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Report on racist messages sent among Antioch, California, police officers sparks protest

By Veronica Miracle, Taylor Romine and Paradise Afshar, CNN Protesters gathered outside the Antioch, California, Police Department Tuesday after a report revealed racist text messages sent among some officers and members of the public. The report from the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office named 17 police officers in the Antioch department who it said

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Tyre Nichols’ family files federal $550 million civil lawsuit against Memphis and police officers

By Nick Valencia, Ray Sanchez, Pamela Kirkland and Maxime Tamsett, CNN The family of Tyre Nichols filed a federal $550 million lawsuit Wednesday against the city of Memphis, its police department and what the suit said were “unqualified, untrained, and unsupervised” officers assigned to a special unit who brutally beat the 29-year-old Black man after

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‘Intersectionality’ has become a hot-button topic in recent years. Here’s what it means

By Leah Asmelash, CNN Intersectionality. Intersectional feminism. These are phrases you may have heard, either on the news or from your local politicians. Though these terms have become commonplace over the last few years, “intersectionality” was first coined more than 30 years ago by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, as a relatively obscure concept analyzing how

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2 cheerleaders were shot in a Texas supermarket parking lot after one opened the door to the wrong vehicle. A suspect is under arrest

By Alisha Ebrahimji and Tina Burnside, CNN Two teenage cheerleaders were shot after one said she mistook the suspect’s vehicle for her own in a supermarket parking lot near Texas’ capital — one of at least four incidents this week in which young people who’d made an apparent mistake were met with gunfire. Pedro Tello

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Manhattan parking garage that collapsed, killing 1, had open property violations, records show

By Julian Cummings, Brynn Gingras, Laura Ly and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN A parking garage that collapsed Tuesday in lower Manhattan, killing one person and injuring five others, had six open building violations, three of which were classified as “hazardous,” New York City Department of Buildings records show. The garage, on Ann Street in the Financial

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A man has been arrested in the killings of 4 people found in a Maine home. Authorities are also investigating highway shootings they say are connected

By Michelle Watson and Christina Maxouris, CNN A 34-year-old man was arrested Tuesday evening in connection with the killings of four people who were found dead earlier in the day at a Bowdoin, Maine, home, authorities said. The killings appeared to be connected to a series of nearby highway shootings that left three drivers injured

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Oklahoma governor calls on officials to resign over recording of racist and threatening remarks

By Tina Burnside and Raja Razek, CNN The governor of Oklahoma is calling on four McCurtain County officials to resign after they allegedly participated in a secretly recorded conversation that included racist remarks about lynching Black people and talking about killing journalists. The McCurtain Gazette-News over the weekend published the audio it said was recorded

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A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed after her friend turned into the wrong driveway in upstate New York, officials say

By Laura Ly and Brynn Gingras, CNN A 20-year-old woman was shot and killed Saturday after she and three others accidentally turned into the wrong driveway while looking for a friend’s house in rural upstate New York, authorities said. The woman, identified as Kaylin Gillis, was a passenger in a vehicle when a man, 65-year-old

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The White homeowner accused of shooting a Black teen who rang his doorbell turns himself in and is released on bail

By Nouran Salahieh, Taylor Romine and Holly Yan, CNN The 84-year-old White man accused of shooting a Black teenager who rang his doorbell in Kansas City turned himself in Tuesday and was later released on bail, authorities said. Andrew Lester, who faces two felony charges — assault in the first degree and armed criminal action

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Grand jury declines to indict Virginia officer in killing of unarmed man suspected of shoplifting

By Rashard Rose and Theresa Waldrop, CNN A grand jury has declined to indict a Virginia police officer who shot and killed an unarmed shoplifting suspect, according to the county prosecutor. Former Fairfax County Police Sergeant Wesley Shifflett was fired and faced a criminal investigation after the shooting death of Timothy Johnson in February. Officers

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