The latest about racial injustice and sexual abuse, spurred by the #MeToo movement, mass shootings and police violence in light of George Floyd’s death.
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and others had called on Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell to resign after Campbell’s deputy, Sean Grayson, who is white and 30 years old, was fired and charged with murder in relation to Massey’s killing in July. Read more
The pair face charges for their roles in the bungled police response to the shooting during which officers waited for more than an hour outside a classroom where the gunman was holed up with children, including those who made lengthy calls to 911 emergency services, saying they were in the room with the gunman and surrounded by bodies. Read more
The three-minute video was recorded on the body-worn camera of an officer from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit who was at the Trump campaign rally on July 13 in the rural western Pennsylvania town of Butler, and released on Tuesday by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley. Read more
“The crowd failed to obey our order to move back from our police line. We are deploying pepper spray towards anyone trying to break the law and cross that line,” police said in a statement. Read more
Former President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on Nov. 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald. Read more
Sean Grayson, a white deputy who was dismissed from the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office and charged with three counts of first-degree murder last week, fired three shots at the woman, Sonya Massey, according to the indictment. Read more
Federal law enforcement officials said they believe Crooks flew a small drone over the rally grounds on the day of the shooting in what might have been an attempt to surveil the scene. Read more
Sean Grayson, who is white, is set to be arraigned in Illinois’ Seventh Judicial Circuit Court this afternoon, one day after a grand jury indicted him on five criminal counts for the July 6 death of Sonya Massey. Read more
Davis, 51, was handcuffed and removed from a plane Saturday in Santa Ana, Calif., after a flight attendant accused the former Denver Broncos star of hitting him. Read more
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Law enforcement officials said on Saturday that Crooks carried no identification to the site of the shooting and had to be identified using other methods. Read more
A voter-registration record shows that Crooks was registered as a Republican, though federal campaign-finance records show he donated $15 to a liberal voter turnout group in 2021. Read more
Tamara McKay, chair of the Hawaii Republican Party, is in Milwaukee with the party’s delegation to attend next week’s Republican National Convention. Read more
In a news conference from Delaware, Biden called the shooting “sick.” Read more
The Facebook and Instagram parent said in a blog post it would remove content “attacking ‘Zionists’ when it is not explicitly about the political movement” and uses antisemitic stereotypes or threatens harm through intimidation or violence directed against Jews or Israelis. Read more
The administrators are still employed by the university but have been placed on indefinite leave and will not return to their previous jobs. Read more
Roberts was joined by fellow conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, as well as liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Read more
The shooting occurred at the Mad Butcher grocery in Fordyce, a town of 3,200 people about 70 miles south of Little Rock. Read more
Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., quickly moved to scuttle Heinrich’s legislation, noting that he and other GOP senators had filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to overturn the ban. Read more
The department also reached resolutions with both universities over complaints of such incidents. Read more
Authorities called the incident random gunfire and said they cornered the suspect in a house nearby, where he died after shooting himself. Read more
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez may rule later today on the fate of Jones’ company Free Speech Systems, which operates the Infowars website and hosts Jones’ radio show. Read more
