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Ohio Man Reportedly Killed Officer After Posting Warning Online
A 21-year-old Cincinnati man and a veteran police offi- cer died during a shootout in what officials are calling a case of “suicide by cop,” according to USA Today.
Trepierre Hummons re- portedly shot and killed Offi- cer Sonny Kim, 48, on a city street after posting a goodbye message on Facebook on Fri- day morning, the report says. “We lost one of our best today,” Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell told reporters at an emotional afternoon news conference, the report says. “Our hearts are broken.”
Before the shooting broke out about 9 a.m., Hummons reportedly posted on Face- book, “I love every last one of y’all to whoever has been in my life. ... You’re the real mvp,” the report says. He also reportedly sent several text messages to friends indicating that he was planning to cause police to kill him, Blackwell said.
Hummons allegedly called 911 to report himself, twice saying a man with a gun was
Gunmen Shoot
Leader Of White Supremacist Group Referenced By Charleston Shooter Has Donated To Republican Campaigns
TREPIERRE HUMMONS
acting erratically and then de- scribed himself to the emer- gency dispatcher. In a 911 recording, a man is heard speaking frantically about a “belligerent” young man “in his early twenties” with a gun in his waistband, writes the Daily Mail. When asked about the man’s race, he replies, “A black man, of course,” the re- port says.
Kim, who was wearing a bullet-resistant vest, was shot multiple times, the report says.
PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Po- lice are searching for gunmen after a West Philadelphia block party on Saturday ended with shooting, resulting in injuries to 10 people, including three children.
According to the report, at least two blasts from a shotgun were fired at about 10 p.m. on Saturday. An 18-month-old girl was shot in the neck, an 11- year-old boy was struck in the leg and back and a 12-year-old boy was hit in the chest. The seven others who were injured ranged in age from 22 to 59.
All victims were reported to be in a stable condition after having been taken to area hos- pitals.
Authorities are looking for two black men. Police say an ongoing feud between two groups of people may have been behind the shooting. A $20,000 reward has been posted for information.
Sheriff In Arizona Sent Armed Posses Into 60 Black Churches
SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO
PHOENIX, AZ — A sheriff on trial, accused of harassing some members of a minority commu- nity, sent armed volunteer posse members into 60 black churches Sunday in response to the racially motivated attack in South Carolina last week.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who already is under federal supervision be- cause of a ruling two years ago that his office racially profiled Hispanics in its traffic and im- migration patrols, is scheduled to go to trial in August in a sep- arate lawsuit alleging additional discrimination against Latinos.
He said the Rev. Jarrett Maupin, who describes him- self as a Progressive Baptist preacher and civil-rights cam- paigner on his Facebook page, asked him to provide the pro- tection because he was worried about problems with white su- premacists in the area.
"I am the elected sheriff of this county. He asked me to help, and I'm going to help," Arpaio said Friday.
Roof killed: Sharonda Coleman-Singleton; Cynthia Hurd; Ty- wanza Sanders, Depayne Middleton Doctor, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lance, South Carolina pastor and state Sen. Clementa C. Pinckney, Rev. Dr. Daniel Simmons, Sr. and Myra Thompson.
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Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Book About Freedmen’s Bank
The president of a white su- premacist group that was ref- erenced in a manifesto attributed to accused Emanuel AME shooter Dylann Roof donated tens of thousands of dollars to Republican cam- paigns, including those of Rick Santorum and Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Rand Paul (Kentucky), who are all running for president in 2016 the New York Times re- ports.
Upon discovery Cruz an- nounced on Sunday night that he would be returning approx- imately $8,500 that he re- ceived from self-identified President of the Council of Conservative Citizens, Earl Holt III since 2012.
Southern Poverty Law Cen- ter identifies the group as white nationalist, having a
Statement of Principles that "oppose[s] all efforts to mix the races of mankind," and known for calling God the "au- thor of racism."
As the report notes, in a racist manifesto that was posted to a website registered in Roof's name, the writer said that he had first learned of "brutal black-on-white mur- ders" from the Council of Con- servative Citizen's website.
The Times reports that a statement posted online in Holt's name said he wasn't surprised to learn that Roof made the discovery of "black - on-white violent crime" from the supremacist organization, as [the group] is one of few with the courage to talk about "the seemingly endless inci- dents involving black-on- white murder."
Velma McKenzie-Orr,
director of The Bookstore At Grace and former director of the Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum, has an- nounced that only ten days are left to become one of the back- ers that will unveil a legacy so amazing that only one group, in the history of humankind, accomplished it. Yet, most de- scendants of America’s 57 mil- lion dollar freedmen don’t know that their ancestors emerged from 249 years of slavery and amassed $57 mil- lion in the Freedmen’s Bank, in less than 9 years, between 1865 and 1874, until Finding America’s $57 Million Freed- men: In Search of “40 Acres and a Mule”.
McKenzie-Orr cites W.E.B. Du Bois, who de- scribed their feat as “phenom- enal”, as the first to write about their accrual of $57,000,000 but notes that few descendants of this history have read his book published in 1935.
Finding America’s $57 Mil- lion Freedmen: In Search of “40 Acres and a Mule”, is a riv- eting venture that began with Major General William Sherman on the “march to the sea” from Atlanta to Sa- vannah, Georgia. Readers are taken back to the only meeting between the United States government and twenty Negro
The book: Finding America’s $57 Million Freedmen: In Search of “40 Acres and a Mule”.
ministers where they dis- cussed the future of soon-to- be freed slaves. Four days later, Sherman issued “Spe- cial Field Order No. 15,” now called, “40 Acres and a Mule.” The order set aside 400,000 acres of land for freed slaves and freedmen to have a place to exist in freedom.
Backers that pre-order the limited, first edition book, ex- clusively available for Kick- starter backers will have their names printed in the book to acknowledge their support to publish this important history. Anyone can participate at the Kickstarter campaign link by June 25, 2015 at: www.kick- starter.com.
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