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A Grand Jury Did Indict One Person Involved In Eric Garner's Killing — The Man Who Filmed It — On Wednesday, a Staten Island grand jury decided not to return an indictment for the police officer who put Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, in a chokehold shortly before his death.
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Do Police Body Cameras Actually Work? — It may be the most significant reform to follow the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown. — On Monday, President Obama requested $75 million in federal funds for a technology that, as he sees it, could help bridge the kinds of rifts between …

Michael Brown, and Now Eric Garner — At some point between the moment a Missouri grand jury refused to indict a police officer who had shot and killed Michael Brown on a Ferguson street and the moment a New York grand jury refused to indict a police officer who choked and killed Eric Garner …
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Hands Up, Don't Choke: Eric Garner Was Killed By Police For No Reason — On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner was choked to death by a New York City policeman. On December 3, 2014, a grand jury chose not to indict the officer who killed him. And unlike the Michael Brown case in Ferguson …
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Former RNC chairman: 'Black man's life not worth a ham sandwich' — Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Wednesday criticized grand jury decisions to not indict white police officers in the deaths of black men in New York and Ferguson, Mo.
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Eric Garner and the Crime Drop — The so-far inexplicable decision of the grand jury that decided not to hand down an indictment in the case of a New York City police officer who put a deadly choke-hold on Eric Garner points to the complexities of managing police policy and strategy 20 years …
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Pete King: Eric Garner Wouldn't Have Died From Chokehold If He Weren't ‘Obese’ — While many on the right condemned a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer for placing a black man in a fatal chokehold, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) defended the officer Tuesday and said that if the victim …
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Morning Plum: GOP leaders betting that conservative rage will sputter out
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Eric Garner and Omnipresent Police Power
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No Indictment in Garner Case
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Statement by Attorney General Holder on Federal Investigation Into Death of Eric Garner
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In Chokehold Case, Protesters Revive a Staten Island Man's Dying Words
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The American Justice System Is Not Broken
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Congressman Says Eric Garner Is Responsible For His Own Death: He ‘Was So Obese’
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Rand Paul blames Eric Garner's death on high NYC cigarette tax
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WH: Bill to roll back immigration order unfair — The White House on Wednesday blasted a bill offered by Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) that would roll back the president's executive action on immigration, calling the bill “unfair” and “bad policy.” — Press secretary Josh Earnest said the legislation would …
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House Republicans scramble to avoid a shutdown ahead of a Dec. 11 deadline
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GOP unlikely to reverse ‘nuclear option’
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The money majority — Mitch McConnell has a plan to stay in control of the Senate.
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GOP to rebuke Obama on immigration
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Hillary Clinton has met with potential campaign managers — With weeks to go until she makes an announcement about her future, Hillary Clinton has started meeting with a broad range of political figures — including potential campaign managers, POLITICO has learned.
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Hillary #TedCruz rule
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Phoenix police: Suspect unarmed when killed by officer — The facts surrounding Rumain Brisbon's death — the ones that could be agreed upon as of Wednesday evening — follow a narrative familiar to a nation still reeling from the racially charged police incidents in Ferguson, Mo., New York City and elsewhere.
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“It makes me really depressed”: From UVA to Cosby, the rape denial playbook that won't go away — Rolling Stone's piece on sexual violence may have been imperfect — but here's why its backlash was pre-ordained — Rolling Stone contributing editor Sabrina Rubin Erdely's report on a culture …
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Motorist hits crowd members, pulls gun at Central West End protest — A man was arrested during protests Wednesday evening in the Central West End after he drove through the crowd and later waved a gun at protesters. — The incident happened during a day of demonstrations that brought protesters …
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Apple Deleted Rivals' Songs from Users' iPods — Apple deleted music that some iPod owners had downloaded from competing music services from 2007 to 2009 without telling users, attorneys for consumers told jurors in a class-action antitrust suit against Apple Wednesday.
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Landrieu warns about Cantwell: Cantwell raises money for Landrieu — Beleaguered Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., underdog in her forthcoming Senate runoff election, warned Pelican State voters on Wednesday that her defeat would elevate an advocate of “windmills” to a powerful position on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
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Kenny Smith's open letter to Charles Barkley about Ferguson - A For The Win exclusive. — (Photo by Issac Baldizon/NBAE via Getty Images) … Dear Chuck, — I hope this finds you in the way I always see you, in great spirits, with great joy and full of life.
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Judge Orders Florida City To Pause Arrests Of People Feeding The Homeless — A homeless man rests on a bench in Washington, D.C. — CREDIT: Shawn Davis — A Florida city that made it illegal to feed homeless people on the street and arrested a 90-year-old charity volunteer for defying …
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Ben Carson Lashes Out At Wolf Blitzer: Don't ‘Focus On The Words’ When I Compare U.S. To Nazis — Possible Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson on Wednesday lashed out at CNN host Wolf Blitzer for “focusing on the words” that he used when he compared the United States to Nazi Germany.
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Ben Carson: Presidency ‘horrible and stressful’
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