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Story highlights Sheriff: Shooting appears to be “extremely random” Police chief: Staff’s response saved more lives The victims were an elderly female patient and a female hospital employee, who were sitting in the room, Titusville police Chief John Lau said. Moments after the shots rang out, two security guards came into the room at Parrish…
A horrible story from Minnesota, as reported by the Washington Post: A Minnesota traffic stop turned deadly Wednesday evening when a police officer opened fire on a black driver. The victim, 32-year-old Philando Castile, died at a Minneapolis hospital, a family member told The Washington Post. The aftermath of the shooting was filmed by…
Two bailiffs in a county courthouse in southwestern Michigan were killed following a shooting by an inmate, according to the county sheriff. Two bailiffs and the shooter are dead in Berrien County Courthouse shooting, Monday, July 11, 2016.(Photo: Michelle Crandall) Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey confirmed at a Monday press conference that two court bailiffs…
Diamond Reynolds weeps at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in front of the governor’s mansion Thursday in St. Paul, Minn., after recounting the fatal shooting of her boyfriend, Philando Castile, by a police officer. (Eric Miller/Reuters) After a Minnesota police officer fatally shot a black man on Wednesday, gun control advocates weren’t the only ones criticizing…
(Mark Mellone) New video has surfaced showing the moment an off-duty police officer shot and killed a 37-year-old man in an apparent road rage incident in Brooklyn this week. Officer Wayne Isaacs, a three-year veteran of the force, fired two shots at Delrawn Small in East New York early Monday morning. Small, who was…
Let me say this right off the bat: I don’t at all condone any shooting of police officers or attacking them in any way. I hope that the people responsible are caught and punished to the fullest extent of the law – which, given that the attacks appear to have been premeditated and directed at…
A woman livestreamed the heartbreaking moments after her boyfriend was shot and killed by a cop in Minnesota late Wednesday. In a Facebook video, Lavish Reynolds claims that the couple was pulled over in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area for a busted taillight and that her boyfriend, identified by WCCO as Philando Castile, was shot four…
I used to love going to the movies. It didn’t even really matter what was playing. Through my teenage years and early twenties whenever I was stressed, I liked to go to the local movie theater. I liked it when the lights went down and everybody got really quiet. I liked how hopeful and expectant…
Noclip/en.wikipedia Should domestic abusers who get convicted of minor domestic-violence charges get to keep their right to own guns just because their crimes were merely reckless, as opposed to premeditated? That’s more or less the question the Supreme Court was considering in Voisine v. US, a somewhat obscure case that was languishing on the court’s…
How ironic. The architect of North Carolina’s anti-transgender “bathroom bill,” which took away the right of transgender people to use the restroom that matches their gender identity, compared LGBT rights activists with the Taliban. Just last week, the killer in the latest major attack on the LGBT community, which left 49 people dead in Orlando, Florida,…