An Atlanta woman says she was mistakenly imprisoned for 53 days because police confused her for someone else with the same first name. Teresa Culpepper says she called police to report that her truck had been stolen in August. But when they showed up at her home, they arrested her for aggravated assault committed by
Continue reading …An Atlanta woman says she was mistakenly imprisoned for 53 days because police confused her for someone else with the same first name. Teresa Culpepper says she called police to report that her truck had been stolen in August. But when they showed up at her home, they arrested her for aggravated assault committed by
Continue reading …An Atlanta woman says she was mistakenly imprisoned for 53 days because police confused her for someone else with the same first name. Teresa Culpepper says she called police to report that her truck had been stolen in August. But when they showed up at her home, they arrested her for aggravated assault committed by
Continue reading …The Occupy Wall Street protesters say they speak for the 99 percent of the population left out of the gains made in recent decades by the super rich. “The one thing we all have in common is that we are the 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%,” a
Continue reading …The Occupy Wall Street protesters say they speak for the 99 percent of the population left out of the gains made in recent decades by the super rich. “The one thing we all have in common is that we are the 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%,” a
Continue reading …Thousands of American citizens flagged for deportation since 2008 have been U.S. citizens, a new report says. Secure Communities is a federal program that scours fingerprint logs from local jails for illegal immigrants to deport. A report from the Berkeley Law Center in California finds that 1.6 percent of Secure Communities apprehensions, in a random
Continue reading …Thousands of American citizens flagged for deportation since 2008 have been U.S. citizens, a new report says. Secure Communities is a federal program that scours fingerprint logs from local jails for illegal immigrants to deport. A report from the Berkeley Law Center in California finds that 1.6 percent of Secure Communities apprehensions, in a random
Continue reading …While moderating Tuesday night’s Republican debate from Las Vegas, CNN’s Anderson Cooper misstated the facts about a contentious discussion involving taxes and the Occupy Wall Street protests. “You said in the last debate that everyone should pay something,” Cooper said at one point to Michele Bachmann. “Does that mean that you would raise taxes on the
Continue reading …While moderating Tuesday night’s Republican debate from Las Vegas, CNN’s Anderson Cooper misstated the facts about a contentious discussion involving taxes and the Occupy Wall Street protests. “You said in the last debate that everyone should pay something,” Cooper said at one point to Michele Bachmann. “Does that mean that you would raise taxes on the
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