A 20-year-old, Phoenix Ikner, son of a Leon County sheriff’s deputy, fatally shot two men and wounded six others at Florida State University using his mother’s former service weapon. The shooting, occurring near the student union, prompted a campus-wide lockdown and immediate law enforcement response resulting in Ikner’s injury. Authorities are investigating the motive, but the victims were not students. Ikner, a former youth advisory council member with access to firearms, is hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
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In a move criticized by accountability advocates, the Department of Justice has deactivated the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database, a system designed to prevent the rehiring of officers with misconduct records. Operational for just over a year, the database compiled disciplinary information from nearly 150,000 federal officers across 90 agencies. The White House offered no specific reasoning for its elimination, despite concerns about “wandering officers” who transfer between agencies with past misconduct. The database’s closure, however, leaves the National Decertification Index, a separate registry for state and local officers, unaffected.
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The Trump administration dismissed prosecutors involved in January 6th criminal cases and demanded the names of FBI agents involved in those investigations for potential termination. This action, following Trump’s broad clemency for January 6th defendants, reflects a concerted effort to exert control over federal law enforcement and remove employees perceived as disloyal. Approximately two dozen Washington, D.C. U.S. attorney’s office employees were fired, along with several senior FBI executives. The FBI Agents Association condemned these actions as potentially crippling to the bureau’s ability to protect national security.
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John Q. Hosedrinker