A San Antonio police officer who had been on the force for a year and a half, William Karman was trained to shoot when he felt his life was threatened. He found himself in that position, he told a jury Tuesday, when he interrupted what appeared to be an armed robbery. A man had pinned another man to the ground with a gun, then pointed the gun at Karman and advanced, the officer testified. “‘San…
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To an outsider, the self-proclaimed “leaderless” Occupy San Antonio protesters are a highly structured community, with a list of rules, an insistence on obeying the law and a twice-a-day schedule of general assemblies and marches that start on the dot. This local incarnation of a now-international movement denouncing Wall Street and economic injustice has maintained a zero arrest record for the two weeks and three days since its members started an encampment at HemisFair Park….
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Gathering in solidarity with ongoing anti-Wall Street protests in New York, a group of mostly young people, numbering about 200 at its peak, brought San Antonio onto a national bandwagon Thursday. “Occupy San Antonio!” the group shouted from dawn to dusk. “We are the 99 percent!” Members repeatedly decried concentrations of wealth and power at a morning assembly in Travis Park and during a scrupulously well-behaved sidewalk march to the Alamo, the Grand Hyatt, CPS…
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It took Lorena Smith a decade working as a dancer at strip clubs to get to where she was, close to paying off her mortgage on a home in a gated community and only a couple of courses short of earning a nursing degree. The single mother had raised two sons and only recently started going out, rewarding herself after three years of strictly studying. As she celebrated this new chapter, a gunman took her…
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Last winter, Kelly Breitenbach and her three kids, homeless for
Santa Ana Police Chief Carlos Rojas has announced his resignation,