All posts tagged "Crime"

The young man who drove from North Carolina to south Florida and breached the perimeter of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort while armed with a shotgun and gas can, and was killed by law enforcement, was a quiet and sensitive community college student from a conservative background, those who knew him said.

“I never got weird energy from him,” one former classmate told Raw Story. “I never sensed any danger.”

But as the FBI attempts to establish what led Austin Tucker Martin to his death in the early hours of last Sunday, reports and social media posts by acquaintances reviewed by Raw Story suggest the 21-year-old was concerned about the ongoing publication of files related to the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his links to powerful people — including President Trump....

While a judicial coalition applauded a federal appeals court decision this week to dismiss a complaint against a judge who stopped the Trump administration deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, the group is continuing to sound the alarm on threats to and attacks on judges they say the president is fueling.

Paul Kiesel, founder of Speak Up for Justice, a nonpartisan group advocating for judicial independence and protection, told Raw Story attacks from President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice, such as those directed at Judge James Boasberg in the District of Columbia, can have life-and-death consequences.

Just last month in Indiana, a superior court judge and his wife were shot at their home, allegedly in an attempt to derail a domestic abuse case involving a motorcycle club member....

Two neo-Nazis arrested last week are accused of buying machine guns as part of an alleged scheme to launch a paramilitary death squad.

Aiden Cuevas, 20, and Andrew Nary, 23, each face a federal charge of conspiracy to traffic in firearms in the Northern District of Alabama.

They were arrested on Jan. 20, according to court records, after Cuevas met an FBI undercover employee and took possession of six illegal firearms with obliterated serial numbers, including three fully automatic weapons....

In a video posted to his X account in late December, Ivan Raiklin is seen walking behind a senior federal prosecutor outside the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C. Peppering her with questions, the former Army Green Beret turned lawyer and self-styled Trump “secretary of retribution” accuses the official of “covering up for the fed-surrection.”

Since Donald Trump’s defeat in 2020, Raiklin has become known for extreme rhetoric in support of Trump’s lie that the election was stolen, including promoting a “Deep State Target List” and calling for “live-streamed swatting raids” against Trump’s enemies.

Raiklin’s social media posts and podcasts typically carry an undercurrent of menace and often indirectly call for violence by accusing opponents of treason, implying they deserve death. ...

Two Alabama Black Lives Matter activists accused of setting a shopping cart on fire as part of a protest against the fatal police shooting of a young Black man have been charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, in what one supporter calls a “railroading.”

The federal charge unveiled as part of a superseding indictment against Mercutio Southall, 41, and Lillian Colburn, 26, alleges that the pair committed terrorism through an arson at a Walmart Supercenter in Homewood, a Birmingham suburb, on Aug. 22.

“They’ve been trying to label Black Lives Matter a terrorist movement,” RaShaun Whetstone, a friend of Southall and Colburn, told Raw Story. “This is a railroading.”...

The GOP's crime crackdown has been criticised by those living in communities the Trump administration targeted most of all.

According to an ANC commissioner for Washington's Kingman Park area, Ebony Payne, the tough attitude towards crime from the president's administration has caused more problems than it has solved. Speaking to NOTUS, Payne believes there is a desire from locals to live in a "safe community" but that the Trump administration has done very little to affect this positively.

She said, "The surge just felt more like making an example out of our city, really, than intending to genuinely help with crime. Neighbors definitely want to live in a safe community. Everybody wants that. … But it has felt more focused on immigration, which is kind of tearing families apart and just instilling more fear."...