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To Cleveland Cops, The Lives of Black Women Were Cheap (w/Update)

• November 4, 2009 • 1 Comment

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This Guy’s Inner Hell is Paving His Way INTO Hell: Six Bodies of Women Found Within, Under Cleveland, OH House

• November 1, 2009 • Comments Off

Posted in Black People, Class, Crime, Crime-Cops-Injustice, Health, Mental Health/Psychology, Murder/Manslaughter, Rape/Sex Crimes
Tags: 123rd Street, African Americans, Allan Sowell, Anthony Sowell, Baltimore MD, Blacks, Bodies, City of Baltimore, Constables on Patrol, Cuyahoga County, Imperial Avenue, Janice Webb, Jeffrey Dahmer, Nancy Cobbs, Patricia Warren, Racism, Rape, Rapist, Rapists, Serial Killer, Serial Killings, Sex, Strangulation, Survivors/Victims of Tragedy, The Day of The Dead, Women

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Oregon Republicans Disappear for Another Climate Vote February 25, 2020
After leaving the state last year to shut down a climate change proposal, Oregon senators were absent again on Monday.
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School for the Deaf Reports Dozens of Decades-Old Sexual Abuse Cases February 25, 2020
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The Guardian, UK

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Gui Minhai, detained Hong Kong bookseller, jailed for 10 years in China February 25, 2020
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Delhi rocked by deadly protests during Donald Trump's India visit February 25, 2020
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The BBC

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Gui Minhai: Chinese court sentences Swedish bookseller to 10 years jail February 25, 2020
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Canada opens door to expanding assisted dying February 24, 2020
Patients would no longer after to prove their natural death is "reasonably foreseeable".
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