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A white teacher in Queens, NY was arrested Thursday after he was accused of brutally throwing a Black student into a wall, then slamming him to the ground.

A Minnesota judge handed down an extra lenient prison sentence of just 24 months to former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter for killing Daunte Wright after purportedly confusing a Taser for a gun in suburban Minneapolis last year.

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James Iannazzo, who is shown on video in Connecticut using racist language while violently attacking teenage workers at Robeks over the contents of a smoothie, also threatened to kill them "multiple times," according to the employee who filmed the footage.

According to police, Curtis Keith Bankston allegedly imprisoned mentally and physically disabled people in his basement, while seizing control of their assets.

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Donald Trump and the Trump Organization are big mad that New York Attorney General Letitia James is moving forward with her civil investigation. Eric Trump and attorney Alina Habba took to right-wing media to air their grievances.

Kim Potter's smiling mugshot after her convictions for the first- and second-degree manslaughter killing of Daunte Wright provided even more reason to doubt the sincerity of the former Minnesota cop's emotional testimony mocked as acting during the trial.

Maryland police officer Anthony Westerman is the second white person convicted of rape in as many weeks to enjoy the privilege of not receiving any jail or prison time for their violent felony offenses. Coincidence? The post ‘Two Justice Systems’: Maryland Cop Is 2nd White Convicted Rapist To Avoid Jail In As Many Weeks appeared first on NewsOne.

What may have seemed like an open-and-shut case has been anything but that as Kyle Rittenhouse's jurors have taken more than 24 hours to deliberate. Legal experts explain how lengthy jury deliberations bode for defendants.

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There was a growing number of social media reports linking the shooting death of rapper Young Dolph in Memphis to rap beef with rival local rapper Yo Gotti as the city mourned the loss of a talented, popular and successful member of its community.

Rejecting the idea that Rittenhouse feared for his life or had to act in self-defense, the prosecution walked through the various reckless decisions taken by the young gunman.  

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Nearly two years after Ahmaud Arbery's shocking killing in Brunswick, Georgia, the murder trial has finally begun in an effort to the three white men accountable for the racist and vigilante shooting that bore all the hallmarks of a modern-day lynching.

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From the prosecution to the defense attorneys to the judge and everyone else involved with Kyle Rittenhouse's murder trial, get familiar with this cast of characters.