Police
After his daily 4 a.m. gym workout, Mike Chitwood is sipping a cuppa joe at a Hilton Head, S.C., Dunkin’ Donuts when he sees a violation of what the 75-year-old cop calls “community relations 101.” A sheriff’s officer comes in — “vest, gun, taser, handcuffs — who did not
Police
“There is no such thing as racism.” A ludicrous statement. Here’s another: “Everything is racist.” No one says those words, but it is evident in the way some people reach for the R-word with no actual evidence. I’ll give you a recent example, one that comes from — brace
Police
Police Commissioner Richard Ross “resigned” on Tuesday, according to an announcement from Mayor Jim Kenney’s office. Ross left voluntarily in the same way prisoners on a pirate ship walk the plank voluntarily. Update: After publication of this, it was learned Ross was accused in a law suit of not
Crime
On the fifth anniversary of the death — note that word — of make-believe martyr Michael Brown, two Democratic presidential candidates chose to go willfully insane and trash the facts of the infamous case that gave rise to the fallacious “Hands up, don’t shoot” rallying cry. That’s quite a mouthful.
Crime
What is the result of handcuffing cops? Saturday evening a group of more than 100 motorcycles came roaring up Broad Street, blasting through red lights, like a funeral procession, but with the stiffs on handlebars instead of in the hearse. I caught them on video stopping westbound cars on Spruce,