HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Anadolu Agency / Getty Over the weekend, 31 members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front came from at least 11 different states to gather in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, allegedly, to disrupt a Pride event in the city. To put that another way, a group of disgruntled white men in tactical gear stuffed themselves in a U-Haul truck and were stopped by police on their way to a peaceful event and arrested on misdemeanor charges of conspiracy to riot. “It is clear to us based on the gear that the individuals had with them, the stuff they had in their possession, the U-Haul with them along with paperwork that was seized from them, that they came to riot downtown,” Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said during a news conference, CNN reported. White also said ...
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Pool / Getty President Joe Biden addressed the nation on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Capitol Insurrection in a scathing Thursday morning (Jan. 6) speech and didn’t withhold any punches towards former President Donald Trump. President Biden framed insurrection as an attack on democracy, echoing the messaging of his 2020 presidential campaign of bringing America back together. It was known as recently as last week that President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were both prepared to deliver remarks all connected to a day of remembrance for those who lost their lives defending the U.S. Capitol and to drum down on the need to preserve democracy in the nation. Naturally, Biden’s salvo was the first and perhaps loudest moment thus far of th...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: JEFF DEAN / Getty A mass shooting event at an Indianapolis FedDex warehouse facility has left eight people dead, including the shooter, with five others injured. The details of the shooting are still developing as investigators determine what exactly happened in the event. Local outlet WTHR reports that the incident took place late Thursday (April 15) evening just after 11 PM local time at the FedEx just across the way from the Indianapolis International Airport. Reporters from the NBC affiliate spoke with witnesses that were on the scene who shared what they experienced during the horrific moment. “I’m at a bench and so I stand up and take a look at the entrance door and by the time I see the door, I see a man come out with a rifle in his hand and he sta...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Crisp County Sheriff’s Office / CCSO White domestic terrorist and alleged sex addict Robert Aaron Long has officially been charged with the murders of eight people after a shooting rampage earlier this week. The 21-year-old Georgia native took out his rage at three Atlanta-area massage parlors, sparking outrage among Asian Americans and others. The Associated Press reports that investigators are still examining the facts surrounding the three shootings, most especially as attacks against Asians have cropped up in the past year presumably due to former president Donald Trump racializing the coronavirus. However, Long told officials that his shooting spree on Tuesday (March 16) was not motivated by racism but instead an addiction to sex, and carried out the...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Alex Wong / Getty These white men are proving time and time again that they are the most dangerous people on the face of the planet. CNN reports that 31-year-old Bryan Texas resident, Paul Murray, was arrested outside of the US Naval Observatory, Vice President Kamala Harris’ official residence on Wednesday (Mar.17). Murray, a veteran, is now facing weapons and ammunition charges after “a rifle and ammunition were recovered from his vehicle” by law enforcement. Details from a spokesperson for the Washington Metropolitan Police state “at approximately 12:12 pm, to the 3400 block of Massachusetts Avenue, NW in reference to a suspicious person based on an intelligence bulletin that originated from Texas, who was detained by US Secret Service.” Accordin...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Crisp County Sheriff’s Office / CCSO A series of shootings across three Atlanta-area spas have left a total of eight people dead, including six Asian women, on Tuesday (March 16). Police have their chief suspect behind bars, and many are wondering if this heinous act is a hate crime targeting Asian Americans. Robert Aaron Long, 21, was arrested by police Tuesday night after a manhunt was launched in the wake of the shooting, which took place across three locations. Long’s shooting spree took place in over 45 minutes, leading to early speculation that this was a calculated act of terror. The Atlanta-Journal Constitution reports that Long was arrested as the suspect in connection to the shooting at Young’s Asian Massage Parlor in Cherokee County which left ...
Source: Kent Nishimura / Getty The domestic terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 is still very much on the minds of many Americans as the new year rolls on. The acting chief of the force has apologized for the lax security measures at the federal government building, telling lawmakers on the Hill that there were “failings” that allowed the acts to occur which left five dead. As reported by The Hill, Chief Yogananda D. Pittman offered testimony during a closed-door briefing with members of the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday (Jan. 26). “I am here to offer my sincerest apologies on behalf of the department,” Pittman reportedly said to the lawmakers in attendance. She added, On Jan. 6, in the face of a terrorist attack by tens of thousands of insurrectionists determined to...
Source: NurPhoto / Getty The terroristic acts performed by a gathering of Donald Trump supporters for the “Stop The Steal” rally last week has dominated the news cycle. Ali Alexander, a conservative activist, claims that he planned the so-called insurrection with three sitting GOP members of Congress. In a now-deleted video that was tweeted out and captured by Project on Government Oversight journalist Jason Paladino, Alexander firmly states that Reps. Andy Biggs, Mo Brooks, and Paul A. Gosar, all supporters of Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the Election Day results and stand behind the nation’s will that President-elect Joe Biden rightfully won. “We four schemed up of putting maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting,” Alexander said in the now-deleted video that first aired...
Source: Drew Angerer / Getty While it will be just over a week before President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn into office, the political horizon in Washington looks like scorched land. After the horrific act of domestic terrorism at the U.S. Capitol building, GOP leadership warns that the Democrats’ desire to impeach Donald Trump a second time is bad business but AOC isn’t having that. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was a guest on ABC’s This Week program just days after the so-called insurrection at the Capitol building on Jan. 6. AOC, as she’s often called in the media, has earned a reputation as a tough-talking congresswoman while staying true to her strong political convictions. In a letter addressed to President-elect Biden supported by some of the...
Source: Probal Rashid / Getty Among the many shocking images of destruction and wanton folly to emerge from the invasion of the U.S. Capitol by mostly white domestic terrorists, one was especially jarring. A U.S. Capitol police, Eugene Goodman, was seen on video taking on the violent mob by himself while leading them away from the Senate chambers, earning him a nod as a hero to many. The image of Goodman bravely shoving one of the protestors while seemingly retreating was revealed to be a diversionary tactic by CNN reporter Kristin Wilson. Officer Goodman was deliberately drawing the crowd of rioters away from the Senate chambers, which was undergoing the certification of the Electoral College votes in favor of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Goodman’s her...
Source: pinellas county sheriff’s office / pinellas county sheriff’s office Arrests have been piling up in connection to the brazen display of mostly-white domestic terrorists who descended upon the U.S. Capitol this past Wednesday (Jan. 6). During the so-called “Stop The Steal” rally, one man who was suspected of parading around with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern has been arrested. Local outlet Tampa Bay Times was one of several Florida outlets who reported on the arrest of Adam Johnson of Parrish, a community of Manatee County in the state. The 36-year-old Johnson was arrested Friday night (Jan.8) and is currently being held on a warrant. Johnson joins two other men who were charged Saturday (Jan. 9) in a Washington, D.C. federal court as a result of their alleged actions in the f...
Source: Kannapolis Police Department / KPD Alexander Hillel Treisman, a native of Washington state, was arrested in May this year after his van was discovered to be filled with guns and explosives in North Carolina. Authorities have released further details of the 19-year-old’s arrest, which include a nefarious plot to assassinate former Vice President Joe Biden but currently only faces child pornography charges. As reported by local outlet WBTV, Treisman was first arrested late in May after authorities discovered a van he left near a bank in the town of Kannapolis, which alarmed employees inside who then alerted the local police force to tow the van. Happening upon the van, the Kannapolis Police Department saw a cache of weapons, $509,000 in cash, books about making explosives, and other ...