Pulse nightclub

First Black Woman to Train for FBI SWAT Team

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National CorrespondentAugust 12, 2021

Probation may last six to 18 months as the new operators gain experience. They are then sent to SWAT Basic at the FBI Training Academy in Virginia, where new operators from all the FBI’s field offices go through three weeks of training to get officially certified by the body that oversees FBI SWAT operations, the Critical Incident Response Group.

National Safety

Senseless Violence in Las Vegas results in Deadliest Mass Shooting in U.S. History

Kimberlee Buck, Staff Writer October 5, 2017

A plethora of bullets rained down on 22,000 country music festivalgoers during the “Route 91 Harvest Festival” in Las Vegas, Nevada, leaving at least 59 people dead and 527 injured. The Sunday night attack will be remember as the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

National News

Nine African Americans Among the Dead in Orlando Massacre

Dr. Valerie Wardlaw, Contributing WriterJune 22, 2016

The story behind the nine African Americans who were found dead at the ‘Pulse’ nightclub shooting in Orlando.