Policing
May 28, 2026 — Scott Johnson
Brian O’Hara as resigned as chief of the Minneapolis Police Department in disgrace. Katie Blackwell, formerly assistant chief of operations, is now the acting chief. I was seving as a member of the board of Alpha News at the time that Blackwell sued Alpha News and Liz Collin as a result of her brief appearance in the film The Fall of Minneapolis (produced by Liz Collin). Based on her appearance
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May 27, 2026 — Scott Johnson
I have probably written too much about Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara over the past few years. I thought he willfully sold out his department in the various pattern-and-practice civil rights cases brought against it by the state and federal government. He agreed to absurd consent decrees that followed on those cases, although the Trump administration nixed the federal consent decree. To top it off, he supported Deputy Chief Katie
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March 12, 2026 — Scott Johnson
NYPD Assistant Chief Aaron Edwards has emerged as a hero for our time. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch is the public official who promoted him to his current position. She must have seen something of what we all came to see over the weekend when he jumped the rail and tackled the wannabe ISIS bomber intending to murder and mangle the cops and the crowd outside Gracie Mansion. In the aftermath,
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March 11, 2026 — Scott Johnson
John Ondrasik took a stab at getting inside the mentality of Superman in his song “Superman (It’s Not Easy).” The NYPD itself alluded to Superman in praise of the actions of Assistant Chief Aaron Edwards chasing down the wannabe ISIS bombers who attempted to murder and mangle cops and others outside Gracie Mansion this past weekend. Yup! https://t.co/23uOoByfJC — Benny Polatseck (@BPolatseck) March 10, 2026 The New York Post now
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March 9, 2026 — Scott Johnson
The NYPD uses a star ranking system for its top leadership. Aaron Edwards wears two stars that reflect his service as Assistant Chief at Patrol Borough Manhattan North. Chief Edwards is depicted in the photo below after the attempted bombing of the protest outside Gracie Mansion over the weekend. He is jumping over the rail to chase 18-year-old Emir Balat, the ISIS wannabe who threw the TATP explosive device in
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January 13, 2026 — Scott Johnson
In Volume V of Martin Gilbert’s monumental biography of Churchill (Winston S. Churchill: The Prophet of Truth: 1922-1939), we learn that an enormous poster appeared in the Strand and at other prominent points around London in the last week of July 1939. Placed by an advertising agent who was anxious “to get people thinking of the reinstatement of Churchill,” the poster asked simply: “What price Churchill?” (A photograph of the
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December 12, 2025 — Bill Glahn
The Twin Cities region of Minnesota is experiencing a renewed surge from immigration authorities, a fallout of the multi-billion-dollar welfare frauds, perpetrated predominantly by individuals of Somali ethnicity. Like other left-wing metropolitan areas of America, the local surge immediately became confrontational. From KARE-11 TV (NBC), FBI investigating after federal agent allegedly kidnapped by detainee in Minnesota: It’s unclear so far what led to this situation, but police say multiple 911
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August 14, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Brian O’Hara is the Minneapolis Chief of Police. His department is down from the more than 900 sworn officers that it employed at the time of George Floyd’s death in May 2020. O’Hara continues to demoralize the department with his lack of leadership, his inane antics, and his obvious interest in finding another job elsewhere as soon as possible. I wrote about him, most recently, in “Rolling O’Hara gathers Moss
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August 13, 2025 — John Hinderaker
As President Trump moved to take temporary control of the District of Columbia metro police department, Democrats responded as one: Trump is an authoritarian! Of course, this is one of their most familiar themes, and we see it whenever Trump attempts to engage in law enforcement in fulfillment of his constitutional duties. Yesterday I was on the American Experiment podcast to talk about the situation in D.C., and the Democrats’
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August 8, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Spike Moss is a superannuated racist hustler and demagogue of the Black Power variety. I saw him speak at the University of Minnesota Law School in 1978 when he gave a speech denouncing Professor Steve Nemerson. Nemerson had committed the outrage of opposing “affirmative action” as a discriminatory policy. Moss turned in an unforgettably disgusting performance. Moss is perhaps most notable as a co-founder of the gang front called United
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June 6, 2025 — Bill Glahn
Literally. My friend David Zimmer wrote today, recounting how the sanctuary city movement started out benign enough: localities practicing a type of passive noncompliance with efforts to enforce federal immigration laws. Now it’s degenerated into organized and violent confrontation with any and all federal authority, even with efforts unrelated to immigration. I wrote early this week (Tuesday) about an incident in south Minneapolis, where federal authorities were executing a high-risk,
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May 27, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Senior United States District Judge Paul Magnuson has granted the Trump Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss the pending lawsuit brought by the Biden Justice Department against the City of Minneapolis. The Biden administration brought the lawsuit and filed a joint motion for a consent decree with municipal authorities on January 6 this year, patently to beat the incoming Trump administration. I started writing about the lawsuit charging the Minneapolis
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May 22, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday the Department of Justice moved to dismiss the consent decrees that were to be operative against the Minneapolis and Louisville police departments. We have sought to cut through the din and expose the ludicrous “analysis” underlying the charges against the Minneapolis police department roughly since the day Merrick Garland came to town to announce them. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon explains the Trump administration’s opposition to these consent decrees
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May 21, 2025 — Scott Johnson
I have spent a lot of time and pixels covering the charges brought by the Biden Department of Justice against the City of Minneapolis. Attorney General Merrick Garland came to town in June 2023 to charge the Minneapolis Police Department with racism, find it guilty, and announce the terms to which municipal authorities had agreed. The charges were based on an 89-page report that is still accessible here. The report
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May 20, 2025 — Scott Johnson
In the concluding installment of Liz Collin’s three-part series on the George Floyd case five years later, Minneapolis police officers speak. Liz’s video takes a look behind some of the key testimony in the case against Derek Chauvin. The officers came forward to support Liz and Alpha News in the dismissed defamation lawsuit brought by Katie Blackwell, now the assistant chief of the department. JC Chaix (also a defendant in
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May 18, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The New York Post’s Dana Kennedy came to town last week to report on the condition of Minneapolis five years after the death of George Floyd (story here). Kennedy’s story is accompanied by the 12-minute video below. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara is in hot water for his comments on the “bizarre” political environment ( “very detached, bourgeois liberal mentality”) in which his department works. That’s not how I would
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May 15, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The second video in Liz Collin’s three-part series featuring the officers’ perspectives on the case of George Floyd five years later tells Alex Kueng’s story. This installment runs a little over 18 minutes and packs a wallop. In this installment Liz also touches on former Minneapolis Police Department Chief Medaria Arradondo and his new book (I mentioned both yesterday here). Liz does more in her brief interlude on Arradondo than
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