Mom Blames Atlanta Police for Her Son Getting Beaten in Massive Brawl
An interesting development on the “social justice” front: A woman whose 13-year-old son was badly beaten after a massive brawl at Atlantic Station last month has filed a complaint against a group of Atlanta police officers who she says did nothing to stop the attack. Iresha Ridley said she has formally asked APD’s office of […]
N.Y. Cathedral Shooter Was Immigrant Criminal With Violent Record
A Christmas choir concert Sunday afternoon at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on the Upper West Side of Manhattan ended with a lunatic brandishing pistols and screaming “shoot me” at police. Attempts by police to “de-escalate” were futile, and the gunman was shot dead. It turn out that the gunman, 52-year-old Luis Vasquez, […]
‘Good People Carry Guns and They Will Shoot You, a Lot — Graveyard Dead’
Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County, Florida, is known for his colorful way of expressing himself at press conferences (see “68 Shots: ‘That’s All the Bullets We Had, or We Would Have Shot Him More’”). Sheriff Judd’s press conference on Aug. 29, 2018, featured the case of Jason Boek. If you’ve never heard of Jason […]
SCOTUS Rejects Texas v. Pennsylvania
My podcast partner John Hoge says he is “not completely surprised, but disappointed” by the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the lawsuit filed by Texas (joined by 17 other states) which argued that changes to election procedures in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia were unconstitutional. Jonathan Adler says the decision “should also put an end […]
Holiday News Down Home
How’s your holiday shopping coming along? I’ve been keeping up with folks down home, reading the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and it seems there’s been a lot of festive holiday excitement: One man is in custody after shooting a Walmart employee who confronted him about shoplifting Friday morning in East Point, police said. The shooting occurred just […]
Judge Releases Satan-Worshipping Murder Suspect, With Predictable Result
This has become a pattern in Houston, Texas: According to a victim’s advocate, Derrick Mike has become the 70th person in Harris County to be murdered by a suspect out on felony bond. The suspect, 23-year-old Edward O’Neal IV, had been charged in the 2016 slaying of his friend Ryan Roberts in a case that […]
How to End Your Criminal Career
When did Lakita Annette Davis begin her criminal career? We don’t know, although we do know that she was already familiar to police in Tennessee when she was arrested in Madison County in March 2016 for a string of thefts of fingernail polish from stores in Jackson, Tenn. This arrest did not end Davis’s criminal […]
‘Black Lives Matter’ Rioter Charged With Murder in N.C. Home Invasion
On June 2, police in Charlotte, North Carolina, used tear gas to disperse a “Black Lives Matter” protest that turned into a riot: The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department says what started as “a lawful protest” took a turn shortly before 9 p.m., when CMPD says several officers became targets for protesters “bent on turning a lawful […]
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