Leaked documents indicate over 300 members of far-right paramilitary Oath Keepers may be current or former DHS employees, Project on Government Oversight reports
The revelation comes weeks after the paramilitary group's founder, Stewart Rhodes, was convicted of seditious conspiracy over the January 6 riot.
news.yahoo.comElon Musk Tweets Defense of Cop Who Killed Unarmed Black Man in Ferguson, Missouri
Elon Musk tweeted a defense of the police officer who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown—an unarmed Black man in Ferguson, Missouri back in 2014—early Wednesday before deleting the incendiary post. Musk said the police officer was “exonerated” and that the narrative around the shooting was a “fiction.”
news.yahoo.comUp to 25 people involved in ‘disgraceful’ brawl inside Walmart, police say
>> Read more trending newsFerguson Police Chief Frank McCall told KMOV he estimated anywhere from 10 to 25 people were involved in the chaotic scene, which took place in the self-checkout area of the Walmart. “We’ve never had an incident that involved 20 individuals in a brawl like that in a department store,” McCall told KSDK. “I’ve seen some videos on social media, and it’s disgraceful,” McCall told KMOV. “I also think there was a security officer at the store last night, but I’m not sure,” McCall told KSDK. A spokesperson for Walmart told KSDK, “our customers’ safety is our top priority.”©2022 Cox Media Group
wftv.comHospital patient without COVID shot denied heart transplant
A Boston hospital is defending itself after a man's family claimed he was denied a new heart for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, saying most transplant programs around the country set similar requirements to improve patients’ chances of survival. The family of D.J. Ferguson said in a crowdfunding appeal this week that officials at Brigham and Women’s Hospital told the 31-year-old father of two that he was ineligible for the procedure because he hasn’t been vaccinated against the coronavirus. D.J.'s mother, Tracey Ferguson, insists that her son isn't against vaccinations, noting he's had other immunizations in the past.
news.yahoo.comCoronavirus: Hospital denies heart transplant to unvaccinated man
(Tracey Ferguson/via AP)BOSTON — The family of a man in need of a heart transplant in Boston says a hospital has declined to put him on the transplant waitlist because he has not been vaccinated against COVID-19, making it the latest hospital system to require the shots. He underwent surgery before being transferred to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he received a temporary, emergency heart pump, according to the online fundraiser. Ferguson’s family said officials at Brigham and Women’s Hospital told them that he was ineligible to receive a transplant because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19. “Around half of people on waiting lists will not receive an organ within five years,” hospital officials said. Over 363 million COVID-19 cases have been reported worldwide, resulting in more than 5.6 million deaths, according to Johns Hopkins.
wftv.com2 St. Louis officers shot in Ferguson; 1 in critical condition
Officers shot: Two police officers were shot in a St. Louis suburb on Wednesday. (Oleksandr FiloniSstock)ST. LOUIS — Two St. Louis police officers were shot while attempting to arrest suspects in suburban Ferguson on Wednesday, authorities said. >> Read more trending newsOne of the officers was in critical condition after being shot in the abdomen, St. Louis police Chief John Hayden told reporters. https://t.co/NkseW20vT5 — St. Louis Post-Dispatch (@stltoday) January 27, 2022“He’s by no stretch of the imagination is he out of danger,” Hayden said. The officers were shot around 1 p.m. CST while approaching a vehicle in Ferguson that police believed was tied to a homicide in St. Louis on Tuesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
wftv.comDispute over pets leads to murder charge against East Tennessee man
Charged: Austin Sanders is charged with first-degree murder after a shooting on Saturday in Sweetwater, Tennessee. (Monroe County Sheriff's Office)SWEETWATER, Tenn. — An East Tennessee man is accused of fatally shooting another man after an argument broke out about pets, authorities said. >> Read more trending newsAustin Jubril Sanders, of Sweetwater, was charged with first-degree murder, according to Monroe County Sheriff’s Office online booking records. Police said Sanders retrieved a weapon from the home and shot Ferguson, according to The Advocate & Democrat. Sanders is being held without bail at the Monroe County Jail, according to online booking records.
wftv.comEric Ferguson ‘stepping away’ from The Mix morning show, vows to defend himself from allegations of inappropriate behavior
Chicago radio host Eric Ferguson said Friday he is stepping away from the popular morning program he has helmed at WTMX-FM for 25 years following allegations of inappropriate behavior by female former colleagues.
chicagotribune.comFormer Eric Ferguson co-host Melissa McGurren breaks silence, alleges ‘unbearable’ work conditions at WTMX radio
In complaints made public Tuesday in court filings, former WTMX co-host Melissa McGurren alleged Eric Ferguson subjected her to an “unbearable hostile work environment” and the management did nothing about it for years.
chicagotribune.comInquest: Conflicting accounts of how young Black man died
Lotts is frustrated by the pace of the investigation into Martin's death. (AP Photo by Jim Salter) (Jim Salter)Audio from an inquest into the shooting death of Derontae Martin offers widely conflicting accounts of how the young Black man died inside a rural Missouri home during a party in April. He said the man told him "that murder was the easiest thing in the world to get by with.”The homeowner gave a different account of that conversation. He said he had approached Lawler about helping in case a protest over Martin's death turned violent. A May demonstration over Martin's death drew about 100 protesters to Fredericktown.
wftv.comIda-linked deaths climb to 6, with hundreds of thousands still without power
More than 985,000 electric customers across Louisiana woke up Wednesday in the dark again, with complete power restoration potentially weeks away. More than 768,000 of those outages were from Entergy, the state’s largest power provider.
washingtonpost.comCity’s inspector general finds Chicago Police Department struggles to keep Black candidates in hiring process
The Chicago Police Department has struggled to hire an adequate number of Black applicants to reflect the racial makeup of the city, Chicago’s government watchdog said in a report on Thursday.
chicagotribune.comChain of Alabama officers help robbed, stranded Indiana man with autism make his way home
Indiana man with autism helped home by Alabama deputies William Bolin, 23, center, is pictured with Morgan County Sgt. Ferguson and Cullman County Deputy Dickerson, two of the dozens of law enforcement officials who helped the Indianapolis, Indiana, man with autism make his way home after acquaintances robbed and abandoned him at a gas station in Montgomery, Alabama, on Sunday, July 4, 2021. (Morgan County Sheriff's Office)MORGAN COUNTY, Ala. — William Bolin thought he was taking a Fourth of July weekend road trip to the beach with some “friends” and, instead, found himself robbed and stranded in Montgomery, Alabama, on Sunday night. Ferguson, then connected with a Limestone County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant near Huntsville, Alabama, and Ferguson slipped Bolin $20, wishing him well on his continued journey, WXIN reported. He is 23 years... Posted by Morgan County Sheriff's Office on Monday, July 5, 2021©2021 Cox Media Group
wftv.comCounty to pay $280K to journalists tear-gassed in Ferguson
Ferguson Journalists Lawsuit FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2014, file photo Edward Crawford Jr., returns a tear gas canister fired by police who were trying to disperse protesters in Ferguson, Mo. Three journalists with Al Jazeera America who were tear-gassed during a protest in Ferguson, after Michael Brown's death in 2014 have settled a lawsuit with the county whose SWAT team fired the tear gas. St. Charles County agreed to pay $280,000, according to the law firm that represented the journalists. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP) (Robert Cohen)Three journalists with Al Jazeera who were tear-gassed during a protest in Ferguson, Missouri, after Michael Brown's death in 2014 have settled a lawsuit with the county whose SWAT team fired the tear gas. St. Charles County agreed to pay $280,000, according to the law firm Lathrop GPM, which represented the journalists.
wftv.comChicago would create public database of closed complaints against cops under City Council proposal Lightfoot said she opposes
A joint City Council committee debated an ordinance on Friday that would mandate an online database of closed complaints against Chicago police officers dating back almost 30 years, a plan Mayor Lori Lightfoot has said she opposes.
chicagotribune.comMan pleads guilty to possessing two dozen illegal guns sold out of his popular Chicago food truck
Ferguson has also pleaded guilty in a separate case alleging he and his son along with another associate tried to intimidate a witness against him after the drug and gun charges were unveiled in 2018. Prosecutors said that the day Ferguson was released on bond, he visited the victim, a former business partner, at his suburban warehouse and urged him to ignore a grand jury subpoena.
chicagotribune.comChicago police showed ‘confusion and lack of coordination’ that endangered protesters, officers last May, city watchdog concludes in scathing report
Officers are required to turn on body cameras during arrests and other confrontations, but department leaders acknowledged that the cameras often weren’t rolling, Ferguson wrote. His office said that less than 1/5 of arrest reports indicated there was bodycam footage of the arrest. Only 43% of uses of force were caught on bodycams, the report states. Many officers weren’t properly equipped after reporting to locations other than the districts, where the cameras are kept, Ferguson wrote.
chicagotribune.comAt least five officers, including a commander, face suspension after probe of former police boss Eddie Johnson’s conduct
Ferguson opened the investigation into Johnson’s conduct shortly after he was found asleep at the wheel at 34th Place and Aberdeen Street in the Bridgeport neighborhood on the night of Oct. 16, 2019. Johnson publicly blamed the incident on his failure to take blood pressure medication but privately told Mayor Lori Lightfoot he had “a couple of drinks” with dinner that evening, which she disclosed in an interview with the Sun-Times.
chicagotribune.com"The Power of August"
"The Power of August" "The Power of August" looks back at transformational moments in American civil rights history that happened in the month of August. Anchored by Maurice DuBois, "The Power of August" is comprised of four acts, each told in eight minutes and 46 seconds — the approximate duration of time a Minneapolis police officer had his knee on George Floyd's neck. Each act explores stories of powerful and historic August events, beginning with Emmett Till's murder, then the March on Washington, Ferguson and the power of the vote in 2020.
cbsnews.comBush latest Ferguson protester with political success
2019, file photo, Rep. William Lacy Clay, right, D-Mo., speaks with St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson after a news conference in St. Louis. Come January, shell almost certainly be representing the St. Louis suburb in Congress, making her the most prominent of many Ferguson protesters who have turned to politics. The district that covers St. Louis and north St. Louis County is overwhelmingly Democratic, and Bush is heavily favored in November against her little-known Republican challenger, Anthony Rogers. He was replaced by another Ferguson activist, Rasheen Aldridge, who is just 26. Zaki Baruti, another leading Ferguson activist, said he recognized Bush's potential during the protests and helped convince her to run for U.S. Senate in 2016.
Ex-Justice Department lawyer will lead Elijah McClain probe
Jonathan Smith, the executive director of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, will lead the three-person panel reviewing policing policies at issue in the death of Elijah McClain, Sentinel Colorado reported Tuesday. Three officers stopped McClain as he walked down an Aurora street on Aug, 23, 2019 after a 911 caller reported him as suspicious. The Justice Department division is responsible for investigations of civil rights violations by law enforcement, juvenile justice and mental health and disability agencies. Last year, the local district attorney said he could not file charges against the officers because a pathologist could not determine whether the officers' actions caused McClain's death. Federal authorities recently revealed they have been researching since last year into whether they should launch a civil rights investigation into McClains death.
Ferguson swears in city's first African-American police chief
This past week, Delrish Moss was sworn in as the first African-American police chief of Ferguson, Missouri. He's taking over nearly two years after a white Ferguson officer killed an unarmed teenager, setting off protests nationwide. Jeff Pegues has more.
cbsnews.comBen Carson on Michael Brown, Black Lives Matter
GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson is surging in the polls. The neurosurgeon visited Ferguson, Missouri, and talked to CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett about the death of Michael Brown and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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