Guns

A Zoom discussion about the University of Texas alma mater song being racist turned dark when a masked man appeared in the discussion, loaded and then brandished a gun.

NBC News reported Wednesday that a lecture led by history Prof. Alberto Martinez, outlined "the song has racist origins, contrary to the university's position."

The mayor of Baltimore called upon men in the city to be better after a weekend quadruple shooting in Carroll Park.

'We had a mass shooting," said Mayor Brandon Scott said.. "Lets call it what it is. A mass shooting in Carroll Park which is completely unacceptable."

On Thursday, the Miami Herald reported that a Broward County school employee has been charged with making mass shooting threats.

"Patrick Jean, a 28-year-old front desk attendant at Lauderdale Lakes Middle School, was arrested on Wednesday," reported Devoun Cetoute and Carli Teproff. "He is facing two counts of threats to discharge a destructive device and two counts of written threats to kill or conduct a mass shooting, the Broward County Sheriff's Office said."

Police in Rockford, Illinois on Thursday scrambled to investigate three different shootings.

WTVO-TV headlined "Rockford Police investigate third shooting in 2 hours."

America has suffered yet another mass shooting, this time in North Carolina.

"Authorities say a man killed his mother, stepfather and two deputies during an hours-long standoff in Watauga County Wednesday. A third officer was also shot in the standoff. Deputies say 32-year-old Isaac Alton Barnes is suspected of killing Sgt. Chris Ward, K-9 Deputy Logan Fox, Michelle Annette Ligon and George Wyatt Ligon," WBTV reported.

America has suffered yet another mass shooting.

"The Richmond Police Department says that five people were shot at an apartment complex on Midlothian Turnpike on Tuesday evening. One person was killed, another is in critical condition," WRIC-TV reports.

Bakari Sellers, an attorney for the family of Andrew Brown, on Tuesday fired back at Fox News host Laura Ingraham after she suggested that he had changed his "accent" while attending a press conference in North Carolina.

"Barkari Sellers suddenly showed up in North Carolina today," Ingraham announced during her Monday night program.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday that it's set to hear a landmark gun rights case which, if ruled in favor of the plaintiff, could set a radically conservative precedent for the judiciary's interpretation of the Second Amendment.

This article first appeared in Salon.

An attorney on Monday described body camera footage of the killing of Andrew Brown in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

Attorney Chantel Cherry-Lassiter, who is representing the Brown family, explained that Pasquotank County attorneys had limited the video the family was able to see to 20 seconds.

Could Make It 'Easier to Have a Gun Than a Car'

Legal experts are issuing warnings after the U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up a major Second Amendment case, its first in a decade – and warning of a "guns apocalypse" given the extremely conservative makeup of the Court.

The suspect in a shooting of two teenagers was turned in by his father, KUTV reported Saturday.

"New details emerge in the Sandy, Utah case where an 18-year-old male is accused of shooting two children, ages 13 and 14, while they were walking down 8800 S. on April 16.

Police chased down ridiculous tips about Antifa and Black Lives Matter called in by panicky conservatives all over the Pacific Northwest.

Fox News helped inflame fears of leftist protesters last summer, as demonstrators marched all over the country against police brutality and racism, and calls came pouring in about suspicious individuals and implausible plots, reported The Daily Beast.

A Black man from Virginia called 911 seeking help but wound up getting shot by a police officer ten times despite being unarmed.

NBC Washington reports that 32-year-old Isiah Brown was given a ride back to his Spotsylvania County home by a sheriff's deputy this week after his car broke down at a nearby gas station.