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Charlotte Christmas Eve mall shooter ID’d
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Authorities have identified the gunman who was killed by an off-duty officer at a Charlotte mall Thursday as 18-year-old Daquan Antonio Westbrook, CBS affiliate WBTV reported. At a Thursday night news conference, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police (CMPD)...
One dead as fight leads to fatal shooting at North Carolina mall
An armed 18-year-old man in a fight inside a mall packed with Christmas shoppers in Charlotte, North Carolina, was shot by an off-duty officer working security and died at the scene on Thursday, police said. The officer heard shots among two groups of people who got...
Chicago Police Fatally Shoot College Student
Quintonio Legrier, a 19-year-old student at Northern Illinois University, was also fatally shot when police responded to a domestic dispute early Saturday morning. UPDATED: Saturday, December 26, 11:00 PM EST In a statement released Saturday night, the Chicago Police...
The Shooting of Mario Woods Brings Ferguson to San Francisco, Activists Say
San Francisco is more than 2,000 miles from Ferguson, Mo., the small town where a police shooting set off protests and fueled the Black Lives Matter movement around the nation in 2014. But the events of Ferguson seem closer than ever to the Bay Area after Mario Woods,...
Black Lives Won’t Matter if the Killings Won’t Stop
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Video – There are 58 gun suicides every day in our country. – See his story
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Deputies fatally shoot CNN guard trying to help distressed son
Douglas County sheriff’s deputies got the call around 8:20 p.m. Monday. The security guard for a mobile home park in Douglasville, Georgia, said he had just been held at gunpoint for 45 minutes as he made his evening rounds. That was around the same time that Bobby...
Pastor Keevin O’Brien delivering a riveting oration 12/24/15
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Bayview crowd calls for S.F. police chief to quit over death
Police Chief Greg Suhr attempted to explain the shooting death of a man by police in the Bayview neighborhood that drew ire nationwide after video of the incident was widely circulated on social media. Dozens of community members packed a room at the City College of...
Top 10 Worst Cities To Raise Black Children 2015
Last June, we reported on the top worst states to raise Black children based on the Casey Foundation findings (2013-2014). This year, as of July 22, 2015 based on Forbes List of Poverty rates for children under the age of 17 and newly released information about the...