A woman close to the Parkland, Florida, school shooter called an FBI tip line in early January to describe a young man with an arsenal of knives and guns who was “going to explode” and said she feared him “getting into a school and just shooting the place up.” “I just want to, you know, get it off my chest in case something does happen and I do believe something’s going to happen,” the woman said, according to a transcript of the January 5 call. The FBI admitted last week that it had failed … [Read more...]

The four-day Fourth of July holiday weekend was a violent one in Chicago, with 102 people shot, including 15 fatally. The shootings in the third-largest U.S. city occurred between Friday afternoon and early Wednesday, with nearly half of them during a 12-hour period ending the holiday, the Chicago Tribune reported. In 2013, the last time the Fourth holiday stretched over four days, at least 74 people were shot, including 12 fatally, according to Tribune data. The shootings mainly … [Read more...]

All three cases started with a traffic stop. A black man is pulled over by a police officer. Why? He was missing a front license plate. For suspicious activity. Because a cop thought the driver looked like a robbery suspect. Regardless of the reason, the outcome was the same for Samuel DuBose, Sylville Smith and Philando Castile -- none of them survived. The police officers fired their weapons, saying they had feared for their lives. The three shootings were on video, which was … [Read more...]

Over the last 30 days, federal authorities rounded up dozens of members of a violent California-spawned street gang in the New York City area, officials said Wednesday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that 39 members of the notorious MS-13 gang were arrested as part of the agency’s Operation Matador, a program designed to combat transnational street gangs like MS-13. ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations New York and Enforcement and Removal Operations units recently … [Read more...]