The Justice Department says that holding the poor in jail because they cannot afford bail is unconstitutional. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals last week asserting that holding defendants in jail just because they cannot afford bail is unconstitutional. “Bail practices that incarcerate indigent […]
The co-chair of a Trump veterans’ group to plead guilty this week for his role in the 2014 Bundy standoff. Jerry DeLemus, a 61-year-old Tea Party activist and Marine Corps veteran, is scheduled to plead guilty to federal charges for his role in Cliven Bundy’s 2014 armed standoff between Bundy’s anti-government followers and Bureau of […]
Milwaukee protests break out after police shooting Milwaukee was ablaze Saturday night in the wake of a fatal shooting by police during a foot chase. NBC News reports that “the victim, 23, was armed with a handgun and shot dead by an officer after fleeing a traffic stop on Milwaukee’s north side Saturday afternoon.” Hours […]
Trigger happy cops in the United States could learn much from their British counterparts. Fatal shootings by police in the United States has become a major political issue in recent years, and official figures out of Great Britain paint a stark contrast with those coming out of the USA. As of August 1st of this […]
The adults watching TV in the living room of the home in Edgewater didn’t notice when someone took a BB gun into the bedroom where four boys were hanging out. One of the boys started playing around with the air-powered BB rifle, pumping it repeatedly and swinging it around. It went off and hit one […]