Is It A Crime?
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Image from GawkerWhile in New York I’ve been trying to get caught up on the news and learned about the videotaped beating death of Chicago 16-year-old Derrion Albert. Again, there’s a reason why they make you read “Lord of the Flies” in high school to show children for the cruel, amoral monsters they can sometimes
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In a case of it’s always funny until someone gets killed we have the odd case of one Bill Sparkman, a teacher and part-time census worker in rural Clay County, Kentucky. He was found, dead, of apparent homicide on Sept. 12 in a remote part of Daniel Boone National Forest, hanging from a tree. The…
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CNN recently reported the story of Brian Milligan Jr., an 18-year-old white man who was beaten by a group of 10 to 15 black men, possibly because Milligan was dating a black woman, 18-year old Nicola Fletcher. The couple from Buffalo, NY said they’d been regularly harassed by men and boys in the neighborhood because…
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The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office has ruled that Michael Jackson’s death was a homicide, meaning his doctor could face criminal charges for the powerful cocktail of drugs he used to treat Jackson’s insomnia before he died. From Associated Press: The homicide ruling was based on forensic tests that found the anesthetic propofol combined with
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From Huffpo: I’m not even sure this is a racial situation because I don’t know if this cop is racist. But I have to say it seems to me more like a police situation. I think Henry Louis Gates was arrested for the crime of not kissing the behind of the police officer. I might
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Obviously the Cambridge, Mass. police department didn’t get that memo about us living in “Post-Racial America” and felt it’s still cool to arrest a man of a certain age (58) for trying to get into his own house. All he was was the homeowner and a well-connected Harvard Professor. I’m sure he looks EXACTLY like…
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Stalking? Really, ex-mayor? STALKING? From New York Daily News: Former Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry was arrested Saturday night after a woman accused him of “bothering her” as the two traveled in separate vehicles in the capital’s Anacostia Park, police said. The United States Park Police said Barry, a current D.C. Council member, was arrested
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