Murder rates in the nation’s top cities have climbed by 11 percent in 2015, but that’s no big deal, says the progressive Brennan Center for Justice. “Because the underlying rate of murders is already so low, a relatively small increase in the numbers can result in a large percentage increase… murder rates are roughly the same as they were in 2012, and 11 percent higher than they were in 2013,” said the report.
The UCSD Million Students March was held in solidarity with approximately 115 campuses around the country and the University of Missouri (“Mizzou”) throughout the day. Students are also demanding free tuition, student debt forgiveness, and a $15 per hour minimum wage for campus employees.
University of Missouri Associate Professor Stephanie Shonekan said that the killing of Michael Brown was the most recent catalyst to protests that led to the resignation of University of Missouri system President Tim Wolfe and “students realized that what they’ve been
Retired Attorney General Eric Holder pushed back on statements made last week by FBI Director James Comey in which Comey suggested the so-called Ferguson effect might be responsible for a recent rise in crime in cities around the country.
Black Lives Matter protesters gathered at the Springfield, MA, courthouse Thursday as a hearing was taking place inside to determine the fate of 15 protesters who were arrested in April for blocking traffic.
In a front page story on their website, the New York Times is reporting that FBI director James Comey said Friday in a speech at University of Chicago Law School that the onslaught of criticism of law enforcement “may be the main reason for the recent increase in violent crime.”
Arab-American Institute President James Zogby argued that while the knife attacks inside Israel are “condemnable,” “there’s a bit of Ferguson here” because “Palestinian lives matter, but they don’t get paid attention to” on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports.”
Leaders of a prominent Black Lives Matter group posted a photo of themselves paying homage to Assata Shakur, the convicted cop killer who is on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list. A prominent picture of leaders of Millennial Activists United (MAU) shows them wearing “Assata Taught Me” shirts. MAU’s “If I die in police custody…” meme was recently referenced by Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren in a speech on racial justice.
A report by the Chicago Sun-Times reveals that the Chicago Police Department started a special program to monitor local African-American groups after the death of Michael Brown and the ensuing riots in Ferguson, Missouri, last year.
Twelve people were arrested Monday in Hartford, Connecticut, for disorderly conduct after blocking traffic and access to the University of Hartford while chanting “Black Lives Matter!” Officers asked the protesters to stop sitting and standing in the roadway, and when they refused to comply, they arrested the anti-law enforcement agitators.
Media supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement are praising Sen. Marco Rubio for comments he made seeming to express support for their anti-police organizing.
One of the oddest spectacles of recent years has been the political class’s utter befuddlement as to the decline in crime over recent decades.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder is warning Americans there could be more incidents like Ferguson, if members of law enforcement and the justice system don’t change the way that they treat people of color.
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson declared, “I’m in no way denying that there aren’t some structural problems” with regards to race, but they can’t be solved without listening to people and developing relationships in an interview with CNN’s Anderson
California-based Alternative Ballistics has invented a clip-on accessory that renders the first round fired by a police officer less-than-lethal.
As part of his campaign for president, Dr. Ben Carson visited Ferguson, Missouri, the site of some of the most destructive rioting in recent years. While touring the city, Carson insisted that the nation needs to “de-emphasize” race and accused Obama of dragging the nation backwards on the issue.
Study; 482 Extra Murder Victims Amid Obama’s Anti-Cop Campaign
It took a New York jury only 40 minutes to reject claims of police brutality by a Florida woman who gained fame during the 2011 Occupy Wall Street demonstrations when she abandoned her husband and four children to take up with the occupation of Zuccotti Park.
The Black Lives Matter movement is “the lie of the summer,” says an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Jason Riley of the Manhattan Institute.
Sheriff Rusty Hierholzer of Kerr County, Texas, says it is time for the silent majority who support the good work of police to stand up and counter the narratives being spread through media and by the Obama administration.
Two young women have been apprehended and charged with spray-painting about a dozen graffiti images around Poplar Bluff, Missouri, of a gun pointing at the head of a police officer, authorities said Friday.
Black Lives Matter activists tried to disrupt the Minnesota State Fair on Saturday and marched down the street, shouting a chant that called for the deaths of police officers: “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon!”
The Washington Post reports that after a recent spike in murders, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser will ask the D.C. Council “to expand law enforcement powers to make it easier for officers to search individuals on parole or probation and immediately detain anyone found in violation of the terms of release.”
A six-minute obscenity-laced attack on black thuggery has gone viral and was viewed 1.6 million times in less than 24 hours.
President and CEO of the NAACP, Cornell William Brooks, said that “The law under which Michael Brown was killed has not been changed” on Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry.” Brooks said that “the climate in Ferguson has not changed,” and followed
A poll conducted by Tulchin Research found that “69 percent” of California voters support passing a law that would require police to report each time they pull over a motorist who is black.
Shreveport, Louisiana, Police Chief Willie Shaw had some harsh words for the “naysayers” spewing “negativity” about America’s law enforcement officers.
Tyrone Harris–who allegedly opened fire on police in Ferguson Sunday night–called himself “Ty Glocks” and used Facebook posts to boast that he was going to “do a hit by [himself].”
On Tuesday’s “The Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel, footage of was aired of cameras capturing a tense situation involving a Vietnam veteran confronting Ferguson, MO protesters that were stomping on the American flag. Exchange as follows [Language warning]: VET: I fought for
On Monday, roughly 50 protesters, some of them smiling broadly as they stood in the middle of the street blocking traffic in downtown Fresno, shouted “Fresno is Ferguson!” and “Black lives matter!” to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.
Left-wing Washington Post activist Wesley Lowery (who identifies as a journalist) has been charged officially in St. Louis County of trespassing and interfering with a police officer. The incident stems from Lowery’s arrest last year during the Ferguson riots when
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) said that the Black Lives Matter protests have been”turned into a political construct” and are “nothing more than an attempt to try to energize and mobilize the black vote through the 2016 election” on
To commemorate the one-year anniversary of Mike Brown’s death, the New York Times published a video in which three individuals–Johnetta Elzie, DeRay McKesson and Zellie Imani–discuss their history of Twitter activism inspired by the case.
Protests have once again turned violent in Ferguson, Missouri, as local news outlets report on looting and gunfire.
A sharp spike in the murder rates of Democrat-controlled cities across America is one of the consequences of the increased tension between police and black Americans; tension that has been stirred up by both the liberal media and by Democrat-aligned radical political activist group Black Lives Matter.
Missouri State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D) argued “many officers…feel the same way as Darren Wilson, and they don’t think about the real lives of individuals who are dying every single day in their hands” on Tuesday’s “CNN Newsroom.” Chappelle-Nadal, in reaction
After an off-duty, 16-year veteran St. Louis police officer was shot ambush style by a young black male suspect, a protestor who was active in the Ferguson “uprising” took it upon himself to rush to the scene and hold up a sign to mock the attack.
Calling it “disgusting,” the father of slain Ferguson teenager Michael Brown is criticizing a provocative art exhibit depicting his son’s death, hosted by a Chicago gallery and produced by a white female artist.
An 83-year-old monument to the Confederate soldiers who came to the defense of Charleston during the Civil War was defaced by “Black Lives Matter” protesters sometime late on Saturday evening.
Award-winning, Oakland-based high school a cappella group “Vocal Rush” is finding inspiration in the #BlackLivesMatter protests that have rocked the city’s streets over the past several months.
