Leading figures in the Oath Keepers, a rightwing paramilitary group (details here), are getting the longest Capitol riot sentences so far. It seems pretty clear federal courts consider the group revolutionaries. But their sentences for Jan. 6 crimes also reflect judges’ reaction to advance pla[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
May 25th, 2023 - 10:20 pm § in Law and Courts
Taking the law into his own hands?
His lawyers insisted he’s not the perp, and innocent people do get convicted, but a Florida jury decided he sought revenge against the wrong people after he was robbed and shot on his ice cream truck route. Prosecutors told jurors Michael Keetley (photo, left) was “frustrated with law en[...]
May 25th, 2023 - 2:34 am § in Law and Courts
Seattle mail thief canceled
He stole postal vehicles, mailbox keys, mail, credit cards, and identities. A lot of them. Door cameras and security cameras in stores where he tried to use the credit cards saw him do it (see photo). After six months of this, the law caught up with Johny Mixayboua, 27, who’s now cooling his h[...]
Nikki Haley would bypass courts in subway choking case
Nikki Haley, who’s running for president, announced on Fox News that New York’s governor should pardon the white man who choked a mentally-ill black subway rider to death (see story here). The case is complicated, and certainly not as simple as its component of white-on-black violence wo[...]
Ex-NFL player sent death threat to Democratic congressman
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[...]
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[...]