Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

Neighbor calls police on black businessman opening new spot in San Francisco: report A black businessman in San Francisco explained the hardships of trying to open a business in gentrified neighborhood during a  new AJ Plus interview . Vicktor Stevenson is the proprietor of Gourmonade, a permanent lemonade stand that recently opened on Valencia St. in San Francisco’s Mission District. Stevenson said that even before opening, people had spray-painted racist graffiti on his storefront, tagging his business as “monkey juice.” Things got worse after the opening, with four cops showing up only three days after his grand opening. “I’m standing here at my store, trying to make sure my security system is up and running properly, and next thing I know, four cops hop out of cars on me,” Stevenson recounted.

Trump demands suspensions for NFL players who kneel during anthem U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that National Football League (NFL) players who do not stand for the national anthem should be suspended for the season without pay. The comments come a day after the NFL and the union representing its players said they were working on a resolution to the league’s national anthem policy. The policy, which was announced in May, followed Trump’s denunciation of pregame protests which were intended to call attention to what critics say is often brutal treatment of minorities by U.S. law enforcement. Trump and others have blasted the gesture as a sign of disrespect to the U.S. flag and the military. “The NFL National Anthem Debate is alive and well again – can’t believe it!,” Trump said on Twitter.

Black Conservatives Claim Uber Driver Kicked Them Out Because of ‘MAGA’ Hats A group of young, Black congressional interns claim their Uber driver discriminated against them for being conservatives after realizing they were holding “Make America Great Again” hats as they entered his vehicle. “To me, what happened took me back to the 60’s when black Americans were told they couldn’t sit in the front of the bus, they had to sit at the back of the bus, or eat at the same restaurant, or go to the same school or would be hosed in certain neighbors,” Matthew Handy told  CBN News . “So now we are going to discrimination not based on race but on political standing. We are gonna see people not welcome in places because they are conservative or liberal. So, that is more disturbing to me than any other aspect of this.”

NFL, Players Union Place National Anthem Policy on Hold The NFL and the National Football League Players Association agreed to stop the implantation of the recent national anthem policy while they both work on a resolution,  The Associated Press reports. In a joint statement released Thursday, the League and the players association said that no new rules on the national anthem will be made until they come to an agreement. “The NFL and NFLPA, through recent discussions, have been working on a resolution to the anthem issue. In order to allow this constructive dialogue to continue, we have come to a standstill agreement on the NFLPA’s grievance and on the NFL’s anthem policy. No new rules relating to the anthem will be issued or enforced for the next several weeks while these confidential discussions are ongoing,” the statement read. The announcement comes after The AP first reported that players for the Miami Dolphins who protested on the field during the anthem coul

NYC Releases Thousands of Documents on the Central Park 5 Case, Prosecutor In Case Says the Five Weren't 'Deserving' of Settlement On Thursday night New York City released several documents, recordings and other materials detailing the notorious Central Five case. The story of the Central Park Five should be a stranger to no one. It was only decades after their initial conviction that defendants Kharey Wise, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Yusef Salaam had their convictions overturned in 2002 after another inmate, Matias Reyes, confessed — supported by DNA evidence — that he raped then-28-year-old jogger Trisha Meili. In 2014, the five reached a settlement with New York City and were awarded $41 million. However, there are those who have long who argued that the defendants were not just randomly rounded up and arrested after Mieli’s attack, but in fact were part of a group known for attacking and harassing people in the park, whether th

Aryan Brotherhood member to spend decades in prison after murdering someone over a housing dispute A Texas man who police described as a member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang has  pleaded guilty to murdering another man who was in a housing dispute with his friends . Sherman, Texas’ KXII reported that 31-year-old Manuel Miguel Wise shot and killed a man named Matthew Williams in a Motel 6 after Williams refused to move out of a room he was sharing with friends.

New York City brings internal charges against officer in chokehold death of Eric Garner New York City began disciplinary proceedings on Thursday against the police officer who applied a fatal chokehold to Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, in 2014, the Civilian Complaint Review Board said. Officer Daniel Pantaleo could face termination from the police force. His charging comes after the New York Police Department gave the U.S. Department of Justice an ultimatum earlier this week, saying it could no longer wait for a federal civil rights investigation to conclude.