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[Link] Drake withdraws his two 2022 Grammy nominations
Read: 8/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Drake has decided to withdraw his two Grammy nominations.
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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] 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] 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] Cops and Paramedics Involved in Elijah McClain Death Charged With Homicide
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The police officers and paramedics who stopped 23-year-old Elijah McClain and administered a fatal dose of ketamine to the unarmed Black man are being charged with homicide, more than two years after his death.
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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] Mass Resignations at Scientific Journal Over Ethically Fraught China Genetics Papers
Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com
Eight members of the editorial board of a scientific journal have resigned after it published a slew of controversial papers that critics fear could be used for DNA profiling and persecution of ethnic minorities in China.
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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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[Link] Cops Pulled Their Guns on a Black Realtor Showing a Home to Black Clients
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Eric Brown, a Black realtor in Wyoming, Michigan, had been giving a potential buyer, who also happened to be Black, and his 15-year-old son a tour of a home on the market. Just minutes into the viewing on Aug.
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