So this happened… A Chicago man (who we can only assume takes his job very seriously) robbed his co-worker at gunpoint and still showed up to work the next day, prosecutors say. That man, Larry Murdock, is now being held on bond for felony armed robbery. And it must be noted, he did try to […]
Police in North Miami Beach are in hot water after a South Florida woman visiting a shooting range discovered the officers were using mugshots of African-American men, including one of her own brother, as shooting targets. Sgt. Valerie Deant, who plays clarinet with the Florida Army National Guard’s 13th Army Band, was visiting the range […]
A gunman is in police custody after holding two hostages captive for more than an hour at a Paris post office Friday. The standoff, which began before 1 p.m. (6 a.m. ET) was diffused within an hour and a half. The incident was not linked to the terrorism Paris has experienced in the past two […]
Police searching for two Kentucky teenagers who have been on a “brazen and dangerous” crime spree since Jan. 4 found their abandoned pick-up truck in Georgia Thursday morning, authorities say. The teenage fugitives, 18-year-old Dalton Hayes and 13-year-old Cheyenne Phillips, left their homes in central Kentucky at the beginning of the year to embark on […]
The city of St. Louis, Mo. experienced a total of six homicides in a span of 12 hours — an unusually high number for the city given its 2014 homicide total of 159. The first shooting, which occurred at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, was the result of a home invasion in Fountain Park. The victim was […]
Police have charged a Louisiana woman, whose preschool-aged children died in a house fire after she left them unattended to have her hair done. Ciarra Johnson left 4-year-old Tashae Thompson Johnson and 3-year-old Clifton Thompson Johnson in the home alone while she attended her appointment, authorities say. State Fire Marshal Deputy Chief Brant Thompson recovered the bodies […]
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali is back in the hospital. Ali was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) after he was found unresponsive by guests at his Arizona home. He was taken to an undisclosed Scottsdale-area hospital and is currently undergoing testing. “He wasn’t responding,” a source told Radar Online. “He went to bed Tuesday night, but didn’t […]
At the start of the year, a delegation of freedom fighters for black liberation representing Black Lives Matter, The Dream Defenders, the Black Youth Project 100, New York Justice League, and more traveled to Palestine to stand in solidarity with those living under Israeli occupation. The 10-day trip — co-organized by Dream Defenders’ legal and policy director, Palestinian American Ahmad […]
On Wednesday, House Republicans voted to fund the Department of Homeland Security, given they block protections that would prevent millions of undocumented young people from deportation. Republicans have been vocal about not voting to fund DHS if President Obama’s immigration policies remain — Democrats, on the other hand, have vowed to strike down anything that […]
Amid the national conversation about police wearing body cameras to capture an accurate account of their encounters, Flagstaff Police in Arizona released video of the moment a rookie cop was gunned down by a suspect on Dec. 27. The above video, which stops just as Robert William Smith pulled out a firearm and shot Officer […]
Satellite images made available by Amnesty International Wednesday show the “horrific scale” of destruction Boko Haram left in the wake of their largest and latest attack on Nigeria — the Jan. 3 Baga massacre that reportedly left up to 2,000 dead. The defense ministry has the number slaughtered in the attack down to hundreds, but residents […]
We’re only two full weeks into the New Year, but police in Albuquerque have already shot another man, this time fatally, bringing the total of those injured by the police department in 2015 to three. The latest shooting happened just before 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, police say, after officers were dispatched to a scene to investigate […]