The racist man accused of shooting nine people at Emanuel AME church in Charleston was barred from buying a firearm but still was able to make a purchase because the FBI’s background check raised no red flags.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Looking to get a better understanding of extremist and racist symbols and tattoos? The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a Jewish organization which often works with law enforcement, is out to help. The organization on Monday announced that it has launched a major new online database of extremist and racist symbols and tattoos….
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It would come as no shock to find out some Republican appointees to the federal bench are not President Obama’s biggest fans. Nonetheless, it still comes as a shock that Chief Judge Richard Cebull, who is in his late 60s, who was appointed by George W. Bush to the fed bench…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It’s hard to imagine the chief federal judge in any district being so ignorant as to taint the bench and raise serious questions about the ability to be objective. Well, meet Chief Judge Richard Cebull, a George W. Bush appointee to the federal bench in Montana. Apparently he admitted…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com In one of the more repulsive cases of human behavior, two racist men pleaded guilty Thursday in New Mexico to defacing the body of a developmentally disabled Native American of Navajo descent. The defacing included branding the 22-year-old man with a swastika, using a heated wire hanger. Paul Beebe and Jesse…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The third time worked for federal prosecutors. After bumping up against two mistrials because of hung juries, federal prosecutors on Friday convicted Hal Turner, a racist internet radio talk show host and blogger, in Brooklyn U.S. District Court of threatening to assault and murder three U.S. Court of Appeals judges in…
