Blotter: Market spectator swaps in for out, says ‘Bye’ to tires

Share: Monday, Feb. 1: Officer Robins of campus police escorted a student with a restraining order off of the campus. Another student was reported causing a disturbance in the library computer lab, where he was then escorted off the campus as well by Officer Robins. Two people were seen throwing sodas at each other in Lot 4, level 5, while driving. by Officer Robins who counseled both parties. A transient was reported as sleeping in one of the elevators in north of Lot 5. The …

Conflicts of interest inhibit transparency in grand jury cases

Share: If a grand jury can “indict a ham sandwich,” why is it so rare in cases concerning police using deadly force that the grand jury believes there is “probable cause” to bring an officer to trial for a crime? The Washington Post reported that “only 11 of the 65 officers charged in fatal shootings over the past decade were convicted.” As reported by the New York Times and as surprise to many, a grand jury in Georgia indicted Officer Robert Olsen of the DeKalb County …

Ioan Grillo looks inside Mexico’s criminal insurgency

Share: Twitter users across the world witnessed a rare moment of disturbing brutality on Oct. 16, 2014. A social media journalist and doctor, going by the twitter pseudonym “Felina,” was killed and photos of her dead body were posted to her account. At the time of her death, she’d been reporting on the ongoing cartel violence happening in the brutal border town of Tamaulipas, Mexico. Follow: