UPDATE: Sunday, Nov 20, 2022 · 7:54:33 PM +00:00 · Lauren Sue
Officials said in a news release the number of victims injured has increased to 25 people.
President Joe Biden released his statement on social media Sunday. “Jill and I are praying for the families of the five people killed in Colorado Springs, and for those injured in this senseless attack,” the president said.
Despite immediately available body camera and dash camera footage, it took nearly two months for Colorado prosecutors to charge two police officers who left a woman handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser on train tracks. Yareni Rios-Gonzalez, 20, was seriously injured on Sept. 16, and the Weld County District Attorney’s Office announced reckless endangerment charges against Fort Lupton Police Officer Jordan Steinke and Platteville Police Officer Pablo Vazquez on Nov.
Democrats had our much-deserved moment in the sun in the hours after news broke on Saturday of Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s election victory in Nevada. She secured her second term as the first Latina elected to the U.S. Senate, earning Democrats control of the Senate with 50 seats and Vice President Kamala Harris’ expected tie-breaking vote.
The Republican attack on books written by LGBTQ authors may have met its match in an ally who spoke out at a Tennessee library board meeting last Wednesday. Up against claims that books exploring gender were “age-inappropriate” and attacks from community members who used the controversy to spread homophobic hate, Jessee Graham, a resident of Columbia, showed the Maury County Library Board she would not sit idly and let her community be torn apart.
A Black man shown on video being brutalized by two deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is facing a charge of assault on a police officer—even though Blake Anderson, the man who was beaten, ended up losing sight as a result of his injuries, an investigative journalist reported.
It wasn’t enough that a woman was handcuffed and left trapped in the backseat of a Colorado police cruiser while a train crashed into the vehicle. Now, a 22-year-old man linked to the initial 911 call in that incident has spoken to a local news station about having charges filed against the woman.
Listening to Republicans’ continued support of former President Donald Trump, an unfamiliar onlooker might think the former president’s words hadn’t inspired an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. It’s like the FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida, didn’t happen, and it didn’t end in the seizure of 11 sets of classified documents, including those related to nuclear weapons.
After former President Donald Trump regurgitated the racist “great replacement” theory, and otherwise trashed America in an odd endorsement of Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance, portions of a crowd of more than 6,000 attendees raised their single fingers in the air. It was an alarming move for social media users who described the gesture as remarkably similar to the Nazi salute.
The number of Republicans committed to defending former President Donald Trump is simply astounding. Yet they continue to defend him even after his repeated racist statements, even after his words inspired an insurrectionist attack on the U.S. Capitol, and even after stolen White House documents related to nuclear weapons were found in his Mar-a-Lago home.
A Georgia jury began deliberations on Tuesday in the case of a biracial college student charged with felony murder in what his defense has maintained was an act of self defense prompted when a pickup truck tried to run Marc Wilson and his white girlfriend off the road.
Emma Rigdon, who was in the vehicle with Wilson, confirmed the claim in testimony covered by the Statesboro Herald on Monday.
It’s quite clear who Brigham Young University has decided to stand up for after Black Duke University students were forced to endure racial slurs during a volleyball match on Friday in the school’s Smith Fieldhouse. Unfortunately, it is not Black students.
The family and friends of Robert Adams, a 23-year-old Black security guard shot and killed by San Bernardino, California, police, said their goodbyes at a funeral service for him on Saturday. “I am in pain,” his mother Tamika King said in remarks the Los Angeles Times captured the day before the service. “I won’t see my son walk through that door no more. I won’t see his beautiful smile.
Sen. Lindsey Graham has been trying his best to evade a subpoena requiring him to testify before a special purpose grand jury (SPGJ) assembled in Georgia’s Fulton County to investigate GOP efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election. A federal appeals court gave him reason for brief relief on Sunday in the form of a temporary stay, according to a court order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
A state agency is investigating what it dubbed “alleged misconduct” from Georgia police officers after homeowner security footage captured police using racial slurs and throwing the Ring camera that captured it. Although audio from the footage is a bit unclear, it appears to show an officer using the N-word. West Point police officers Donald Bramblett, Dylan Harmon, Zachary Heyboer, Sgt.
A class action lawsuit claims that the credit reporting agency Equifax provided inaccurate credit scores for hundreds of thousands of consumers seeking loans between March 17 and April 6. The fallout of what Equifax described as a “coding issue” within a “legacy, on-premise server environment” included credit and housing denials that may have otherwise been approved, according to the suit filed on Wednesday on behalf of plaintiff Nydia Jenkins.
Trident Mortgage, a mortgage company that billionaire Warren Buffett’s company owns, was recently the target of a Department of Justice probe into claims of redlining that ended in what officials are calling the second-largest redlining settlement in the Justice Department’s history. It is the first such agreement the Justice Department has secured with a mortgage company, officials said in a news release on Wednesday.
A researcher confirmed earlier media reports indicating former President Donald Trump may receive hefty tax breaks for having his ex-wife buried on the Trump-owned golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. Ivana Trump, 73, died in her Manhattan home on July 14 from “blunt impact injuries” to her torso, The Washington Post reported of an autopsy report from New York City’s chief medical examiner.
A Mississippi police chief was fired on Wednesday when his former subordinate, a Black man, recorded him in a racist and homophobic rant bragging about the toxic and violent police culture the chief upheld.
A Black judge with jurisdiction over Clark County, and notably its Las Vegas strip, is being targeted by a local police union for advising a Black suspect before her for a probation hearing to use caution with police.
“You’re a Black man in America,” 8th Judicial District Court Judge Erika Ballou told the defendant. “You know you don’t want to be nowhere where cops are.
A bill Republicans introduced in the North Carolina House last year is attracting renewed attention amid GOP promises to revisit further abortion restrictions for the state in 2023. The bill in question would define the start to human life as the “moment of fertilization” and deem abortion first-degree murder. Sponsored by Republican state Reps.
Nikole Hannah-Jones has reached a settlement with her former school after the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) was accused of folding under pressure from conservatives to deny the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s application for tenure.
Real life is not a Batman sequel with clear villains and victims. But when it comes to police taking Black and brown lives, there almost has to be a perfect combination of wrongdoing on the part of police and innocence on the part of the person of color for them to win any measure of widespread empathy.
Albuquerque police officers knew a person other than the suspect they were pursuing had run inside the very house they threw powder irritants into. They had that knowledge before they decided to activate the irritants, and they did so anyway, desperate to drive those inside the home, including 15-year-old Brett Rosenau, outside. They failed in more ways than one.
“Rosenau was found deceased inside the home,” police said in a news release.
The father of a 17-year-old boy who was killed in the mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school in 2018 interrupted President Joe Biden on Monday to send a clear message about what the president had hoped would be a celebration of the newly passed gun law.
“We have to do more than that,” Manuel Oliver screamed.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, GOP nominee for the governor of Arkansas, was trending on Sunday for continuing a tradition of hypocrisy that I would’ve hoped peaked when she was White House Press Secretary for former President Donald Trump. It didn’t. Footage of promises the Arkansas Republican made just one month ago began to circulate on social media in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court reversing Roe v.
A Florida police officer was arrested on Wednesday and accused of manslaughter after he shot and killed a Black man falsely identified as a domestic violence suspect. Following the death of 40-year-old James Lowery, Officer Joseph Payne turned himself into Brevard County Jail on Wednesday and was released the same day on a $15,000 bond, according to CBS affiliate WKMG-TV.
In the days before primary election results started to trickle in on Tuesday, Black leaders reminded Democrats, particularly those in Georgia, of a message that holds true despite GOP tactics to undermine Georgians: Our votes still matter.
President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday, the two-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, that he would sign an executive order promising to deliver the “most significant police reform in decades.” The president promised that the order would create a national database of police misconduct, strengthen pattern or practice investigations, and ban chokeholds for federal agencies.
Nearly two years after former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, the Minnesota Department of Human Rights found that Minneapolis police officers are more likely to use neck restraints and chemical irritants on Black people and more likely to cite, use force against, and arrest Black people during traffic stops. The human rights departments announced the saddening but not shocking findings on Wednesday after a nearly two-year investigation.
A right-wing racist doubling as a Michigan radio host decided last week to throw his hat in the ring for a state Senate seat—and get this: He’s running as a Democrat. Mind you, just last month he was trying to make a case that TV commercials should only feature white families.