The Ohio grand jury has made a decision in the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty announced the outcome Monday,…
CNN Security Guard Killed By Police While Talking His Son Down From Hostage Situation In today’s episode of “Cops Kill People” a father was tragically taken from his son under suspicious circumstances… Via RawStory Bobby Daniels was a peace officer by trade – a private security guard employed at CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta. When he learned that his emotionally troubled 25-year-old son Bias had suffered a breakdown and was holding a fellow security guard at gunpoint in a mobile home part in Douglasville, Bobby raced to the scene. Using the skills of persuasion and patient de-escalation upon which a private peace officer must rely, Bobby persuaded his son to relinquish his handgun and place it on the hood of a car. Just seconds later, Daniels was fatally shot – not by his mentally ill son, but by the sheriff’s deputies who had arrived on the scene. In familiar fashion, law enforcement officials insist that the victim of this police shooting – at least the 960th to occur in 2015 – was to blame, and they have provided contradictory accounts as to how it happened. “I think that he could have been trying to help the situation instead of hurting it, but when he pointed the gun at the officers, he was shot,” asserted Douglas County Sheriff Phil Miller in remarks to reports at the scene shortly after the December 21 incident. A different official account provided by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation claims that as Bobby and Bias struggled over control of the gun, deputies attempted to incapacitate the younger man with a taser. It’s amazing how each and every time the police murder kill a civilian there are wildly polarized versions of the events.
Many of us know that half of the battle for those living without a home is the fact that their appearance speaks of their misfortune before many of them even get a chance to open their mouths. It’s a hard-to-escape cycle. Thankfully, Long Beach, California salon owner, Teves Lee, realized this and was willing to help this sister out. Coincidentally, the woman had a job interview coming up. Teves Lee, the salon owner, said when this woman walked into her salon there was “something about the lady that told me to tell her to come back.” The woman returned the next day. Lee performed a consultation and noticed that her hair was dry, brittle, hadn’t been cleaned in a while and there was even some debris in it. That was when Lee realized she was homeless… [ MadameNoire ] Women Are Outpacing Men On Path To Billionaire Status According to a study by UBS, only twenty women in the world had billionaire status twenty-two years ago. However, that number has jumped to 145 in recent years. Yes, women have boosted their billionaire status seven-fold, while the population of male billionaires has only grown by a factor of 5.2.Of course, the billionaire’s club is still male dominated, there are currently 1,202 male billionaires, but if women continue to break through this glass ceiling at this rate, it’s only a matter of time before the numbers are more even. “Although female billionaires remain a minority, the growing opportunities for women to accumulate wealth suggests female entrepreneurs will drive significant growth in the number of billionaire women,” the study explains… [ MadameNoire ] Lupe Fiasco Is Dropping 3 Albums In 2016, Announces Tour Lupe Fiasco is going to have a busy 2016. The Chicago rapper revealed that he will be dropping three full albums next year, and first up is Drogas. Fiasco also announced, via Twitter, that he’s going on tour—dubbed the Tour For The Fans. The first date is in Seattle on Jan. 13 and it will hit cities including Los Angeles, Dallas, New York and Boston before coming to a close on February 13 in Indianapolis. Peep the full schedule right here. Fiasco’s last album, Tetsuo & Youth, was released in January 2015. [ HipHopWired ] 150,000 People Signed A Petition To Prosecute Spring Valley High Officer [ Vibe ] Las Vegas Strip Crash: Driver Says … I Was Just Really Tired [ TMZ ] Black Jobless Rate Is Much Higher Than Whites Regardless Of Education [ HuffingtonPost ] You Won’t Believe What Oprah’s New Colorado Ski Chalet Has On Its Property [ StarPulse ]
Many of us know that half of the battle for those living without a home is the fact that their appearance speaks of their misfortune before many of them even get a chance to open their mouths. It’s a hard-to-escape cycle. Thankfully, Long Beach, California salon owner, Teves Lee, realized this and was willing to help this sister out. Coincidentally, the woman had a job interview coming up. Teves Lee, the salon owner, said when this woman walked into her salon there was “something about the lady that told me to tell her to come back.” The woman returned the next day. Lee performed a consultation and noticed that her hair was dry, brittle, hadn’t been cleaned in a while and there was even some debris in it. That was when Lee realized she was homeless… [ MadameNoire ] Women Are Outpacing Men On Path To Billionaire Status According to a study by UBS, only twenty women in the world had billionaire status twenty-two years ago. However, that number has jumped to 145 in recent years. Yes, women have boosted their billionaire status seven-fold, while the population of male billionaires has only grown by a factor of 5.2.Of course, the billionaire’s club is still male dominated, there are currently 1,202 male billionaires, but if women continue to break through this glass ceiling at this rate, it’s only a matter of time before the numbers are more even. “Although female billionaires remain a minority, the growing opportunities for women to accumulate wealth suggests female entrepreneurs will drive significant growth in the number of billionaire women,” the study explains… [ MadameNoire ] Lupe Fiasco Is Dropping 3 Albums In 2016, Announces Tour Lupe Fiasco is going to have a busy 2016. The Chicago rapper revealed that he will be dropping three full albums next year, and first up is Drogas. Fiasco also announced, via Twitter, that he’s going on tour—dubbed the Tour For The Fans. The first date is in Seattle on Jan. 13 and it will hit cities including Los Angeles, Dallas, New York and Boston before coming to a close on February 13 in Indianapolis. Peep the full schedule right here. Fiasco’s last album, Tetsuo & Youth, was released in January 2015. [ HipHopWired ] 150,000 People Signed A Petition To Prosecute Spring Valley High Officer [ Vibe ] Las Vegas Strip Crash: Driver Says … I Was Just Really Tired [ TMZ ] Black Jobless Rate Is Much Higher Than Whites Regardless Of Education [ HuffingtonPost ] You Won’t Believe What Oprah’s New Colorado Ski Chalet Has On Its Property [ StarPulse ]
Study Shows 14 U.S. Cities Where Police-Related Deaths Are Exclusively African-American We are fast approaching the end of 2015 and we’ve been through a LOT as a people this year. We’ve seen far too many of our brothers and sisters killed at the hands of those who have been sworn to “serve and protect”. We came across a study that MappingPoliceViolence recently released that truly saddened us and made us think how far we really have to go in the fight against police bias and brutality. According to the report, there are 14 U.S. cities where 100% of the people killed by police were African-American. You read that correctly. 100%. Every single person killed by the cops was black. Flip the page to see if YOUR city landed on this heartbreaking and head-scratching list. Image via Shutterstock
Study Shows 14 U.S. Cities Where Police-Related Deaths Are Exclusively African-American We are fast approaching the end of 2015 and we’ve been through a LOT as a people this year. We’ve seen far too many of our brothers and sisters killed at the hands of those who have been sworn to “serve and protect”. We came across a study that MappingPoliceViolence recently released that truly saddened us and made us think how far we really have to go in the fight against police bias and brutality. According to the report, there are 14 U.S. cities where 100% of the people killed by police were African-American. You read that correctly. 100%. Every single person killed by the cops was black. Flip the page to see if YOUR city landed on this heartbreaking and head-scratching list. Image via Shutterstock
The School Says Any Demonstration Will Be Considered Trespassing A number of gun rights groups in Texas were planning to stage a huge mock mass shooting on the University of Texas campus this weekend in a simulation that will reportedly include fake blood, cardboard guns and hired actors. The Open Carry Walk and Crisis Performance… Read more »
A 7-year-old girl was killed after her soccer practice on Thursday by a man she hugged on the sidelines, TIME reports. On Thursday night, 7-year-old Emma was seen with her mother in the Taylor Sportsplex in Taylor, Michigan, when a family friend by the name of Timothy Nelson Obeshaw came up and shot both Emma and her mother. He then […]
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