3 News Stories You Should Read Today – April 16, 2016
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‘Spare me’: Tillis draws GOP fire with pro-Mueller push
The Republican senator is eager to shield the special counsel from Trump — regardless of potential blowback from conservatives or the president.
Thom Tillis isn’t the kind of Republican who typically challenges Donald Trump.
The North Carolina senator backs the president’s agenda and holds his tongue when it comes to the tweets. As others abandoned Trump after the “Access Hollywood” tape emerged, Tillis stood by his endorsement.
But now, he’s a lead sponsor of a bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from interference by Trump — enraging conservatives and potentially risking the president’s ire. It’s the biggest gamble Tillis has taken as a Republican senator, but one he believes is philosophically consistent with how the GOP would approach the situation if the president were a Democrat.
Tillis doesn’t think Trump will ultimately fire Mueller even as the president rages over the expanding Russia probe. But he has an impassioned response for his conservative critics nonetheless: “Spare me.”
Starbucks Witness: Implicit Bias Exists and White People Need to Speak Up When They See It
When two black men were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks on Thursday for simply sitting there, being black and minding their business, people in the store who witnessed it were outraged, including Melissa DePino—whose video recording of the arrest went viral on social media.
DePino, a 50-year-old writer who says she visits that same Starbucks every day, spoke exclusively with The Root and said she was appalled by what she witnessed.
DePino was firm in her belief that the story is not about her; it’s about what happened to two innocent black men who were racially profiled.
“They were just sitting there waiting for their friend,” DePino said.
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