The head of Chicago’s police union said that thousands of officers are willing to walk off the job and leave the city with inadequate law enforcement protection in protest of Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s mandate that all city employees get vaccinated for COVID-19.
Speaking hours after he was publicly identified for the first time, Lt Michael Byrd went on the defensive during an interview with NBC News star Lester Holt Thursday.
Explaining his decision to finally come forward, Byrd – a 28-year veteran of the force – said: ‘I showed the utmost courage on January 6, and its time for me to do that now.’
Seven Capitol Police officers on Thursday sued former President Donald Trump, the Proud Boys and others for their alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, is the first to implicate that Trump and his campaign worked alongside far-right extremists and White supremacists to overthrow the 2020 election.
The interview, set to air Thursday, will be the first time the officer publicly reveals his identity since the events of that day. It will also come days after Capitol Police formally exonerated the officer after an internal review found that the officer’s actions were justified.
Violent crime in Minneapolis surged to near-record heights last year after the death of George Floyd, and the Police Department’s data for so far in 2021 shows that there’s been little drop-off.
Murders, robberies, and aggravated assaults are all running even with last year or roughly close to it, while rapes seem down slightly, at this point of the year.
So, to a majority of the City Council, it seemed like a good time to defund the police.
Her family’s grief has been compounded by the media’s grotesque portrayal of their loved one as a “QAnon conspiracy theorist” or worse, a traitor who got what she deserved.
As Toronto Police clear the illegal homeless encampments, activists and leftist politicians have done everything in their power to obstruct the police from doing their jobs and enforcing the law.
The reality is Mayor John Tory and the Toronto Police are doing the right thing by clearing these encampments. The activists and leftists city councillors are completely out of touch with Torontonians.
The January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol thrust its police force into a sympathetic national spotlight; like any other government agency, the U.S. Capitol Police has seized this opportunity to expand its mission and acquire additional funding.
One of the biggest problems we all should have about this action is that the Capitol Police are federal, but unlike other federal law enforcement agencies, the Capitol Police are not subject to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) inquiries and are not part of the Executive Branch. In fact, they are under the control of Nancy Pelosi.
It is always important to direct criticism where it really belongs, with those who make the ultimate decisions, not those who are tasked with carrying them out.
Police say they have approached the Ontario Provincial Police to oversee an independent criminal investigation into the unauthorized release of the 911 recordings and whether any charges would be warranted.
The New York Times was forced to admit what has been obvious for a while: Minority communities don’t support progressives’ radical views on criminal justice.
Democrats most left-wing supporters claim their calls to “defund the police” will help minority communities, but those communities know the truth.
“Mayor Ted Wheeler was joined by Portland Police Bureau (PPB) Chief Chuck Lovell for an afternoon video conference to announce that officers will no longer be asked to respond to traffic stops that are ‘not immediately related to safety threats.’ PPB officers have also been ordered under the city’s new consent search procedure to “clearly inform the person of their right to refuse or revoke their consent,” and must also record their request when asking the person for consent to search, said Wheeler, a Democrat,” reports Fox News.
Canada’s largest police forces conduct hundreds of no-knock raids every year, CBC investigation reveals.
