Teenagers out for fun who were ringing doorbells or knocking on doors in the early morning hours were shot at in Pennsylvania, and one of the teens was hit in the foot.
▶ Was This Execution Cruel And Unusual?
“An attorney for the family of a killer whose Ohio execution by lethal injection was marked by several minutes of unprecedented gasping and unusual sounds plans to sue the state over what happened. Dayton defense lawyer John Paul Rion says Dennis McGuire’s family is deeply disturbed by his execution and believes it violated his constitutional rights. Rion is a member of a state Supreme Court panel examining possible changes to Ohio’s death penalty law. He said Thursday all citizens have a right to expect they won’t be punished in a cruel and unusual fashion…”.* Ben Mankiewicz (co-host, What The Flick?! and TYT Sports) breaks it down on The Young Turks.
*Read more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/nationa…
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▶ Minority students get harsher punishment in school – YouTube
“The Departments of Education and Justice together issued new guidance on Wednesday to help public schools administer student discipline without discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin. Data shows that students of color face harsher punishments for committing the same actions as their white peers.”
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Man who shot video of Border Patrol arrest of undocumented worker arrested
The man who shot cell phone video showing a Border Patrol agent struggling to arrest an undocumented worker has been arrested.
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The Worst Shot Came From The Justice System
“The gun was removed from Morgan’s waistband, and then they opened fire on him.”
▶ ‘Popcorn Killer’ Uses Stand Your Ground To Justify Theater Slaying
“The sheriff who’s investigating the fatal shooting of a moviegoer this week in Florida said the state’s “stand your ground” defense doesn’t apply in this case, but an attorney said it likely does.
“What most people don’t understand is, the law is not concerned with what started your argument; the law is not concerned about how petty it is,” attorney Stephen Romine told First Coast News. “The law is concerned about the acts between two people — the person who died and the person who did the shooting.”
Retired police captain Curtis Reeves was charged with second-degree murder after he shot 43-year-old Chad Oulson to death Monday afternoon because he refused to stop sending a text message to his 2-year-old daughter’s day care provider.
Reeves told investigators that he feared for his safety when he was struck in the face with an object that investigators determined was popcorn, but his attorney suggested may have been a more dangerous object.”* John Iadarola (TYT University), Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies) and Gina Grad (The Gina Grad Show) break it down.
*Read more here from Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/17…
Community Village‘s insight:
“The one guest says “punch him” and he’d be out by now”
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10 examples of #AAPI’s rich history of resistance
“In the wake of the #AsianPrivilege response hash-tag to #NotYourAsianSidekick and #BlackPowerYellowPeril, it appears as if (among other misguided ideas) there is a prevailing notion out there that, in contrast to other minorities, Asian Americans “lack a history of resistance” (or that we think we do), and that this invisibility and dearth of civil rights history actually confers upon the Asian American community a form of racial privilege.
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Two women shot to death by a man at an Elkhardt, Indiana, grocery store
Two women shot to death by a man at an Elkhardt, Indiana, grocery store may have known their attacker, police said Thursday.
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Frisky Business – Jessica Williams
Laverne Cox Producing Powerful New Doc About Trans Prisoner CeCe McDonald
Transgender actress and “Orange Is The New Black” breakout star Laverne Cox is currently co-producing an important and compelling new documentary about the life and incarceration of CeCe McDonald.
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