Category: Crime, Corrections, Law Enforcement
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Masks Required? Really? Yes, Really.
A week ago the Youngkin administration urged Virginia’s public colleges and universities to update their time-place-and-manner restrictions on campus protests. In particular, it asked them to restrict the wearing of masks for purposes of concealment, which can be illegal under state law. In emails to administrators Secretary of Education Aimee Guidera stressed the urgency of…
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VCU Clarifies Rules for Demonstrators
by James A. Bacon Virginia Commonwealth University, where police clashed with pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the spring, has responded with alacrity to Youngkin administration admonitions to update its policies in preparation for more mayhem when students return for the fall semester. Among the more notable features of the updated policies is a requirement that anyone wearing…
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Virginia Universities, Brace Yourselves for Mayhem
by James A. Bacon In about two weeks summer break is over and students go back to college. You know what that means — they’ll be setting up their dorm rooms, reconnecting with friends, and organizing anti-Israel demonstrations. In an email letter to the University of Mary Washington Board of Visitors obtained by the Washington…
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Your Daily Illegal
by Kerry Dougherty Chances are until this week you’d never heard of Melody Waldecker. She’s the 54-year-old mother of four and grandmother of eight who was run over and killed Sunday morning in Sterling, Va. by a carjacker. His name? Jose Aguilar-Martinez, 21. He’s from El Salvador. In the country illegally. Thanks to failed border…
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Every State Is a Border State
by Kerry Dougherty File this under “Illegals Committing Crimes.” I know, I know, the Democratic Party line is that illegals commit fewer crimes than American citizens. Frankly, one violent crime by an illegal alien is too many. Fact is, if the southern border closed, crime rates would drop dramatically. Including in Virginia. Last weekend the…
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Not a Healthy Development
by James A. Bacon As conservative as I am, right-wing “militias” make me nervous. I’m sympathetic to some of what these citizen groups say they want to accomplish — keep neighborhoods safe, provide backup to local law enforcement in emergencies — but I don’t see why they need to parade around with guns to do…
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Protecting Trump From Assassins, Virginia-Style
Mike Imprevento is not only my partner on “The Kerry and Mike” talk radio show (9 to 10 every weekday!) but a successful attorney and until recently, a Captain and Staff Attorney for the Norfolk’s Sheriff’s Office. It was in his latter capacity that he was part of the law enforcement team that protected Donald…
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Stopping Sticky-Fingered Shoppers
by Kerry Dougherty This is not a column about bras. It’s about one more sign of the fall of civilization. It starts with a bra, though. A simple, white, inexpensive sports bra. I was in desperate need of a new one and I’m never going to splurge $68 at Lululemon for a swatch of Spandex…
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A Confessed Killer is Found Innocent
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Marvin Grimm spent 44 years in jail and prison for sexual abuse and murder of a three-year old boy, to which he confessed and pleaded guilty. However, the Court of Appeals of Virginia recently said that there is no evidence he committed the crimes and fully exonerated him. Grimm’s case is largely an…
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At Least He’s Taking His Punishment Like a Man
by James A. Bacon In Frederick County, Marine Corps veteran Miles Adkins pleaded guilty Monday to two federal misdemeanors and was sentenced to 12 days in jail, fined, and ordered to pay restitution for offenses he committed during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. According to DC News Now, Adkins waved other rioters…
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Somebody Call a Waaambulance!
by James A. Bacon Four students who participated in the pro-Gaza encampment protest May 4 are complaining that the University of Virginia is withholding their degrees pending the outcome of University Judiciary Committee hearings into their cases. Go ahead and berate me for my cold, cold heart but I feel zero sympathy for their plight.…
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UVA to Pay $9 Million in Mass-Shooting Settlement
The University of Virginia has settled with the families of five victims of a November 2022 mass shooting that occurred after a class outing to Washington, D.C. The university will pay $2 million each to the families of football players Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry and another $3 million to be divided…
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The Crying Game
by James A. Bacon After President Jim Ryan ordered a breakup of their liberation zone for Gaza a week ago in what one might call a “mostly peaceful” police action, encampment veterans are posturing as victims of “brutal” fascist state “violence” and “trauma.” “I got brutalized by the police at a UNESCO World Heritage site,”…
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Team Ryan Defends Shutdown of Tent Encampment
by James A. Bacon The University of Virginia called in the Virginia State Police to disperse “UVA Encampment for Gaza” protesters because they feared the demonstration was spiraling out of control, said President Jim Ryan, University Police Chief Tim Longo, and other University leaders in a virtual town hall early this afternoon. Some protesters had…
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With the Tents Down, the Blowback Begins
by James A. Bacon Following the decision to take down the tents in the UVA Solidarity Encampment for Gaza “liberated zone” at the University of Virginia on Saturday, UVA President Jim Ryan is facing strong blowback from leftist elements in the UVA and Charlottesville communities. Pro-Palestinian protesters had rebuked the administration’s orders to take down…