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Man Sentenced For Killing Neighbor Over Loud Music No One Else Could Hear

Man Sentenced For Killing Neighbor Over Loud Music No One Else Could Hear

A Missouri man was sentenced to 24 years in prison on September 19, 2018 for the murder of a neighbor who he thought was playing loud music no one else could hear.

29 year-old James C. Blanton, who had originally been charged with first-degree murder, pleaded guilty to second degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. State mental health experts had reportedly found that…

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#TheResistance Is Real

“#TheResistance”, a Twitter hashtag started in response to the policies of President Donald Trump, is undoubtedly real, and more than just a hashtag.

Since Trump became Commander-in-Chief, his actions against so many segments of the population has caused the nation to become extremely polarized, partisan, divided, & chaotic.

During the 2016 election campaign season, I was usually politically…

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"Rest In Power: The Trayvon Martin Story" Coming In July

“Rest In Power: The Trayvon Martin Story” Coming In July

One of the most infamous trials in modern history ended on July 13th, 2013.  A Florida neighborhood watchman was acquitted in the murder of an unarmed high school teenager.

Now, five years later, a six-episode series from Paramount Pictures, is coming this July. Executive producers are Trayvon Martin’s parents, Sybrina Fulton & Tracy Martin, along with Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, Chachi Senior, Michael…

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Judge Grants Bond For Man Claiming Self-Defense In Stabbing Wedding Chef

Judge Grants Bond For Man Claiming Self-Defense In Stabbing Wedding Chef

Tears and gasps of anger were heard inside a Virginia courtroom on September 8, reports KIVA-TV, when a judge granted a $250,000 bond for Kempton Bonds, a 19-year-old man accused of second degree murder. He posted bond and was released on house arrest, amid vocal protests the victim’s family and friends. Kempton Bonds (Booking photo) Bonds is claiming self-defense in the stabbing death of…

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Top Tweet: Jim Crow States Have Stand Your Ground Laws

Top Tweet: Jim Crow States Have Stand Your Ground Laws

In the history of the United States of America, no practice of law has caused more controversy, grief, injustice, and shame than Jim Crow laws, which were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the South. The practice existed for 75 years, until 1965, after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. Today almost every state that had Jim Crow laws from 1876 to 1965 now has some form of…

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Pokemon Go Meets Stand Your Ground

Pokemon Go Meets Stand Your Ground

Among the myriad of stories pouring in about dangerous Pokemon Go game experiences happening in the world of AR (Augmented Reality), along comes news from Florida (of course) about a real-world “stand your ground” type of incident which fortunately was not deadly – but could have been. According to a report from the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, on Saturday morning (July 16) about 1:30 a.m., a…

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Stand Your Ground Goes Wrong In Racist Gang Attack

Stand Your Ground Goes Wrong In Racist Gang Attack

A paradigm of just how badly how stand your ground can go wrong is when a Black man brutally attacked by a group White men, is charged with murder, testifies that he didn’t intend to kill one, but did, and then a judge decides he is not immune from prosecution – because the self-defense was unintentional. It happened in Georgia, and the story of Jesse Murray, as revealed in media and police…

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A Stand Your Ground Case Taking Too Long To Go To Trial

A Stand Your Ground Case Taking Too Long To Go To Trial

Curtis Reeves, Jr. will probably never again be a free man. He will likely die behind bars, or perhaps while out of prison on house arrest, in a stand your ground case that’s taking a noticeably long time to go to trial. On Jan. 13, 2014, Reeves, now 73-year-old, fatally shot 43-year-old Chad Oulson in a Pasco County, Florida movie theater. Reeves was charged with second-degree murder and…

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Due To Tensions In America, Bahamas Gov't Issues Travel Advisory

Due To Tensions In America, Bahamas Gov’t Issues Travel Advisory

After a violent week of shootings by and of police, the government in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas said it has “taken a note of the recent tensions in some American cities over shootings of young black males by police officers”, and has issued an unprecedented advisory to its citizens traveling to the United States, just as the islands began a weekend celebration of their 43rd year of…

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New York Off-Duty Cop Kills Unarmed Man In July 4th Road Rage Incident

New York Off-Duty Cop Kills Unarmed Man In July 4th Road Rage Incident

Details are still emerging in the July 4th fatal shooting of an unarmed convicted felon by an off-duty New York City police officer during a road rage incident shortly after midnight. Reports are that, as the two men were at a red light, 37 year-old Delrawn Small, who was driving with his girlfriend, Zaquanna Albert, 35-years-old, and her two kids to a fireworks show, got out of his car and…

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Oscar Pistorius Gets 6 Years In Prison For Girlfriend’s Murder Even though he faced a minimum of 15 years in prison, Paralympic gold medallist sprinter Oscar Pistorius was sentenced today (July 6) by a South African judge to six years in prison for the 2013 Valentine's Day murder of his girlfriend, 29-year-old model Reeva Steenkamp.

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10 Years Later, Remembering A 9-Year-Old Whose Killer Claimed Stand Your Ground

10 Years Later, Remembering A 9-Year-Old Whose Killer Claimed Stand Your Ground

Sherdavia Jenkins, a 9-year-old girl playing outside her Miami home with her siblings didn’t deserve to die. Especially not the way she did – caught in the crossfire of gang warfare and felled by a bullet from an AK-47. Even more hurtful was the fact that the shooter had the audacity to invoke Florida’s stand your ground law. Her death in 2006 horrified the community and solidified her name as a…

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Stand Your Ground Hearing For Cop In Theater Shooting Postponed - Again

Stand Your Ground Hearing For Cop In Theater Shooting Postponed – Again

Prosecutors and attorneys for a retired Florida cop who killed a man during an argument over the man texting on a cell phone in a movie theater have agreed to postpone a stand your ground hearing – again, and again, and now again – until next year. A hearing on an immunity claim of self-defense under stand your ground law was originally set by Circuit Court Judge Susan L. Barthle for January 25,…

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Missouri Governor Vetoes Stand Your Ground Bill

Missouri Governor Vetoes Stand Your Ground Bill

SB656, a bill designed to change Missouri’s laws on self-defense laws, and make Missouri the first state since the Trayvon Martin incident to pass a stand your ground law, was vetoed by Governor Jay Nixon today (June 27). After sailing through the state’s Senate and the House, the bill had been awaiting approval or veto by Nixon since May 13. SEE: Missouri (Almost) Becomes A Stand Your Ground…

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Crazy Gun Laws That Put Our Lives at Risk

Crazy Gun Laws That Put Our Lives at Risk

Did you know there is at least one municipality in America that requires the head of household to own a gun? It’s just one of the many “gun laws” that the National Rifle Association (NRA) has pushed to enact across the nation. In fact, Thom Senzee reports on Advocate.com that there are other “crazy” gun laws – like stand your ground – that put our lives at risk. The NRA has been so effective at…

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South Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Murder Charge Dismissal South Carolina's Supreme Court recently ruled that a North Charleston woman legally used deadly force in 2012 when she fatally stabbed her boyfriend at their home.

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White Barber Refused Service, Pulled Gun On Black Man

White Barber Refused Service, Pulled Gun On Black Man

A South Carolina barber with a history of altercations told police he “felt threatened” when he refused service and pulled out a gun on an African-American man who walked into his barbershop for a shave, according to reports. Rock Hill barber Larry Thomas, 65-years-old, who is white, allegedly pulled out a gun when Arthur Hill, of Fort Mill, a 37-year-old African-American, walked into…

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