MONTREAL—For Fouad Filali, owner of Le Sénateur restaurant in Old Montreal, the families with children who used to visit the historic district have been replaced by young people who sometimes are violent and harass women. Montreal’s iconic neighbourhood has struggled without many tourists since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and residents, business owners and…
Chicago Mayor Calls All Hands on Deck to Stem Summer Violence
CHICAGO—Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday unveiled a “whole-of-government” safety plan where law enforcement, city services, and community organizations work together to stem a likely summer crime spike, especially in the neighborhoods plagued by gun violence. The announcement came the day before Memorial Day weekend, which has been the unofficial start of summer carnage in Chicago…
Over 90 German Police Injured in May Day Riots
BERLIN—At least 93 police officers were injured and 354 protesters were detained after traditional May Day rallies in Berlin turned violent, the city’s top security official said Sunday. More than 20 different rallies took place in the German capital on Saturday and the vast majority of them were peaceful. However, a leftist march of 8,000…
Leaders Should Shut Up or Make Sense
Commentary National leaders need to stop saying crazy stuff. Less than two weeks ago, following the tragic police shooting of a fleeing Minnesota man named Duante Wright, Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib drew nation-wide headlines by calling for the total abolition of police. “Duante Wright was met with aggression and violence,” Tlaib tweeted accurately enough –…
Clint Eastwood, We Need You
Commentary Our streets are now so unsafe that it might be helpful to re-watch Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty Harry” films. They can remind us of an earlier period in the 1960s and 1970s when crime was widespread, liberal judges were putting criminals back on the streets, and the entire system was anti-cop and pro-criminal. In the…
‘You Can’t Stop the Revolution!’ But One State Is Making Plans
Commentary The season for potentially violent street protests is upon us, sparked by the latest police shooting of a black man in a suburb of Minneapolis. Officers in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, pulled over a car because it had an expired registration tag. They discovered the driver, Daunte Wright, 20, also had an outstanding warrant, reportedly…
Northern Irish Leaders Struggle to Quell Worst Violence in Years
BELFAST—Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government put aside factional differences on Thursday to call for calm after frustration among pro-British unionists over post-Brexit trade barriers helped trigger some of the worst violence in the region in years. Despite the appeals, clashes spread further into Irish nationalist areas on Thursday night where police responded to petrol bomb and…
Northern Ireland Sees 3rd Night of Unrest Amid Post-Brexit Tensions
LONDON—Police and politicians in Northern Ireland appealed for calm on Monday after a third night of violence that saw Protestant youths start fires and pelt officers with bricks and gasoline bombs. The flareups come amid rising tensions over post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland and worsening relations between the parties in the Protestant-Catholic power-sharing Belfast…
34 Shot, 8 Murdered in Chicago Over the Weekend
Chicago saw a violent weekend, with 30 shootings between Friday evening and Sunday night. Thirty-four people were shot and eight were murdered, according to statistics from the Chicago Police Department. The incidents took place between 6 p.m. on April 2 and 11:59 p.m. on April 4. Two additional shootings took place on Friday afternoon. The…
Burma Security Forces Kill at Least 9 as International Community Calls for End to Violence
International pressure on Burma’s military junta to halt its repression of pro-democracy protests following last month’s coup increased on Friday as security forces shot dead at least nine demonstrators on the streets. Calls for dialogue and the end to the bloodshed came from several of Burma’s Southeast Asian neighbors led by Indonesia—an unusual stance in…
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