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Samantha Shaps is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and a contributor for the Daily Dot.

Samantha Shaps

‘Gets an Uber and still got pulled over’: TikToker films Uber driver seemingly undergoing sobriety test

Samira Sadeque is a New York-based journalist reporting on immigration and mental health, and will sometimes write about memes and dinosaurs too. Her work also appears in Reuters, NPR, and NBC among other publications. She graduated from Columbia Journalism School, and her work has been nominated for SAJA awards.

Samira Sadeque

A Black man was cornered and arrested by Michigan police as he was leaving his workplace

Police mistake Black man for robbery suspect, arrest him despite bystander protests in viral video

‘Legend’: Viral TikTok shows man roller skating away from the cops

Brooke Sjoberg is a freelance writer who graduated with her Bachelors in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020.

Brooke Sjoberg

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‘I should not fear my sons life every time he leaves home:’ Black teen tries buying a soda at Lowe’s, cop says he’s ‘trespassing’

Colleen Cronin is a former FOIA intern for the Daily Dot. She previously worked at People magazine and the Cape Cod Times.

Colleen Cronin

BolaWrap promoted a controversial police lasso used on the mentally ill with TikTok hype videos

Jillian Price is a former editorial intern for the Daily Dot and current journalism graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. She previously wrote for Reporting Texas, UT Austin&#8217;s School of Journalism online publication.

Jillian Price

Two black men with their hands in the air.

‘They were afraid of them moving in’: Viral TikTok shows police handcuffing Black realtor, mistaking him for an intruder

Video shows a man in cuffs outside the Moxy Downtown Louisville with LMPD

Police officers handcuff man for standing near an unrelated female suspect in viral TikTok

Jennifer Xia is a former editorial intern for the Daily Dot and journalism student at the University of Texas at Austin. She has interned previously at Austin Monthly and Austin Woman magazines.

Jennifer Xia

Three panel screenshot from video of Texas deputy officer lying on top of Black woman after possibly walking into traffic on purpose. He is lying on top of her and she is foaming at the mouth, Her mother tries to comfort her by holding her hand.

Viral video shows officer on top of Black teen as she cries out ‘I can’t breathe’ (updated)

Buffalo police purchased high-tech lassos with mental health grant

Tricia Crimmins is a former Senior Reporter on the politics and tech team covering discrimination, identity, and the 2024 election.

Tricia Crimmins

Family members arrested for shaving ‘GAY’ into boy’s hair in viral Instagram video

A police officer plays Taylor Swift on his phone while he is being recorded so the video will violate Youtube's copyright policy.

‘I am playing music so that you can’t post on YouTube’: Sergeant plays Taylor Swift song while being filmed

Man with arms tied to waist with BolaWrap

Cops are getting free electric lassos for handing over body camera footage

Laiken Neumann is a former Trending news editor based in Austin, Texas.

Laiken Neumann

Hands writing with a pen on a pad of paper

‘Anyone who uses this story as their guiding light is a piece of sh*t’: Woman exposes her ex-cop dad’s malpractice online

Bexar County Deputy Sheriff is seen tasing a migrant teen in Southwest Key Casa Blanca shelter.

Video shows sheriff tasing migrant teen in government shelter, calling him ‘el stupido’ (updated)

Minneapolis Police officers are shown on duty at a police brutality protest following the shooting of Winston Smith.

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