by William Dotinga. An arrest is not a conviction. For the second time in three years, a state appeals court in San Francisco found that a voter-approved mandate authorizing police to collect DNA from arrestees is unconstitutional. The 3-0 ruling by a panel of the First Appellate District stems from the arson conviction of Mark Buza, whom a jury ... MORE
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Appeals Court Rips California DNA-Collection Law
by William Dotinga. An arrest is not a conviction. For the second time in three years, a state appeals court in San Francisco found that a voter-approved mandate authorizing police to collect DNA from arrestees is unconstitutional. The 3-0 ruling by a panel of the First Appellate District stems from the arson conviction of Mark Buza, whom a jury ... MORETyrannical Governing Body Placed Under Citizen's Arrest
by Phil Rogers and Patrick McCraney. In a highly unusual move, the leader of a Downstate watchdog group placed an entire park district board under a citizen's arrest for failing to allow public comment and violating a state disclosure law. Public boards are used to facing angry crowds, but most have never dealt with what happened at one ... MORE
NY State Governor Candidate Arrested For Filming Police
by Brandon Turberville. Despite the Supreme Court having ruled that videotaping police is legal and protected by the 1st Amendment, citizens all across the country continue to be arrested, charged, and abused by police for doing so. Generally speaking, those videotaping and subsequently subjected to police harassment or brutality are ... MOREWoman Arrested For Cursing In Grocery Store
by Jacob Sullum. No fucking way! According to a witness, Danielle Wolf cursed at her two little girls last week because they were squeezing the bread at a Kroger supermarket in North Augusta, South Carolina. "Stop squishing the fucking bread," Wolf reportedly said. Wolf says she was talking not to her children but to her husband, who was ... MOREAll Of Us Are Criminals In The Eyes Of The Police State
by John W. Whitehead. Why are we seeing such an uptick in Americans being arrested for such absurd “violations” as letting their kids play at a park unsupervised, collecting rainwater and snow runoff on their own property, growing vegetables in their yard, and holding Bible studies in their living room? Consider what happened to Nicole Gainey, ... MORENanny-State Mindset Leads To Police Brutality
by Scott Rasmussen. Liberty is slowly being made illegal. In Florida recently, police pulled up to a young boy playing in the park and asked where his mother lived. According to a report on WPTV, the mom was then arrested for "allowing her son to go to the park alone." Her son had a cellphone, and she would check in with him along the way. ... MORECops To Perform Warrantless Searches On Beachgoers
Florida police troll for illegal drinks. With the help of new technology and federal grant money, police are preparing to warrantlessly search people’s refreshments as they visit the beaches of Florida. New passive alcohol detectors can simply be hovered above a person’s beverage to detect whether it contains alcohol. Similar ... MOREVIDEO: Police State Checkpoints - Your Papers Please!
Local government revenue scheme runs roughshod over individual liberty.
Driver Arrested; Has Compartment That Could Store Drugs
Robby Soave reports on drug war tyranny. Civil libertarians are criticizing Ohio police for arresting a driver because his car contained a compartment that could theoretically store illegal drugs, though no drugs were found at that time. The driver, 30-year-old Norman Gurley of Michigan, was pulled over for speeding. A highway patrolman ... MOREFBI Spooks: Infiltrating and Informing
by J.D. Tuccille. The National Security Agency isn't the only arm of the government in the surveillance business. According to a September report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), "every 90 days for the past seven years the FBI has obtained secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court orders compelling telecommunications ... MORERonald Bailey: Watched Cops Are Polite Cops
Who will watch the watchers? What if all watchers were required
to wear a video camera that would record their every interaction
with citizens? In her ruling in a recent civil suit challenging the
New York City police department’s notorious stop-and-frisk rousting
of residents, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the Federal District
Court in ... MOREThe Most Shocking Aspect Of The Aaron Hernandez Case
by Mike Riggs. Last Wednesday New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was charged with murder for "orchestrating the execution" of Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro football player who Hernandez had known for about a year. I didn't pay the story much attention—until I saw footage of Hernandez being arrested. Let me paint the scene for you: ... MOREPolice State: Ohio Cops Not Above Perpetrating Fraud
Anything for a drug bust. An Ohio police department have come under fire for setting up fake checkpoints to search drivers and their cars for drugs. Police in the city of Cleveland recently posted large yellow signs along Interstate 271 that warned drivers that there was a drug checkpoint ahead, to be ... MORE LEARN ABOUT JURY NULLIFICATIONVIDEO: Don't Cops Have Better Things To Do
Cops resort to entrapment as a means to boost crime stats.
VIDEO: Locked Up For Drinking Tea While Being Black
Salty language warning. Public servants or public masters?
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