Now we get some new information on Daunte Wright and his previous encounters with the police: Daunte Wright had an open warrant related to an armed-robbery case against him when he was shot dead Sunday by a cop who claimed … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Also please see the ADDENDUM below for an update on the Jacob Blake shooting in Kenosha.] That was quick. The charge against Potter is second-degree manslaughter, and at the link you can see the ways in which the statute … Continue reading →
I had originally theorized that the female police officer who shot Daunte Wright, having mistaken her gun for a laser, was a rookie making a rookie mistake. Wright’s killing has precipitated rioting in the area, a suburb of already-riot-ravaged Minneapolis. … Continue reading →
Everybody knows that one of the clouds hanging over the Chauvin trial, tainting it even further, is the threat of violence if he isn’t convicted of some major crime. As commenter “J.J.” points out, however: If the mayor of Minneapolis … Continue reading →
I’ve previously written about the use of the phrase “deadly riots” to describe the Capitol incursion on January 6th, and how it has been employed in order to make it seem as though it was the rioters killing people or … Continue reading →
We don’t have much information yet on this incident, but here’s a summary: A U.S. Capitol Police officer was killed and another injured after a man drove a car into a security barricade at the Capitol complex on Friday, Acting … Continue reading →
So far it seems that in the main they will be charged with trespassing: “There is a natural cycle to an event like this,” the defense attorney added. “People will say it was the end of the world, then things … Continue reading →
LA County’s DA George Gascón is going to be “downsizing” and “renaming” the Hardcore Gangs Unit of the office he heads, and the reason for his deicision is certainly not that there are fewer hardcore gang members in the LA … Continue reading →
Some new information is emerging about the Boulder shooter: Alleged shooter was a Washington Post reader who shared the paper's hatred of Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/qbw22TZd2h — Mollie (@MZHemingway) March 23, 2021 Of course, that can be blamed on Trump too, … Continue reading →
There was a terrible mass shooting yesterday in Boulder: Police on Tuesday identified a 21 -year-old man as the suspect who opened fire inside a crowded Colorado supermarket in an attack that killed 10 people, including an officer, and sent … Continue reading →
Andrew Sullivan gets this story mostly right: We have yet to find any credible evidence of anti-Asian hatred or bigotry in [the killer’s] history. Maybe we will. We can’t rule it out. But we do know that his roommates say … Continue reading →
…as a result of the civil suit settlement in the Floyd family’s case against the city of Minneapolis. The two stated that they knew of the settlement and “would no longer be able to be fair and impartial jurors.” The … Continue reading →