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During a routine traffic stop on Sunday night, white University of Cincinnati campus police officer Ray Tensing shot 43-year-old black man Samuel Dubose in the head. Dubose was missing a license plate on the front of his car, according to police officials, university police chief Jason Goodrich told the Guardian. Dubose allegedly refused to provide a…
As the trooper’s cruiser makes a U-turn and pulls up behind Sandra Bland’s white car, you can almost hear the first notes of John Williams’ Jaws theme. You then hear the first notes of the tuba that sounds like it’s underwater, and then the other horns. The pace quickens when the light turns green and…
Police dashboard video showing the arrest of Sandra Bland in Prairie View, Texas released Tuesday evening includes a number of continuity issues that suggests the possibility that the video was edited before its release. The July 10 arrest video shows a confrontation escalate quickly from a traffic stop for failing to signal to a heated…
“After you see what occurred, I think you’ll agree with me, that she did not deserve [to be arrested.” Sen. Royce West said that at a press conference today, right before the dash cam video of Sandra Bland’s arrest was released by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Bland was stopped on July 10 for…
I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold. Though I hadn’t touched the dashboard, the vents in the Jeep Cherokee started blasting cold air at the maximum setting, chilling the sweat on my back through the in-seat climate control system. Next the radio switched…
From Gawker to Ashley Madison, moralizers are punishing private people in public for adultery. Since when does the Internet care so much about monogamy? On Friday, Gawker published a post alleging that a Condé Nast executive tried to arrange an evening with a gay escort. Now, a hacker or group of hackers calling themselves The…
Huge database hacks are now so common that there is a secondary industry of credit and identity-fraud protection services. It’s almost a form of theater by now. The typical sequence is: A massive company fails to secure your data, and a hacking group copies that data without permission; The breach is discovered either by internal…
In the immediate aftermath of the massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, the US House of Representatives Appropriations Committee quietly rejected an amendment that would have allowed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study the underlying causes of gun violence. Though gun violence and gun control has again come to the forefront of the American…
Authorities in Waller County, Texas are being questioned after video of the arrest of a 28-year-old African-American woman who died in police custody three days later surfaced. Sandy Bland had just moved to Texas to take a job at her alma mater, Prairie View A&M University, when she was pulled over by police for not…
Witnesses have told Mississippi state investigators that an unarmed black man died after being kept in a chokehold by a police officer for more than 20 minutes and denied CPR, according to his family’s attorneys, who said an autopsy confirmed he was fatally strangled. Related: Mississippi police accused of choking unarmed man to death with…