by Michael Booth. Cops must abide the law as well as enforce it. A New Jersey appeals court ruled that damages may be awarded to a Vineland woman whose home was essentially occupied by the police while they waited for hours to obtain a search warrant. In a published ruling issued Sept. 11, the three-judge Appellate Division panel said ... MORE
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Detective Not Immune From Warrantless Entry Lawsuit
by Michael Booth. Cops must abide the law as well as enforce it. A New Jersey appeals court ruled that damages may be awarded to a Vineland woman whose home was essentially occupied by the police while they waited for hours to obtain a search warrant. In a published ruling issued Sept. 11, the three-judge Appellate Division panel said ... MOREVideo Of NYPD Officer's Assault On Tennis Star James Blake
Cops caught in the act of being themselves. Surveillance videotape released by the New York Police Department shows Officer James Frascatore ambushing tennis star James Blake in what appears to be a startling, illegal arrest. Frascatore has been sued four times for excessive force in the past. Missing from the surveillance tape, released on ... MOREShould Police Be Able To Take Control Of Self-Driving Cars?
by Karl Bode. Technology's dark side. As Google, Tesla, Volvo, and other companies make great strides with their self-driving car technology, we've started moving past questions about whether the technology will work, and started digging into the ethics of how it should work. For example, we recently discussed whether or not cars should ... MORE
Man Jailed Over $5 Theft For Months Without Bail Dies
by Jon Swaine. Jailer says 24-year-old died of natural causes. A young black man arrested by police in Portsmouth, Virginia, has been found dead in jail after spending almost four months behind bars without bail for stealing groceries worth $5. Jamycheal Mitchell, who had mental health problems, was discovered lying on the floor of his cell by guards ... MORE
Bob Knudsen: Denver Police Display Contempt For The Law As They Ignore Court Order To Stop Harassing Protesters
Police State America: Court unable to restrain cops. Prominent Colorado civil rights attorney David Lane is asking for a federal court to hold Denver
Police Chief Robert White in contempt of court following the
dismantling of protester tents outside of the Lindsey-Flanigan
Courthouse near downtown. The dismantling occurred on August 27, two ... MOREPolice State Update: 61-Year-Old Man Violently Attacked By Police And Arrested For Singing A 'Beach Boys' Song
by Matt Agorist. A 61-year-old Pennsylvania man, Jim Osche likes to go out into public and sing as a means of relieving stress. On Friday, however, Osche’s stress relief would be met with police brutality. As Osche walked down the sidewalk in front of Shula’s Steakhouse in downtown Allentown, the restaurant guests seemed to be pleasantly VIDEO INCLUDED ... MORETimothy Williams: Facial Recognition Software Used To Identify Terrorists Now Deployed By The Local Police
'Public servants' treat citizens as potential suspects. Facial recognition software, which American military and intelligence agencies used for years in Iraq and Afghanistan to identify potential terrorists, is being eagerly adopted by dozens of police departments around the country to pursue drug dealers, prostitutes and other conventional ... MOREThe Disturbing Messages In Police Recruiting Videos
by Radley Balko. According to the New Mexico Watchdog Web site, this is a new recruiting video being used by the police department in Hobbs, New Mexico. Note the aspects of policing the video emphasizes: Shooting stuff. K-9 enforcement. Nabbing the bad guys. The SWAT team. This is the first step in the process. There’s also the separate ... MOREPolice Union: No 'Just Cause' For Firing Ray Tensing, The Ohio Campus Cop Who Shot And Killed An Unarmed Man
Keeping murderers on the force. Although former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing faces murder charges
for shooting and killing Samuel DuBose as the man tried to drive away
from a traffic stop over a missing front license plate, Tensing believes
he ought to have his job—which provided him with a firearm and the
authority to ... MOREJeff Sharlet: An L.A. Cop Pressed His Gun Into The Chest Of An Unarmed Man And Shot Him Through The Heart
Will it matter to the LA district attorney? Five months after the March 1 Los Angeles police killing of an unarmed
black man named Charly "Africa" Keunang—a story I reported in-depth for
the July issue of GQ—the
Los Angeles coroner has finally released the results of its autopsy.
They are profoundly disturbing. Two of the six bullets that killed
Charly ... MORESteve Chapman: Cops As Criminals
Those who enforce the law but do not obey it. Late one night, during high school, I was driving home when several police cars zoomed by. Curious about what was going on, I followed them down a residential street, where they pulled up to a house. I drove by and saw some officers walking up the sidewalk, but couldn't tell what they might be ... MOREJacob Sullum: Federal Grand Jury Charges Georgia Cop With Lying To Justify Drug Raid That Multilated A Toddler
Cop tossed flash-bang grenade into playpen. Today John Horn, the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, announced
that a federal grand jury has approved an indictment charging former
Habersham County Deputy Sheriff Nikki Autry with lying when she applied
for the search warrant authorizing a May 2014 drug raid that ... MORECode Of Silence: Officer Fired, Framed & Threatened For Exposing Fellow Officer Who Ripped A Man’s Eyeball Out
by Matt Agorist. It is no question that if fellow officers blow the whistle on their peers for breaking the law, they will be shunned, and their careers will be over. The blue code of silence, as our friend and former Baltimore cop, Joe Crystal has shown us, is not to be broken. Crystal attempted to expose an officer who beat a handcuffed man ... MOREEPA Power Grab Incites States To Consider Nullification
by Kyle Maichle. Resisting a claim to every last drop of water in the nation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has in recent years imposed numerous new regulatory rules strangling the freedoms of businesses and property owners. Latching on to every possible excuse for regulating economic activities by citing microscopic effects on ... MOREVIDEO: Public Servants On Film - Cops Illegally Enter Home, Then Arrests Naked Woman In Front Of Young Daughter
Offending cop decides to retire to cushy pension.
Brad Schrade: Cops Shot Unarmed Georgia Woman In Head, Admired Their Marksmanship & Prevented First Aid After
After all, she was suspected of drug use. At high noon on June 18, 2010, Caroline Small, a petite 35-year-old woman and mother of two, sat behind the wheel of her beat-up Buick Century with nowhere to turn. Police vehicles flanked her on two sides, a shallow ditch was on another and a utility pole blocked her rear bumper. Unarmed but ... MOREMartin Armstrong: The End Of Freedom Of Speech In Spain
'1984' comes to Europe, next stop ... Spain has shown that it is fully on board with the Brussels authoritarian direction of ending democracy. Those in power have simply convinced themselves that the people do not understand what is good for them so they must impose their will upon the people but raw force. How does this differ in any ... MOREMichael Suede: Cop Shoots And Kills 17-Year-Old Unarmed Boy For Flashing His High Beams And Flexing His Rights
The killer cop keeps his job. video included. This is pretty much how things go with all aspects of government. The most mundane and trivial of infractions can always result in a dead human being because ultimately all laws are enforced at the point of a gun. Any failure to comply with a state functionary ALWAYS results in the escalation ... MOREVIDEO: People Who Keep The System Of Slavery In Place
Live your life with morality. Don't just follow orders.
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