James Baldwin, a famous African American writer, was pursued for more than a decade by the FBI because of paranoia about his politics, according to a new biography, “All the Strangers” by Douglas Field.
Who knows what would have happened if a University of Cincinnati cop wasn’t wearing a body cam.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and ATF are helping local authorities investigate a string of recent suspicious fires at black churches in the south. The church fires broke out in four states, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. Three of the four were determined to be arsons, and the other is under investigation,…
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…
