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Mom Arrested by Police After Asking Them to Talk to Kids About Stealing - Tyeesha Mobley, 29, of the Bronx, New York, wanted to give one of her sons a lesson about why it’s not good to steal, so she called 911 to get an officer to speak to him. Instead, she says an officer arrested her and had her children taken out of her custody for four months. She was charged with child endangerment, but the charges were later dropped. Mobley is suing the NYPD and the Administration for Children’s Service for the incident. “You Black b****es don’t know how to take care of your kids.… You need to call the kids’ father, not us.… We can’t raise your kids,” the officer said to Mobley, according to the lawsuit.  (Photo: Tyeesha Mobley via Facebook)
Bad Cops Being Investigated for Exchanging Racist, Homophobic Texts - Four San Francisco officers are being investigated for exchanging hateful text messages that were mostly racist and homophobic in nature, CBS San Francisco reports. One officer, Ian Furminger, was already convicted last December for robbing drug dealers as a sergeant. “We got 2 blacks at my boys school and they are brother and sister! There cause dad works for the school district and I am watching them like hawks,” he wrote in a message, recovered from his phone.  (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Boyfriend Funds Spring Break Trip to Follow Girlfriend - Azel Prather Jr. successfully raised more than $300 on GoFundMe to travel to Miami so he could be a “chaperone” for his girlfriend’s trip with her friends. The possessive boyfriend said he couldn’t stand to lose her to the fun and the sand and sun of Miami. “I will be staying wherever she lays her head, eating whatever she eats, and overseeing all parties and fun activity for the duration of the trip,” he said on his fund-raising page. (Photo: Azel Prather Jr. via Gofundme.com)
Family of Mentally Ill Black Man Killed by Police Releases Graphic Video - Jason Harrison, 38, was killed in Dallas on June 14, 2014, by police officers who were responding to his mother’s call for help in taking him to the hospital. Harrison was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and was having a mental episode, Reuters reports. The cops were wearing body cameras and the family released the video Tuesday showing the man holding a screwdriver when they arrived. Cops demanded that Harrison drop the tool, and when he didn’t, they opened fire on him.  (Photo: Dallas Police Department)Coast Guard Training Facility in D.C. Named After Black Woman  - The Coast Guard Headquarters will name a training center in Washington, D.C., after the first African-American woman to join the service, Fox News reports. Olivia Hooker, from Tulsa, Okla., turned 100 in February. She entered the U.S Coast Guard in 1945. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Bad Cops Being Investigated for Exchanging Racist, Homophobic Texts - Four San Francisco officers are being investigated for exchanging hateful text messages that were mostly racist and homophobic in nature, CBS San Francisco reports. One officer, Ian Furminger, was already convicted last December for robbing drug dealers as a sergeant. “We got 2 blacks at my boys school and they are brother and sister! There cause dad works for the school district and I am watching them like hawks,” he wrote in a message, recovered from his phone.  (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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