Even the New York Times is supporting the growing calls for the resignation of Chicago’s mayor and county prosecutor, following the year-long cover-up of the videotape which shows the unjustified shooting of a wounded black youth in October 2014.
Cleveland Police Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback gave statements—released Tuesday—in which they claim 12-year-old Tamir Rice put them in a must-shoot situation by lifting his shirt and reaching into his waistband instead of showing his hands.
Speaking from Paris, France, on December 1, President Obama criticized the lack of gun control in the U.S. and pledged to remain focused on using executive action to enact new controls where possible.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired his top cop, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, on Tuesday morning as the controversy over the 2014 shooting of Chicago teenager Laquan McDonald continues to reverberate in the Windy City.
There has been much speculation and controversy over just why, as Jesse Jackson tells it, the City of Chicago suppressed for thirteen months a police video showing a white police officer empty sixteen rounds of bullets from his magazine into a errant black teenager who had brandished a four-inch knife, while reportedly high on PCP.
Detroit Police Chief James Craig says terrorists “want unarmed citizens” and he thinks the growing number of citizens armed for self-defense could dissuade terrorists from targeting the Motor City the way they targeted Paris.
The National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) sent a letter to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell asking that the league lift its ban on armed off-duty officers in light of the threat of terror attacks against crowded venues, a threat actualized most recently in Paris.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—A planned NAACP press conference at Chicago’s City Hall was briefly scuttled by an angry black protester who slammed establishment Democrat activists and members of President Barack Obama’s fractious progressive and multicultural coalition.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS–At a prayer vigil held Monday night after the indictment of a Chicago police officer for the shooting death of Laquan McDonald, an activist leader stood on a podium, gave thanks to God for protest “predecessors” and was supported by the crowd.
On November 30, NBC News reported that Leyonte Chandler—brother of Colorado Springs shooting victim Ke’Arre Stewart—is not mad at shooting suspect Robert Lewis Dear but at laws that allow citizens to be armed.
On Monday, the White House announced some tightening of the visa waiver program, whose participants include countries such as France and Belgium. The Paris terror attacks were the obvious reason for the new measures.
GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt that “the simple and undeniable fact is the overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats” during an interview on Monday.
An electrical engineering student named Jabari R. Dean has been arrested for allegedly posting the online threats of violence that led to the cancellation of classes at the University of Chicago on Monday.
Officer Christopher Kohrs, 38, feted by the gay community of San Francisco as the “Hot Cop of Castro,” was arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run after allegedly ramming two men in his 2009 Dodge Charger in North Beach at roughly 2 a.m. on Sunday morning.
As the sixth day of protests over the police-involved shooting of a 17-year-old Chicago teen rages on, members of local NAACP chapters paraded a full-sized coffin outside Chicago’s City Hall, chanting phrases and joining in calls for both Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez to resign their offices.
A University of Illinois at Chicago student has been arrested and will face charges for an online threat to kill at least 16 “white devils” in revenge for the death of Laquan McDonald who was shot 16 times by police.
Belgian authorities released a man arrested in a counter-terror raid after less than 24-hours questioning without charge — despite bomb-making materiel having been found in his flat. Despite the one-bedroomed urban home of the unidentified man having no garden or plants
A video uploaded to the website LiveLeak shows the high-pressure, racist antagonism towards the police by Black Lives Matter activists in Minnesota who have occupied the area in front of the 4th Precinct police station.
The University of Chicago has canceled classes and activities for Monday at its Hyde Park campus due to an FBI warning of an “online threat of gun violence.”
Former New York Police Commissioner Howard Safir warned Sunday on New York City’s AM 970 “Cats Roundtable” that the city is still susceptible to terror attacks like the ones earlier this month in Paris that left 130 dead and around 350 more injured.
During the November 29 airing of This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA-28th) blamed the Planned Parenthood shooting on the failure to pass gun controls that have been on the books in Colorado since 2013.
A CNN anchor acknowledged Sunday that gun control didn’t stop the triple-murder shooting in Colorado.
The death of Michael Brown brought the birth of “Hands up, don’t shoot,” the media-fuelled fallacy and force behind a Black Lives Matter movement that flat-out ignores the main driver of Black America’s morass.
University of Missouri assistant professor Youssif Zaghwani Omar was arrested after an altercation at a high school in Columbia, Missouri, where he physically attacked a 14-year-old girl for going to school without wearing a hijab, according to police.
An investigation has found no record of Quentin Tarantino’s claimed incarceration in an L.A. County jail at the time he would have been held there.
