A member of the U.S. Army has come forward saying he shot and killed an armed protester in Austin, Texas last week in an incident that has roiled the state’s capital city, the Statesman reports. On Friday, a lawyer for U.S. Army Sgt. Daniel Perry issued a written statement seeking to correct “false narratives being advance” about the …
A St Louis couple who stood in front of their palatial mansion on June 28 waving their guns as Black Lives Matter protesters walked by have been charged with a single count each of unlawful use of a weapon – exhibiting, the St Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Mark and Patricia McCloskey called police and told them …
Utah police on Tuesday arrested a man for firing into a vehicle that attempted to drive into a protest against police brutality in Provo, the Daily Herald reported. Police said Jesse Taggart, 33, was charged with several crimes, including first degree attempted aggravated murder and second degree aggravated assault. Police also arrested Samantha Darling, 27, …
Around 500 people marched on Saturday afternoon in St. Louis, in protest of the city’s mayor. An assault investigation is now underway after a homeowner said he was threatened by the group, who allegedly trampled all over private property. As CrimeOnline previously reported, attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey stood in front of their home with …
A 16-year-old boy was killed and a 14-year-old boy wounded Monday morning in a shooting on the edge of the protest area known as CHOP in Seattle’s Capitol Hill area. According to the Seattle Times, police said they believed the two teens were in a white Jeep Cherokee seen in surveillance footage colliding with a …
Louisville police have identified Steve Lopez, 23, as the suspect in a fatal shooting Saturday night in Jefferson Square Park, where demonstrators had been peacefully protesting the killing of Breonna Taylor in a police shooting in February. Lopez faces charges of first degree murder and wanton endangerment for killing Tyler Gerth, 27, who died at the …
Seattle police have released edited video, mostly from officers’ body cameras, showing their attempt to gain access to the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) Saturday night in response to a fatal shooting. After the shooting, police “were met by a violent crowd that prevented officers’ safe access to the victims,” the Seattle Police Department said …
A Minneapolis 911 dispatcher became concerned watching real-time footage of George Floyd’s arrest last month and called a supervisor to alert him to what she saw. Floyd, 46, died on May 25 after then-Officer Derek Chauvin pinned him to the ground, pressing his knee into the prone man’s neck for nearly nine minutes, well after …
Demonstrators flooded south Atlanta Saturday night, protesting the deadly police shooting of Rayshard Brooks in a Wendy’s parking lot, temporarily blocking a major interstate highway and setting the fast food restaurant ablaze, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. The police officer who fired the fatal shots, Garrett Rolfe, was fired late Saturday night, and Devin Bronsan, …
A Washington woman is facing federal charges after she allegedly set fire to five police vehicles at a Seattle riot last month, during a mass gathering to protest the death of George Floyd. According to court documents from the Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Washington, Margaret Aislinn Channon was …
In a move that brought on both surprise and heartfelt tears, officers with the Fayetteville Police Department in North Carolina took a knee in unison in front of a group protesters on Tuesday to show their support. The Fayetteville News & Observer reports that the incident happened on Murchison Road on Tuesday afternoon as a …
Federal prosecutors have taken over the case of an upstate New York woman who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at a police van in Brooklyn during protests early Saturday morning against the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the New York Post reported. Samantha Shader, 27, was initially charged by NYPD with four counts …
