Alabama Football Player Kicked Off Team After Second Domestic Violence Arrest
The University of Alabama dismissed defensive tackle Jonathan Taylor on Sunday, a day after the football player was arrested in Tuscaloosa on domestic violence charges. Taylor was arrested Saturday on...
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How Football Forced Major League Baseball To Wake Up On Domestic Violence
The reverberations from the gruesome surveillance footage that surfaced last summer of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocking his fiance unconscious and dragging her out of an elevator were...
View ArticleWhy Latinos Believe Domestic Violence Goes Under-Reported
Among the Latino community, the fear of getting deported, having their children taken away, or facing more violence are the top barriers perceived to prevent Latino immigrants from reporting domestic...
View ArticleBefore You Decide To Spend $99 On The Mayweather-Pacquiao Fight, Watch This...
The fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao is one of the most anticipated matches of all time. Tickets to the fight in Las Vegas on May 2, which started at $1500, sold out in 60 seconds....
View ArticleWhy Floyd Mayweather Matters
On Saturday night, a man with a disgusting history of violence against women will make $150 million precisely because of his skill at punching other people. When Floyd Mayweather steps into the ring...
View ArticleDomestic Violence Prevention Campaign Uses Fake Tinder Profiles To Raise...
A Florida domestic violence center rolled out a new domestic violence ad campaign on an unlikely platform: Tinder. Women in Distress, along with ad agency Bravo/Y&R, created fake profiles for...
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Cleveland Cavaliers Arena Video Features Man Abusing His Girlfriend
CREDIT: Screenshot Before their Game 2 win over the Chicago Bulls Thursday night, the Cleveland Cavaliers played an in-arena promo video that showed a man throwing his apparent girlfriend across the...
View ArticleProsecutor Admits To Discriminating Against Latino Abuse Victims In Visa...
A North Carolina county prosecutor won’t certify visa applications for Latino domestic violence victims if their assailants are also Latino. In an interview with the Charlotte Observer, Gaston County...
View ArticleGeorge Zimmerman Involved In Shooting, Fourth Violent Incident Since Killing...
Police in Lake Mary, Florida confirmed this afternoon that George Zimmerman, who shot and killed Trayvon Martin in 2012, was involved in another shooting on Monday. #zimmerman LMPD has responding to a...
View ArticleHow Local Officials Are Standing In The Way Of Protection For Immigrant...
Nubia Gutierrez is a domestic violence survivor. She reported her assailant to the police and cooperated with authorities, necessary steps to become eligible for a special form of immigration relief...
View ArticleThe NRA Rides To The Rescue Of Men Who Beat Up Their Dates In Louisiana
If a man in New Orleans drives over to his girlfriend’s home and beats her senseless, the National Rifle Association has his back. Under existing Louisiana law, a person convicted of using “force or...
View ArticleNFL Player Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges
Chicago Bears defensive lineman Ray McDonald was arrested Monday morning in San Jose, CA on charges of domestic violence and child endangerment, NBC Bay Area reported. The arrest was carried out by...
View ArticleFederal Judge Who Was Arrested For Domestic Abuse Resigns
Federal judge Mark E. Fuller tendered his resignation on Friday, almost a year after he was arrested at an Atlanta Ritz-Carlton on domestic violence charges. Fuller had been staying at the hotel with...
View ArticleCuts To Domestic Violence Services Are Placing Victims In Danger
More than 78,500 victims of domestic violence reached out to the country’s programs offering housing, legal help, and other services on a given day last year. But of those, 10,871 had to be turned...
View ArticleWhy Florida State’s Football Team Took 2 Team Pictures
The Florida State University football team took two separate team pictures Sunday: one with starting running back Dalvin Cook, who’s facing assault charges… and one without. Cook stands accused of...
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Why This Police Force’s Gender Problem Is Bad News For Women
According to a report released on Wednesday, less than one percent of Pakistan’s police force is comprised of women even though they are supposed to make up 10 percent of law enforcement as part of a...
View ArticleMajor League Baseball Adopts New Policy On Domestic Violence And Sexual Assault
Major League Baseball (MLB) and the players union announced an agreement on new policies for domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse, they announced on Friday. The announcement says the...
View ArticleWhen Calling The Police On An Abusive Partner Leads To A Victim Losing Her Home
For seven months, Nancy Markham’s now ex-boyfriend visited violence on her in her apartment in Surprise, Arizona. “He choked me, punched me, threatened me with weapons,” she said on a call with press...
View ArticleAfter Man Admits To Beating Wife, Judge Asks If They Still ‘Get It On.’ Then...
Domingo Santiago plead guilty to “gagging his wife, binding her wrists together, and beating her with a cord.” Yet a Georgia judge tossed out the state’s prosecution of Santiago after a series of...
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After Ray Rice, The NFL Pledged Millions To Fight Domestic Violence. Here’s...
Rob Valente remembers the moment like it was yesterday. It was September 8, 2014, and she was in Washington, D.C., surrounded by hundreds of domestic violence advocates from across the country to...
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