Early city edition / Reported edition
A man was shot four times. A city councillor deleted the tape.
Nourdine Taghi was killed outside Sacred Heart Shelter. The cameras caught it. Councillor Zara Melikian deleted the record, called the system offline and was convicted after investigators recovered the footage.
Crime / Courts / Public safety
The rest of the record.
A bakery exploded. A man died next door. Thirteen hours vanished from the official record.
A burst gas pipe tore through Trey's Bakery, dropped its roof and pushed fire into Yaya's Dance Studio. The fire marshal called it an accident ten days later—but its incident time conflicts with the fire department's record by nearly thirteen hours.
By Daily Rag metro desk / 8 min read
Deputies get machine guns. The mayor gets the memo too late.
Memorandum 2601 expands the equipment deputies may carry during shootings and routine calls. The county calls it an answer to violent crime. Mayor Andrew Brandenburg says he learned about it on Facebrowser.
By Daily Rag city desk / 8 min read