All posts tagged "Law Enforcement"

The largest school district in Nebraska has told police to stop carrying electric shock gloves, the same kind the Trump administration plans to buy.

According to a Saturday article by The Guardian, Omaha Public Schools Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that school resource officers stop using the electric-shock gloves. The Omaha police agreed two days later.

The move followed reporting that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) planned to issue officers the same devices, known as "generated low output voltage emitter" (GLOVE), which have also been used in some jails in recent years, according to The Guardian....

FBI Director Kash Patel's latest training gimmick will be a competition to find the fittest male and female agents, according to new reports.

The Daily Mail and Washington Examiner confirmed with bureau officials that the internal contest will look for the 'fittest' agents.

The FBI will host a two-day event in early July at its Quantico Training Academy in Virginia, according to reporting by the Daily Mail. ...

The federal judge presiding over the trial of nine “antifa” defendants charged with terrorism and attempted murder in relation to a protest at an ICE detention facility in Texas last summer on Tuesday granted a request by the Department of Justice to bar self-defense claims in response to the shooting of a local police officer.

The order by Judge Mark Pittman during a hearing in Fort Worth, Texas — made in light of a ruling arising from the deadly Waco siege of 1993 — forbids defendants from presenting further evidence and argument to claim that one acted in self-defense or in defense of others when he allegedly shot Alvarado Police Lt. Thomas Gross.

The government’s motion asserted that such claims were “legally invalid.”...

Defendants on trial in Texas in the Trump administration’s first “antifa” prosecution are claiming self-defense, in answer to attempted murder and terrorism charges stemming from a chaotic confrontation outside an ICE detention facility that culminated with the shooting of a local police officer.

After defense lawyers cross-examined Alvarado police Lt. Thomas Gross, who suffered minor injuries after allegedly being shot by one of the nine defendants, the government last Friday filed a motion in court in Fort Worth, seeking to bar defendants from making a self-defense claim.

The government argues that because any claim of self-defense or defense of others was “legally unsupportable,” introducing evidence or arguments that raise that defense would amount to “a thinly veiled attempt to encourage the jury to nullify any verdict in this case.”...

A trial set to begin on Tuesday in Fort Worth, Texas will test whether President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice can use a criminalized notion of “antifa” to convict nine anti-ICE activists of attempted murder and terrorism, after they shot fireworks and vandalized government vehicles.

On July 4 last year, most of the defendants showed up at the Prairieland ICE detention facility 25 miles south of Fort Worth to put on a fireworks display for immigrant detainees. A smaller group used spray paint to graffiti vehicles in the parking lot.

They dressed in black and concealed their faces with masks — a tactic commonly known as “black bloc.” One activist, former Marine Corps reservist Benjamin Song, carried an AR-15 rifle. A wagon nearby was stocked with an additional rifle, body armor and bottled water. One activist had guns in his car. ...

In June 2025, following a two-day manhunt leading to the arrest of Vance Boelter, FBI Special Agent Terry Getsch submitted an affidavit supporting criminal charges in the murder of Melissa Hortman, a former Democratic speaker of the Minnesota House, and her husband, Mark Hortman, and the wounding of a second legislator and his wife.

Boelter, who posed as a police officer and had a list of 70 targets including Democrats, civic leaders and abortion providers, was described in the affidavit as pursuing “a planned campaign of stalking and violence designed to inflict, fear, injure, and kill members of the Minnesota state legislature and their families.”

Last month, in a federal courtroom in St. Paul, Getsch testified for the U.S. government in an entirely different kind of case. ...