After five years of investigations and protests, the New York City Police Department on Monday fired an officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, the black man whose dying gasps of “I can’t breathe” added fuel to a national debate over race relations and police use of force. Police Commissioner James O’Neill […]
6 officers SHOT in violent Philadelphia standoff (Captured on camera!)
A gunman who opened fire on police Wednesday as they were serving a drug warrant in Philadelphia, wounding six officers and triggering a standoff that extended into the night, is in police custody, authorities said. Philadelphia police Sgt. Eric Gripp said early Thursday morning that the man was taken into custody after an hourslong standoff […]
Friend of Dayton shooter due in court… after lying!?
A longtime friend of the Dayton gunman is due in court after authorities accused him of buying the body armor and helping assemble the weapon used in last week’s mass shooting. A judge scheduled a detention hearing for Ethan Kollie of Kettering in suburban Dayton on Wednesday afternoon. Investigators say there’s no evidence that Kollie […]
Good guy with gun stops potential mass shooter
Police in Springfield, Missouri, said they arrested a man who showed up at a Walmart store carrying a rifle and wearing body armor, terrifying shoppers who fled from the store. Springfield police posted on Facebook that “an armed individual” was arrested Thursday. No shots were fired after a good guy with a gun intervened. The […]
Mass stabbing attack kills 4 in California
A gang member who killed four people and wounded two others in random stabbings across two Southern California cities has a violent past, police said Thursday, and court records show he was free on bail for a charge last month of carrying a concealed dagger. Zachary Castaneda “could have injured or killed many other people” […]
Arson damages 25-story Hawaiian hotel
Honolulu firefighters say a fire that caused $1.8 million in damage to a high-rise hotel in Waikiki was intentionally set. Fire Captain Scot Seguirant said Tuesday firefighters have referred the case to police for further investigation. The blaze sparked near a storage room on the 14th floor of the 25-story Waikiki Beachcomber by Outrigger hotel […]
Two charged with trying to steal Trump’s IRS returns
A few days before the 2016 presidential election, two college students outside Philadelphia hatched a plan to access Donald Trump’s tax returns, federal prosecutors say. They were unsuccessful, and now one of them has pleaded guilty to federal charges in what one defense lawyer calls a “college prank gone awry.” Justin Hiemstra, 22, of St. […]
Man convicted through childhood memory sues
One of two Detroit men who were imprisoned for nearly 20 years has filed a federal lawsuit seeking $100 million saying Detroit police framed them in a 1999 slaying. The Detroit News reports Justly Johnson’s lawsuit Tuesday says two police sergeants coerced two teenagers into falsely implicating him and Kendrick Scott. Police say they can’t […]
“Red flag” gun control laws coming…
A bipartisan gun control proposal by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., is gaining momentum following weekend mass shootings in Texas and Ohio that left 31 people dead. The emerging plan would create a federal grant program to encourage states to adopt “red flag” laws to take guns away from people believed to […]
Conservative star goes viral in Baltimore (media hiding)
Baltimore, Md. has been back in the public eye ever since President Donald Trump went off on Democrats for letting the city go to ruin. Under liberal leadership — in part led by Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-M.D., Democrats have let the city down for a long time. Trump issued a challenge to Cummings and company: […]
