Manson Follower Denied Parole
A family member of a victim of Leslie Van Houten, a Manson follower, reacted to the possibility that she could be paroled. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Thursday, April 14, 2016.
Category Archives: Violent Crime
Media Wrong, Trump Right on Crime Stats in RNC Acceptance Speech – We Checked
For mainstream media "fact-checkers," the GOP is often automatically presumed "wrong." Sometimes the media gets it right - like when The Washington Post pointed out in August 2015 that Trump's claim the U.S. unemployment rate was actually 42% was waaaaaaay off.
Absent during protests, Baton Rouge mayor is more visible
Baton Rouge Mayor Kip Holden listens during a news conference regarding the shooting of police officers in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, July 18, 2016. Multiple police officers were killed and wounded Sunday morning in a shooting near a gas station in Baton Rouge, less than two weeks after a black man was shot and killed by police in the city, sparking nightly protests across the city.
Obama to police: Thanks for serving, ‘we have your backs’
President Barack Obama says the nation will get through the recent killings of police officers with the "love and empathy of public servants" like the ones who were targeted in recent days. In an open letter to the nation's law enforcement officers, Obama said overcoming will also require resilience, the grace of loved ones and the good will of activists.
Texas Gov. Abbott: Targeted killing of police should be a hate crime
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott responds to questions about the police shootings during a news conference at City Hall in Dallas in early July. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants the targeted killing of a police officer to be deemed a hate crime in Texas and urged lawmakers to send him such a bill to sign during next year's legislative session.
Police reopen street outside Minnesota governor’s mansion
Police in St. Paul on Monday reopened the avenue in front of the Minnesota governor's mansion that had been shut down by protesters since shortly after a suburban officer shot and killed a black man during a traffic stop nearly two weeks ago. Officers informed protesters at 6 a.m. that they would no longer be allowed to occupy Summit Avenue "because they had created an ongoing public nuisance," police spokesman Steve Linders said.
A majority of Americans – white and black – agree that race relations are bad, getting worse
In the wake of a series of black men's shooting deaths during encounters with police and the killing of five police officers in Dallas by a sniper targeting white law enforcement officers, several of the nation's leading news organizations - The Washington Post and ABC News, the New York Times and CBS News - decided to include questions about race relations in their political polls. Among the questions: How would you describe the state of race relations? Are they getting better or worse? And should the next president focus on racial issues? Here's the takeaway.
Obama on Baton Rouge: ‘Cowards’ attacked police
President Barack Obama condemned the slayings Sunday of three Louisiana law enforcement officers, saying the killers "right no wrongs" and "advance no causes." "I condemn, in the strongest sense of the word, the attack on law enforcement in Baton Rouge," Obama said in a statement.
Connecticut Police Increase Vigilance In Wake Of Baton Rouge Shootings
Police across Connecticut were asked to increase vigilance after the shooting deaths of three police officers in Baton Rouge, La., Sunday morning. "All members of the Hartford Police Department are reminded to maintain situational awareness at all times and utilize officer safety tactics and techniques," Deputy Chief Brian Foley said in a statement released on Twitter.
Bill Whitaker: Can Republicans heal our nation’s festering racial wounds?
Whatever one thinks of his embattled and often erratic presidency, President Obama remains unrivaled as an orator. And America's first black president put both law enforcement and the African-American community on notice during his 40-minute address at Tuesday's memorial service for five Dallas police officers slain by a Black Lives Matter sympathizer bent on cold-blooded murder during an otherwise peaceful protest regarding, ironically, police use of deadly force nationwide.
Mourners gather for funeral of black man killed by police
Mourners gather Friday to pay their last respects to a 37-year-old black man shot and killed in an encounter with two white police officers in Louisiana, a killing that helped fuel protests nationwide over the treatment of African-Americans by police. Alton Sterling was shot July 5 outside a Baton Rouge convenience store in an encounter with police that was caught on video.
At town hall, Obama confronts race issues bigger than police
President Barack Obama greets people in the audience after participating in a town hall with ABC news anchor David Muir, officers, parents, students, community leaders and families on trust and safety in communities, Thursday, July 14, 2016, in Washington. less President Barack Obama greets people in the audience after participating in a town hall with ABC news anchor David Muir, officers, parents, students, community leaders and families on trust and safety in ... more President Barack Obama greets people in the audience after participating in a town hall with ABC news anchor David Muir, officers, parents, students, community leaders and families on trust and safety in communities, Thursday, July 14, 2016, in Washington.
Kathleen Parker, Washington Post: So whose life most matters among us?
These fractured thoughts were all I could muster upon waking Friday to news of the ambush on Dallas police. They were still fresh in my mind from the night before when I'd turned in early, exhausted by the images of 32-year-old Philando Castile dying in Minnesota after a police officer shot him.
Death reignites hard questions for Minnesota black leaders
The killing of Philando Castile by a Minnesota police officer durin... . FILE - In this July 9, 2016 file photo, marchers block part of Interstate 94 in St. Paul, Minn., during a protest sparked by the recent police killings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana.
DeRay Mckesson: Criticism of Black Lives Matter dishonest
DeRay Mckesson: Criticism of Black Lives Matter dishonest Activist says critics like Rudy Giuliani want to deflect attention from police brutality. Check out this story on sctimes.com: http://usat.ly/29InND6 Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson walks out of the Baton Rouge jail in Baton Rouge, La.
Giuliani: Black Lives Matter ‘inherently racist,’ black people should respect police
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Black Lives Matter is "inherently racist" and suggested the movement should focus on black people killing other black people. During an interview with CBS News' Face the Nation on Sunday, Giuliani said the Black Lives Matters movement focuses too much on police killing black people, which "happens rarely although with tremendous attention," and not enough effort focusing on black-on-black violence, "which happens every 14 hours in Chicago."
Protests of police killings: Dozens of arrests in Louisiana
Protest were planned all over Baton Rouge by groups demanding justice for Alton Sterling, a black man killed by whit... . Jay Morrison gives a speech in front of the Triple S convenience store in Baton Rouge, Saturday, July 9, 2016.
Newt on GOP’s Mission: We Must Go Into ‘Every Part of America’
The Republican has a "moral imperative" to "step up to the plate" - and that means serving people in every community in the United States to reverse decades of failed Democratic policies, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich tells Newsmax TV. "We've not had a Republican city councilman in Baltimore since 1942," Gingrich, 73, whom presumptive nominee Donald Trump is considering as a running mate, told "Newsmax Prime" host J.D. Hayworth in an exclusive interview from Paris.
Police may change tactics at protests after Dallas shooting
In the wake of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, where authorities were criticized for what some called heavy-handed tactics against demonstrators, many departments took a more restrained approach.
Police may change tactics at protests after Dallas shooting…
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