DNC delegate among those arrested after attack leaves officer fighting for his life
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Two new graphic videos were released showing the moment a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer was violently knocked over by a suspect during a Michael Brown protest on Friday – an incident that has left the officer in critical condition.
The protest came just 10 days before the start of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) and among those arrested Friday was Keith Rose, a St. Louis alternate delegate to the DNC and a member of the City of St. Louis’ Civilian Oversight Board which reviews allegations of police misconduct, Fox 2 reports. Rose has since withdrawn as an alternate DNC delegate.
“Keith Rose has decided to voluntarily withdraw as an uncommitted alternate delegate to the DNC,” the Missouri Democratic Party said in a statement.
The new videos, taken from two different angles, show Ferguson Police Officer Travis Brown apparently being hit by 28-year-old suspect Elijah Gantt on a sidewalk outside a police station after protesters attempted to pull down a perimeter fence. Police say Brown is “fighting for his life” after being critically injured in an assault during protests on the 10th anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.
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The newly released video, taken from CCTV and another police officer’s bodycam, was played at a news conference Tuesday and shows the suspect had a running start when he ran down the officer, whose head violently struck the pavement. Officer Brown was unconscious and prone on his back with the suspect lying on his chest as other officers quickly arrived and jumped on the suspect.
Brown, who has twin young daughters, suffered a severe brain injury after hitting his head in the fall.
“I think it’s a clear indication that my officer was charged and was hit violently by this individual,” Police Chief Troy Doyle said Tuesday. “If you look at the video, the officer is standing up, waiting to catch this guy. This guy tackled my guy like he’s a football player.”
Many of the 150 or so people at the news conference – including at least three dozen police officers and mayors from several St. Louis-area cities – gasped when they saw the footage.
Gantt, of East St. Louis, Illinois, was already charged with assault and is facing a new assault charge for allegedly kicking another officer in the head, St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell said. Gantt is jailed on a $500,000 cash-only bond.
Protesters were peaceful for most of Friday night and police allowed them to block streets outside the station, Doyle told reporters. Police also didn’t intervene when protesters began shaking a fence outside the station.
But Doyle said that when protesters broke the fence, destroying property on police grounds, he sent out an arrest team, which included Officer Brown, who is Black.
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Rose, the DNC delegate, is accused of kicking in part a metal gate outside the Ferguson Police Department during the protest and is now charged with first-degree property damage. He’s free on a $500 bond, FOX 2 reports.
His attorney labeled the charges as bogus and said Rose was not involved in damaging the fence, according to the outlet.
Officer Brown started with the department in January and previously worked for the St. Louis County Police Department. He is part of a wave of Black officers hired into the department since 2014. Back then, there were just three Black officers in the department, but Black officers now make up more than half of the police force, Doyle said.
“He wanted to be part of the change,” Doyle said at a weekend press briefing. “He wanted to make an impact in our community. He’s the type of officer that we want in our community. And what happens? He gets assaulted. I had to look his mother in the eye and tell her what happened to her son. I’m never going to do that again, I promise you that.”
Brown’s family released a statement on Wednesday praising first responders and thanking the public for the outpouring of support they have received. They also asked for people’s continued prayers.
“We are holding onto hope and trusting in the power of faith to see him through this difficult time,” the statement reads, in part.
“Travis is more than a police officer; he is a devoted father, son, brother, uncle, godfather, and friend. A man of strong faith, his heart is as big as his smile, and his positive energy is truly contagious. TJ is also an athlete, an adventurer, a lover of movies, and so much more. We know he is determined to continue living life to the fullest once he has recovered.”
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The violence that resulted in Officer Brown’s injury drew an angry response from Doyle and from several people in Ferguson, a community of about 18,000 where roughly two-thirds of residents are Black. Many wondered what protesters were so angry about given the changes in Ferguson over the past decade.
“Let’s recognize the good that has taken place in our police department. Let’s recognize the reform,” Doyle said Tuesday.
In 2014, the Ferguson department had around 50 White officers and only three Black officers. Today, 22 of the 41 officers are Black, including Travis Brown. Officers are trained in crisis intervention, avoiding bias, and Doyle said he even changed the look of uniforms after residents said the old look was “triggering.”
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Two other officers also were hurt, one sustaining an ankle injury and another an abrasion. Both were treated at the scene.
Michael Brown’s death led to massive demonstrations that helped to solidify the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson, Missouri, and around the country.
In 2015, the Justice Department declined to charge Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Michael Brown, but released a highly critical report that noted racial bias in the Ferguson police department and the county courts.
The DNC did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
Father of 2 shot and killed after confrontation with neighbor: ‘Senseless act of violence’
A Michigan father of two was shot and killed Saturday after a confrontation with his neighbor turned deadly, police said.
The violence unfolded just before noon in a quiet residential neighborhood in Canton. One neighbor told FOX 2 the neighborhood had never had an episode like this in the more than three decades he had been living there.
Canton police officers were dispatched to the 200 block of Cornell Street in response to an apparent confrontation between two neighbors.
Responding officers found the victim with gunshot wounds. He was transported to a local hospital, where he died.
The shooting suspect, later identified as 47-year-old Devereaux Christopher Johnson, barricaded himself inside his home before eventually surrendering to police.
“This was a senseless act of violence toward the victim,” Canton Police Chief Chad Baugh said in a statement. “The Canton Police Department sends our deepest condolences to the victim’s family, and to the neighbors who may have witnessed this tragic event.”
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The victim was identified as Nathan Morris, a 35-year-old engineer at Ford Motors and a father of two.
A GoFundMe page set up by Morris’ family described him as a “family man first and foremost [who] was active in the community and ran for the Canton School Board recently.”
Michigan RNC Committeewoman Hima Kolanagireddy said Morris got involved in politics when Ford mandated COVID-19 vaccines. She said she “worked closely with him as the former Chair of the MI-6th CDRC, and as a member of the Wayne 6th CDRC, of which he was a secretary.”
“On Saturday, while taking a stroll with his family in his neighborhood, his daughter touched the mulch of one of the neighbors. The neighbor took a gun out and started threatening the family,” Kolanagireddy said. “Nathan sent his family home and said that he would try and defuse the situation, but instead was shot and killed.”
Kolanagireddy described Morris as “a gentle soul” who was “near perfect.”
“He would do no harm and think no harm,” she wrote.
Johnson was arraigned Monday in the 35th District Court on first-degree murder and being a felon in possession of a weapon. Judge James A. Plakas remanded Johnson to be held at the Wayne County jail without bond.
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Johnson’s next court hearing is scheduled for Aug. 23.
To the surprise of no one, Judge Juan Merchan has yet again denied former President Trump’s motion that the judge recuse himself. I am speaking, of course, about the case in which Manhattan’s elected progressive Democratic District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, is prosecuting Trump. In early June, a jury found the former president and current GOP presidential nominee guilty on 34 counts of business-records falsification.
It is not just that Judge Merchan had previously denied the recusal motion. The judge has signaled that, come hell or high water, he intends to sentence Trump on Sept. 18.
If you’re keeping score, that would be two days after early voting in the 2024 election begins in Pennsylvania.
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The Trump defense team has been trying to stave off sentencing. And the lawyers have what, in a normal case, would be real ammunition.
On July 1, the U.S. Supreme Court held that presidents (including former presidents) are (a) presumptively immune from criminal prosecution for any official acts taken as president, and (b) absolutely immune if the official acts are core constitutional duties of the chief executive. The court instructed that this immunity extends not only to but to . That means prosecutors are not just barred from alleging official presidential acts as crimes; they are further prohibited from even using such acts as proof offered to establish other crimes.
The New York prosecution of Trump was politics not justice. That’s why we call it “lawfare.” The prosecutors and judge are not concerned about whether convictions ultimately get thrown out on appeal.
There is no denying that Bragg’s prosecutors used some of Trump’s official acts to prove their case. Indeed, they called as witnesses two of Trump’s White House staffers.
Unsurprisingly then, Trump’s lawyers moved post-trial to have the guilty verdicts thrown out based on the high court’s immunity ruling. Further, they again argued that Merchan should recuse himself. On that score, they claimed the lucrative political work Merchan’s daughter has done for Vice President Kamala Harris should be seen as more significant now that Harris has replaced President Biden as Trump’s Democratic opponent in the upcoming election.
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On Tuesday, Merchan denied the recusal motion. He had signaled his intention to do so in a letter to the parties last week. He also said he plans to rule on Trump’s immunity claim by Aug. 16. Most importantly, though, Merchan admonished the parties to prepare for the court to move ahead with the imposition of sentence on Sept. 18. He instructed the lawyers to submit promptly any arguments they intend to make on that subject.
If we may read the tea leaves, Merchan has already decided that he will deny Trump’s immunity motion. There is, moreover, a high likelihood that he will impose a prison sentence against Trump right after that.
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By the time he’d issued his letter last week, Merchan had had weeks to mull over the Supreme Court’s immunity decision and Team Trump’s subsequent brief arguing that the guilty verdicts should be tossed out. He told the parties to get ready for sentencing anyway. Obviously, if Merchan had any intention of vacating the verdicts, or of recusing himself, he would not have stuck to the sentencing date.
I suspect that Merchan will rationalize that Trump (a) was not charged based on official presidential acts, and (b) would have been convicted even if Bragg’s prosecutors had not introduced arguably immunized evidence. Such a ruling might be wrong, especially on the latter point (at trial, prosecutors described some of the testimony from Trump staffers as “devastating”); but Merchan made so many outrageous rulings in the case that it would be foolish to expect him to change course now.
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In fact, my own view is that, even more than the Supreme Court’s immunity decision, another of its late-term rulings will bolster Trump’s eventual appeal — Erlinger v. United States. There, the court reaffirmed that in criminal cases, important proof elements affecting the potential sentence must be found unanimously by the jury. Merchan, to the contrary, denied Trump the right to a unanimous verdict on the supposed crime (conspiracy to influence the election by illegal conduct) that Bragg alleged Trump was trying to conceal by falsifying his business records. That crime is what turned a misdemeanor into a felony, and what allowed Bragg to get around the two-year misdemeanor statute of limitations.
But this brings us to the main point. The New York prosecution of Trump was politics, not justice. That’s why we call it “lawfare.” The prosecutors and judge are not concerned about whether convictions ultimately get thrown out on appeal. And it’s not like Merchan is actually going to put Trump in prison; it is virtually certain that Trump will get bail pending appeal, so Merchan can appear to impose a stiff incarceration sentence without any real incarceration — at least for now, and probably ever.
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The objective here is to enable Vice President Harris and the media-Democratic complex to label Trump “a convicted felon sentenced to prison” just weeks before Election Day, at a time when Americans will already have started voting in many states, not least the potentially decisive Pennsylvania battleground.
Prepare for Merchan to deny Trump’s immunity claim … and strap in for sentencing on Sept. 18.
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JD Vance reacts to VP debate invite, says what could keep him from debating Tim Walz
GOP vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance said he wants a “real” debate with his Democratic opponent Gov. Tim Walz before the November election, but has some reservations about how it will go down.
Vance told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on “The Ingraham Angle” Wednesday that CBS News had reached out to his team hours before. CBS said in a statement that it offered the two running mates four dates: Sept. 17, Sept. 24, Oct. 1 and Oct. 8.
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“We want to actually look at the debates, look at the moderators, talk about the rules a little bit,” he said.
“I strongly suspect we’re going to be there on October the 1st, but we’re not going to do one of these fake debates where they don’t actually have an audience there, where they don’t actually set the parameters in a way where we can have a good exchange of ideas. In other words, we’re not going to walk into a fake news media garbage debate. We’re going to do a real debate, and if CBS agrees to it, then certainly we’ll do it.”
Walz responded to CBS’s invitation by writing on X, formerly Twitter, “See you on October 1, JD.”
Vance said he believes there should be more than one debate between him and Walz so Americans can see a contrast between the two campaigns and Republicans’ vision for the country’s future.
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“I think it’s important for the American people to actually see us discuss our views. If you look at the way that we’ve run this campaign, Donald Trump and I are giving every media interview. We’re talking to every audience that we can get in front of because our vision is so clear,” he told Ingraham.
“We don’t think that Americans who work hard and play by the rules should struggle to afford groceries. We don’t think our children should be killed by fentanyl, and we have a vision for how to implement public policies that are going to secure that border, cut down on the drugs, and bring the cost of everything from groceries to housing down to reasonable levels. Because we have that vision, we’re going to go anywhere and talk to anybody.”
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Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are set to square off in a presidential debate for the first time in early September.
Sports radio legend finally lets his opinion about Trump be known: ‘What is he doing?’
Sports radio legend Chris “Mad Dog” Russo doesn’t usually get political when he’s on air, but during a podcast appearance, he let his opinions on former President Donald Trump be known.
Russo joined the “Sports Illustrated Media Podcast” with Jimmy Traina, where the show host was asked about speaking on sports during an election year.
During the question, Traina referred to Trump as “an animal,” to which Russo began to go off on the Republican presidential nominee, mainly for how he treats the current president, Joe Biden.
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“What is he doing?” Russo said about Trump, via Awful Announcing. “Biden announces he’s gonna leave, drop out. And he kills him? Say what you want about him… but [Biden] did give his freakin’ life to the United States from 1972-on. He also had tragedy in his life with his wife and child who died in that car accident… I think his heart, whether you like his policy or not, is generally speaking in the right place. I think he cares.”
Russo continued to speak on Trump’s action after Biden dropped out of the presidential race.
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“The fact that [Trump] can’t let him leave the scene quietly and give him his day,” Russo explained. “Even Biden, when Trump got shot, said, ‘I’m gonna call him,’ and he called him by his first name.
“Even Biden has at times to be above the fray. It really bothered me. Don, can you let the man for 24 hours, six months before the election go out with a little grace? And not pound him… that really bothered me.”
Shortly after Biden announced he was dropping out of the presidential race on July 21, Trump spoke with Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman and called him “the worst president in the history of our country.”
“He is not fit to serve,” Trump continued. “And I ask — who is going to be running the country for the next five months?”
Trump more recently said Biden had the “right to run” for re-election, though the Democratic Party “took it away” from him during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago.
“I’m not a fan of his, as you probably have noticed, and he had a rough debate, but that doesn’t mean that you just take it away like that,” Trump said.
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Trump went on to say Biden’s replacement, vice president Kamala Harris, is the “least admired, least respected, and worst vice president in the history of our country.”
Embattled Columbia president resigns months after anti-Israel riots rocked campus
The embattled president of Columbia University, Minouche Shafik, has resigned effective immediately, Fox News Digital has confirmed.
Shafik announced her decision Wednesday in a letter addressed to the Columbia community after facing repeated calls to step down over her response to the anti-Israel protests and encampments that overtook Columbia’s campus in the spring and led to the cancelation of classes as well as the school’s main commencement ceremony in May.
“I write with sadness to tell you that I am stepping down as president of Columbia University effective August 14, 2024. I have had the honor and privilege to lead this incredible institution, and I believe that—working together—we have made progress in a number of important areas. However, it has also been a period of turmoil where it has been difficult to overcome divergent views across our community,” she wrote.
“This period has taken a considerable toll on my family, as it has for others in our community. Over the summer, I have been able to reflect and have decided that my moving on at this point would best enable Columbia to traverse the challenges ahead. I am making this announcement now so that new leadership can be in place before the new term begins.”
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While accepting Shafik’s resignation, the Board of Trustees announced Katrina Armstrong, chief executive officer of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, will serve as the interim president.
“During my inauguration, I spoke of Columbia as an exemplar of a great 21st century university committed to educating leaders and citizens, generating knowledge and ideas to solve problems, and engaging at the local and global level to deliver real impact in improving people’s lives,” Shafik said. “As president, I have been proud to witness Columbia making so many contributions to delivering that vital mission. I also spoke about the values and principles which are dear to me and, I know, to the Columbia community as well: academic freedom and free speech; openness to ideas; and zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind—including gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, or ethnicity. This mission, and the values and principles underpinning it, constitute our North Star. Even as tension, division, and politicization have disrupted our campus over the last year, our core mission and values endure and will continue to guide us in meeting the challenges ahead.”
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“I have tried to navigate a path that upholds academic principles and treats everyone with fairness and compassion. It has been distressing—for the community, for me as president and on a personal level—to find myself, colleagues, and students the subject of threats and abuse. As President Lincoln said, ‘A house divided against itself cannot stand’—we must do all we can to resist the forces of polarization in our community. I remain optimistic that differences can be overcome through the honest exchange of views, truly listening, and—always—by treating each other with dignity and respect. Again, Columbia’s core mission to create and acquire knowledge, with our values as foundation, will lead us there,” she added.
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Shafik had been accused by Jewish students of allowing anti-Israel radicals to run amok on her campus with little intervention or discipline. In April, House Speaker Mike Johnson demanded that Shafik resign if she couldn’t stand up to the agitators, calling her leadership “very weak” and “inept.”
“As a result of President Shafik’s refusal to protect Jewish students and maintain order on campus, Columbia University became the epicenter for virulent antisemitism that has plagued many American university campuses since Hamas’ barbaric attack on Israel last fall,” Johnson said Wednesday in response to her resignation, calling it “long overdue.”
“We hope that President Shafik’s resignation serves as an example to university administrators across the country that tolerating or protecting antisemites is unacceptable and will have consequences,” he said.
Shafik testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce in April about allegations of antisemitism on campus. Her testimony was regarded as dismissive of the concerns of Jewish students, who accused her of turning a blind eye to the anti-Jewish sentiment at Columbia while refusing to engage with their student groups.
“During Shafik’s presidency, a disturbing wave of antisemitic harassment, discrimination, and disorder engulfed Columbia university’s campus. Jewish students and faculty have been mocked, harassed, and assaulted simply for their identity. Every student has the right to a safe learning environment. Period. Yet, flagrant violations of the law and the university rules went unpunished,” committee chair Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C. said Wednesday.
“Columbia’s next leader must take bold action to address the pervasive antisemitism, support for terrorism, and contempt for the university’s rules that have been allowed to flourish on its campus,” she added.
House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., accused Shafik, at the time of attempting to “cover-up” for a “pro-terrorist” professor who had celebrated the Oct. 7 attacks.
Stefanik also called for Shafik’s removal after a mob of anti-Israel agitators took over an academic building. The agitators held workers hostage, made demands to the university and barricaded the building. Shafik eventually caved and called police for help, but critics accused her of dragging her feet while chaos ran rampant under her watch.
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In her letter to the Columbia community, Armstrong wrote, “I am deeply honored to be called to serve as interim president of our beloved institution… Challenging times present both the opportunity and the responsibility for serious leadership to emerge from every group and individual within a community. This is such a time at Columbia. As I step into this role, I am acutely aware of the trials the University has faced over the past year. We should neither understate their significance, nor allow them to define who we are and what we will become. The familiar excitement and promise of a new academic year are informed this year by the presence of change and continuing concerns, but also by the immense opportunity to look forward, to join together for the laudable mission we are here to serve, and to become our best selves individually and institutionally.
“Never has it been more important to train leaders capable of elevating society and addressing the complexity of modern life. Columbia University has a long history of meeting the moment, and I have faith that we will do so once again,” she said.
“Much of this work will fall to the Columbia faculty. You are the ultimate keepers of the institution’s values and the stewards of its long and proud history. The habit of critical thinking and humility that gives birth to tolerance of contrary points of view is the most essential lesson taught in Columbia’s classrooms and the intellectual common ground that unifies the many scholarly pursuits found across our campuses.”
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As for Sharik’s future plans, she wrote that she has been asked by the U.K.’s Foreign Secretary to chair a review of the government’s approach “to international development and how to improve capability.”
“I am very pleased and appreciative that this will afford me the opportunity to return to work on fighting global poverty and promoting sustainable development, areas of lifelong interest to me,” her letter said.
Shafik served as president of the Ivy League university for one year before stepping down.
She joins three other Ivy League university presidents who resigned after facing allegations of mishandling antisemitism amid anti-Israel campus unrest.
University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill resigned December 9, 2023, followed by Harvard University President Claudine Gay, who stepped down on January 2, 2024. Most recently, Cornell University President Martha Pollack retired on June 30, 2024.
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Acclaimed actress known role in ‘The Notebook’ dead at 94 after battle with Alzheimer’s
Gena Rowlands, the Golden Globe winner who portrayed an older version of Rachel McAdam’s character, Allie, in the 2004 film “The Notebook,” has died at 94.
Rowlands died Wednesday afternoon at her home in Indian Wells, California, representatives for her son, filmmaker Nick Cassavetes, said, according to the Associated Press.
Her official cause of death has not been released.
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Cassavetes, the director of the famed 2004 romantic comedy, previously revealed his mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis when discussing the “Notebooks” 20th anniversary.
“I got my mom to play older Allie, and we spent a lot of time talking about Alzheimer’s and wanting to be authentic with it, and now, for the last five years, she’s had Alzheimer’s,” Cassavetes told Entertainment Weekly of Rowlands’ character, who also had dementia. “She’s in full dementia. And it’s so crazy — we lived it, she acted it, and now it’s on us.”
Rowlands was also a four-time Emmy winner and a two-time Best Actress nominee at the Academy Awards. She was nominated for her roles in “A Woman Under the Influence” and “Gloria.”
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She also had two Golden Globes among many other achievements.
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On TV, Rowlands earned her Primetime Emmys for “The Betty Ford Story,” “Face of a Stranger” and “Hysterical Blindness,” as well as a Daytime Emmy for “The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie.”
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New study ranks US city as the least desirable to live in for a second year running
A new study found that for the second year in a row, Washington, D.C., is the least desirable place to live in the U.S., with 33% of the participants who took part in the survey ranking it among the top five worst cities in America.
The company behind the poll, Clever, surveyed 1,000 people in June then looked at migration data from the most recent U.S. Census to understand why the nation’s capital has become America’s least desirable city to live in.
This year, 33% of Americans said the District of Columbia is one of the top five worst cities to live in, which is up from 2023, when 20% of Americans held the same opinion.
Clever said politics aside, D.C. is one of the most expensive cities in the country, and 65% of Americans say the excessive cost of living makes a place undesirable.
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Housing costs are also a big contributing factor to the cost of living. According to data acquired through July 31, 2024, Zillow says the median list price of a home in the metropolitan area is $638,000.
Another factor hitting the city’s reputation is crime, and in 2023, D.C. recorded 274 murders, the highest number for more than 20 years.
As D.C. struggles to appeal to people’s desires for a place to live, New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco also ranked in the top 10 undesirable cities to reside in the U.S.
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Los Angeles housing costs have become so far out of reach that the annual income needed to purchase a home surpasses residents’ actual income by about $162,000, Clever reported.
Cities like Baltimore and Detroit may be affordable, but the lack of public safety landed them on the lists of least desirable cities to live in.
Detroit leads the country for rapes, murders and aggravated assaults, the study stated, while Baltimore leads the country in murders and robberies per 100,000 residents.
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On the lighter side, Tampa, Florida, was ranked the most desirable city in America to live in, with the study noting year-round warmth, low crime and affordable housing as contributing factors.
Coming in second was Charlotte, North Carolina, and Virginia Beach, Virginia, rounded out the top three.