The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and local agencies are investigating a fire at a beleaguered police department in Mississippi. The fire occurred around 4:30 a.m. at the Senatobia Police Department. Although the fire department quickly controlled the flames, the building was damaged. The cause of the fire is under investigation. It is the latest incident at the department. About a week ago an officer who shot and killed a 1-year-old boy in Mississippi when he fired into a moving vehicle while responding to a shoplifting call resigned, though he was cleared of criminal wrongdoing. In September, the police chief was fired after reporting by The New York Times, Mississippi Today and Verite News alleged he used racist slurs in private text messages.
An amateur mixed martial arts fighter was the man killed in Friday’s shooting rampage near Paris, his club said, identifying the victim of what French President Emmanuel Macron called a racist terror attack. The Atch Academy in Aubervilliers, north of Paris, identified him as Pengo Bossio Wangi, 26, and paid tribute to him in an Instagram statement. French authorities have not publicly identified the victim. The club remembered his smile, energy and generosity. “Nothing justifies a life being taken like this.”
Jury selection is set to begin Tuesday in the trial that could see the white supremacist who killed 10 people in a 2022 Buffalo supermarket get the death penalty. The attack is believed to be the deadliest shooting targeting Black people in modern history. Payton Gendron is facing over two dozen federal hate crime charges and more than a dozen firearms charges. He is already spending life in prison on state murder charges. Families of the victims and survivors differ on whether Gendron should be sentenced to death. His defense team is not going to dispute his guilt. Their objective is to ensure he is spared from execution.
The United Nations’ human rights office has condemned the racist abuse of tennis player Coco Gauff and called for solidarity to help push back against racism and sexism. The office led by High Commissioner Volker Türk issued a social media post on Saturday saying the racist messages sent online targeting Gauff were “appalling and illustrate that Black female athletes are specifically targeted for vitriol and racial abuse.” Gauff, a two-time Grand Slam champion ranked No. 4, said last week she received an “insane” amount of racist comments on social media following a controversial point in her China Open match against home player Sun Xinran on Monday.
BEIJING (AP) — Coco Gauff said she received an “insane” amount of racist comments on social media following a controversial point in her China…
A new video from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was standard issue Republican messaging for promoting her state’s stricter rules for people on Medicaid. No more could able-bodied people lounge around while receiving taxpayer-funded healthcare, she said. But the decision to portray an unemployed moocher as a young, white, cheeseball-chomping gamer named Brad upset some conservative commentators last week. Five decades after Ronald Reagan popularized the “welfare queen” trope about people living luxuriously while not working, they wanted to know why the video wasn’t featuring a Black woman instead. The debate that streaked across social media was the latest example of how conservatives have recently wrestled with racist views.
Australian authorities launched a probe into an Omani FlyDubai co-pilot’s time in Australia after he was detained over an alleged attempt to s…
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Portland Trail Blazers fired new play-by-play television broadcaster Braiden Bell on Thursday when past inappropriat…
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Video of a fight between two students at Parkside High School has recently gained traction on social media. It's now sparking conversations ab…