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Texas Shooting: Videos Show Parents Running Towards School, Anxiously Waiting Outside
This was the eighth mass shooting this year, according to a report in news agency AFP, and came 10 days after another 18-year-old murdered 10 African Americans at a supermarket in New York.
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US Police Release Footage Showing Officer Shoot Armed Black Man
Authorities in the US city of Minneapolis, where George Floyd was murdered in 2020, published body-cam video Thursday showing the police shooting of a 22-year-old African American man.
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3 Americans Found Guilty In 2020 Murder Of Black Jogger In US
Three white men were found guilty of murder Wednesday for shooting dead an African American man after chasing him in their pickup trucks, following a racially-charged trial in the southern US state of Georgia that gripped the nation.
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Pressure Mounts To Release Video Of Charlotte Shooting
Investigators in Charlotte faced mounting pressure Friday to release video footage of the police shooting of an African American man, after protesters defied a curfew and took to the North Carolina city's streets for a third straight night.
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Barack Obama Says 'Demented' Dallas Shooter Doesn't Represent African Americans
The shooter who killed five US police officers in Dallas was "demented" and does not represent African Americans, US President Barack Obama said on Saturday.
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Dallas Sniper Was Loner, Army Sent Him Home From Afghanistan
The Dallas sniper had been sent home from Afghanistan after being accused of sexually harassing a female, and was described as a loner who followed black militant groups on social media.
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Police Shot African American Motorist 'For No Reason', Says Girlfriend
The girlfriend of Philando Castile, a African American motorist shot dead by Minnesota police, made an emotional call for justice Thursday for a law-abiding young man she said was killed "for no reason."
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6 US Cops Fired After Shooting 137 Bullets In Fatal Car Chase
US authorities sacked six police officers Tuesday who unloaded 137 bullets into a car carrying two unarmed African Americans, killing the pair in a hail of gunfire in Cleveland, Ohio.
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US Policeman Sacked After Fatal Shooting
A Florida policeman who shot dead a black musician as the victim returned from a concert last month has been fired from his job, officials said.
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A Racially Divided America Gets Ready To Vote
As America heads into election year, one of the issues fiercely debated every day but missing from the campaigns is the police shootings of unarmed African American men.
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Alabama Lowers Confederate Battle Flag After Charleston Massacre
The Confederate battle flag was taken down today outside Alabama's state legislature as Americans increasingly shun the Civil War era saltire after the Charleston church massacre.
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Racist 'Manifesto' Lays Bare Charleston Church Shooting Motive
A chilling website apparently created by Dylann Roof emerged Saturday in which the accused Charleston church shooter rails against African Americans and appears in photographs with guns and burning the US flag.
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Anger, Protests Grow After Charleston Church Killings
Residents of South Carolina, still shaken by the unthinkable murder of nine African Americans, planned protests across the state today, giving voice to their grief, anger and demands for change.
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'Mother Emanuel': Spiritual Home, Historic Symbol for Blacks in Charleston
The black church where a horrific shooting claimed the lives of nine people boasts a rich history echoing America's own painful passage through slavery, civil rights, and now, its racially turbulent present.
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Video Shows Police Wrestle Pregnant Black Woman to Ground
Police body camera footage published online by a rights group on Thursday showed two California officers wrestling to the ground a black woman who was eight months pregnant, and arresting her following a dispute with another woman.
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Texas Shooting: Videos Show Parents Running Towards School, Anxiously Waiting Outside
This was the eighth mass shooting this year, according to a report in news agency AFP, and came 10 days after another 18-year-old murdered 10 African Americans at a supermarket in New York.
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US Police Release Footage Showing Officer Shoot Armed Black Man
Authorities in the US city of Minneapolis, where George Floyd was murdered in 2020, published body-cam video Thursday showing the police shooting of a 22-year-old African American man.
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3 Americans Found Guilty In 2020 Murder Of Black Jogger In US
Three white men were found guilty of murder Wednesday for shooting dead an African American man after chasing him in their pickup trucks, following a racially-charged trial in the southern US state of Georgia that gripped the nation.
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Pressure Mounts To Release Video Of Charlotte Shooting
Investigators in Charlotte faced mounting pressure Friday to release video footage of the police shooting of an African American man, after protesters defied a curfew and took to the North Carolina city's streets for a third straight night.
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Barack Obama Says 'Demented' Dallas Shooter Doesn't Represent African Americans
The shooter who killed five US police officers in Dallas was "demented" and does not represent African Americans, US President Barack Obama said on Saturday.
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Dallas Sniper Was Loner, Army Sent Him Home From Afghanistan
The Dallas sniper had been sent home from Afghanistan after being accused of sexually harassing a female, and was described as a loner who followed black militant groups on social media.
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Police Shot African American Motorist 'For No Reason', Says Girlfriend
The girlfriend of Philando Castile, a African American motorist shot dead by Minnesota police, made an emotional call for justice Thursday for a law-abiding young man she said was killed "for no reason."
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6 US Cops Fired After Shooting 137 Bullets In Fatal Car Chase
US authorities sacked six police officers Tuesday who unloaded 137 bullets into a car carrying two unarmed African Americans, killing the pair in a hail of gunfire in Cleveland, Ohio.
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US Policeman Sacked After Fatal Shooting
A Florida policeman who shot dead a black musician as the victim returned from a concert last month has been fired from his job, officials said.
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A Racially Divided America Gets Ready To Vote
As America heads into election year, one of the issues fiercely debated every day but missing from the campaigns is the police shootings of unarmed African American men.
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Alabama Lowers Confederate Battle Flag After Charleston Massacre
The Confederate battle flag was taken down today outside Alabama's state legislature as Americans increasingly shun the Civil War era saltire after the Charleston church massacre.
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Racist 'Manifesto' Lays Bare Charleston Church Shooting Motive
A chilling website apparently created by Dylann Roof emerged Saturday in which the accused Charleston church shooter rails against African Americans and appears in photographs with guns and burning the US flag.
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Anger, Protests Grow After Charleston Church Killings
Residents of South Carolina, still shaken by the unthinkable murder of nine African Americans, planned protests across the state today, giving voice to their grief, anger and demands for change.
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'Mother Emanuel': Spiritual Home, Historic Symbol for Blacks in Charleston
The black church where a horrific shooting claimed the lives of nine people boasts a rich history echoing America's own painful passage through slavery, civil rights, and now, its racially turbulent present.
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Video Shows Police Wrestle Pregnant Black Woman to Ground
Police body camera footage published online by a rights group on Thursday showed two California officers wrestling to the ground a black woman who was eight months pregnant, and arresting her following a dispute with another woman.
