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Georgia Mom Slashes Boyfriend With Sword After Catching Him Assaulting 5-Year-Old Daughter
Harvard Profits From Photos Of Slaves, Lawsuit Claims
A sample image of "Papa" Renty and his daughter Delia, taken in 1850, are displayed during a press conference announcing a lawsuit against Harvard University on Wednesday in New York City.
A Twiggs County, Georgia man is facing child molestation charges after allegedly molesting his girlfriend’s five-year-old daughter last week.
According to WGXA, the Twigg’s County Sheriff’s office responded to calls about an un- wanted person at a home at around midnight on Thursday. Deputies met the girl’s mother, who told deputies that she slashed her boyfriend, 25-year- old John Lawarren Williams with a large sword in an attempt to get him to leave
John Lawarren Williams, 25, is facing charges of aggravated child molestation and cruelty to children.
after walking in on him molest-
ing the child.
Williams had already fled
the scene when deputies arrived but turned himself into authori- ties at 6 a.m. the same day.
He was charged with aggra- vated child molestation and cru- elty to children and is currently being held without bond, the re- port notes. He was treated for a minor cut on his left hand before being taken to the Twiggs Law Enforcement Center.
The child and woman were both taken to the Navicent Pedi- atric Hospital.
Virginia Police Pull Guns, Handcuff College Students Over Broken Tail Light, Cop Claims Supreme Court Gives Him the Right
The enslaved man's name was Renty. His image adorns the cover of a Harvard publication that the university sells for $40.
Tamara Lanier says "Papa Renty" is the patriarch of her family. And in a lawsuit filed Wednesday, she says Har- vard is using those photos with- out permission — and in so doing, profiting from photos taken by a racist professor de- termined to prove the inferior- ity of black people.
Lanier says that Harvard has no rightful claim to the images of Renty or his daughter, Delia, forced to strip naked and pose for a demeaning pseudo- scientific study. Lanier argues that in refusing to acknowledge
Lanier's claim to the photos, Harvard is "perpetuating the systematic subversion of black property rights that began dur- ing slavery and continued for a century thereafter."
"Slavery was abolished 156 years ago, but Renty and Delia remain enslaved in Cam- bridge, Massachusetts," the complaint states. "Their im- ages, like their bodies before, remain subject to control and appropriation by the powerful, and their familial identities are denied to them."
A Harvard spokesperson said the university couldn't comment as it had not yet been served with the complaint, the Associated Press reported.
Four Virginia University of Lynchburg ...Wait, there is an actual place called Lynchburg and black people are there?
This story is over; the police did whatever the black kids said they did.
The place is called L-Y-N-C-H burg, which is obviously named after lynchings! I mean Virginia is in the d*^n South where lynchings ...
Four football playing college students at the Virginia Univer- sity of Lynchburg (which is to- tally not named after lynchings, but I wouldn’t blame you for thinking that) were stopped by police because they exceeded the number of blacks allowed to be in one car in the town of Lynch- burg.
Virginia University of Lynchburg students shown handcuffed as police officers stand over them.
According to ABC 13 News, the four football players were leaving an early morning work- out when they were stopped by a police officer who was driving in the opposite direction. That’s right, somehow the officer, who was not racially profiling any of
Contestant Jamal Trulove Awarded
the students, made a U-turn after the students passed them to notice that they had a broken tail light.
Because of the influx of bro- ken tail lights and the associa- tion of broken tail lights leading to murders, the officers report- edly had his gun drawn and asked all of the kids to get out of the car.
Video of the incident was ini- tially posted to Facebook but has mysteriously disappeared.
“It was kind of alarming to watch, just to see that,” VUL football coach, Bobby Rome, who watched the incident un- fold, told the news station.
“I seen the police officer ap- proach. He asked everyone to put their hands on the dash and immediately he had his hand on his waist,” Rome said.
In the video, viewed by the news station, the officer explains that he’s pulled his gun because he smelled marijuana.
Former 'I Love New York 2'
$13.1M After Being Framed By San
Francisco Police For Murder
East Pittsburgh Cop Who Shot And Killed 17-Year-Old Antwon Rose Acquitted; Protest Is Sparked
An aspiring hip-hop artist and former I Love New York 2 contestant has been awarded a $13.1 million settlement from the city of San Francisco.
Per the San Francisco Ex- aminer, Jamal Trulove spent over six years behind bars after he was wrongfully convicted of first-degree mur- der in 2010. Trulove was identified as the shooter in the 2007 death of his friend. His conviction was overturned in 2014, and he was acquitted of murder in a 2015 retrial, under claims of prosecutorial mis- conduct.
In January 2016, Trulove filed a federal lawsuit against the city alleging police “ma- nipulated an eyewitness, Priscilla Lualemaga, into misidentifying Mr. Trulove as the shooter.”
He was awarded $10 mil- lion in damages in 2018 when a jury concluded homicide of- ficers Maureen D’Amico and Michael Johnson fabri- cated and withheld evidence.
Here we go again. If you haven’t heard, a now former Pittsburgh area cop was acquit- ted on Friday for fatally shooting Antwon Rose, II, an unarmed black teenager. Rose, 17, was shot in the back by then-East Pittsburgh police officer Michael Rosfeld while fleeing from a traffic stop last June.
Rose was sitting in the pas- senger seat of an unlicensed taxicab when Rosfeld pulled him and another teen, Zaijuan Hester, over. The car matched the description of a vehicle in- volved in a drive-by shooting that had occurred just minutes earlier. Once stopped, Rose and Hester quickly bolted from the car. Rosfeld then opened fire and shot Rose three times in his back, arm, and face.
Rosfeld, who had been sworn in as a rookie officer with the East Pittsburgh Police De- partment only hours before the
ANTWON ROSE, JR.; MICHAEL ROSFELD
shooting, was charged with criminal homicide in Rose’s death. A police affidavit used to charge Rosfeld showed that the officer had given conflicting statements to investigators over the course of interviews with de- tectives. In an initial interview, Rosfeld suggested Rose may have been carrying something resembling a gun when he shot the teenager, but when detec- tives followed up, Rosfeld clar- ified that he did not see whether or not Rose was armed.
On Friday, however, a jury acquitted Rosfeld of all counts in a deliberation that took fewer than four hours. District Attor- ney Stephen A. Zappala, Jr., who tried the case in Allegheny County, said in a statement that he disagreed with the verdict but respected the jury’s decision.
“In the interest of justice, we must continue to do our job of bringing charges in situations where charges are appropriate, regardless of the role an individ- ual holds in the community,” Zappala said.
Of course you won’t be sur- prised to learn that Rose’s fam- ily on Friday condemned the verdict.
“I hope that man never sleeps at night,” the teen’s mother, mother, Michelle Kenney, said according to thePittsburgh Post-Gazette report. “I hope he gets as much sleep as I do, which is none.”
JAMAL TRULOVE
Earlier this month, Trulove wrote an emotional Instagram post outlining the effects of his prison sentence including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
"It’s just hitting me 4 years later on what happened to me after revisiting this footage. I’ve finally grown enough from the trauma induced reality of what the project experience made me believe that was ac- ceptable. There's nothing I could do to make up for that time I missed," he captioned his post.
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