NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department’s use of plainclothes officers and an unmarked minivan to haul away a vandalism suspect during a protest Tuesday created confusion and drew online outrage from people who compared it to covert tactics used recently by federal agents in Portland, Oregon. Bystander video of 18-year-old Nikki Stone’s […]

MARSHALL, Minn. (AP) — A couple in Minnesota wore red face masks emblazoned with swastikas to a Walmart in a video posted on social media. Police were called Saturday to the Walmart in Marshall, in the southwest part of the state, on a report that two shoppers were wearing the mask with the symbol used […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden said Wednesday that President Donald Trump was the country’s “first” racist president. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s comments came during a virtual town hall organized by the Service Employees International Union. When a questioner complained of racism surrounding the coronavirus outbreak and mentioned the president referring to it as the […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israeli security forces arrested three Palestinians who had attempted to carry out a terrorist attack in Judea and Samaria on Saturday, according to the Israeli military. The suspects were apprehended in the Jalazone refugee camp just north of Ramallah following a joint operation of the Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet, […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two men were charged Friday after a Black man said a group of white men assaulted him and threatened to “get a noose” after claiming that he and his friends had trespassed on private property as they gathered at a southern Indiana lake over the Fourth of July weekend. Monroe County prosecutors […]

ROYAL PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An unmasked man pulled a gun on a masked shopper and threatened to kill him during an apparent confrontation over masks at a Florida Walmart store, sheriff’s officials said. The Royal Palm Beach store’s security video shows the unmasked man pushing an older man in a wheelchair through the […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Several Spirit Airlines employees were injured Tuesday night when they were attacked by three women who were apparently upset that their flight from Fort Lauderdale to Philadelphia had been delayed, sheriff’s officials said. The women hit the employees with “miscellaneous items, such as phones, shoes, full water bottles, metal boarding […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — After being punched and having his neck held by police on a New York subway, a homeless man was also charged with assault by Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance. Joseph, a 30-year-old Bronx hair stylist was riding the 6 train on Monday May 25 on his way to Brooklyn, when he […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — At least 3 police officers were left with serious injuries on the Brooklyn Bridge during a Black Lives Matter demonstration on Wednesday. According to reports, the event was supposed to be a “peace march” across the Brooklyn Bridge in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, with clergy and parishioners in […]

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Video posted on social media that shows a Pennsylvania police officer with his knee on a man’s neck while trying to restrain him has prompted protests and a demand from the local Black Lives Matter group to suspend the officers involved. The video shot Saturday night from a passerby’s vehicle shows […]