Posts by MCAC(Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center)
German police arrest suspect after Wuppertal school attack
Police said a large-scale operation was underway on Thursday in the city of Wuppertal, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, after several students were injured. According to Germany’s mass-circulation Bild newspaper, a student attacked fellow pupils with a knife. Five people were injured, according to police, as well as a suspect who was arrested…
Read MoreScranton man accused of assault, terrorism
A Scranton man is being charged after police say he assaulted and berated a man at Dynamic Solutions on Thursday. According to a criminal affidavit, Austin Miller parked his car on Mattes Avenue around 2:52 p.m. when he saw a man in a red Subaru shouting out the window at other employees. As the affidavit…
Read MoreJudge rules today whether convicted killer of London, Ont., Muslim family committed terrorism
The judge overseeing the case of a man convicted of killing a London, Ont., family in 2021 because of their Muslim faith will rule today whether his actions amounted to terrorism in handing down Nathaniel Veltman’s final sentence. In November, a jury found Veltman, 23, guilty of four counts of first-degree murder and one count…
Read MoreAn Online Dump Of Chinese Hacking Documents Offers A Rare Window Into Pervasive State Surveillance
Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to the nation’s top policing agency and other parts of its government — a trove that catalogs apparent hacking activity and tools to spy on both Chinese and foreigners. Among the apparent targets of tools provided…
Read MoreCharges Against Two White Nationalists Are Dismissed as ‘Selective Prosecution’
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed riot charges against two members of a neo-Nazi street gang who had attacked counterprotesters at several pro-Trump rallies in California in 2017, saying that the government had behaved improperly by neglecting to bring charges against left-wing activists who had also acted violently at the same events. The ruling by…
Read More2 Men Are Charged With Murder In The Deadly Shooting At Kansas City’s Super Bowl Celebration
Two men charged with murder in last week’s shooting after the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade were strangers who pulled out guns and began firing within seconds of starting an argument, according to court documents released Tuesday. Missouri prosecutors said at a news conference that Lyndell Mays, of Raytown, Missouri, and Dominic Miller, of…
Read MoreIran Accuses Israel Of Sabotage Attack That Saw Explosions Strike Natural Gas Pipeline
An Israeli sabotage attack on an Iranian natural gas pipeline caused the multiple explosions that struck it a week ago, Iran’s oil minister alleged Wednesday, further raising tensions between the regional archenemies amid Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The comments by Iran’s Oil Minister Javad Owji come as Israel has been blamed…
Read MoreMissouri Man Facing Charges Of Terrorism In Pulaski County
A 37-year-old from Ferguson is scheduled to be in Pulaski County Circuit Court on Wednesday for a bond review after being indicted by a public grand jury on a first-degree terrorist threat charge. Billey Ray Winters, Junior, is held on a $200,000 cash-only bond after sending social media messages threatening the spouses of Pulaski County…
Read MoreChristchurch gunman discussed attacks online a year before carrying them out
In March and August 2018, up to a year before he attacked two Christchurch mosques, Brenton Tarrant posted publicly online that he planned to do so. Until now, these statements have not been identified. In fact, for four years before his attack, Tarrant had been posting anonymously but publicly on the online message board 4chan…
Read MoreFirst federal gender-based hate crime trial starts over trans woman’s killing
The first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity is set to begin Tuesday in South Carolina, where a man faces charges that he killed a Black transgender woman and then fled to New York. The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that in August 2019, Daqua Lameek Ritter coaxed the woman —…
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