of Florida men have been arrested for allegedly taking matters into their own hands. Seven individuals were arrested across the state after being accused of using "homemade" gadgets to hack fuel pumps - meaning they paid a couple of cents per gallon, The Independent…
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Police in Dumas, Arkansas, have confirmed that one person has lost their life during a mass shooting at a car show on Saturday evening (March 19). Dumas Police Chief Keith Finch also revealed that a further 20 people were wounded in the shooting, including children, ABC News reports. Finch told…
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A single mom, who faces a year in prison after she let her 14-year-old daughter babysit her siblings, has received an influx of support. A GoFundMe page set up to support Melissa Henderson in light of her trouble with law enforcement has raised $48,130 at the time of writing. In…
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The US supreme court has reinstated the convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence, Reuters reports. Tsarnaev and his now-deceased brother Tamerlan were responsible for planting pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the race in April 2013. The explosions killed three people and wounded more than 260 others.…
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A former Minneapolis police officer has testified that he tried to help George Floyd several times, but was repeatedly blocked by his senior officer Derek Chauvin, ABC News reports. Ex-officer Thomas Lane was present on May 25, 2020, when Floyd was violently arrested and murdered by Chauvin, who suspected him…
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A model agent from France who had been charged with arranging for girls and young women to be abused by billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was found hanged in his Paris prison cell on Saturday, February 19, the Guardian reports. Jean-Luc Brunel, 74, was found dead in his cell in La Sante…
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A mug shot of Kim Potter in which she was shown beaming after she was found guilty of manslaughter in Daunte Wright's shooting death came up as a topic of contention in her sentencing yesterday, with the deceased motorist's mother saying it showed the ex-officer wasn't genuinely remorseful. Potter's lawyer…
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Kim Potter, a former Minneapolis police officer who mistook her handgun for her Taser when she fatally shot Daunte Wright has been sentenced to two years in prison after the judge decided on a lesser sentence despite prosecutors seeking more, BBC News reports Potter was found guilty in December of…
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The parents and grandfather of a six-year-old girl appeared in court for the first time on Wednesday, February 16. Paislee Shultis was found alive underneath a staircase of her parent's home in New York after having been missing since 2019. On Monday, February 14, Paislee, now six, was discovered at…
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A grieving fiancé has spoken out after being arrested for "littering" after leaving flowers on his late partner's grave. As reported by ABC News affiliate WTMV, Winchester Hagans tragically lost his fiancée Hannah Ford in January 2021 as a result of a car crash. Hannah's unexpected death came just one…
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Four men have been arrested in connection with the death of The Wire star Michael K Williams after they allegedly sold him the fentanyl-laced heroin he overdosed on in September, per BBC News. The actor, perhaps best known for his portrayal of Omar Little in the popular HBO series, died…
