Minnesota lawmakers are pushing to remove a clause from the state constitution that allows slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crimes, according to FOX NEWS. The bill of rights in the 1857 Minnesota Constitution says: “There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the state otherwise than as punishment for a crime of which the party has been convicted.” The proposed amendment would strike the punishment exception, leaving a total ban in place. “It’s inappropriate that language mentioning slavery still exists in our constitution, even if’s narrowly constructed and, some would say, obsolete,” St. Paul Democratic Rep. John Lesch said at a news conference on Thursday. “While we’ve undoubtedly made progress in expanding civil rights, racial bias remains persistent in our state and we see the effects of that in the news every day.”

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT! Russian roulette. Somewhere in Brazil. #facepalm

The Milwaukee Police Department has released video of a fatal officer-involved shooting that occurred on Dec. 15, 2019. The suspect, convicted felon Kean Walker, was wanted on misdemeanor battery and disorderly conduct charges for punching and pointing a gun at his girlfriend. A pursuit ensued and Walker crashed into a light pole. He ran from the vehicle and fired at officers, who returned fire, killing him. #shooting

(WARNING: 21+) Body cam footage of the deadly shootout in Jersey City at a kosher market was released Thursday. In the footage, you can see a police officer shoot at the suspects from the fourth floor of a school across the street. On December 10, the attack was carried out at a Jewish-owned kosher grocery store located in the Greenville section of Jersey City, New Jersey. Five people were killed at the store, including the two assailants and three civilians whom they attacked. The shooters were identified as David N. Anderson, 47, and Francine Graham, 50. #shooting

There was a daring rescue on an Indiana highway. With flames around them, good Samaritans pulled a driver out of his truck after it flipped and caught fire.

BMW plummets from the third floor of a car park before flipping and landing on another vehicle in Los Angeles... but both drivers somehow survive. #fuck_lucky

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Prosecutors in western Mexico said that the arrest of a criminal gang led to the discovery of a house that had been used to dispose of 24 bodies. Michoacán state attorney general Adrían López Zolís said the remains were found buried in a 40-foot deep clandestine ditch in the municipality of Coeneo following last Friday's operation in the city of Pátzcuaro. The dead included five women and 19 men, whose ages ranged from about 20 to about 40. Many had either had their throats slashed or been decapitated. López Zolís explained during a news conference Thursday morning that the dismantling of the criminal group - six men and three women - led authorities to the private property in the Coeneo neighborhood of Comanja, where law enforcement unearthed mass burial ground. López Zolís said some of the bodies found had been dismembered and buried in the patio of the house, which was under construction. Experts estimated the victims had been killed between four and six months ago.

Somewhere in China ... #fuck_lucky

Female MMA fighter breaks her male rival's NOSE with a vicious headbutt after she loses a challenge on Romanian reality TV show Survivor. #facepalm

Russia has today dismissed claims it is meddling in the 2020 presidential race, after U.S. lawmakers were told that Moscow was trying to help Donald Trump win a second term. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the predictable denial at a press conference today where he labeled the claims 'paranoid announcements'. 'Unfortunately, there will be more and more of [them] as we get closer to the elections,' he said in Moscow. 'Of course, they have nothing to do with the truth.' U.S. intelligence officials told lawmakers last Thursday that Vladimir Putin's regime was resuming its efforts to interfere in American politics.

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