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Orlando Resource Officer Dennis Turner has been fired after outcry from his arrest of two six-year-olds, a boy and a girl, on the same day. The children were then charged with misdemeanor battery in separate incidents though the charges have since been dropped. Turner was initially suspended but was then…
A year ago, Orlando Police Officer Jonathan Mills was reassigned from the department’s elite tactical squad to patrol duty for making a rude, biased remark about a woman’s hair. He was also the subject of two very serious excessive force lawsuits settled in 2017 that cost the city $130,000. Mills received an oral reprimand…
Forty-nine people were killed when a man opened fire with an assault-style rifle in Pulse, an Orlando gay nightclub on June 12, 2016. Another 53 were injured. At the time, it was the deadliest mass shooting by a single person in modern U.S. history. Forty-nine innocent people, doing nothing except…
Three Orlando police officers are on paid administrative leave pending the investigation of the shooting death of an emergency room patient who they say claimed to have a firearm. No weapon was found on the victim, who was a white male and approximately 35 years old, according to Orlando Police…
The Walt Disney Company is No. 36 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list From a toy-inspired land at Disney’s Hollywood Studios to a milestone year for Disney’s Animal Kingdom to exciting additions at Disney Springs to an encore year for an Epcot festival, there’s plenty in store for guests…
RCI, the worldwide leader in vacation exchange, (a division of Wyndham Worldwide No. 24 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) announced an affiliation agreement with Encore Resort at Reunion to offer members a new vacation option in Orlando, Fla. The resort comprises meticulously kept individual homes and offers a…
The Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Florida is investigating after a noose and several racist, threatening messages were sent to the office of a Black state prosecutor. The threats come after Orange-Osceola State Attorney Aramis Ayala announced her office would not pursue the death penalty in its cases — a…
Gay Pride parades across the country this weekend took on additional meaning this year following the Orlando massacre, the designation of the first national monument to gay rights and the one-year anniversary of marriage equality. Sunday was exactly two weeks since the Pulse nightclub shooting where 49 people lost their…
Hypocrisy among conservative politicians has run high since the Orlando massacre on June 12, and on Tuesday it may reach its boiling point. Just one week after repeatedly touting himself as the real friend of the LGBT community, Trump is set to meet with the leaders of some of the…
Trump on Sunday called racial profiling of Muslims “common sense” as a strategy to prevent violence in America although his proposed policies would prove ineffective, experts say. “I think profiling is something that we’re gonna have to start thinking about as a country,” he said in an interview with CBS’s…