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This is so scary and so heartbreaking. Earlier this afternoon, LAPD officers responded to a call about an altercation in downtown L.A. One of the…

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Just a day after it was revealed police in Washington state shot at a Mexican migrant 17 times, hitting him as many as six times,…

Crime

A 35-year-old homeless man in Pasco, Wash. was shot and killed after throwing multiple rocks at two police officers in what Pasco Police Chief Bob Metzger…

Nation

The national Muslim community has been vocal about the vitriolic nature of a shooting that left three young Muslim students dead earlier this week, but police in…

Crime

UPDATE: 2/11/2015 11:05 A.M.  Police have charged Craig Stephen Hicks  with three counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of North Carolina University students…

Nation

Hard to know where to begin on this, but it’s also hard not to say something, either. Perhaps I should refer to history. Should I start with the Robert Charles Riots of 1900? Or how about Atlanta 1906? Maybe Chicago 1919? How about Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921? Do we even need to fast forward to the 1960s? Harlem 1964? […]

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An 11-year-girl was shot and killed during a slumber party as violence struck Chicago over the weekend, local media outlets reported on Sunday. At least 40 people were shot, and four killed, in weekend violence in the third-largest U.S. city, the NBC affiliate in Chicago reported. SEE ALSO: Is Chicago Gun Violence A Human Rights […]

Sinead O’Connor posted an open letter on her website, expressing her strong feelings about the case of Trayvon Martin, the Florida teen shot and killed in February by a neighborhood watch volunteer. RELATED: ESPN Employees Can’t Put Up Hoodies On Twitter Accounts In the lengthy post, the outspoken Irish singer/songwriter is outraged that George Zimmerman, […]

Democratic U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson delivered a rousing speech this week before fellow members of Congress in which she pleaded that her colleagues “stand up for justice” in the wake of the recent shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin. RELATED: Check Out Our Full Trayvon Martin Coverage Martin, 17, was shot and killed in […]

The lawyer for  the family of a one-year-old  who was shot in the head last week in Oakland, Calif. said the child is brain dead and will soon be taken off life support, KRON 4 News reports. RELATED: Second Child Shot By Mom In Texas Welfare Office Dies Baby Hiram Lawrence was one of seven […]

BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn teen is in critical but stable condition at Kings County Hospital just days after a plot to take his life was captured on camera. Surveillance footage released by police on Wednesday captured the ambush and near fatal shooting of Tyquan Sewall, 18, outside a Brooklyn McDonald’s. The video clearly shows the intricate scheme, […]