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Watching the horrific video of George Floyd dying under the knee of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, even before charges were filed last year, I called it the way I saw it: Murder. Im often accused of being pro-police to a fault. But for me the video was enough. Just as with the Laquan McDonald case in Chicago -- the Black teenager shot 16 times by a white cop -- it was the video. But I wasnt in that Minneapolis courtroom for the Chauvin trial. The jurors were in the courtroom. ...

Victimhood is a currency on the left. In fact, it’s THE currency on the left, better than Bitcoin. The more you can claim for yourself the higher esteem you are held in among the intelligencia and elitists who seek to control the people of this country. That’s why there is this scramble, this desperate fight, even by wealthy leftists to claim they’re somehow a put-upon victim. The latest piece of performance art in the quest for the ultimate status on the left comes from Jonathan Capehart...

Maryland State Police trooper fatally shoots 16-year-old who had airsoft gun Photo by Kirsten Dize / WMAR Staff FILE PHOTO: Two Maryland State Police vehicles. By: WMAR Staff & Scripps National Posted at 1:07 PM, Apr 14, 2021 and last updated 2021-04-14 16:11:35-04 LEONARDTOWN, Md. — A Maryland State Police trooper was involved in a shooting Tuesday, killing a 16-year-old. It happened in the 23200 block of Leonard Hall Drive, not far away from the Leonardtown Barrack. Acco...

Maryland state trooper kills 16-year-old student who held a toy gun A Maryland state trooper shot and killed a 16-year-old white youth in a residential driveway in the Leonardtown area of St. Mary’s County on Tuesday afternoon. Law enforcement officials said the trooper—who was also white—mistook a toy gun held by the teenager for a real weapon. Peyton Ham, an honor student attending an advanced academy at Leonardtown High School, was shot twice by the officer and died at a hospital in th...

Maryland trooper shoots, kills teenager who had airsoft gun Associated Press Text size Copy shortlink: LEONARDTOWN, Md. — A Maryland State Police trooper responding to a pair of 911 calls shot and killed a teenager who was pointing what investigators determined was an airsoft gun at him, authorities said Tuesday. The shooting occurred after state police received two 911 calls about someone acting susp...

A state trooper shot and killed a 16-year-old armed with a knife and airsoft gun, Maryland authorities say A 16-year-old, armed with a knife and what turned out to be an airsoft gun, was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon by a Maryland state trooper, a state police official said. The shooting is the latest incident of police killing or wounding teenagers who were found with or near nonlethal firearms, including recent cases in Arizona, California and Oklahoma. It also comes as police use of forc...

A 16-year-old, armed with a knife and what turned out to be an airsoft gun, was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon by a Maryland state trooper, a state police official said.

“The trooper ordered him to drop the knife before he fired again,” Jones told reporters. The airsoft gun that the teenager wielded is commonly used to shoot BBs and is “a close representation of an actual handgun,” Jones said. Boyle said her family would release a statement about the shooting through an attorney “because we definitely would like our side of the story [told[ and for everyone to know what an awesome young man my son is.” In that statement, released later Wednesday, th...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on Foxnews.com. LEONARDTOWN, Md. — A Maryland State Police trooper responding to a pair of 911 calls shot and killed a teenager who was pointing what investigators determined was an airsoft gun at him, authorities said Tuesday. The shooting occurred after state police received two 911 calls about someone acting suspicious, Superintendent Woodrow Jones II told a news conference. The first caller said he thought the person had a g...

Who Is Peyton Ham? 16-Year-Old Shot, Killed by Maryland State Trooper On 4/14/21 at 12:31 PM EDT Peyton Ham was identified as the 16-year-old who was fatally shot by a Maryland state trooper on Tuesday afternoon. Ham was a resident of Leonardtown, Maryland, and lived near the 23000 block of Hollywood Road, according to a statement by the state police. At a Tuesday press conference, Maryland State Police Superintendent Colonel Woodrow Jones III said that Ham did not live in the home where the sh...