MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man accused of killing six people and injuring dozens more when he allegedly drove his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee last year has decided to mount an insanity defense, his attorneys said Monday.
Darrell Brooks Jr. faces more than 80 charges, including six homicide counts, in connection with the Nov. 21 incident in Waukesha. He pleaded not guilty in February. During a hearing Monday one of his attorneys, Jeremy Perri, told Judge Jennifer Dorow that Brooks is changing his plea to not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
Disturbing doorbell camera footage captured the moment three female friends were brutally beaten in an unprovoked attack by a man cops say is a woman-hating ex-con who went on to target three other victims over the ensuing 24 hours.
The clip was shot in Philadelphia on Wednesday night, and shows a man cops think is Malcolm White, 36, punch one woman to the ground while walking past them, and then attack one of the first victim’s female friends as she rushed to help.
The first victim screamed ‘F**k you’ at her attacker while laying injured on the ground.
Newly released surveillance footage shows the moment a 13-year old black teenager in Chicago was shot in the back by police when his hands were raised, prompting the family to file a lawsuit.
The teen, identified as A.G. by his family, is seen running into a gas station parking lot while pursued by police officers at about 10.30pm on May 18.
After damning numbers from Canada’s largest municipal police force proving what Black and other racialized communities have known for decades — that Toronto police have indeed used disproportionate force against them — the question now is what accountability might look like.
Ask Black Lives Matter Canada co-founder Sandy Hudson and the answer is one she and countless other community activists have been calling for for years: “Defund the police.”
Leave it to the CBC to platform a crank from the BLM scam to plug a bogus report. These are not serious people.
Read an informed take on the bogus report from Bob Scale via Lorrie Goldstein
The findings and conclusions in the Toronto “Race and Identity” report and the Police Chief’s confession and apology will have repercussions for law enforcement agencies across Canada and the US.
Most of the “Race and Identity” report uses typical population-based benchmarks to measure racial disparities in policing data. This methodology produces predictable disparities for certain racial/ethnic groups. Any qualified academic researcher would have said that these quantitative disparities cannot be used to prove that Toronto police officers are engaged in discriminatory practices, just as the absence of racial disparities would not mean that the police are bias free. Unfortunately, the researcher hired to produce this report and the Chief of Police have incorrectly claimed that the statistical disparities found in the report prove conclusively that there is systemic racism in the Toronto Police Service.
Toronto police chief James Ramer is expected to apologize to members of the Black community on Wednesday, the same day the force is scheduled to release never-before-seen race statistics on use of force and strip searches, the Star has learned.
Multiple sources tell the Star that Ramer — who is scheduled to speak to the media from Toronto police headquarters Wednesday morning — is expected to apologize in his public comments.
An administrative law judge has ruled that The Home Depot could prevent employees from wearing Black Lives Matter imagery on the clothing supplied by the company.
LeBron James, who has a history of whining about racism — even possibly fake racism — was unusually quiet after a white teen was beaten to death at his I Promise School in his hometown of Akron, Ohio. Now we may know why he was so tight-lipped about the gruesome killing. The three men arrested for murder are black, and that doesn’t fly with the narrative LeBron James has been pushing for years.
The pair of radical lawyers who torched an empty NYPD vehicle amid protests in Brooklyn over the police killing of George Floyd pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy charges in a deal struck with federal prosecutors.
The firebug attorneys, Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, each copped to counts of conspiracy to commit arson and to make and possess an unregistered destructive device for firebombing the police van in Brooklyn on May 30, 2020, a spokesperson for the US Attorney’s Office said.
Major corporations that made a show out of cutting checks to the national Black Lives Matter group in the aftermath of George Floyd’s police killing in May 2020 now have nothing to say about the charity’s alleged self-dealing.
Seventeen corporations that publicly committed at least $100,000 to Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation in the days following Floyd’s killing either declined to comment or did not respond to inquiries from the Washington Examiner asking if they approved of the charity’s use of their donations to purchase a $6 million mansion in Los Angeles secretly and award lucrative contracts to the family members and friends of BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who had sole control over the charity until May 2021.
After the Uvalde school shooting, the CDC and the media are pushing a misleading claim that, “firearms were the leading cause of death for kids one and older for the first time in 2020.”
There’s no statistical reason for the CDC to group infants and teenagers together into the same category except to push a gun control agenda. 1-year-olds and 19-year-olds don’t have much in common when it comes to gun violence. And when the numbers are broken down, teenagers have catastrophically high murder and suicide rates, while babies are much less affected.
On Feb. 26, 2012, a 17-year old African-American was shot to death in Sanford, Florida, triggering a wave of civil rights activism. Armed with a can of pop and a bag of Skittles, Trayvon Martin was gunned down by George Zimmerman, a Neighbourhood Watch volunteer who claimed he felt threatened by the unarmed teenager. Following Zimmerman’s acquittal, thousands of Americans protested the injustice. Although social activism was already prominent in the African-American community, this event propelled it onto the world stage. From there, the Black Lives Matter movement was born.
Sasha Johnson and the black lives that don’t matter
‘There’s been a wall of silence’, said one local campaigner I spoke to at a vigil dedicated to 28-year-old anti-racism campaigner Sasha Johnson. A year ago, on 23 May 2021, Johnson was brutally shot in the head. The vigil was held earlier this week in London’s Denmark Hill, a short walk from the hospital where Johnson continues to lie in a critical condition, with what have been described as ‘catastrophic and permanent’ injuries to the head. She has two children under the age of 13.
The vigil was small, attended by about 30 people, mainly old-school black-power and black-nationalist groups, such as the Nation of Islam. One group was notably absent: Black Lives Matter.
“Abortion Surveillance—United States, 2019,” was published Nov. 26, 2021 by the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. It is the CDC’s latest presentation of the annual abortion numbers in the United States and includes abortion data provided to the CDC by 47 states, as well as New York City and the District of Columbia.
Ninety children have been shot this year alone in Chicago. Over 25 of them have been killed. It’s tough for a lot of these mothers, especially the single mothers who are trying to do the best they can to raise their children in such a violent environment. The stress these families are experiencing is overwhelming.
