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I would call this breaking news, but the only real headline here is that Time Magazine felt the need to point this out as if it were some sort of surprise. Ask anyone of any race, gender, age or religion how they think things are going in terms of race relations and unrest around the country these days and you're going to get a fairly gloomy response. But one recent survey shows that it's even worse than some of us imagined... in fact, it hasn't been this bad since the bad old days under Bill Clinton. (Time)

A courtroom brawl aborted Tuesday's sentencing of the West Philadelphia man who had just been found guilty of felony murder in the 2013 robbery of a special-needs man for his brand-new Beats by Dre headphones. The chaos erupted when Arkel Garcia, 21, stood to be sentenced to a mandatory life sentence for the Nov. 30, 2013, shooting death of Christian Massey. Garcia stood up suddenly and the heavy wooden courtroom chair he had been using tipped over behind him, next to Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Robert Castelli. When Castelli righted the chair and pushed it close behind Garcia, the convicted man...