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As we cry on the heels of another police shooting of an unarmed African-American, Indiana and Arkansas show the way for a necessary change Every time there is a critique of young Black activists raising the issue of #BlackLivesMatter, there seems to come another example of what the fuss is all about. America: meet the […]

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The South Carolina police officer who is responsible for taking 50-year-old Walter Scott’s life – after shooting at the unarmed man eight times – is still receiving support. A GoFundMe campaign page was launched to raise money for former officer Michael Slager. But according to Kelsea Little, GoFundMe’s public relations manager, it was quickly removed because […]

The person who captured Walter Scott being shot down by a South Carolina police officer on video is speaking out about what exactly he saw. Feidin Santana, 23, has come forward to say that there was in fact a struggle between the two men before the deadly shooting, but the officer had control of the situation before he […]

In a Wednesday interview with Good Morning America, the brother of a Black South Carolina man who was fatally shot by a White North Charleston police officer said that while the murder charge against the cop is a “positive development,” the family is still apprehensive. “It is unusual right now, but I feel like we […]

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A white South Carolina police officer was charged with murder on Tuesday after a newly surfaced video showed him fatally shooting an unarmed black man in the back as he ran away, The Post Courier reports. The North Charleston officer, 33-year-old Michael T. Slager, maintains he feared for his life during the Saturday traffic stop in a […]