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[Link] England and Wales police bosses will not admit to institutional racism in their forces
Read: 1/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
Police leaders in England and Wales will decide not to accept that their forces are still institutionally racist, as they try to battle their way out of a race crisis.
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[Link] Racist 'Meta Slave' NFT Project Rebrands After Being Called Racist
Read: 5/2/2022 www.vice.com
Over the past year, as the NFT space has begun to explode we’ve begun to see a growing number of racist collections—most notably NFTs depicting George Floyd called “Floydies.
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[Link] Florida GOP Wants to Ban Making White People Feel ‘Discomfort’ About Racism
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
A new bill pushed by Florida Gov.
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[Link] Black TikTokers Are Tired of Not Getting Paid for the Moves You Stole
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
But neither of them created that choreography. It was Jalaiah Harmon, who was 14 years old at the time. Neither D’Amelio nor Rae initially gave her credit, and they apologized only after being called out. Influencers like Rae and D’Amelio have turned their stardom into lucrative careers.
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[Link] New Twitter CEO's Tenure Begins With People Dragging Old Tweet In Bad Faith
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stepped down on Monday, and announced that CTO Parag Agrawal will be taking over. Agwaral's tenure at Twitter then immediately started in the most painfully Twitter way: a pile-on based on a tweet he made a decade ago.
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[Link] The Brutal Racism of the Trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Whether the defense likes it or not, the trial of Travis and Gregory McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan is all about race.
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[Link] Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Were Justified Because Break-Ins ‘Scared’ Them, Defense Says
Read: 22/11/2021 www.vice.com
Travis McMichael had every reason to fear a 25-year-old Black man running through his neighborhood and was justified in attempting to make a “citizen’s arrest” that led to the deadly shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, an attorney for the defense said in one final appeal to jurors.
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[Link] Travis McMichael Admits Ahmaud Arbery Never Threatened Him Before Shooting
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
Ahmaud Arbery did not threaten Travis McMichael or signal that he was armed in the moments before he was killed, but McMichael shot him dead during their struggle anyway, the Glynn County courthouse in Georgia heard Thursday.
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[Link] ‘He Had My Gun’: Ahmaud Arbery's Killer Claims It Was Self-Defense
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
Travis McMichael, one of three men who chased Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in a truck with a confederate flag vanity plate, testified Wednesday that he shot Arbery during the confrontation because he believed Arbery was trying to take his gun.
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[Link] Defense for Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Doesn’t Want Famous Black People in Court
Read: 12/11/2021 www.vice.com
One of the defense attorneys for Ahmaud Arbery’s killers was in his feelings when he found out Rev. Al Sharpton stopped by the courtroom to sit with the slain young Black man’s family.
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[Link] Father of Ahmaud Arbery’s Killer: ‘I Would Have Shot Him Myself’
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Had Travis McMichael not shot Ahmaud Arbery in the chest twice with his shotgun and killed the 25-year-old Black man, Travis’ dad Gregory McMichael said he would have done it instead.
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[Link] Ahmaud Arbery’s Dad Walked Out When Jury Was Shown Images of His Dead Son
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
The first time photos of Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal injuries were shown during the trial of the three white men accused of killing him, his father Marcus Arbery Sr. stood up and left the courtroom. “If you seen your kid get blown apart with a 12-gauge shotgun, what would you do?” Arbery Sr.
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[Link] Gene common in south Asian people doubles risk of Covid death, study finds
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Scientists have identified a gene that doubles the risks of respiratory failure and death from Covid and could explain why people of south Asian heritage are more vulnerable to the disease.
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[Link] Lawyers for Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Really Want to Stay Away From Race
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
During opening statements in the murder trial against Ahmaud Arbery's killers, defense attorneys avoided mentioning race almost entirely.
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[Link] New Zealand gang leaders unite to urge community to get Covid shots
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Seven New Zealand gang leaders, representing four of the countries most well-known street gangs, have joined forces in a video urging their communities to get vaccinated, in a concept that was conjured up by a government minister.
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[Link] Alabama Judge Loses Job After Saying George Floyd ‘Got What He Deserved’
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Randy Jinks, the Talladega County Probate Judge, was removed from his position Friday.
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[Link] Jury Selection at the Charlottesville White Nationalist Trial Has Been Wild
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Jury selection was always going to be an arduous and challenging process in Sines vs. Kessler, a massive civil suit brought by nine survivors of the violence in Charlottesville against 20 white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and their various organizations.
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[Link] It Took 7 Years To Charge Cops Who Shot Jamarion Robinson 59 Times
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Members of a U.S. Marshal’s task force shot Jamarion Robinson, a 26-year-old Black man with paranoid schizophrenia, 59 times during a raid on his girlfriend’s home in 2016.
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[Link] A Biracial YouTube Star Disparaged Black Women’s Hair. Now She’s Getting Canceled
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
Earlier this month, Atlanta-based influencer Briana Monique posted a vlog on YouTube where she discussed a few Black-owned hair products she was using to revive her hair after a few weeks of protective styling.
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[Link] A Black 10-Year-Old Drew an ‘Offensive Sketch.’ She Was Handcuffed by Cops.
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Ultimately, the child was held for over four hours by either school staff or police. By the time she was released, she “was very hungry and exhausted,” according to the letter.
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[Link] Ahmaud Arbery’s Murder Trial Jury Is Proving Hard to Pick
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Jury selection in the ongoing murder trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers is off to a rough start.
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[Link] Black Democratic Party Chair Says He Got Lynching Threat For Criticizing Trump
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Ross Wilburn says he received multiple threats, including one that threatened to lynch him, after he wrote an op-ed that criticized former President Donald Trump.
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[Link] Court Mistakenly Gave Potential Jurors Access to Ahmaud Arbery’s Mental Health History
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Those documents include specifics about Arbery’s mental health and prior criminal history that a judge ordered suppressed and never brought up in court.
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[Link] Former DA indicted for allegedly 'showing favor' to men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery
Read: 3/9/2021 www.nbcnews.com
Jaquelyn Lee Johnson was indicted on charges of violation of oath of public officer and obstruction of a police officer, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced. Johnson served as Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney when Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot last February.
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[Link] AI Can Guess Your Race Based On X-Rays, and Researchers Don't Know How
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers opening the door to a wider array of artificially intelligent medical devices, new research suggests that medical AI systems can perpetuate racial bias in health care in ways humans don’t understand and can’t detect.
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[Link] Repealing the “Walking While Trans” Ban Is Part of the Struggle to Decriminalize Sex Work
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
After years of tireless organizing, advocacy, and struggle led by trans women of color, the state of New York has finally repealed the pernicious anti-loitering statute that was widely known as the law against “walking while trans.” On Monday, New York Gov.
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[Link] A Cop Wrongly Handcuffed a Black Mom and Kids. Now He’s Running for Sheriff.
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Almost a year after Aurora, Colorado, police officers wrongly handcuffed a Black mother and members of her young family in a parking lot, one of the cops involved has thrown his hat into the race for county sheriff of a nearby town.
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