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‘Don’t Like You Running My Neighborhood’: White Man Threatens to Call Police on Black Family at Funeral Repast, Calls Them a ‘Gang,’ Viral Video Shows
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August 6, 2024August 6, 2024Politics

‘Don’t Like You Running My Neighborhood’: White Man Threatens to Call Police on Black Family at Funeral Repast, Calls Them a ‘Gang,’ Viral Video Shows

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A viral video on TikTok shows an older white man threatening to call 911 on a Black family attending a repast at a home in a residential neighborhood. The video, posted by TikTok user @itsjustdean, shows a white senior accompanied by his wife confronting a group of Black people after alleging that one of their...

‘Don’t Point Your Finger at Us!’: Resurfaced Video Shows Delta Pilot Demanding Black Woman Take Off Her Hat or be Kicked Off Plane, Then Belittling Her After She Does, Sparking Online Criticism
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August 5, 2024August 5, 2024Politics

‘Don’t Point Your Finger at Us!’: Resurfaced Video Shows Delta Pilot Demanding Black Woman Take Off Her Hat or be Kicked Off Plane, Then Belittling Her After She Does, Sparking Online Criticism

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A resurfaced video that was recently reposted and reshared thousands of times shows a Delta Air Lines pilot confronting a female passenger and demanding she remove a hat with a profanity written on it. The video, originally posted in 2020, shows the pilot approaching a seated passenger and telling her that her hat is not...

‘White Is the Color of the Big Boss Man’: Black Employees Were Repeatedly Called Racial Slurs and Forced to Relieve Themselves Outside. Now Asphalt Paving Systems Must Pay Them $1.2M
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August 4, 2024August 4, 2024Politics

‘White Is the Color of the Big Boss Man’: Black Employees Were Repeatedly Called Racial Slurs and Forced to Relieve Themselves Outside. Now Asphalt Paving Systems Must Pay Them $1.2M

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Asphalt Paving Systems will pay $1.25 million dollars to settle a lawsuit brought against it by the U.S. Equal Employment Oppor­tunity Commission for creating a hostile work environment in which Black employees were subject to racial discrimination and demeaning treatment. According to court documents filed on July 29 that were obtained and reviewed by Atlanta...

‘They Just Did Me Like a Dog’: Grandmother Tased Eight Times and Assaulted By Cops While Reading Bible and Writing Sermon at Park, Attorney Claims
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August 3, 2024August 3, 2024Politics

‘They Just Did Me Like a Dog’: Grandmother Tased Eight Times and Assaulted By Cops While Reading Bible and Writing Sermon at Park, Attorney Claims

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A 65-year-old grandmother said she was tased, thrown to the ground and viciously assaulted by Carthage, Mississippi, police officers on July 23 while she was at the park reading her Bible and preparing a sermon. According to a press release from Carlos Moore Law Group, their client, Vivian Burks, “was tased eight times, thrown to...

‘Walking While Black?’: Minnesota Man Sues Cops for Violent Encounter Allegedly Based on Racial Profiling. Police Say the Arrest Was Justified and Simply a Case of Mistaken Identity
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August 2, 2024August 2, 2024Politics

‘Walking While Black?’: Minnesota Man Sues Cops for Violent Encounter Allegedly Based on Racial Profiling. Police Say the Arrest Was Justified and Simply a Case of Mistaken Identity

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By Jill Jordan Sieder In June of 2022, Derrick Gilbert was walking to his job as a line cook at a restaurant in Willmar, Minnesota, wearing a sleeveless red hoodie with the hood up. He was spotted by Willmar Police Officer Christopher Flatten, who was driving by and said he mistook Gilbert for a man...