Protesters took down an American flag during #StopTheCops street protests against police in Chicago, replacing it with one that read “Unapologetically Black” on Saturday. The protests, which shut down streets, were organized as a response to the International Association of Chiefs of Police meeting at McCormick Place.
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.”
An NYPD officer was shot in the head at FDR Drive and 120th Street in East Harlem, wounded after a shoot-out with a suspect that the officer had pursued.
On October 19 the FBI released a report which shows that 48,315 police officers were assaulted in the line of duty in 2014, and “28.3 percent” of the assaulted officers sustained injuries.
On October 11 an Olive Garden restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri refused service to a uniformed police officer who walked into the business with his gun holstered on his hip.
Two separate incidents involving signs that Black Lives Matter activists find upsetting are the latest indicators that the thin-skinned political agitators–who gained notoriety this summer for shutting down political speakers–are no friends of free speech.
Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist and Obama’s former deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter have partnered to speak at a Koch-funded November summit discussing what proponents deem “criminal justice reform.”
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.
Americans are watching crime surge up from the inner cities and into their neighborhoods, from the scorched QuikTrip market in Ferguson, to the burned retiree-housing in Baltimore, to spiking murder rates in Kansas City and New York, to the Texas border where federal officials wave past mass-immigration from violent countries.
A Providence, Rhode Island police officer claims he was handed a cup of coffee by a Dunkin’ Donuts worker on October 2 that had the words “#BlackLivesMatter” written on it.
On September 30, a police officer in Forest Acres, South Carolina, was shot and killed as he struggled with a suspect following a foot chase in Richland Mall.
Omaha, Nebraska, police have arrested John Tompkins, 55, for allegedly telling two officers, “You are marked for death. I’m going to kill you because of what you do to black people. I’m going to find your wife and kids and kill those (expletive) too.”
When the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) sent the police department in Childress, Texas, a letter demanding they remove “In God We Trust” from their cars, they received a simple response, “Go fly a kite.”
On September 21, Black Lives Matter activists took part in a protest on Oregon’s Portland State campus in hopes of securing a policy change that will disarm police on the university campus.
On September 15 Stockton police officers tackled 16-year-old Emilio Mayfield to subdue him after he allegedly broke two laws then refused officer requests to comply.
Florida’s Delray Beach police department says its dispatcher is getting threats from an individual who openly says he hopes “every singe police officer” in the department is “shot in the face” and “dies on duty.”
On September 4, an Ohio teenager was charged with “making a terrorist threat” after an employ in the Avon school district discovered tweets about getting guns and shooting cops.
On September 16 a Phoenix police officer was shot and “seriously injured” during an early morning traffic stop and Phoenix police are now conducting a “door-to-door search” for the suspect.
On the night of September 15/16 two men allegedly robbed an off-duty Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Deputy of his badge at gunpoint in Cleveland, Ohio.
On September 14 two police officers were allegedly assaulted by 40-year-old Keno Demontra Phillips, who afterward stuck a gun against the stomach of one of the officers and pulled the trigger, but the pistol did not fire because it was not loaded.
The Facebook page of Joseph Thompson Johnson-Shanks — the man who killed a Kentucky State Trooper Sunday night — shows that he was an Obama & Black Lives Matter supporter who attended Mike Brown’s funeral.
The Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter says it’s banning media, elected officials and law enforcement from an upcoming meeting to be held Sunday, September 13th in Inglewood, California.
Black Lives Matter Activist Shaun King took to Twitter to deny the existence of a war on cops and to attack former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin.
In a tense national atmosphere where antagonism between police and some black Americans has been ratcheted up by the Black Lives Matter movement and recent murders of police officers have made headlines nationwide, a Police union President now says there is a credible threat against Cleveland law enforcement.
Members of the Black Lives Matter splinter group Fuk Yo Flag are threatening violence on September 11 in videos and blog posts.
On September 7, an elderly Arvada, Colorado, woman visited her local police station, found an officer, and hugged him.
The New England Police Benevolent Association denounced President Obama for his refusal to condemn Black Lives Matter-influenced cop murders and ignoring their devastated families and communities.
On September 5, members of Police Lives Matter 661 flooded Bakersfield police headquarters to show their support for the men and women of law enforcement.
Another patently offensive reference to the cold blood execution of Texas Deputy Darren Goforth: a “life coach” in Florida, named Jaxi West, said the murder “is what justice looks like.”
An Abilene, Texas, police officer was found dead in his home Monday night, and police describe the death as a “probable” homicide. Abilene Police Chief Stan Standridge commented on the murder by saying, “nothing is sacred.”
As the manhunt for three suspects in the September 1 shooting death of Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz in Fox Lake, Illinois, continues, schools in the area are closed and the community itself is in “virtual lockdown.”
Police in the northern Chicago suburb of Fox Lake are on a manhunt for three suspects after an officer was shot and killed during the morning hours of September 1.
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!”
As the long hot summer of 2015 ends and 2016 national elections are little more than a year away, America has seen both increased boldness and aggression from the far-left, establishment Democrat-backed Black Lives Matter movement, a surreal on-air homicide in Virgina by a black racist, and several brutal murders of police officers around the country. Aside from the shocking execution-style cop killing Friday night in Texas, earlier in the week, police officer Henry Nelson was killed in the line of duty in the small town of Sunset, Louisiana.
A police officer has been murdered in Sunset, Louisiana, after answering a domestic call. Officer Henry Nelson died Wednesday night after allegedly being shot by Harrison Lee Wiley Jr. Also dead is Shameka Johnson, one of two victims police say were stabbed by Wiley. At press time, the other victim—Wiley’s wife, Courtney Jolivette—was in the hospital.
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.”
In an August 23 Facebook post, Hillary Clinton contended that citizens and police were “much too eager” to use a gun, and she suggested the solution is to “rewrite” self-defense laws like “stand your ground” while making sure police officers are better “trained.”
A police officer with a gun was denied service at a Bowling Green, Kentucky, Chuck E. Cheese’s location.
On August 23, Louisiana State Police (LSP) trooper Steven Vincent was shot in the head after stopping an erratic driver in the Lake Charles area of Louisiana. His alleged attacker–Kevin Daigle–then stood over him and taunted him by saying, “You’re lucky. You are going to die soon.”
On August 15, KSTP reported that the Jimmy John’s sandwich shop in Edina, Minnesota, fired an employee who refused to serve a police officer who wanted to buy a sandwich.
