NEW YORK (VINnews) — A Jewish family travelling from Orlando to Newark airport had their trip interrupted on Wednesday when they were kicked off their JetBlue flight. The reason for their removal was their 2-year-old child not wearing a mask. The parents and 5 siblings of the child were all wearing their masks properly. The […]

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A white police officer who slammed a Black man to the ground and broke his wrist denies wrongdoing, saying he mistakenly believed the man had an outstanding arrest warrant and used force because the man resisted, the officer’s attorneys said in a legal filing. Antonio Arnelo Smith filed suit in federal […]

LODI, Calif. (AP) — A police officer in California pulled a man from a wheelchair that was stuck on railroad tracks seconds before the train came past, in a dramatic rescue caught on the officer’s body camera. Officer Erika Urrea of the Lodi Police Department was patrolling Wednesday near the tracks when she saw the […]

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — A civil rights lawyer plans to sue the police and school district in Key West over the arrest of a crying 8-year-old boy accused of punching a teacher. Police video of the 2018 arrest, posted on social media by the lawyer, shows officers lecturing the boy and escorting him out […]

PENNSYLVANIA (JTA) – The original song is about the repeated oppression of the Jewish people throughout history. The rewritten song is a prayer for Donald Trump to win re-election. Orthodox Jewish pop star Yaakov Shwekey sang an ode to Donald Trump at an Orthodox overnight camp based on his hit song “We Are a Miracle.” […]

BALTIMORE (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – Members of Baltimore’s Jewish community extended a helping hand to first responders searching for survivors of a major gas explosion that leveled three homes, showing up at the scene with cold drinks, food and other emergency supplies. As previously reported on VIN News (https://bit.ly/3kBIcKi), one woman was confirmed dead and four […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police camera video of Minneapolis officers arresting George Floyd was released to the public Monday and is available for publication. The footage became available Monday after a Hennepin County judge ordered it released. News organizations including The Associated Press had already viewed and written about the footage, and also pressed for the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was abruptly escorted by a U.S. Secret Service agent out of the White House briefing room as he was beginning a coronavirus briefing Monday afternoon. He returned minutes later, saying there was a “shooting” outside the White House that was “under control.” “There was an actual shooting and somebody’s […]

BALTIMORE (AP) — A natural gas explosion destroyed three row houses in Baltimore on Monday, killing a woman and trapping other people in the wreckage. At least four people were hospitalized with serious injuries as firefighters searched for more survivors. Dozens of firefighters converged on the disaster scene, where the natural gas explosion reduced to […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of people smashed windows, stole from stores and clashed with police early Monday in Chicago’s Magnificent Mile shopping district and other parts of the city’s downtown. At one point, shots were fired at police and officers returned fire, police spokesman Tom Ahern said on Twitter. No officers were injured in the […]