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FBI Director Kash Patel Fires Agents Who Knelt During 2020 George Floyd Protests

Nationwide — FBI Director Kash Patel has fired agents photographed kneeling during racial justice protests in Washington, D.C., after George Floyd’s death in 2020. The decision has drawn criticism from the FBI Agents Association, which called the move unlawful and demanded a congressional investigation. According to The Guardian, roughly 20 agents were dismissed, though the exact number remains uncertain. These employees were initially reassigned before being terminated after photos showed them kneeling during demonstrations that erupted following Floyd’s killing by […]

todayOctober 1, 2025 1

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FBI director Kash Patel appeared not to know about Dylann Roof, the white supremacist who killed 9 Black churchgoers

Kash Patel, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, appeared not to know the identity of the mass shooter who, in 2015, horrifically murdered 9 Black parishioners during a congressional on Capitol Hill. When questioned by U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., during a Wednesday hearing before the House Oversight Committee, Patel seemed unaware of Dylann Roof, a white supremacist who gunned down the Black churchgoers at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Following last week’s fatal […]

todaySeptember 18, 2025 1

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‘I am not afraid of you!’: Senator Booker clashes with FBI Director Kash Patel over Trump’s MAGA agenda

Sparks were flying during a hearing for the Senate Judiciary Committee between U.S. Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., and FBI Director Kash Patel, which resulted in a testy shouting match. “I am not afraid of you!” Booker yelled as he and Patel clashed during a Tuesday hearing on the FBI director’s leadership since being confirmed by the U.S. Senate in February. Patel accused Booker of spreading “falsehoods” after the New Jersey senator pressed the FBI director over the terminations of top […]

todaySeptember 16, 2025

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Trump administration released FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family’s opposition

The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination. The release involves more than 240,000 pages of records that had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977, when the FBI first gathered the records and turned them over to the National Archives and Records Administration. King’s family, including his two living children, Martin III and Bernice, […]

todayJuly 22, 2025 1

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Trump vows to release sealed FBI file on MLK assassination, rails against DEI

President-elect Donald Trump announced that when he takes office, he intends to declassify FBI records related to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one day before the federal holiday observing the civil rights icon. Trump will also officially be sworn in on Monday as the 47th president of the United States. While delivering a more than hour-long speech at a pre-inauguration “victory rally” in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, Trump told his thousands of supporters that he intends to […]

todayJanuary 20, 2025

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FBI seizes NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ phone ahead of expected unsealing of indictment

NEW YORK (AP) — FBI agents entered the official residence of New York City Mayor Eric Adams and seized his phone early Thursday morning, hours before an indictment detailing criminal charges against the Democrat was expected to be made public. Adams was indicted by a grand jury on federal criminal charges that remain sealed, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. […]

todaySeptember 26, 2024

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Maryland lawmaker ‘surprised’ by FBI probe into collapsed Baltimore bridge

U.S. Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., told theGrio that he is “surprised” that the FBI has launched a criminal investigation into the ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last month, claiming the lives of six people. “I certainly expected personal injury lawyers to be retained and brought into this by the individual families who lost family members,” said Ivey. “A judge must have concluded that the agency had probable cause that criminal acts may have been […]

todayApril 15, 2024

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FBI raids 2 homes owned by top aide to Mayor Eric Adams

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal agents searched two properties owned by a top adviser to New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday. An FBI spokesperson confirmed that agents carried out morning raids at two Bronx addresses, which records show are owned by Winnie Greco, a former fundraiser for Adams who now serves as his director of Asian affairs. The purpose of the investigation was not revealed, and it wasn’t immediately clear whether it was related to Adams. But it […]

todayMarch 6, 2024 1