LA cops shot Jermaine Petty after realizing he didn’t have a gun, Bodycam footage shows

Immediately after Los Angeles police officers shot a 39-year-old black man multiple times in the back, the department claimed its officers believed he was carrying a gun. However, in the body cam footage of the July 18 incident, released on Wednesday, an officer can be heard saying, “It’s not a gun, brother,” as they chase him on foot. A 911 caller alerted law enforcement to a man walking around the area brandishing a “black semi-automatic pistol,” according to the audio of the call. Responding officers encountered Jermaine Petty, who partially…

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Police say a man with an AR-15 went to ‘lane to lane’ in Oregon Safeway and three died

A man with an AR-15 rifle and a shotgun entered a Safeway supermarket in Bend, Oregon, Sunday night and opened fire as he “walked down aisle to aisle” spraying bullets, killing two people, police said. The person believed to be the shooter was later found dead near the guns inside Safeway at The Forum shopping mall. Officials said it was not clear if he died from a self-inflicted bullet, or if he was shot down by an armed shopper. Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz said at a news conference late…

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Facebook Post may reveal the motive after 4 family members died in a murder and suicide in Lynn, Massachusetts

A shocking Facebook post may provide answers as to why three members of her family were shot dead by a woman, including her father, before she shot herself Tuesday in a suicide bombing that spanned three crime scenes. Authorities have not revealed the identities or even a possible motive for the shooting in Lane, Massachusetts, except to confirm a police response to a home on Rockaway Street shortly before 2:55 p.m. after receiving reports of the shooting. What authorities found in the house were the bodies of a 66-year-old man…

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Cooper Roberts, 8-year-old Highland Park shooting victim, ‘hopeless’ and ‘a constant pain’, family says

In the aftermath of the mass shooting at the Highland Park parade on the Fourth of July, the story of 8-year-old Cooper Roberts’ survival has been embraced by several following updates about the boy’s recovery. More than a month after the massacre, Roberts is long out of intensive care – but his family says he is now in “constant pain” and “hopeless, sad and angry” at the realization that he is paralyzed. In demure and sore statement Released Tuesday, the Roberts family said they wanted people to see the unimaginable…

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Police chase Jacob Taleb, brother of former NFL star Aqib Taleb, after launching a youth football game in Lancaster

A day after a feud between coaches during a youth football game in Lancaster, Texas that escalated into a physical fight and fatal shooting, authorities are looking for Yaqoub Taleb, brother of former NFL quarterback Aqib Taleb, whom they describe as a “wanted suspect.” The Lancaster Police Department told the Daily Beast on Sunday evening that Talib, 39, was charged with the murder. The charge was first reported by TMZ Sports. Police said the shooting took place in Lancaster Community Park just before 9 p.m. Saturday. With children in the…

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An Ex-Cop and a Preacher Wrestle With America’s Gun Violence

The cult of mass murders has jolted our moorings as a country, if not the very idea of America. So has the criminal violence in cities exploding since the pandemic hibernation. Yet 58 percent of households have no gun—a data point of hope amid the bloody tide of gun violence. Most of us in that 58 percent, I suspect, believe that schools, churches, synagogues, malls, stores, and post offices can somehow be restored as safer sites without fear of a psychopath wielding an assault rifle. Congress’ recent gun control law…

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Child charged with murdering his mother, Cassandra Sweeney, and sons Benjamin and Mason in New Hampshire

A child has been arrested and charged with murder after a mother and her two sons were found shot dead last week. Formila, State Police Colonel Nathan Noyes and Northfield Police Chief John Raffaele announced Thursday in connection with the triple murder in Northfield, New Hampshire. Formila has confirmed that a juvenile has been arrested and charged with three counts of first-degree murder and one count of falsifying physical evidence in the August 3 death of Cassandra Sweeney and her two sons, Benjamin Sweeney, 4, and Mason Sweeney, 1, of…

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These heroes are trying to stop the mass shooting before it happens

For years, people asked Mark Follmanwhich covers mass shootings in Mother Joneswhen he was writing a book about guns. That didn’t interest Follmann, who said hundreds of books already existed about guns and the politics around them. Instead he wrote Trigger Points: Inside America’s Mass Ceasefire Mission, on the field of threat assessment, where people with experience in law enforcement and mental health look at the behaviors that lead to these violent acts and attempt to intervene. This topic, little known when Follmann began working on it, was exciting to…

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When kids used to carry guns, there was no shooting at school

On Friday, a Newsmax host appeared to suggest that recent school shootings were the result of students not bringing guns to class, saying that when kids did so decades ago, there were no “mass shootings” and “no problems.” Carl Higby, in an interview with Representative Greg Stube (R-FL), focused on the assault weapons ban passed the house Earlier in the day, a clip showed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) criticizing methods used by “some completely irresponsible people” to train their young children to use firearms. Higby was upset by her…

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Clay Higgins plants ‘seeds of violence’ when listening to assault weapons as victims tell their stories

Cajun John Wayne did it again on Wednesday, and just now he wasn’t a cop who quit the Louisiana Police Department while facing disciplinary charges for lying about assaulting someone. Clay Higgins’ tough talk is no longer directed at escaped criminals, as he did when he made criminal viral videos at the second Louisiana Police Department that later hired him. Higgins used the attention he got from the videos to get elected as the United States representative for Louisiana’s third congressional district. He spoke as a member of the House…

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