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Jon Peltz, reporting from the University of California, Los Angeles I’m in the UCLA Gaza solidarity encampment. The protesters just surrounded the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers who were present and moved them out. They [the protesters] were locking arms, carrying umbrellas. It was a very sudden shift from a quiet mode, before the […]
On Dec. 11, 1917, Pfc. Thomas C. Hawkins and 12 other Black soldiers who had been convicted of mutiny and other crimes during a riot in Houston earlier that year were hanged. It was the single largest mass execution of American soldiers by the Army. On Monday, more than a century later, the Army said […]
HOUSTON — The U.S. Army is overturning the convictions of 110 Black soldiers — 19 of whom were executed — after they were found guilty of murder, mutiny and assault after a riot during the summer of 1917. Deputy Secretary of the Army Michael Mahoney directed the Army Review Boards Agency to “set aside” the […]
A statue of a US Civil War general for the pro-slavery Confederacy that became the focus of protests for racial justice has been melted down in secret, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. (FILES) Workers remove the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a park in Charlottesville, Virginia on July 10, 2021. A […]
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WASHINGTON >> A Southern California man who assaulted police with pepper spray during the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison, federal authorities announced. Jeffrey Scott Brown, 56, of Santa Ana received a sentence of 54 months in federal prison for felony and misdemeanor charges […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Southern California man who assaulted police with pepper spray during the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison, federal authorities announced. Jeffrey Scott Brown, 56, of Santa Ana received a sentence of 54 months in federal prison for felony and misdemeanor charges related […]
ORISKA, N.D. — A former North Dakota man was arrested Tuesday, April 11, in New Mexico on felony charges for his alleged actions during the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. FBI agents claim that Rockne Gerard Earles, 62, who previously lived in the Barnes County town of Oriska, was among the […]
RALEIGH, N.C. — A bill increasing punishments for violent protests following the 2020 demonstrations over George Floyd’s murder passed the North Carolina House on Wednesday despite harsh criticism from social justice advocates. Some bipartisan support signals a potential override of any veto by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who issued one that blocked similar legislation two […]
CNN — Three active-duty Marines who work in intelligence – one of whom allegedly espoused support for a second civil war – were arrested this week for breaching the US Capitol building with a mob of Trump supporters on January 6, 2021.