Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

Gruesome video surfaces on social media following double homicide in 2017 at Washington Park gas station Chicago - Two people were killed and two others were wounded in a shooting early Friday at a gas station in the Washington Park neighborhood. Witnesses told police a gray four-door Chevy pulled up to the GoLo gas station at 51st Street and Indiana Avenue just before 2 a.m., fired several shots, and then took off. There were at least 32 shell casings on the ground outside the gas station after the shooting. A 24-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. Another 24-year-old man was taken to Stroger hospital, where he also was pronounced dead. Witnesses said the two men were very close friends

UNC cops arrest 7 at Silent Sam rally as anti-racist protestors clash with Confederates Police at the university of North Carolina arrested seven people during a protest of the confederate statue Silent Sam, which was ripped down on Monday night,  NBC News reports . The statue, which celebrates the Confederacy and was dedicated with a speech celebrating white supremacy, is in storage, but the university has announced that it will be put back up in the next three months. The rally was tense as a barefoot man in Confederate garb and claimed the statue “wasn’t about racism or nothin’ like that” and as anti-racist protestors destroyed one Confederate flag and tried to burn another. Watch protest videos from Twitter and local news below. Several March with confederate flags toward Silent Sam.  @wfmy pic.twitter.com/zdTJE01XEJ — Jessica Winters (@JessWintersTV)  August 25, 2018 Gave him a little escort off campus :-)  #unc   #silentsam pic.twitter.com/3g2mKSC5Zf — Rac

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Police knew unarmed man was mentally ill before fatally shooting him, lawsuit says A fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man that was captured by a bystander’s camera and sparked a protest in Tulare in March has resulted in a federal civil rights lawsuit. Anyka Harris has sued the city of Tulare, its police department and the officers who shot her 27-year-old son, Jontell Reedom. In the lawsuit, Harris’ lawyers, Dale Galipo and Bradley Kramer of Southern California, said police knew Reedom was mentally ill, so they should have used other methods to de-escalate the situation. The lawyers are seeking damages in U.S. District Court in Fresno for excessive force, wrongful death, negligence and inadequate police training. The shooting of Reedom, a former Tulare Union High School football standout, was captured on video by a bystander. It happened while tensions are high nationwide between law enforcement agencies and communities of color, following several high-profi

Still blackballed: American football's most recognisable exile 24 Aug 2018 It has been roughly 600 days since the embattled American football player, Colin Kaepernick, suited up to compete in the National Football League. Another season of the sport, which has effectively succeeded baseball as America's favourite sport, is due to kick off on September 6, without supremely skilled Kaepernick on an NFL roster. While marooned from the NFL, Kaepernick - and the movement he spearheaded at the beginning of his final season - remains a topic of popular sporting and political discussions. By kneeling during the US national anthem before each match, Kaepernick was standing against the structural racism pervading American streets, manifested most violently by the police brutality against unarmed black civilians. "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of colour," Kaepernick said to NFL media before the 2

An Indiana principal issued an apology after he used the N-Word during a schoolwide assembly, reported Fox 59 news. Chuck Weisenbach said he was giving a speech about empathy and used the N-word as an example of a hurtful word that should not be used. “Among the list of words and phrases was the N-word. I, in no way, used the word in derogatory fashion, but instead to illustrate its ugliness,” Weisenbach said. He said he made a mistake in using the word as an example and apologized for offending students and faculty. “As educators, we are often tasked with discussing uncomfortable matters, especially as it related to race and discrimination,” said Weisenbach. He added, “I am deeply sorry and in no way intended for my attempt at educating our students to hurt anyone. I ask for your grace and forgiveness in this matter.” Listen to his audio apology below.

Police accuse three over toppled Confederate statue in Chapel Hill, North Carolina University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill police accused three people of violations related to the toppling of a statue of a Confederate soldier on campus, a university police spokesman said on Friday. About 300 demonstrators gathered on Monday evening for a protest and march at the base of Silent Sam, a memorial erected in 1913 to soldiers of the pro-slavery Confederacy killed during the Civil War. Protesters pulled the statue down with rope, cheering as it lay face down in the mud, its head and back covered in dirt. Each of the three people faces misdemeanor charges of riot and defacing of a public monument, university police spokesman Randy Young said in an emailed statement. The three are not affiliated with the University of North Carolina, Young said. The police investigation is ongoing and there may be additional arrests, he said. The incident was part of a recent movement to dism