“School had just started for the year on Monday,” the CNN story begins (here). “A suspect approached the victim, 17, during dismissal. The encounter became heated, and the suspect … also 17, shot at the victim multiple times …. School police performed CPR on the studen[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
“Decent” Capitol rioter gets 10 years in federal prison
Thomas Webster, 56, in better days, was a U.S. Marine and New York City police officer. He should’ve known better. What was he thinking? But caught up in MAGA madness, he went to D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021, to storm the Capitol. He even took a gun with him. A gun! What did he plan to […][...]
August 31st, 2022 - 1:13 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Lock up violent road ragers and throw the key away
Austin Weir (photo, left), 38, of Westfield, Indiana, should be an old man before he drives a car again. When the cops caught him, he “started acting ‘very fidgety’ and ‘was moving his hands around.’ A police officer pulled his gun and ordered Weir repeatedly to put his[...]
August 31st, 2022 - 11:07 am § in Donald Trump
Why the FBI seized Trump’s passports as evidence
Trump got his passports back, but they were in FBI possession for about two weeks. For good reason. They weren’t just randomly seized with other papers. FBI agents found classified documents intermingled with newspapers and magazines, but didn’t take those, based on what’s been rep[...]
August 30th, 2022 - 7:06 pm § in Law and Courts
What America can do about guns right now
I’m not talking about overcoming the very difficult hurdles of the Supreme Court and Senate filibuster to pass new laws. I’m saying enforce the laws we already have. “The number of shootings involving automatic weapons in the US has skyrocketed,” CNN says. “Inci[...]
August 28th, 2022 - 1:24 pm § in Politics
Texas lets anyone have a gun
No state is more gun-crazy, or less restrictive on guns, than Texas. In the wake of the Uvalde school massacre, Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, ignored calls by victims’ families for gun reforms (see story here). Now there’s another Texas gun carnage to talk about. A Houston man whoR[...]
August 27th, 2022 - 11:15 pm § in Donald Trump
Who cares if a fake heiress crashed Mar-a-Lago?
“A Ukrainian woman posing as a member of the Rothschild banking family has been outed as a fraud after she allegedly infiltrated former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate,” the New York Post says (see story here). Her Florida driver’s license gives her name as Anna de Rot[...]
August 27th, 2022 - 7:58 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Road rage or political violence, this should be a felony
Evan McMullin is a familiar face in Utah. Many people would recognize him. He ran for president in 2016 as an independent and got 21% of the vote there. This year he’s trying to unseat Sen. Mike Lee (R), a far-right reactionary. Although McMullin is a libertarian, he’s supported by Democ[...]
August 26th, 2022 - 10:52 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Does a law’s provenance matter?
I never thought I’d defend a Jim Crow law, but here goes. In a ruling on Wednesday, August 24, 2022, the federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a section of Mississippi’s state constitution that bars people convicted of certain felonies from voting (read story here). The 5th Circuit han[...]
Capitol rioter gets 4 years for beating cop with flagpole
Howard Richardson, 72, of Pennsylvania was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for repeatedly striking a Metro police officer with a flagpole until it broke during the Capitol riot (read story here). Richardson is a Vietnam veteran and his son his a police officer. On that basis, apparently, he[...]