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Quentin Tarantino Doubles Down: ‘What I Said Was the Truth’

Embattled director Quentin Tarantino has finally spoken out after his participation in an anti-police rally last month led law enforcement associations nationwide to call for a boycott of his upcoming film. Instead of an apology, Tarantino insists that what he said at the rally was “the truth.”

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Spring Valley High: Sheriff Says Video Shows Student Assaulting Officer

As the FBI and Department of Justice have been called in to investigate, new facts are still emerging in what Black Lives Matter activists have dubbed the #AssultAtSpringValleyHigh after videos of a Columbia, South Carolina, deputy forcibly removing a non-compliant student from a desk went viral after the Monday incident.

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12 Black Lives Matter Protesters Arrested in Hartford While Murder Rate Spikes

Twelve people were arrested Monday in Hartford, Connecticut, for disorderly conduct after blocking traffic and access to the University of Hartford while chanting “Black Lives Matter!” Officers asked the protesters to stop sitting and standing in the roadway, and when they refused to comply, they arrested the anti-law enforcement agitators.

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Students Boycott, Destroy Newspaper that Criticized Black Lives Matter

A group of students at Wesleyan University are demanding “safe space” for students of color and declaring they intend to “dispose of” copies of the school newspaper found on campus until their demands are met. The demands arose after the paper ran an opinion piece critical of the Black Lives Matter movement last week.

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War on Cops: Cop Murdered in Louisiana Is 9th Police Death for State this Year

A police officer has been murdered in Sunset, Louisiana, after answering a domestic call. Officer Henry Nelson died Wednesday night after allegedly being shot by Harrison Lee Wiley Jr. Also dead is Shameka Johnson, one of two victims police say were stabbed by Wiley. At press time, the other victim—Wiley’s wife, Courtney Jolivette—was in the hospital.

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Memphis Police Director in Eulogy for Slain Officer: ‘We Are Not the Enemy’

In a moving tribute on Thursday—both to murdered Memphis police officer Sean Bolton and to law enforcement officers across the country, who increasingly find themselves under fire from the media and anti-police activist group Black Lives Matter—Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong repeated the message that police “are not the enemy” and “all lives matter.”

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