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Former Chicago Cop, on the Run for Almost 15 Years, Finally Arrested on Drug Charges
I guess a cop would best know how to run from cops? After years of being a fugitive, the law has finally apparently caught up with former Chicago Police Sgt. Eddie C. Hicks, who was arrested in Detroit early Tuesday morning. According to the Chicago Tribune, Hicks, now 68, has been the focus of an…
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Rosemont, Ill., Police Reject Calls for FBI to Look Into Kenneka Jenkins Case
Despite several calls from protesters for a federal investigation into the death of Kenneka Jenkins, the Chicago teen who was found dead in a Rosemont, Ill., hotel freezer earlier this month, Rosemont police have made it exceedingly clear that that is not about to happen. As the Chicago Sun-Times notes, Jenkins’ death has highlighted the…
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Should Black Folks Trust the FBI’s Russia Investigation, Given Its History of Targeting Our Communities?
Why trust the FBI or any intelligence agency on Russia? They targeted civil rights activists for years. We really don’t have proof of the Russians doing anything. Why trust these agencies now? These are completely legitimate questions that I hear from black folks from time to time on social media and in person. I get…
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Robert Mueller Ain’t Playing: Former Trump Campaign Chair Paul Manafort’s Home Raided by the FBI
America’s last hope for a presidential do-over is being led by Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller, and he’s not playing: FBI agents raided the home of Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, last month. Manafort, as you may remember, was one of the first in Trump’s administration to go down for possible…
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Senate Confirms New FBI Director Christopher Wray
Christopher Wray, a former high-ranking official in former President George W. Bush’s Justice Department, was confirmed by the Senate Tuesday and will step into a new role as director of the FBI. Wray will replace James Comey, who was fired by Donald Trump in May in the middle of the investigation into Russia’s involvement in…
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Trump Implies That He Wants Robert Mueller Gone and Lied About the Comey Tapes to Keep the Ex-FBI Director Honest
This fidget-spinner-ass administrator can’t stop spinning the truth. President Molten Lava Face had one of his friends from Fake News Fox News over to the White House to feather him with only the softest of questions, but from that interview—which was shot Thursday and aired Friday morning—I was able to ascertain two things: Special counsel…
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FBI Investigating Stabbing of Police Officer at Flint, Mich., Airport as Possible Act of Terrorism
A police officer was stabbed Wednesday at the Flint, Mich., international airport, and the FBI says it is investigating the incident as a possible act of terrorism because of statements the suspect reportedly made before attacking the officer. The assailant in the Wednesday-morning attack that prompted an evacuation and shutdown of Bishop International Airport has…
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President’s Pick to Head FBI Scrubbed Russian-Government-Related Case From Résumé
So the president’s pick to head the FBI scrubbed “an energy company president in a criminal investigation by Russian authorities” from a list of clients on his law firm bio, CNN reports. Shocked? Of course you aren’t. According to the news station, the president gushed about Christopher Wray only a few days after firing FBI…
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The Best Part Of The Comey Hearing Is Watching These White Men Throw Bags Of Piss At Each Other
Look, I don’t know what’s going to be the result of all of this. Does the Darth Cheeto get impeached or, at the very least, decheetoed? I don’t know! Does Jeff The Baby-Faced Bigot Sessions resign? Who knows! Do the Cavs sign James Comey tonight to give them some last-minute rim protection? I have no…
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Former FBI Director Comey Senate Hearing Open Thread
We know you’re watching. Talk about it.