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Orlando police officer who saved Pulse shooting victims fired from force

Omar Delgado, who suffered significant psychological trauma, let go months before he would have secured pension bonus for 10 years’ service

Omar Delgado let go months before he would have secured pension bonus Delgado suffered psychological trauma from shooting that left 49 dead

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Terror in Orlando: The victims

49 people were killed at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Here are their names and stories.

Here is a list of the lives taken resulting the Orlando shooting.

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The election isn't just a vote. America's very soul is in the balance | Lucia Graves

The election isn’t just a vote. America’s very soul is in the balance | Lucia Graves

Donald Trumps response to the Orlando shootings was so heinous that it spurred Barack Obama to make his most passionate defense of our values yet Barack Obama didnt need to give a speech on the Orlando shooting Tuesday, having already addressed it in solemn voice the day before. But following a meeting with his national security team on the state of our countrys fight against Islamic State, he…

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LGBT people of color refuse to be erased after Orlando: 'We have to elbow in'

Steven W Thrasher questions media’s lack of nuance and affirms when a safe space is invaded Latinos and others will stand up and be heard

"'There’s often a rush to decentralize marginalized people at traumatic moments,' [Paulina Helm-Hernandez] told me. As a queer Latina, she says, 'even when it’s our community under attack, our community is not allowed to set the tone, and I hate to say it, white people just rush in. I’ve watched it over and over again in recent years. The consolidation of gay white power, even in organizations that say they are committed to doing multiracial LGBT work.' Helm-Hernandez told me that all of her Latino colleagues who were arriving in town 'have tried to be a part of coalition community programs, and we’ve all been finding that a list of speakers has already been set. And do you think any of them were people of color? And were Latinos? No, we have to elbow in, and maybe they’ll give us one minute – or we have to create our own autonomous people of color spaces, which we have always done.' I’ve thought a lot about how Pulse’s Latin Night was just that: an autonomous space safe for Latino queers not in getting shelter from heterosexuals, but from a white gay culture that doesn’t see them."

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Senate fails to pass new gun control restrictions in wake of Orlando shooting

Senate fails to pass new gun control restrictions in wake of Orlando shooting

Republicans and Democrats put forth four separate measures on background checks and terrorist watch lists, all which were voted down Monday night The US Senate failed to advance new restrictions aimed at curtailing gun violence on Monday, as lawmakers voted down four separate measures just one week after a terrorist attack in Orlando marked the deadliest mass shooting in the nations history.…

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