Daniel Perry (photo, left) was driving an Uber when he encountered a protest crowd blocking a street on July 25, 2020. Perry ran a red light and drove into the crowd. A protester legally carrying an AK-47 walked up to Perry’s car to tell him to stop. Perry shot him dead, then claimed self-defe[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Domestic Terrorism’
October 26th, 2022 - 10:12 am § in Law and Courts
How to appear in court
Lose the domestic terrorist look, get a shave and haircut, put on a shirt and tie, and try to look like a nerd. But it’s not guaranteed to get you off if you’re guilty (story here). Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Portland police built a wall of silence around BLM mass shooting
When half a dozen people are shot all at once, it doesn’t normally take days to find out what happened and who was responsible. But a wall of police silence surrounds the act of fanatical political terrorism committed by a rightwing extremist in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, February 19, 2022[...]
September 13th, 2021 - 10:15 pm § in Law and Courts
How to ruin your life
Back in 2018, Damon Joseph of Holland, Ohio, age 20 at the time, decided he wanted to be an ISIS terrorist. So he grew a scraggly beard (see photo) to make himself look like one, and starting calling himself “Abdullah Ali Yusuf.” Not real stealthy. Doesn’t exactly blend in. Startin[...]
July 30th, 2021 - 1:25 pm § in Politics
Our politics have been worse, and could be again
America’s politics have always been rowdy, and sometimes violent; if it’s bad now, it’s been much worse. Here, Texas Democratic politician Beto O’Rourke describes some incidents from his state’s political past. For example: “After Reconstruction, states throughout[...]
December 20th, 2017 - 4:40 pm § in Misc.
Charlottesville renames street where protester was slain
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June 16th, 2017 - 1:20 am § in Hypocrisy
Was The London Fire Terrorism by The Rich?
Charles Mudede 15 hrs · The Stranger · The London housing tower was erected in the early 1970s. Did fine for more than 40 years. Then yesterday, it suddenly burned to a crisp. Was it a terrorist bomb that made the fire so fierce? Numerous people thought so, and began tweeting racist attacks at [...]
February 15th, 2017 - 1:12 pm § in Misc.
Ain’t No Terrorists Here!
Tennessee man who plotted New York mosque attack won’t face terrorism charges Robert Doggart was arrested in April 2015 after authorities discovered that he had been trying to recruit people to burn down a mosque in upstate New York . But Mr. Duggart won’t face terrorism charges for plottin[...]
February 15th, 2016 - 1:18 pm § in Misc.
Cliven Bundy wants taxpayers to foot his legal bills
Cliven Bundy is the ultimate deadbeat. He owes the government over $1 million in unpaid grazing fees. Now that he’s behind bars for fomenting armed insurrection and threatening to kill law enforcement officers, he wants — you guessed it — the government he hates so much to provide [...]