A small group of Black Lives Matter protesters interrupted Hillary Clinton's speech during a “African-Americans for Hillary” campaign event in Atlanta this afternoon at Clark Atlanta University. Watch video of the incident below:
Friday, October 30, 2015
Simone Biles and Gabby Douglas Take Gold and Silver at World Championships
Simone Biles came to the World Championships without a rival the last three years. She’ll leave them peerless in gymnastics history.
Biles became the first woman to win three straight World all-around titles, prevailing by 1.083 points over Olympic champion Gabby Douglas in Glasgow, Scotland, on Thursday. It’s the largest margin of victory of her three titles.
Douglas, who also struggled on beam, earned silver after taking two years off following her Olympic all-around title. Douglas is the first Olympic women’s all-around champion to come back and earn a Worlds all-around medal since 1981.
“I’ll take it,” said Douglas, who last year roomed with Biles at her first national team camp since the Olympics. “I really wanted to prove everyone that my comeback was real. It wasn’t fake. It wasn’t for the fame.”
[SOURCE]Thursday, October 29, 2015
Al Sharpton to deliver eulogy at Corey Jones' funeral
The Rev. Al Sharpton will deliver the eulogy at the funeral this weekend for a Florida church drummer shot dead by a plainclothes police officer while waiting by his disabled car.
Sharpton, founder and president of the National Action Network, has delivered eulogies at the funerals of several people whose deaths caught the nation's attention. Sharon Walker from the Carriers of the Glory International Ministries in Tallahassee, Fla. will also deliver a eulogy.
Corey Jones, 31, died around 3:15 a.m. on Oct. 18 while waiting for a tow truck. The Palm Beach Gardens Police Department says officer Nouman Raja got out of his car to investigate what he thought was an abandoned vehicle and was suddenly confronted by "an armed subject" who the officer then shot dead. Authorities say a gun was found on the scene.
Read more: Al Sharpton to deliver eulogy at Corey Jones' funeral
Norma Wilkerson is missing
Norma Wilkerson was last seen Sept. 8 in the area of the 200 block of West 69th Street. She is known to frequent the area of the 11100 block of South Racine Avenue, police said.
Wilkerson is described as a black woman with a medium brown complexion, black hair and brown eyes. She is 5 feet, 1 inch tall and weighs about 150 pounds, police said.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call 911 or contact the Chicago Police Area South Special Victims Unit at 312-747-8274.
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New York City EMT suspended for leaving ambulance to aid choking girl
A New York City EMT who tried to save the life of a 7-year-old girl who choked on her lunch says he has been suspended without pay for making an unauthorized stop, according to local media.
Qwasie Reid and a partner were transporting a nursing home patient last Wednesday, local news channel NY1 reported, when they were flagged down in Brooklyn by a man who told them that a student was choking.
Reid told the station he believed a choking girl took priority over the transport, and, against his partner's urging, administered aid to the 7-year-old, who he said had already turned blue. No one at the school was assisting the girl, he said.
Read more: New York City EMT suspended without pay for leaving ambulance to aid choking girl
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