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Plaintiffs agreed to settle claims alleging that the FBI was negligent when it failed to prohibit the sale of a gun by a licensed firearms dealer to the shooter, a self-proclaimed white supremacist, who wanted to start a ‘race war’ and specifically targeted the 200-year-old historically African-American congregation.

The Justice Department

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A little 5-year-old beautiful baby was crushed to death, had he been in his home country last Saturday night like he should have been, our 5-year-old beautiful little girl would have been alive.

Polk County

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A good rule of thumb is one day for every year of life, for example, five days for a five-year-old.

Kelly Foy and Pat McLarney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm a 40-year-old comedian and Black, transgender woman who grew up in the'80s and'90s, i couldn't care less about jokes being made at my expense. I grew up fearing my imminent murder and/or eternal damnation. What makes' The Closer' unacceptable is the intense gaslighting of multiple, vulnerable communities.

Dahlia Belle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It was objectively unreasonable for officers to have applied this level of force on my sixteen-year-old client, he was cooperative, surrendered, unarmed, non-resisting, compliant, and non-threatening. This conduct is universally unacceptable in any society.

Wesley Ouchi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He’s a 40-year-old educated male who can’t even use his skills, it's been horrible.

Roxy Gordon

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2 years ago

There’s nothing more heartbreaking than to see the body of a 5-year-old pulled out of a car, she was still wearing her backpack ... it just doesn’t get any worse than that.

Javier Salazar

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2 years ago

I felt led to do something to help memorialize Stephen, this started out with just a posting of a picture of a gravesite and I have a 16-year-old, almost 17, and as a mom it just broke my heart.

Susanne Andrews

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

After the Castle Fire, I think we have to brace ourselves for something that could be much worse, there's a difference between a 2,000-year-old tree and one that's 15 years old -- like one's a landscaping plant and one is just like a spiritual experience.

Garrett Dickman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You go to Philly, you’re getting the double bird right away from a nine-year-old kid, i would give the bird – I don’t know, can we do that.

Eli Manning

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Earlier I gave the double bird, I guess that’s frowned upon, i apologize if I’ve offended anybody. That’s what a nine-year-old did to me, I thought I could do it back.

Eli Manning

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Comments made by Thomas Edward Brady, a 77-year-old insurance company CEO, who should know better at this point in his life, don’t necessarily reflect the views or positions held by his son, Thomas Edward Patrick Brady, Jr. So furthermore, should Tom Sr. continue to speak out on behalf of his son without the express written consent, Junior reserves the right to eventually put him in a home against his will. That’s all I have to say.

Brady Sr.

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2 years ago

Over Labor Day weekend, on Sunday morning, 4:20 a.m. in the morning, an evil man committed a mass murder when he charged into a house and killed four people, including a three-month-old baby. In addition to that, he tortured and shot an 11-year-old little girl as many as seven times.

Polk County

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was like speaking to a 9-year-old, it's identical. It’s 100% the exact same scenario. They get hung up on one thing and you can’t speak to them about the broader picture about the whole thing works.

Kevin Harvick

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

She’s so creative and artistic and talented and sweet, she’s a typical 22-year-old who just wants to live life, go on adventures, start a YouTube account and travel and teach other people how to do it.

Nichole Schmidt

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Lindsay Wiley're basically trying to take an old statute and pour new life into it, i think often courts are skeptical when the government looks at this 50-year-old statute and finds the exact authority needed to address this sort of urgent crisis.

Josh Blackman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We're being asked to approve this as a three-dose vaccine for people 16 years of age and older, without any clear evidence the third dose for a younger person, when compared to an elderly person, is of value, if Stanford University Medical Center.They's not of value, then the risks may outweigh the benefits. And we know the 16-29-year-old is at higher risk of myocarditis.

Paul Offit

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I have a 17-year-old boy. The thought of a school board member writing that is really disturbing to me.

Matt Dickson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To choose an 18-year-old boy as opposed to somebody her own age, it appears to have a predatory context.

Matt Dickson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

All across our country, gangs and guns are destroying the foundations of not only public safety, but business, no one is coming to New York if a three-year-old is shot in Times Square.

Eric Adams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I just I battled a lot, my first thought was like, 'Well, my dad was a happy person and I want to be happy,' but also knowing that it was OK to have to cry and to have feelings I think was very important for me. I wish I could tell my 10-year-old self now and embrace that 10-year-old self of mine.

Brian Leavey

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Isn’t it so sad we have to talk about basic biology especially when you are dealing with someone who is a 32-year-old congresswoman, i’m sorry, did I say woman?

Candace Owens

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

One woman wept in my arms, an 89-year-old woman. She had nothing left after living in that home for over 40 years.

Kathy Hochul

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The human toll was tremendous, one woman wept in my arms, an 89-year-old woman. She had nothing left after living in that home for over 40 years.

Kathy Hochul

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

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