The parents of Georgia school shooter Colt Gray, who killed 4 people and wounded 7 others, aren’t pillars of the community; but at least his mother, Marcee Gray, tried to warn the school about her son, and now she’s apologizing for what he did. “To the parents and families of those aff[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
September 7th, 2024 - 1:04 am § in Law and Courts
When the law is too lenient
It isn’t the judge’s fault; he has to operate within the sentencing guidelines enacted by the legislature. Adam Abelson (photo, left), 32, has had a rough life. He watched both his parents die from drug overdoses, according to his lawyer. But plenty of people suffer family tragedies, wit[...]
September 5th, 2024 - 6:24 pm § in Law and Courts
Are these America’s worst parents?
Every time a kid shoots up a school, people ask, “where did he get the weapon?” Georgia school shooter Colt Gray’s father gave him the AR-15 “as a holiday present” after police interviewed the boy about online threats to shoot up a school. This level of parental indiffe[...]
News too dumb to print
The Daily Mail, a U.K.-based tabloid, has been bashing the FBI over the Trump assassination attempt. You may recall that Trump held a rally in an open field, a short-staffed Secret Service detail partnered with local cops to provide protection, and errors by law enforcement allowed the shooter to fi[...]
August 17th, 2024 - 6:40 pm § in Law and Courts
They thought they got away with it
Killers usually don’t want to be caught, and abducting and murdering strangers typically isn’t an impulsive act. It would be nice to think these twisted psychopaths could be deterred by fear of capture, but historically that wasn’t the case. Threat of consequences wasn’t enou[...]
August 16th, 2024 - 4:58 am § in Law and Courts
Cop who raped 13-year-old girl gets 20 days in jail
Shawn Jordan (photo, left) was a 38-year-old cop in Rochester, New York, when he raped the 13-year-old girl. Now 40 years old, he pleaded guilty in exchange for 10 weekends in jail, 10 years of probation, and $1,000 of fines. He also has to register as a sex offender, lost his job, and will never [&[...]
August 10th, 2024 - 5:22 am § in Law and Courts, Racism
Do bodycams exonerate cop who killed Illinois woman?
In the early morning hours of July 6, 2024, Sonya Massey, 36, of Springfield, Illinois, a black woman, was killed in her home by Sean Grayson, 30, who is white. Massey called 911 to report a possible intruder. Grayson was one of two responding deputies. They didn’t find an intruder, and her fa[...]
Jan. 6 rioter with extensive criminal history sentenced to 20 years
David Nicholas Dempsey (photo, left), 37, of Van Nuys, California, was one of the most violent Jan. 6 rioters. He “stomped on police officers’ heads,” the Associated Press says (here), and “swung poles at officers defending a tunnel, struck an officer in the head with a metal cru[...]
July 26th, 2024 - 8:01 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans
Trump pal threatens Tina Peters prosecutors with piano wire hangings
Tina Peters is a former Colorado county clerk indicted for election crimes whose trial is to begin on July 31, 2024. (See details here.) Patrick Byrne (photo, left) was a long-time CEO of Overstock.com, an e-commerce company, until he resigned because of an affair with a Russian spy. Nowadays heR[...]
Will Trump pardon this rioter?
Trump has called the Capitol rioters “patriots” and promised to pardon them if he’s elected again. If I were them, I wouldn’t hold my breath, because Trump lies a lot and doesn’t return loyalty. He’s loyal to no one but himself. But suppose he does. Will he pardon[...]