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The death of Senior Airman Roger Fortson in Florida this month reignited a complicated debate about race, gun laws and self-defense – namely, who is typically afforded deference when it comes to using guns in self-defense and who is not. “Stand Your Ground” laws have been invoked time and again over the past decade by gun owners to justify shooting at home intruders. Critics denounce them as “shoot first” laws. But what happens when the victim is a young Black man responding to banging noises on his front door and the perceived intruder is a sheriff’s deputy? The shooting remains under investigation.
This photo provided by Marion County Jail shows Bryan Howard. The Florida Highway Patrol arrested Howard, the driver of a pickup truck that crashed into the farmworker bus on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. (Marion County Jail via AP)
At least 24 worshippers, including four children, were injured in northern Nigeria’s Kano state after a man attacked the mosque where they were praying early Wednesday morning, resulting in an explosion, the police said. The suspect, a 38-year-old resident of the area, confessed that he attacked the mosque in Kano’s remote Gadan village “purely in hostility following prolonged (a) family disagreement,” police spokesman Abdullahi Haruna said in a statement. The incident caused panic in Kano, northern Nigeria’s largest state, where periodic religion-related unrest has occurred over the years, sometimes resulting in violence.
A massive manhunt is underway in France for an armed gang that killed two prison officers and seriously injured three others to spring an inmate they were escorting. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Wednesday that “unprecedented” efforts are being deployed. He said hundreds of officers were mobilized in the search for the escaped convict, Mohamed Amra, and the assailants who ambushed the convoy transporting him on Tuesday. The violence of the attack has shocked France. Prison workers held moments of silence Wednesday outside prisons in Paris and elsewhere to commemorate the officers who were killed.
The city of Colorado Springs has agreed to pay $2.1 million to settle a federal lawsuit brought by a Black man who was punched and kicked by police during a traffic stop in 2022. City councilors voted to back the agreement to settle Dalvin Gadson’s lawsuit on Tuesday. Gadson was stopped after police saw him driving slowly in a car without a license plate. He refused to get out of his car. His lawsuit alleged three officers beat him “beyond recognition” and left him with significant PTSD-like symptoms. Police declined to comment on the settlement.
Investigators believe they’ve found the boat that struck a 15-year-old girl off a South Florida beach. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation announced Tuesday that the boat was in their custody and the owner was cooperating. Law enforcement agencies had been searching for the vessel since Saturday, when Ella Adler was killed and the operator fled without stopping. Officials didn’t immediately say where the boat was found. It also wasn’t clear whether the owner of the boat was the person who was operating it when the girl was hit. Adler was water-skiing near Key Biscayne on Saturday afternoon when she fell into the water and was hit.
An American accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said, “So I raped you,” has been detained in France after a three-year search. Authorities in Metz on Tuesday say 31-year-old Ian Thomas Cleary of Saratoga, California, has been in custody since a routine police stop last month and will be held pending extradition proceedings. Former Gettysburg College student Shannon Keeler had long pushed for an arrest. Investigators filed an arrest warrant for Cleary in 2021 after an Associated Press investigation detailed the dearth of prosecutions for campus sex crimes. Neither Cleary's parents nor a court-appointed lawyer in France immediately returned messages Tuesday.
A new FBI report shows the rate of assaults on American law enforcement reached a 10-year high in 2023, with more than 79,000 officer attacks reported. The report released Tuesday also shows that the number of officers assaulted and injured by guns is climbing too. Agencies reported 466 assaults involving guns, which is the highest level in a decade. The report analyzes data collected from state, local, federal and other agencies across the U.S. to determine trends in violence against law enforcement.
An anti-abortion activist who led others on an invasion and blockade of a reproductive health clinic in the nation’s capital has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison. Thirty-year-old Lauren Handy declined to address the court before a U.S. district judge sentenced her on Tuesday to four years and nine months in prison. Handy’s supporters applauded and called her a hero as she was led from the courtroom. Handy was among several people convicted of federal civil rights offenses for blockading access to the Washington Surgi-Clinic in October 2020. Prosecutors say a co-defendant accosted a woman who was having labor pains and prevented her from getting off a floor.
Two French prison officers have been killed and three others seriously injured when their prison convoy was attacked in Normandy. Officials say the attack occurred as the convoy was returning to Évreux jail after a court hearing in Rouen. Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti said he would join a crisis unit to address the emergency. He said “All means are being used to find these criminals." French media reported that a prisoner being transported in the van may have escaped with the assailants. The incident has prompted a significant law enforcement operation in the northwestern region of France as authorities worked to secure the area and apprehend the assailants.
