LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Anders Hagstrom Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo ordered police officers to turn on their body cameras when responding to any call Wednesday. Arradondo made the announcement following uproar from a series of police misconduct complaints. Justine Damond was shot by a police officer responding to her own call July 15, and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall Philando Castile’s mother slammed the National Rifle Association (NRA) Friday for waiting a year to give a statement on her son’s shooting, saying they took so long because he is black. Nekima Levy-Pounds, a civil rights lawyer, read a prepared statement from Valerie, Castile’s mother, that she…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall A jury found a Minnesota police officer not guilty of the fatal shooting of black man Friday afternoon. The jury, consisting of five women and seven men, decided Officer Jeronimo Yanez not guilty of all charges. Two of the jurors were black. Jeronimo Yanez was cleared of…
Says there are no “cure-alls,” but there are steps to be made By: Elias J. Atienza Republican Missouri state representative Shamed Dogan wrote an op-ed for National Review calling for policing reforms he believes conservatives should support. Calling himself pro-2nd Amendment, pro-black, and pro-cop, he called out extremists on both sides for fanning the “flames of resentment.” He…
Black Lives Matter demonstrations turned violent Saturday night, escalating to riot level, after protesters brought I-94 in St. Paul to a halt for over five hours. 21 police officers were injured by the protestors including one who suffered a spinal fracture after having a concrete block dropped on his head. In total, more than 100…
After every national tragedy, the one thing you can always expect is widespread media coverage. While an important tool in keeping the public informed of these events, the media is often pushing an agenda. After the tragic shooting of Philando Castille, the media rushed to stoke the flames of racial tension. NRA News commentator Colion…
Al Sharpton assails NRA on race Does the National Rifle Association care about African Americans? If you ask Reverend Al Sharpton, the answer is no. Per Politico, Sharpton railed against the NRA’s apparent unwillingness to stand up for the Second Amendment rights of the black community. Both of them were killed by police based on…
By Amber Randall Major media outlets buried the alleged Asian ethnicity of the cop who shot a black man in Minnesota Wednesday night, after featuring or even highlighting the ethnicity of the white cop who shot a black man in Louisiana just a day earlier. In their coverage of the Louisiana shooting, major media outlets…
Tragically two shooting deaths by police officers made the news yesterday. Objectivity and skepticism are hard to maintain when such inciting and tragic images are spread through social media. People on both sides of the debate rush to judgement. Emotions flare and such emotions add to social tensions and could exacerbate encounters with police. While…