By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A Massachusetts man was sentenced to nearly 14 years for a 2010 arson incident, according to a statement from the FBI. Michael Jacques, a 27-year-old of Springfield, Mass., was sentenced to 166 months in federal prison in connection with the arson of the Macedonia Church of God in Christ in Springfield,…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com It will always be a line hard to draw, between protecting the nation from another terrorist attack and reaching too far in the name of preemption. The American Civil Liberties Union sees the latter, though, and on Thursday said the FBI is using extensive community outreach among Muslims to gather intelligence…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department on Thursday announced a civil rights investigation into the Miami Police Department involving deadly use of force in nine police shootings — eight of which were fatal. “In the past 16 months, we have seen nine police involved shootings that are of concern and are the premise of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Shades of Mississippi in the 1960s? The FBI has opened a civil rights investigation into the death of a black man who Mississippi authorities say was intentionally run down and killed by a white teenager in a pickup truck in June near a Jackson hotel, the Associated Press reports. Deborah Madden,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The late “original civil rights photographer” Ernest Withers snapped shots of history: the motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot; King riding one of the first desegregated buses in Alabama. But there was a little known side to the man who had a front row seat in the civil rights…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Under the Bush years, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division took a beating. The administration was accused of politicizing its hiring. And nearly 70 percent of the lawyers left in mass between 2003 and 2007, the Washington Post reported. Now Thomas E. Perez, who heads the division, is working…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration, which is responsible for screening passengers at our nation’s airports, is getting an interesting addition: Nawar Shora, the legal director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. The Washington Post reports that Shora, who was born in Syria and raised in West Virginia, is joining the agency…
It’s nice to leave mark in your life. Jim Ingram did just that. By Jerry Mitchell Jackson Clarion-Ledger JACKSON, Miss. — Retired FBI agent Jim Ingram, who investigated civil rights killings and once led the state’s Department of Public Safety, died Sunday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 77. On his death…
