Browsing: Violence

A recent shooting that left an entire family and an innocent bystander dead following a murder-suicide has raised alarm bells about the connection between guns and domestic violence. This event also highlights the lingering lack of communication between departments and filed “red flag” orders — such gaps that could be filled with a new law.

A Massachusetts High Court ruling last month rejected arguments that searching a Black passenger in a car stopped for a traffic offense constituted racism. That’s like denying “wetness” in a lake because you don’t see wetness in any individual molecule of H2O, writes TCR legal affairs columnist James Doyle.