Category: police

Police Release Bodycam Footage After Minnesota Lawmaker Stopped by Police Claims Racial Profiling

Authorities in Minnesota released the body camera footage of a traffic stop involving a state lawmaker who claimed he was pulled over and ticketed by an officer for his race. The video, released by the City of St. Paul, shows state Rep. John Thompson, a Democrat, being pulled over on July 4 after midnight; with…


Minnesota Lawmaker Claims He Was Cited for Race; Police Releases Body Cam

Authorities in Minnesota released the body camera footage of a traffic stop involving a state lawmaker who claimed he was pulled over and ticketed by an officer for his race. The video, released by the City of St. Paul, shows state Rep. John Thompson, a Democrat, being pulled over on July 4 after midnight; with…


Minnesota Lawmaker Claims He Was Cited for Race; Police Release Body Cam

Authorities in Minnesota have released the body camera footage of a traffic stop involving a state lawmaker who claimed he was pulled over and ticketed by an officer because of his race. The video, released by the City of St. Paul, shows state Rep. John Thompson, a Democrat, being pulled over on July 4 after…


Hundreds of Bikers Back Fallen Police Officers’ Families With Huge Motorcycle Rally in Toledo

Toledo community members came together to recognize two fallen police officers in a huge motorcycle rally and fundraiser for the grieving families. Officer Brandon Stalker was killed in January, while his colleague, Officer Anthony Dia, lost his life in July 2020. Both were in the same police class and graduated together. “Our city lost two…


Police Raid Bahrain Victorious Team at Tour de France

The Bahrain Victorious team competing at the Tour de France was raided by French police on the eve of Thursday’s stage as part of a doping investigation, according to judicial and police officials. The team confirmed in a statement that riders’ rooms were searched by officers at the hotel it stayed in in the southwestern…


Police Use Genetic Technology to Solve Teen’s 1976 Murder

Law authorities say they used investigative genetic geology to solve the 1976 rape and murder of a 19-year-old nursing student. Investigators said the technology helped identify the man who attacked Janet Stallcup at Christmastime that year while she was on her way to a party. Her body found eight days later inside her car, about two-…


Defying Teachers, Schools in Violent Chicago Neighborhoods Keep Police on Campus

CHICAGO—For the new school year beginning in the fall, more Chicago public high schools are opting to remove on-campus police officers, a movement that gained momentum citywide last summer after the death of George Floyd. Among about thirty high schools that retain officers, eight out of ten are in the most violent neighborhoods on the…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (July 14)

A lightning strike has completely destroyed a mural of George Floyd in Toledo almost exactly a year after it was painted, a family in North Carolina is filing a multi-million-dollar lawsuit for what they think was an unjustified killing by county police, and a Cuban Youtuber arrested during a live television interview returns home.


Mayor’s Spin on Crime is Confusing, Contradictory, and Misleading

Commentary SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—San Francisco’s mayor and police chief held a joint press conference July 12 to share mid-year crime statistics for the city by the bay. Having worked as an administrator with the city during six different mayoral administrations, I can attest to the fact that each and every mayor used such an occasion…


LA County Board to Crack Down on Illegal Grows, Reconsider Cannabis Ban

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted July 13 to collaborate with federal, state and local officials to shut down illegal cannabis grow operations in the Antelope Valley, while agreeing to reconsider a longstanding county ban on commercial marijuana. Supervisor Kathryn Barger warned three weeks ago that commercial cannabis and hemp grow…