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AFRICANGLOBE – An Ohio city agreed to pay $80,000 to settle a First Amendment lawsuit filed by a Black man who said police took him into custody for laughing at officers — and made up claims about him to justify the arrest.
https://www.africanglobe.net/headlines/man-arrested-laughing-black-forced-clean-jail-cells/
AFRICANGLOBE – The funeral for one of the youngest victims of Legionnaires’ disease was held Sunday in Flint, Michigan. Jassmine McBride, only 30 years old, contracted the deadly lung disease at the height of the Flint water crisis in 2014 “It’s almost five years since the water switch, when our government decided to switch from the Detroit water source to the Flint River, yet none of the issues which are affecting our health have been addressed. Now people are starting to pass away, and we ask who will be next?”
https://www.africanglobe.net/headlines/flint-water-crisis-claimed-youngest-victim/
AFRICANGLOBE – Kevin Thompson, a Black teenager, was unlawfully jailed for five days because he couldn’t afford to pay more than $800 to a court that sought to raise revenue for DeKalb County. Black single mothers are jailed for up to 57 days and separated from their children because they cannot pay exorbitant fines to the courts of Lexington County. Hundreds of thousands of people, disproportionately Black, are harmed by North Carolina’s revocation of driver’s licenses simply for inability to pay court debt.
https://www.africanglobe.net/headlines/supreme-court-cited-black-codes-ruling-civil-forfeiture/
AFRICANGLOBE – Disturbing eyewitness footage of a group of NYPD police officers wrestling an infant child away from his mother on the floor of a benefits office in New York as sparked outrage online and among city politicians.
https://www.africanglobe.net/headlines/disturbing-video-shows-nypd-thugs-ripping-1yo-baby-mothers-arms/
AFRICANGLOBE – The FBI kept tabs on the late boxer Muhammad Ali in 1966, including his divorce and his speech at a Miami mosque, allegedly in its investigation of the religious group Nation of Islam, according to documents released by the agency. The FBI has been criticized for monitoring public figures, including civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.. The latest batch of about 140 pages of FBI documents from 1966 on Ali, which includes previously classified material, were released following a lawsuit to obtain the papers brought in August by conservative group Judicial Watch.
http://www.africanglobe.net/headlines/years-fbi-secretly-spying-muhammad-ali/
AFRICANGLOBE – Attorneys for the city of Los Angeles have agreed to a $4-million payout to settle lawsuits filed by the family of an unarmed homeless man fatally shot last year by an LAPD officer in Venice, court records show. The tentative deal comes as prosecutors weigh whether to charge the officer, Clifford Proctor, in connection with the May 5, 2015, killing of Brendon Glenn. In a highly unusual move, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck recommended that prosecutors file criminal charges in the case.
http://www.africanglobe.net/headlines/los-angeles-pay-4-million-blood-money-family-unarmed-man-killed-lapd/
AFRICANGLOBE – Authorities in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, have decided not to charge the Charlotte police officer who shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott, 43, in September. The man’s death prompted several days of protests that at times turned violent.
http://www.africanglobe.net/headlines/cop-murdered-keith-lamont-scott-charged/
