The jury deliberating whether to find Kim Potter guilty or not guilty of the manslaughter of Black man Daunte Wright in April have reached an “outcome”, it has been announced. Ms Potter, 49, shot and killed Mr Wright during a traffic stop in Minnesota, and said she mistook […]
By Catherine Garcia, The Week Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) told reporters on Tuesday his office has received a clemency application for Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, a truck driver who was sentenced last week to 110 years in prison for causing a deadly crash on Interstate 70. In April 2019, the […]
By Catherine Garcia The Week One of the oldest people facing charges related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, 81-year-old Army veteran Gary Wickersham, was sentenced on Tuesday to three years probation for illegally breaching the Capitol. Wickersham must also spend 90 days under home detention and pay […]
Author Tony Messenger details his new book, “Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice.”
By Nicole Duncan-Smith Atlanta Black Star An Idaho sheriff is being charged for pulling out a gun on seven young girls between the ages of 12 to 16 in November. He is charged with assaulting their church group leader and publicly threatening to shoot her in the head […]
By Charles M. Blow, New York Times The Supreme Court on Friday issued a decision allowing abortion providers in Texas to continue challenging a new law that bans most abortions in the state after about six weeks of pregnancy. But while the conservative majority didn’t close the door […]
NBC Los Angeles Beverly Hills is adding more police and security officers to its streets amid a spike in crime that has residents on edge. Five new officers are joining the Beverly Hills Police Department on Monday, and the city will be deploying additional armed, private Covered-Six security […]
By Thomas Hogan, City Journal Radical prosecutors and woke politicians in American cities have been defunding, demoralizing, and neutralizing the police—and violent crime is rising. In response, citizens have started taking the law into their own hands. This can happen in the middle of a riot, as in […]
By Thomas Fuller, Shaila Dewan and Kellen Browning New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — The mayor of San Francisco on Friday made a sharp break with the liberal conventions that have guided her city for decades, declaring a state of emergency in one of its most crime-infested neighborhoods. Mayor London Breed’s announcement […]
By Hannah Sparks New York Witches have been free from persecution in Scotland for more than 300 years, but several thousand people who died prisoners could get their official pardon. Advocate group Witches of Scotland ran a two-year campaign aiming for posthumous pardons and could finally see their […]
By Tara Copp, Defense One The “underlying factors are not going away,” says one researcher. The number of people with military backgrounds who committed criminal acts motivated by extremist views has jumped during the last ten years, according to new research at the University of Maryland. Without intervention, […]
Krystal and Saagar review more investigative reporting into the unindicted co-conspirators who were central players in the events that unfolded at the US Capitol on January 6th
Public defender Olayemi Olurin explains how police shows often don’t show the whole truth when it comes to crime and the justice system.
By Jack Hunter, The Week The mob attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was a shameful and tragic day. Some in Congress on the Jan. 6 congressional committee believe it represented a threat to American democracy. Yet some of these leaders support another threat to our […]
Released from prison just last week, now under house arrest for the remainder of his sentence, Steven Donziger speaks out about the injustices against incarcerated people and the solidarity among incarcerated people he witnessed firsthand. He reveals how truly broken the prison-industrial complex is, but he also offers […]
By Neena Satija Washington Post AUSTIN — Travis County District Attorney José Garza was at home when he got a call from one of his prosecutors, Dexter Gilford. A grand jury had just indicted two Austin police officers, charging them with aggravated assault in connection with the beating […]
By Associated Press Former suburban Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter took the stand Friday at her manslaughter trial in the shooting death of Black motorist Daunte Wright. Potter has said she meant to draw her Taser instead of her gun when she shot the 20-year-old Wright as he […]
A huge livestream to support Julian Assange happening in the Breaking Points studio with guests such as Glenn Greenwald, Gabriel Shipton, Noam Chomsky, and more!
Team Rising reacts to San Francisco Mayor London Breed’s newfound commitment to policing and law enforcement.
By Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal Just maybe, voters are starting to regret the consequences of electing progressives. For the stressed-out voters in your political life, an aphorism to print and wrap in ribbon for Christmas giving is “Live and learn.” Though in these crime-sodden times, it might […]
By Nikki Trautman Baszynski The Appeal Larry Krasner’s clear win in the Philadelphia District Attorney primary election should have been a wake-up call to journalists who spent weeks breathlessly painting the race as a referendum on progressive prosecutors and their decarceral policies. Instead, they doubled down, redirecting their […]
By Jennifer Doleac Bloomberg More lenient policies don’t appear to be contributing to a crime wave in urban areas across the U.S. Violent crime in urban America is rising. There have been 13.5% more homicides so far in 2021 compared to last year, across 84 cities, and the […]
Tulsi Gabbard continues to speak out in defense of Julian Assange. This is a mashup of her statement today plus previous statements the past few years. To my knowledge, Bernie and the squad remain silent.
Julian Assange’s brother, Gabriel Shipton, details how the Wikileaks founder is faring after his stroke.
By Brendan Morrow The Week Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted for the murder of George Floyd, has now also pleaded guilty to violating Floyd’s civil rights. Chauvin on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the federal charges, changing his previous plea of not guilty, NBC News reports. […]
This is what I thought would happen in response to “defund the police.” I suspected there would be a decrease in policing in predominantly lower-income urban areas, followed by rising crime rates (which are fueled by pandemic and economic conditions as well), followed by renewed calls for law […]
By AMY FORLITI, Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges of violating George Floyd’s civil rights, averting a trial but likely extending the time he is already spending behind bars on a state conviction. Chauvin, who […]
Whatever the relationship between the policies of these “progressive prosecutors” and crime rates, it needs to be pointed out that the present surge in crime rates began during the same period as the pandemic and its related social and economic effects. Whatever one’s positions on criminal justice or […]
These kinds of lawsuits are essentially a means of getting around the First Amendment. Government cannot legally ban political organizations, so they simply try to sue them into oblivion instead. By Andy Sullivan Washington DC WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) – The city of Washington, D.C., sued right-wing groups […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week The Jan. 6 House select committee made waves Monday night after revealing a slew of text messages sent to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Capitol riot, urging him to convince then-President Donald Trump to denounce the attack. Everyone […]
Krystal and Saagar deliver the gruesome details of the indictment of a CNN producer for child sex crimes as the mainstream media downplays the issue of child sex trafficking
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss whether the Build Back Better bill will pass the Senate before Christmas, as well as the latest Supreme Court ruling on vaccine mandates.
A Blue Tribe version of the Texas anti-abortion law. KCRA Staff SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday called for the legislature and attorney general to create a bill that would allow private citizens to sue gun manufacturers and distributors. The statement came in response to the […]
By Joel Mathis The Week It wasn’t hard to see this coming: California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday threatened to use Texas’ unusual abortion law as a model for new gun restrictions in his own state. “SCOTUS is letting private citizens in Texas sue to stop abortion?! If […]
Krystal and Saagar are joined by filmmaker Gabriel Shipton, the brother of journalist and publisher Julian Assange who is set to be extradited to the US to face charges brought by the DOJ
Krystal and Saagar cover the news that Steven Donziger has been released from prison and sent back home to serve out the rest of his sentence after unrelenting pressure from independent media
Krystal picks apart the lies told by MSNBC about Julian Assange and the charges being leveled against him by the US DOJ
Nils Melzer responds to the Julian Assange verdict on a special Useful Idiots Livestream. Nils Melzer is the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture; Human Rights Chair, Geneva Academy; Professor of International Law, University of Glasgow; Vice-President IIHL, and the author of The Trial of Julian Assange (https://twitter.com/nilsmelzer)
The participants on January 6 were mostly a motley collection of aging losers and mentally ill fruitbats. No one involved has been charged with sedition, treason, terrorism offenses, murder, or attempted murder. Mostly, there are guilty of institutional offenses like interfering with Congressional proceedings, or petty crimes like […]
By Sophia Ankel Yahoo News/Business Insider A woman who pleaded guilty in the Capitol riot is preparing for prison. Jenna Ryan told Insider she’d been researching what life was like behind bars. Ryan said she was watching YouTube videos, learning slang, and speaking with prison consultants. A Capitol […]
By Rick Henderson The Week Democracy can’t survive if we change the rules every time our side loses. There’s a new variant of partisan suspicion in America: The other side refuses to play by the rules and must be stopped at any cost or our country as we know it […]
By Robert Barnes Washington Post The Supreme Court on Friday left in place a Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks, but it provided a path for abortion providers to challenge what is the nation’s most restrictive law on the procedure. The court’s splintered decision allows […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals Americans are evenly split on how the Supreme Court should treat Roe v. Wade.
Russia Today The UK High Court has granted the US government’s appeal over the refusal to extradite WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, opening the door for his eventual trial on American soil on espionage charges. In January, a district court denied the US extradition request, citing the vulnerable mental […]
By Jesse O’Neill New York Post A Texas man who opened fire on a cop who was checking a security alarm at his house was acquitted of murder Wednesday. A jury delivered the not guilty verdict in David Wilson’s trial after deliberating for about an hour and a […]
Katie Halper’s Show: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheKatieHal… Free Donziger: https://www.freedonziger.com/
Krystal and Saagar expose the role CNN host Don Lemon played in assisting actor Jussie Smollett during the fallout after he staged a hate crime against himself for fame and money
By Michael Loadenthal The Prosecution Project Since the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 by Minneapolis police and the resulting waves of protests nationwide, tPP has fielded many requests to help provide a count of resulting felony cases. The early summer protests, riots, and sporadic uprisings […]
Give her a fair hearing. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, along with Rep. Matt Gaetz, Rep. Paul Gosar and Rep. Louie Gohmert held a press conference Tuesday to call on justice for the detainees of the January 6th Capitol attack.
Jeffrey Epstein seems to have made his money as a “pimp to the elite” while masquerading as a “financier.” Maxwell was obviously his connection to the Israelis, apparently through her father. High-ranking Israeli officials were among his clients. It looks like that part of his operation was making […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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