by Stanley Augustin | Aug 9, 2019 | Newsclips
W hen addressing the recent mass shootings President Trump said mental illness was the problem. But some disagree. “Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun,” said President Trump.
by Stanley Augustin | Aug 8, 2019 | Newsclips
WASHINGTON – Following a spate of mass shootings across the United States, Democratic Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Richard Durbin of Illinois on Thursday implored the FBI and Justice Department to address the threat of white nationalism with the level of...
by Stanley Augustin | Aug 5, 2019 | Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC. – Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, issued the following statement in response to the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio: ‘The shootings in El Paso...
by Molly Horak | Jul 24, 2019 | Newsclips
WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s director said the bureau has abandoned the term “black identity extremism” as part of a broad reconceptualization of how it thinks about racially motivated crime. In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, FBI...
by Molly Horak | Jul 11, 2019 | Newsclips
Civil rights advocates and 2020 candidate Cory Booker are calling for investigators to treat the killing of a black Arizona teen last week as a hate crime. Police say at 1:42 a.m. on July 4, 17-year-old Elijah Al-Amin pulled into the Circle K convenience store and gas...
