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PORTLAND— Police officers in Portland arrested a 14-year-old on June 4 for an incident that occurred during a protest following George Floyd's death. The unnamed 14-year-old and another suspect, Emilio Antonio DeLeon,18, were caught on camera for attacking a man and allegedly punching him in the head on May 30. Deleon was arrested Sunday, June 7. Both parties face charges of...

UNITED STATES—All four police officers involved in the death of George Floyd, 46, are now in police custody and facing charges. During a press conference on Wednesday, May 3, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced that the Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of George Floyd are facing charges for second-degree unintentional murder, as well as aiding and abetting...

GEORGIA—An inmate was executed in Georgia on Tuesday, December 6, rising the number of inmates put to death in the state during 2016 to nine. The state currently holds the record for the most inmate executions in the country this year.  Texas ranks second, with seven deaths in 2016. Alabama is third, with two executions, followed by Florida and Missouri who have each...

CHICAGO—After months of supporting the Black Lives Matter movement, riots, looting, stay at home orders and reformation of the police, Mayor Lori Lightfoot decided that although Chicago should suffer the consequences of her leadership, she shouldn't have to. August 20, she announced that, the Chicago Police presence at her home will be there because she believes she has a “right...

NAPLES, FL—On Saturday, October 26, a man dressed in a Donald Trump costume was assaulted. Officials from Collier County Sheriff’s Department indicated a man was reportedly waiting in line at the Naples Haunted Gross House at the Collier County fairgrounds in Naples. The victim was waiting in line with his family when a 14-year-old girl walked up, and punched him in...

UNITED STATES—The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) increased its number of facilities to hold immigrant families during processing. The CBP indicated in an update on Monday, May 20 that it constructed two steel frame buildings to use as shelters in El Paso and Donna, Texas to meet the demands of the increase of migrants crossing the border. The new structures...

CHICAGO—On Thursday, August 27, a man was shot to death during an argument in Fernwood neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. According to the Chicago Police Department (CPD), they found a deceased man with multiple gunshot wounds on a sidewalk in the 500 block of West 105th Street. The man was wounded on his head and abdomen before midnight. An...

UNITED STATES—The Pentagon confirmed a suicide bomber and gunfire by ISIS fighters killed 12 U.S. troops and 15 were injured along with an undisclosed number of Afghan civilians in an attack outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport on Thursday, August 26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oWi8qc-2Nc According to General Kenneth McKenzie, Commander of the U.S. Central Command in the U.S. Marine Corps, the first attack,...

UNITED STATES—On August 9, Judicial Watch announced they filed a motion asking for the U.S. District Court in Southern Florida to unseal the search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago. "Executing a warrant against ex-POTUS is dangerous.  The apparent political weaponization of DOJ/FBI is shameful.  AG must explain why 250 yrs of practice was upended w/this raid.  I served on Benghazi Com...

SAN FRANCISCO—The oldest known survivor of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake has reportedly died at the age of 113. Ruth Newman passed away in her home in Pebble Beach, California on July 29. Newman was only five years old when the earthquake hit Northern California and leveled most of San Francisco. Newman and the rest of her family, all of whom...