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California Attorney General Kamala Harris speaks March 8 at the California Democratic State Convention in Los Angeles.(Photo: Jae C. Hong, AP) LOS ANGELES — California Attorney General Kamala Harris asked a state court Wednesday for an order allowing her to avoid processing a citizen-proposed anti-gay ballot measure that calls for executing gays with “bullets to…
In a disturbing story published today by Philadelphia magazine, a woman alleges that the Uber driver that picked her up in Philadelphia’s Old City last month “held her arms down, ripped her pants, and raped her.” The woman, 33, also claims that the driver held her in his car and continued to drive her around…
Here’s a timely reminder to be extra careful when entering a taxi—or anything that appears to be a taxi. A Redditor believes he stumbled upon a fake cabbie ripping people’s credit cards off with a skimmer this week. “I got into a normal NYC taxi today, but when it was time to pay, the driver…
Story highlights Martese Johnson: “We are one community. We deserve to respect each other” He was injured during an arrest, and a photo of his bloodied face was distributed Virginia’s governor has ordered an investigation of the incident The university’s Black Student Alliance distributed a photograph, showing what it said was Martese Johnson, 20, during…
Another day, another SMH-worthy police brutality incident. A black student from the University of Virginia was brutally beaten by police after the student allegedly attempted to enter a bar with a fake I.D., according to ABC reports. After 20-year-old Martese Johnson was denied entry in a bar on St.Patrick’s Day after allegedly attempting to enter…
Last night 300 students at the University of Virginia rallied to protest the violent arrest of Martese Johnson, a fellow student who was reportedly bloodied by officers Tuesday night for trying to enter a local pub with an alleged fake ID. As students marched around campus and into town, chants of “black lives matter” filled…
Virginia senators Timothy M. Kaine and Mark R. Warner have joined those voicing unease after the bloody arrest of a University of Virginia student early Wednesday morning. Kaine tweeted late Wednesday that he was “troubled” by reports of the force used by Alcohol and Beverage Control agents when arresting Martese Johnson, a 20-year-old student who…
Martese Johnson is held down by an officer on Wednesday in Charlottesville, Virginia. Bryan Beaubrun / AP About 1,000 students and community members gathered at the University of Virginia campus Wednesday night to demand justice for a third-year student who was injured during an arrest hours earlier, and appeared in a photo and video with…
Danielle Hicks-Best, 18, holds her son, Levi. After D.C. police questioned her account about being sexually assaulted, Hicks-Best spent years in detention and secure treatment centers. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) Almost seven years ago, a troubled 11-year-old girl reported that she had been raped — twice — in her Northwest Washington neighborhood. Despite medical…
IT WAS ROUGHLY 10 p.m. in Las Vegas, on July 8, 2001, when a man rummaging through the garbage behind a bank just west of the Strip found the body. Tossed behind a dumpster and covered in trash was a dead black man. Though he had no ID on him, police would soon learn that he was…