MYSTERIOUS: 12 - What They Never Told You

New Orleans' blighted Navy base

The base has stood vacant for over a decade and the city is attempting to clear it of unhoused people

Salon · Jul 16, 2022

Vigil held for man killed by Minneapolis police in standoff

Several dozen people gathered for a vigil outside a Minneapolis apartment building where police fatally shot a man during an hourslong standoff that began with gunfire before officers arrived

The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2022

Unnecessary SWAT Raid Ended in the Death of an Albuquerque Teen

This was an attempted arrest of a man wanted for questioning and parole violations, not a hostage situation.

Reason · Jul 14, 2022

New timeline details state’s view that response to Uvalde shooting was an ‘abject failure’

AUSTIN, Texas — Calling the police response to the Uvalde school shooting an “abject failure,” Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw testified to the Texas Senate on Tuesday, corroborating reports indicating that numerous police were inside the school within minutes of the first 911 calls.

Tribune News Service · Jun 21, 2022

Wild West : Texas Cops In Two Shootings Less Than 24 Hours Apart

 “The San Antonio Police Department today released footage from two separate officer-involved shootings.”

Zenger · Jun 20, 2022

Armed bandits now control Haiti’s largest courthouse after violent takeover

SWAT and other specialized units of the Haiti National Police were moving in and out of Port-au-Prince’s main courthouse as they tried to figure out how to carry an oversized safe with sensitive documents from some of the country’s most high-profile criminal cases out of the former U.S. government building…

Miami Herald · Jun 16, 2022

Uvalde Shows Once Again That Cops Are Just Armed Bureaucrats

What happened in Uvalde is part of a pattern, not an aberration.

Reason · Jun 10, 2022

US drone-maker aims to protect people here and in Ukraine

Blake Resnick was a 17-year-old growing up in Las Vegas when a gunman firing from a Strip hotel window killed 60 people at an outdoor concert.

Tribune News Service · Jun 8, 2022

Man held in attack on doctor, nurses at California hospital

Authorities say a man walked into a Los Angeles emergency ward, stabbed a doctor and two nurses, then holed up for four hours before a SWAT team took him into custody

The Independent UK · Jun 4, 2022

SWAT team arrests man after 4 shot, 1 fatally, at West Humboldt Park home

“It’s usually peaceful and quiet here,” Stephanie Franco, 23, said, adding that she has a 3-month-old boy in the home. “This is scary.”

Chicago Sun-Times · May 30, 2022