2017: A Year in Review

Every month since President Trump’s inauguration there have been hundreds of protests across the country, most of them in opposition to the new administration and its policies, according to the Crowd Counting Consortium. mirziamov.ru The White House is not sitting idle, they are fighting back in the courts where 194 protesters face up to 60 years in prison after being rounded up during the inauguration day riots and charged under the federal statute.

In October, a man fired indiscriminately from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas into a crowd of country music concertgoers, killing 58 people. The massacre at the Route 91 Harvest music festival marked the single deadliest mass shooting in recent memory. Authorities found 23 guns in the gunman’s hotel room, about half of which were equipped with bump stocks that allowed for rapid fire, according to the Washington Post.

The FBI is about to release more than a year of animal cruelty data that law enforcement officers have entered into the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). Police and animal control officers in some areas have recorded animal cruelty incidents since 2015 when they were reclassified from a misdemeanor to a felony, making it a serious criminal offense to harm an animal. Former FBI Director James Comey agreed to make animal cruelty a separate, reportable category of crime in 2014, a win for both law enforcement and animal advocates.

There were whispers of Russian collusion at the beginning of President Donald Trump’s campaign. Adding to the list of controversies, there are three failed travel ban attempts, complaints about his comments to a military widow and issues with the way he responded to a neo-Nazi rally with counter-protestors.

The North Atlantic hurricane season lasts from the beginning of June to the end of November, and it reaches its peak from late August throughout September. Superstorms Harvey, Irma and Maria claimed more than 250 lives across the nation. While each hurricane caused severe damages to surrounding areas, celebrities, good Samaritans and local organizations reached out to help. The impacts were critical – thousands of people were left needing emergency assistance.  Although the storms have long passed, their aftermath prompted many developments.