By Editorial Board Sacramento Bee Nine people are dead. A lone gunman is to blame. The gun he was wielding? It might’ve been one he got from his father for his 21st birthday, no paperwork required. The state where he lives? South Carolina has some of the loosest gun-control laws in the country. We know this…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department will investigate the motivations and facts behind the shooting that left nine dead at a historic black church in South Carolina. Reuters reports that Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Thursday that the department has opened a hate-crime investigation. “We will now be looking at all of the facts,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Police killed at least 385 people nationwide during the first five months of the year, far more than the rate tallied by the FBI, the Washington Post has found. The tally shows that more than two people are killed on average a day, a rate that is more than twice the…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI will use its Behavioral Analysis Unit to investigate the hanging death of Mississippi man Otis Byrd, the USA Today reports. The unit “focuses specifically on criminal human behavior in an attempt to better understand criminals — who they are, how they think, why they do what they do —…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is helping investigate the hanging death of a 54-year-old black man in Mississippi. Local police in the small central Mississippi town of Port Gibson requested the bureau’s help to determine whether Otis Byrd was murdered or committed suicide. Byrd was last seen on March 2 and was found Thursday…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder said the Justice Department is “obsessed with race” and has demonstrated more racism than “than anywhere I see in the St. Louis area,” The Huffington Post reports. Kinder claims protests over the death of Michael Brown are “based on a lie” and have been exacerbated by…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Ferguson City Manager John Shaw announced Tuesday that he was resigning after a scathing Justice Department report that criticized him and other Ferguson officials for a culture of discrimination, The Washington Post reports. The city called the resignation a “mutual separation agreement” Shaw is the second person to resign following the…
Leland Ware Delaware Voice On Feb. 12, FBI Director James B. Comey made what will be remembered as a history-making speech at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In the speech, “Hard Truths: Law Enforcement and Race,” Comey said, “With the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, the death of Eric Garner in Staten Island, the…
