Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, June 20, 2021 The resignation of Portland’s 50-member riot squad on Wednesday was sad, but predictable, observers are saying. The Portland Police Bureau’s Rapid Response Team (RRT) resigned following Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt’s announcement that an officer on the squad had been charged with misdemeanor fourth-degree assault for hitting […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 11, 2021 On June 14, 2017, during a practice session for the annual congressional baseball game in Alexandria, Virginia, James Hodgkinson shot U.S. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, U.S. Capitol Police officer Crystal Griner, congressional aide Zack Barth, and lobbyist Matt Mika. Hodgkinson, a supporter of socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, got […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 18, 2021 Anti-Trump activists sought to turn the massive rally on Jan. 6 in support of the president into a violent riot, according to chat logs from a Discord channel hosted by Black Lives Matter activist John Earle Sullivan, a report said. Posts on the Discord channel revealed the anti-Trump activists […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 23, 2020 Kyle Rittenhouse posted a $2 million bond on Friday and was released from jail. He is expected back in court in December. Prior to his release, the 17-year-old Rittenhouse told The Washington Post in an interview that he acted in self-defense on the night he fatally shot two rioters […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 15, 2020 No one who attended Saturday’s Million MAGA March in Washington, D.C. was off limits to violent Antifa and Black Lives Matter thugs, who attacked elderly people and children, reports say. President Donald Trump tweeted: “ANTIFA SCUM ran for the hills today when they tried attacking the people at the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 11, 2020 The man arrested by Denver police in the shooting death of a Patriot Rally demonstrator has a history of leftist activism, reports say. Matthew Dolloff, 30, was being held on suspicion of first degree murder and was booked into the Denver jail system early Sunday. The incident occurred Saturday […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 9, 2020 Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt has dropped or rejected most criminal cases related to the ongoing rioting in Portland, according to data released by the DA’s office. On Wednesday, Schmidt’s office released a new statistical dashboard that provides data on “protest-related cases referred to his office by law […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 21, 2020 Portland, Seattle and New York City stand to lose federal funding for failing to control rioting and moving to defund police, the Department of Justice said. The three cities which have been devastated by Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioting have been declared “anarchist jurisdictions” by the DOJ. “We […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 18, 2020 A nonprofit organization which tracks world conflicts has compiled data showing that Black Lives Matter was linked to more than 80 percent of the violence that has devastated U.S. cities over the summer. The Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), supported by Princeton University, reported 12,045 incidents […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 17, 2020 Attorney General William Barr reportedly told federal prosecutors to consider sedition charges against the rioters who are destroying cities across America. Barr this week also said that a nationwide coronavirus lockdown order, which Joe Biden said he could institute if he is elected president, would amount to the “greatest […]