Jonathan Rauch The Atlantic Now that the Confederate flag has been furled at South Carolina’s Capitol, it’s time to deal with another symbolic insult to minorities and the Constitution—the one inscribed over the door of the nation’s top law-enforcement agency. A consummate bureaucrat and institution-builder, J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI’s first director, was also a…
The racist man accused of shooting nine people at Emanuel AME church in Charleston was barred from buying a firearm but still was able to make a purchase because the FBI’s background check raised no red flags.
A South Carolina man is expected to be sentenced to prison today after shooting and wounding a DEA agent during a drug raid at the suspect’s house.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Authorities were immediately suspicious when fire broke out inside a black church that the KKK had burned down in South Carolina 20 years ago. After all, the fire came amid a string of suspicious fires at black churches following the shooting at Charleston’s historic African Methodist Episcopal Church less than a…
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 Scott Lemieux The Week He probably would have gotten away with it. That’s the sobering reality of the video of South Carolina police officer Michael Slager shooting Walter L. Scott as he ran away, not posing the slightest threat to the officer. The utter indifference to human life evident in the video, shot by…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents listening to wiretaps of alleged cocaine dealers in South Carolina discovered a large training facility for fighting pit bulls in Lexington County, the Charlotte Observer reports. During the raid, agents seized 48 pit bills, many of them emaciated and tied to chains outside. On Oct. 1, the same investigation…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A DEA agent is recovering after a suspect shot him in the elbow Monday morning while serving a search warrant at the home of a suspected drug dealer in South Carolina, the State reports. Shot was Special Agent Barry Wilson, who was executing a search warrant at the home of Joel…
