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Three former police officers in Memphis, Tenn., were acquitted of state charges on Wednesday, more than two years after they were accused of brutally beating Tyre Nichols and causing his death.

The jury found the three defendants — Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, and Justin Smith — not guilty on all seven charges after deliberating for over eight hours. The charges included second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct, and official oppression. The trial was held in Memphis for nine days.

Donald Trump has long identified himself as the candidate of “law and order” but, during the Trump administration, “law and order” translated to a severe approach to criminal punishment and policing that failed to make us safer.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:



Section 1.  Purpose and Policy.  Safe communities rely on the backbone and heroism of a tough and well-equipped police force.  My Administration is steadfastly committed to empowering State and local law enforcement to firmly police dangerous criminal behavior and protect innocent citizens. 

Crime is a focal point of former President Donald Trump's bid for the White House, and he and Vice President Kamala Harris have both been working to assume the mantle of the tough-on-crime candidate.

Violent crime and property crime dropped overall last year, and the decline in the murder rate from 2022 to 2023 represents the largest drop in the last two decades, according to data from more than 16,000 law enforcement agencies released by the FBI in September...

President Trump signed three more executive orders on Monday, including one targeting local jurisdictions that the administration says are not cooperating with its aggressive immigration crackdown.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday mandating that commercial truck drivers demonstrate English proficiency, building on his earlier move to designate English as the official language of the United States.

On X, formerly Twitter, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt re-posted Breitbart News' initial reporting on the order.

President Donald Trump on Monday evening signed three executive orders that target illegal migration and strengthen protections for U.S. citizens.

The slew of new actions includes boosting federal support for U.S. law enforcement offices in order to protect Americans, creating a formal list of sanctuary cities that the administration claims are in violation of federal law, and enforcing a rule that requires truck drivers to speak English. 

Seattle councilmember Rob Saka introduced a resolution to completely cut ties with any commitments to defund the police.

After the murder of unarmed Minneapolis resident George Floyd in 2020, the slogan and movement to "Defund the Police" swept the country. Yet in the wake of a reported rise in crime in multiple cities across the country, politicians, even in Democratic Party strongholds, have sought to distance themselves from the idea.

Across the United States, recent political protests have taken the form of violence against the car company Tesla – whose CEO Elon Musk is advising the Trump administration in its efforts to radically downsize the federal government.

People have vandalized Tesla charging stations and dealerships, fired bullets into one Oregon showroom, and set cars ablaze this week at a Las Vegas Tesla collision center.

Complaints about parked cars blocking fire hydrants have more than doubled since the start of the pandemic — with critics blaming the surge on bike lanes and even a lack of cops, records show.

The number of 311 calls on blocked hydrants has been skyrocketing for years, with 11,886 reports in 2014 ballooning to 64,346 in 2020 to more than 100,000 every year since, according to an analysis of city data by The Post.