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Oakland California had a busy year with the Occupy Wall St. movement in 2011. We saw a lot of political talk, shut down ports and political unrest in the city. Ironically, in the shadow of “the movement” that created the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, Oakland saw a surge in homicide. Sadly, many of the victims were children. Gabriel Martinez Jr. was killed in front of a taco truck. He
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A 1-year-old boy who was shot in the head during the filming of a rap music video in Oakland was taken off life support Friday.
Hiram Lawrence, who would have turned 2 on Dec. 28, was pronounced dead at 3:05 p.m., the Rev. Roosevelt Taylor said.
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The boy’s family had held
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BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — A dean’s list student who killed a Virginia Tech police officer had no ties to the university and did not know the patrolman, authorities said Friday without offering a motive for a crime spree that spanned two days and ended in suicide.
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Ross Truett Ashley, 22, first drew
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NEW YORK — Several incidents of gun violence marred the annual New York West Indian Labor Day Parade on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. In all, more than 7 people were shot in and around the parade, according to the New York Post.
One man was shot during the jurvee, pre-carnival celebration at a McDonalds near the parade at 6am and another man was shot on Eastern Parkway after the celebration.
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The rate of firearm deaths among children under 15 years old is 12 times higher in the United States than in 25 other industrialized countries combined, according to statistics from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.
With these alarming rates, parents must understand that prevention starts with them.
Detroit police investigator Kimree Beckem suggests that if you’re going to keep a loaded gun in your home, you should invest in
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Five people were fatally shot, and 27 others were wounded this past weekend in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a rash of violence that Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey described as a “blatant disregard for human life.”
There were a total of 9 incidents of gunfire, including one incident where a gunman targeted random patrons inside a bar.
“They were all patrons inside, laughing , joking , dancing just having a really good time
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The right-wing and gun advocates are up in arms over the statement made by Chicago’s new police chief that gun laws in America are “government sponsored racism.”
Garry McCarthy, who was brought in by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, said at a Black church in a violent neighborhood in the South Side of Chicago that slavery, Jim Crow, and a lot of factors are the reason for the gun violence around the country in
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ENFIELD, Conn. (AP) — As Omar Thornton prepared to head off to work at a beer distributorship Tuesday morning, his girlfriend sensed something was wrong.
“He just kept having this dazed, confused look on his face, and I never saw him like that before,” Kristi Hannah, his girlfriend of eight years, told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “I could tell something was bothering him. I asked him what was
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On Wednesday, July 28th a 13-year-old boy died after he was repeatedly shot as he rode his bicycle near his West Pullman home. The young-man, whose name was Robert Freeman was shot 22 times.
Roland Martin appears on Rick’s List with fill-in host Don Lemon to discuss the unrelenting epidemic of violence amongst Chicago’s youth. Ronald Holt and Annette Nance-Holt, who lost their son, Blair Holt in a 2007 shooting join the
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