One small mistake cost a San Francisco University student his life. According to the Daily Mail, international business student Stephen Guillermo was shot dead after mistakenly walking into the wrong apartment following a night of drinking with friends. Guillermo pressed the third floor instead of the fifth floor where he shared an apartment with his brother and sister. After trying to […]
What you are about to hear is both disturbing and disheartening, but strangely necessary to understand how vigilantism and self-defense have become so skewed with paranoia and faux-heroism in America. In November 2012, Byron Smith shot Minnesota teens Nick Brady and Haile Kifer (pictured above) after they broke into his home. Smith, 65, reportedly waited with […]
Today in “Stories From Florida,” we have a teenager who faked her own kidnapping to elicit sympathy from an ex-boyfriend and a Florida State Senator determined to pass a “zombie apocalypse” bill because…reasons. We can’t make this stuff up. Desperate Measures: As if we needed another reason to deem today’s teenagers “the worst in history,” […]
Florida pastors have written a letter to the Jacksonville, Fl. Attorney’s Office to persuade them to offer Marissa Alexander, the woman who received a 20-year sentence for firing a warning shot, a plea deal. In addition, they are urging Alexander to take that deal. A similar plea that would have landed her in jail for […]
Today in “Stories From Florida” we have a woman who was forced by police to defecate in her own lawn, lawmakers who are trying to restrict media access to Stand Your Ground case records and a man who told police he was on his way to kill his friend. And yes, all of this is really […]
Four men have been convicted of gang-raping a 22-year-old photographer in Mumbai last August in an abandoned mill compound. A fifth is being tried in juvenile court. Mohammed Salim Ansari, Siraj Rehmat Khan, Vijay Mohan Jadhav and Mohammed Kasim Hafeez Shaikh, also known as Kasim Bangali, who were aged between 18 and 27 at the time […]
The ex-cop who shot and killed a man in a Florida movie theater for texting was actually using his phone to text moments before the altercation, according to Florida prosecutors. Talk about hypocritical. According to the Associated Press: Curtis Reeves’ son, Matthew Reeves, told detectives that his father texted him at 1:04 p.m. Jan. 13, […]
Michael Dunn will have to wait to hear how many years he’ll be spending behind bars. The judge in the controversial self-defense case announced that he will delay sentencing for Dunn until the new trial is over. If you recall, Dunn was convicted on three counts of attempted murder for shooting into a car filled with […]
On Tuesday, members of The Dream Defenders, an organization directed by black and brown youth who combat systemic inequality, gathered to confront Florida lawmakers at the Capitol, expressing their concerns over the hyper-incarceration of minorities and laws, like the controversial Stand Your Ground measure, that begets legal violence against these groups. On the first day of […]
Admitting that a change in Florida’s controversial Stand Your Ground law could have affected the outcome of the George Zimmerman murder trial, former defense attorney Mark O’Mara is setting out to reform the self-defense legislation. O’Mara, whose client evoked the Stand Your Ground defense after killing Trayvon Martin, says he plans to propose a rule limiting […]
The woman who was sentenced to 20 years in jail for firing a warning shot to scare off her estranged husband during an altercation could be going to jail for 60 years. Marissa Alexander may face the extended sentence when her aggravated assault case is retried this summer, according to the Office of State Attorney Angela […]
A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the green light for Russian troops to invade Ukrainian territory, the country is rejecting accusations that they have acted aggressively towards their neighbor. The country is urging Western critics to put aside “geopolitical calculations” in favor of the interests of the people in the former Soviet Republic. While Moscow defended Putin’s […]
