The tweet sent to Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) was plain enough: And it was sent “in the clear,” i.e., under the author’s real name. It didn’t take long for Swalwell to find out his special fan was Bruce Miller, a former NFL player (see his bio here). Miller, a big guy with bulg[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
Ex-GOP legislator gets prison for Covid relief fraud
Michael Capps (photo, left), 45, who served a single term in the Kansas legislator (2019-2021), will go to prison for stealing $475,000 of Covid relief funds (read story here). Capps was convicted of falsifying Paycheck Protection Plan (PPP) and Small Business Administration (SBA) loan applications,[...]
May 15th, 2023 - 1:24 pm § in Misc.
Bikejacking or misunderstanding?
The social media narrative that followed the video below is that a crowd in New York City prevented a white female hospital worker from taking a rental bike from a young black man after he paid for it by pretending she was being attacked. Read story here and watch video below. The hospital has suspe[...]
May 12th, 2023 - 3:49 pm § in Law and Courts
Lock up this sociopath
George Alvarez (photo, left), 34, the driver whose car crashed into a group of migrants in Brownsville, Texas, killing 8 and injuring 10, was drunk and had marijuana, cocaine, and benzodiazepines in his system (see story here). He’s charged with manslaughter, not murder, because police canR[...]
May 6th, 2023 - 7:55 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Gun violence on 5/6/23
Headlining today’s gun violence news, a mass shooter killed 8 shoppers and injured 7 others at a Texas mall before being killed by police (story here). But it doesn’t stop there: A 16-year-old boy was killed at a Texas graduation party (story here). A 17-year-old girl was killed and 5 ot[...]
May 5th, 2023 - 7:42 pm § in Law and Courts
Hero or vigilante?
That’s what a jury will have to decide after a subway rider killed a mentally ill homeless man with a chokehold. The victim was Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old black man who, according to his aunt, suffered from schizophrenic, PTSD, and depression after his mother’s “brutal murder̶[...]
April 30th, 2023 - 10:28 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Should courts go easy on teenage killers?
The gunfire, it seems, never stops. And in many cases, kids are pulling the triggers. In South Carolina, a drive-by shooting at a park wounded 9 young people, ages 16 to 20, in the wee hours of Saturday, April 29, 2023. Police found “dozens of shell casings from several different weapons,̶[...]
April 28th, 2023 - 1:58 pm § in Law and Courts
She probably won’t marry this guy
Erick Aguirre (mugshot, right), 29, met his date at a Houston restaurant called Rodeo Goat, which I guess is a Texas thing (see menu and goat pictures here). They arrived in their own cars, and a guy in the parking lot told them he was the parking attendant, and they had to pay $20 to […][...]
April 28th, 2023 - 1:41 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Another Mississippi lynching
Before being murdered last fall, Rasheem Carter, 25, went to the police in Taylorsville, Mississippi. He’d told his mother that “three truckloads of white guys [were] trying to kill him,” so she told him to seek police protection. When, in February 2023, his dismembered remains wer[...]
April 27th, 2023 - 2:08 pm § in Law and Courts
Armed weak-minded fool wanted to “cull weak-minded” people
It sounds like something out of Nazi ideology. The suspected leaker of Pentagon secrets, Jack Teixeira, 21, “wrote on social media … that he wanted to ‘kill a ton of people’ because it would be ‘culling the weak minded,'” Raw Story reported on Thursday, April 27,[...]