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 →
The Minneapolis City Council has made a decision to settle a civil lawsuit: The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit from George Floyd’s family over the Black man’s death in police … Continue reading →
Just reminding you that Andrew Branca is reporting in-depth at Legal Insurrection on the Chauvin trial. His first two posts from yesterday are this and this. I believe the plan is for him to write at least one post every … Continue reading →
Well, fancy that: A leading counterterrorism official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed on Wednesday that, despite frequent and baseless claims that the protests at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th was supposedly an “armed insurrection,” no firearms were … Continue reading →
Here goes: On March 8, 2021, jury selection will begin in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the alleged murder of George Floyd, and the city and state governments are preparing for another round of violence, … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Please see my previous posts on this subject.] Here’s a recent interview with Officer Sicknick’s mother. Note that it’s in the British paper The Daily Mail. It’s not unusual for British papers to cover events in the US more … Continue reading →
Here’s what a “moderate” looks like these days, from Garland’s statement on his nomination to be Biden’s AG: That mission remains urgent because we do not yet have equal justice. Communities of color and other minorities still face discrimination in … Continue reading →