A 60-year-old rabbi was shot to death while walking to synagogue in Miami. CNN affiliate WFOR reports.
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Gun Violence
Walmart sells “Toy Machine Gun”
Boycott any store that sells toy guns that look like real guns.
Police are killing people who are playing with toy guns.
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Sheets of Blood Streets of Pain
“Racism is not dead in this nation. Shame on any of us for trying to bury the inherent and blatant racism of the United States and its people, it has always been part of our makeup and it has come roaring back in its full and awful glory in the past decade…”
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‘I was not going to cower:’ Man who shot unarmed Michigan teen takes the stand
A Michigan man accused of gunning down Renisha McBride took the stand in his own defense Monday.
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Trigger happy United States.
Chicago boy killed, 6 others shot – CNN Video
Florida’s 10-20-Life
We have all seen the headlines, “Fla. Mom gets 20 years for warning shot”. We have all heard some of the stories trying to tie this long sentence to race. What most don’t know is the history behind what happened.
I’m not talking about what happened to Ms. Alexander but the history behind the sentencing. What most fail to realize is that it wasn’t the crime she was found guilty of, it wasn’t her race and it had nothing to do with a warning shot. It has everything to do with a law.
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If you’re wondering why the U.S. has a mas-incarceration issue, here is part of the reason.
#MandatoryMinimums
It’s strange that we employee experienced judges and then don’t allow them to have discretion on how to implement penalties.
Inside the final minutes before 13 year old Andy Lopez’s murder
Moments before 13-year-old Andy Lopez was fatally shot by a Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy who mistook his replica AK-47 pellet gun for a real rifle, a man in a truck drove by the boy and felt a surge of worry.
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Source: www.sfgate.com
Police shoot teenage special-needs girl within 20 seconds of arriving to ‘help’
HALF MOON BAY, CA — Acommunity is outraged after a call for help turned into a hasty death sentence for a disgruntled teenage girl with special needs.
Source: www.policestateusa.com
Trial Begins For Man Who Shot Unarmed Black Teenager On His Porch
DETROIT — As a prosecutor showed a jury photos of Renisha McBride, her father rushed out of the court room. The photos of the 19-year-old — first smiling, and then lying lifeless on a porch — were shown in quick succession at the beginning of one of the most highly publicized and racially charged trials of the year. Opening statements began Wednesday in the trial of Theodore Wafer, the 55-year-old Dearborn Heights, Michigan, man charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of McBride. Wafer is accused of shooting her with a shotgun through his locked screen door around 4:40 a.m. on Nov. 2. His attorney seeks to show that he was in fear for his life and shot her in self-defense, while the prosecutor has maintained Wafer had no reason to be fearful, and killed an unarmed, impaired woman. “His actions that night were unnecessary, unjustified and unreasonable,” Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Danielle Hagaman-Clark said. Defense attorney Cheryl Carpenter said what happened to McBride was “horrible” but that the jury should set aside their feelings and focus on the law. Click through for more. Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
47 Chicago residents shot over the weekend. 5 dead.
Police say 47 Chicago residents were shot over the weekend; five lost their lives. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and other officials meet to discuss the violence.
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11-year-old Shamiya Adams was one of the 5 fatally shot.