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Family: woman murdered while on the phone with 911

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VIDEO - The family of Deanna Cook says she could have been saved from her ex-husband, who they say killed her while she was on the phone with 911 ...
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In this Friday, May 17, 2013, photo, U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin is interviewed in her federal court chambers, in New York. Scheindlin is the federal judge presiding over civil rights challenges to the stop-and-frisk practices of the New York Police Department. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

NYC: No racial motivation in stop-frisk tactic

Colleen Long, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — The federal civil rights challenge to the contentious New York Police Department tactic of stop, question and frisk is winding down after more than nine weeks of testimony from men who say they were wrongly stopped because of their race...
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(AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

NYC mayor clashes with 'stop-and-frisk' judge

Lilly Workneh
theGRIO REPORT - As New York City’s landmark trial on stop-and-frisks nears a decision, the office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg sparks a new debate...
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Lackawanna College student Rashan "Duke" Crowder, 22, was gunned down outside a party on May 5, 2013. (Photo courtesy of NBC Philadelphia)

College student killed by gunfire outside party

NBC Philadelphia
NBC Philadelphia - Police are reviewing surveillance video in the killing of a Lackawanna College student who was shot and killed after a party near the school's Pennsylvania campus...
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Missing Ohio women found

WATCH: Neighbor tells how he helped rescue missing women

John Newland, NBC News
NBC News - Neighbor Charles Ramsey has told how he heard screams coming from an Ohio home and went to investigate -- a decision that led to the discovery of three women missing for years.
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Nate Howard, a senior at USC, said he was handcuffed and put into the back of a police car after someone called police reporting the house party featuring DJs that he was hosting was too noisy on Saturday, May 4, 2013, blocks away from the campus. (Courtesy NBC LA)

LAPD launches probe into alleged racial profiling of USC students

Toni Guinyard, Jason Kandel and Lolita Lopez, NBC Los Angeles
NBC LOS ANGELES - The LAPD has launched investigations into several complaints of excessive force and racial profiling against officers involved in a weekend confrontation with mostly black and Latino students in an incident captured on YouTube...
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Crystal Pope, 22, talks about being stopped-and-frisked by NYPD. (Photo courtesy of Crystal Pope.)

Stop-and-frisk: A woman's struggle

Lilly Workneh
theGRIO REPORT - As the sun set on a spring evening in 2010, Crystal Pope and three of her friends sat on a park bench in Harlem Heights -- and were soon stopped-and-frisked by NYPD...
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This undated file photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department shows suspect Christopher Dorner, a former Los Angeles police officer. A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, that a charred body inside the ruins of a mountain cabin that went up in flames is believed to be that of Dorner, suspected in four killings. Other agencies say a body has yet to be found. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Police Department, File)

40 ex-LAPD officers seek reviews of dismissals

Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dozens of fired Los Angeles police officers are taking up the chief's offer to re-examine their dismissals since a deadly rampage by Christopher Dorner, who claimed that he was wrongly expelled from the force...
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Frantz Jerome, 30, addresses two of his stop-and-frisk encounters with NYPD. (Photo courtesy of Frantz Jerome.)

Stop-and-frisk: Witness says he felt ‘humiliated’

Lilly Workneh
theGRIO REPORT - Frantz Jerome is an African-American who is involved in the ongoing stop-and-frisk trial. He tells theGrio about his own experiences being stopped and frisked and how he hopes for change in the practice...
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Barber Antonio Coye cuts Stevens Taylor's hair at the Hyde Park Hair Salon moments before U.S. President Barack Obama takes the oath of office to officially start his second term on January 20, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama would get his hair cut at The Hyde Park Hair Salon, which is near his Chicago home, before he was elected to the White House. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the official swearing-in today and a public ceremony will take place January 21. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

In Chicago, even Obama's neighborhood may be unsafe

Renita D. Young
theGRIO REPORT - As Chicago’s violence issue continues to sit in the spotlight, incidents happening in President Barack Obama’s hometown have become national news, an unfair scrutiny, many residents argue...
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