By Sam Stecklow and William H. Freivogel On July 4, 2023, Samuel Davis, a 26-year-old officer for the Northwoods Police Department in North St. Louis County, took Charles Garmon into custody at a Walgreens. After handcuffing Garmon, Davis drove him to a remote intersection outside of a Pepsi bottling plant in Kinloch, a now-largely industrial
By William H. Freivogel Ten years after the Ferguson uprising, five years after “The 1619 Project” and four years after the murder of George Floyd, the racial reckoning that seemed at hand has largely dissipated amidst a political and legal backlash — laws outlawing “DEI,” attacks on a “DEI vice president” and bans on books
By Paul Wagman A St. Louis judge this week set a trial date of next March 10 for the defamation lawsuit against the owners of the far-right conspiracy site Gateway Pundit over false allegations of election fraud against two Georgia poll workers. Although trial schedules can always be amended, the Aug. 26 order by Judge
By Paul Wagman The dismissal of its bankruptcy case in Florida is not stopping the Gateway Pundit from seeking a continued delay in the defamation case against it by two Georgia poll workers. But the case may be moving ahead soon regardless. In a motion filed Aug. 5 in the St. Louis Circuit Court, lawyers
By Paul Wagman JD Vance, the Republican candidate for vice president, suggested two years ago that President Joe Biden seemed to be deliberately keeping the U.S. southern border open so fentanyl could be smuggled into the country to kill Republican voters, a video posted on the Gateway Pundit website shows. The April 2022 interview took
