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Two incidents of threatened political violence target Connecticut officials in same week

A police officer in Windsor, Connecticut, faces charges of reckless endangerment and unlawful discharge of a firearm after he mistakenly… The post Brickbat: Shocking Mistake appeared first on Reason.com.

In Roger v. Keller, decided earlier this month by Waterbury, Connecticut trial court judge Robert D'Andrea, plaintiffs had a pit bull named Scooby; they kept him with defendants (who were apparently, to oversimplify, plaintiffs' family members) for three years, despite defendants' insistence that plaintiffs take them back. Eventually, defendants gave…

The Waterbury, Connecticut, police department has fired officer James Hinkle for screaming at and berating a woman who drove through an intersection where he was directing traffic. Hinkle accused the woman of almost running him over, but in the video he appeared to be a few feet from her and…

WATERBURY, Conn. — Both sides rested their cases Wednesday in the Sandy Hook defamation case against far-right broadcaster Alex Jones, who began trying almost immediately in a post-trial motion to limit the tens of millions of dollars in damages he could be ordered to pay families of victims of the…

“Infowars” host Alex Jones decided against taking the stand on the second day of testimony in Waterbury, Connecticut, Friday, where a six-person jury will decide on punitive and compensatory damages he owes families of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.

WATERBURY, Conn. — A combative Alex Jones arrived at the courthouse in Waterbury where he is being sued for defamation and attacked the presiding judge, who he said is trying to force him to lie about what he believes and has said about the Sandy Hook school massacre.

HARTFORD, Conn. — The judge presiding over Alex Jones’ defamation trial in Waterbury imposed another punishing sanction even before evidence began Tuesday, prohibiting him from using analytics of his website sales to argue to jurors that he didn’t profit from his denial of the Sandy Hook school massacre.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has agreed to allow the company behind his far-right Infowars website to participate in his Connecticut defamation case, meaning both will be on trial in Waterbury, Connecticut, in September to decide what they should pay in damages for their false claims that the Sandy Hook school…