Tag: Crime
Teen’s family awarded $3.75M after son gunned down by LA sheriff’s...
Although deputies claim that the teen had a gun, no firearm was located at the scene.
Minneapolis agrees to pay $20M to family of unarmed woman killed...
“There was not a clear threat before the use of force was made. This is not a victory for anyone, but rather a way for our city to move forward.”
Miami cop found not guilty for negligence after shooting unarmed man
“The difficulties posed by this case are clearly represented by the jury’s inability to come to a verdict on three of the four charged offenses.”
US has supplied UAE $27B in arms despite nation’s links to...
We look at how U.S. weapons are supporting the ongoing devastation in Yemen with William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy.
Former Baltimore police sergeant indicted for planting gun and witness tampering
“Prosecuting criminals who work in police agencies is essential both to protect our communities and to support the many honorable officers whose reputations they unfairly tarnish.”
Bread, circuses, and duct tape
There is, of course, no emergency, despite the rape fantasy that the president has regularly tried to pass off as public policy.
LAPD Commander demoted after suspicious car crash
Jeff Nolte, who headed the LAPD’s Force Investigation Group, has been on paid leave since allegedly crashing his car and fleeing the scene.
San Francisco erases more than 8,000 marijuana-related convictions
District Attorney George Gascón partnered with Code for America to use a technological approach to help identify eligible cases, some going back decades.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grills Michael Cohen, laying out plan to probe...
“In five minutes, this freshman congresswoman just laid out a whole investigative plan for three more topics into Donald Trump’s potentially criminal activities.”
Former judge sentenced to prison for federal bribery charges
Former Reeves County Judge Jimmy Galindo admitted to accepting bribes along with a Texas politician in exchange for securing lucrative government contracts.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.