This week for BuzzFeed News, Jessica Testa finds out what happened to Marlene Pinnock. Read that and these other great stories from BuzzFeed and around the web.
The World Watched Marlene Pinnock Get Beaten by a Cop, so Why Is She Still on the Streets? — BuzzFeed News
When a woman living with bipolar disorder was beaten by a police officer on a video that went viral, her family thought legal action would lead to justice. They couldn’t have anticipated that a battle with her own lawyer would leave them feeling more hopeless than ever.
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What Makes Carly Rae Jepsen a Pop Star? — BuzzFeed News
The 30-year-old Canadian singer and songwriter behind one of the decade’s biggest hits made 2015’s best pure pop album. There was only one problem: Nobody bought it. Reggie Ugwu explores why she’s the perfect embodiment of our weird music moment. Read it at BuzzFeed News.
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Love in the Time of Deportation — David Noriega
He was an inmate, facing deportation over a minor arrest. She was a guard, fed up with her job at a for-profit prison. They fell in love, but, as David Noriega reports, living happily ever after was not going to happen. Read it at BuzzFeed News.
Photograph by Jessica Tezak For Buzzfeed News
The First Black Trans Model Had Her Face on a Box of Clairol — The Cut
Jada Yuan and Aaron Wong discover how transgender pioneer Tracey Norman defied the odds and ascended in the fashion industry of the 1970s. "Norman wanted to do more than pass — she wanted to excel in the most scrutinized realm of femininity." Read it at The Cut.
Photograph by Peter Hapak for The Cut
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