More Utah Killings By Cops Than By Criminals

Erin Alberty.    In the past five years, more Utahns have been killed by police than by gang members. Or drug dealers. Or from child abuse. And so far this year, deadly force by police has claimed more lives — 13, including a Saturday shooting in South Jordan — than has violence between spouses and dating partners.As the tally of fatal police shootings rises,   ... MORE

Ohio Cops Kill Mentally Disabled Woman in Front of Family

by Marie Dennis.    A Cleveland Ohio woman was pronounced dead 2 hours after being assaulted by Cleveland cops outside her family’s home. Counter Current News reported that during an argument, Tenesha Anderson’s family contacted police after being unable to calm the bi-polar and schizophrenic woman down. After initially agreeing   ... MORE

  

Cops Raid Teenagers’ Party, Kill Girl Who Tried To Escape

Deputy faces no charges after shooting girl 4 times.     More proof the government is not us. Police charged into a darkened field trying to arrest teenagers for consuming alcohol without government permission, and killed a young woman in the process. The deadly raid occurred in the early morning hours of Saturday, April 26th,     ... MORE

Rethinking ‘No-Knock’ Tactics In Wake Of Cop’s Death

by Jared Keever.   The downside of breaking in through a window. The recent announcement that a Texas district attorney will seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting a police officer raiding his home has sparked debate among many as to whether so-called no-knock search warrants, conducted by local SWAT teams, are safe or   ... MORE

Scott Shackford: Texas Wants to Execute Man Who Killed Home Intruder Who Turned Out to Be A SWAT Member

Should protecting your home be a capital crime?   Attempting to serve a search warrant by entering a house through a window got Killeen, Texas, Police Detective Charles Dinwiddie shot in the face and killed last May.  It was yet another SWAT raid organized for a purpose other than the reason they were invented. The police had a   ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: More Unlawful Presidential Killing

Something is amiss here.     As the debate rages over whether the president needs congressional authorization for war prior to his deployment of the military to degrade or destroy ISIS, the terrorist organization that none of us had heard about until a few months ago, the nation has lost sight of the more fundamental issue of President ... MORE

Robert Klein Engler: A Worthless Sacrifice

The unfortunate education of James Foley.  The recent death of reporter James Foley at the hands of ISIS and the past death of American ambassador Chris Stevens have an interesting similarity. Both men were known to be liberals, and some would even say they were educated in a radical liberal tradition. Writing in USA Today, David McKay      ... MORE

No Charges For Cop Who Killed While Driving Distracted

by Snejana Farberov.     Badges give special privilege. California prosecutors have declined to file charges against a sheriff's deputy who struck and killed a prominent entertainment attorney and former Napster executive with his patrol car last year. Deputy Andrew Wood was apparently distracted by his mobile digital computer when    ... MORE

John Stossel: Mindless Drones

As mindless as those who regulate them.   Drones — unmanned flying machines — will soon fill our skies. They conjure up fears, especially among some of my fellow libertarians, of spying and death from above. These fears aren't groundless. President Bush approved the use of armed drones against suspected terrorists overseas, and President     ... MORE

Police Officer Shoots And Kills Teen For Contempt

by George Sells. Your public servants at work. A community is shocked and angered after a Ferguson police officer shot and killed an 18-year old in the Canfield Green apartment complex Saturday afternoon.  At the request of the Ferguson Police Department, the St. Louis County Crimes Against Persons Unit has taken over the investigation of the    ... MORE

A. Barton Hinkle: It's Time for Cops to Stop Shooting Dogs

Their dog good, your dog bad.  The sheriff’s department in Prince Edward Co., Virginia, isn’t returning phone calls about Party. No great surprise. A deputy shot the dog in late June, killing it. The department issued a CYA press release, then dummied up—perhaps in the hope the whole thing would blow over. No wonder: According to a news   ... MORE

Frank Pariato: Jury Nullification Set Wild Bill Hickok Free

Although he killed a man illegally. On July 20 1865, James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok was playing in a poker game at the Lyon House Hotel in Springfield MO., when a friend of his, Davis Tutt showed up claiming Hickok owed him $45 from an earlier game. Hickok said he only owed $25 since he had paid Tutt $20 some days before. Tutt snatched   ... MORE

Caught on Tape: Texas Cop Executes Handcuffed Suspect

by John Prager.     Warning: Execution video. In early 2014, a grand jury elected not to charge an El Paso, TX police officer in the shooting death of a prisoner, but newly released video is causing some to question if that is a good idea. After the Texas AG instructed the city of El Paso to fulfill the El Paso Times’  request for the video it has become    ... MORE

Drug Warriors Kill Another In No-Knock SWAT Raid

Read about your public servants in action.   Gun-wielding, black-suited law enforcers busted into a home with a battering ram, terrifying everyone inside and leaving one man dead. Newly released helmet-cam video of the incident shows in graphic detail how this violent no-knock raid produced yet another casualty in the vicious War on Drugs.   ... MORE

Rand Paul Is Right to Oppose Targeted Killing Of Americans

by Chris Edelson.           Secret law has no place in a constitutional democracy. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has quite rightly called on the Obama administration to publicly disclose its legal justifications for the claimed power to order the killing, without trial or hearing, of U.S. citizens abroad who are suspected of being terrorist leaders planning attacks    ... MORE

Elliot Rodger And Gun Control's False Promise

by Jacob Sullum.     The day after his 20-year-old son, Christopher, was shot down at a deli in Isla Vista, California, Richard Martinez blamed his death on "craven, irresponsible politicians and the NRA." Gun control advocates quickly seized upon Martinez's remarks, using his grief to obscure the illogic of their position. None of the items on the    ... MORE

Another Week Of Government Lawlessness

by Andrew Napolitano. What if the federal government is shameless? What if it personifies the adage of do as I say and not as I do? What if it does the very things it prosecutes others for doing? What if it has written laws and enacted procedures so that it can spy and kill, while it charges others with doing just that?  What if the feds recently indicted    ... MORE

Zach Weissmueller: Another Drug Bust Gone Bad

Cops can’t get their story straight in killing.       On a sweltering summer morning in the California desert, deputies looking for methamphetamines and bearing automatic weapons barged into the home of Eugene Mallory, an 80-year-old retired engineer living a quiet life in the small community of Littlerock. Moments later, Mallory    ... MORE

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Andrew Napolitano: A Legal Way To Kill?

The president's extra-judicial killings.     When President Obama decided sometime during his first term that he wanted to be able to use unmanned aerial drones in foreign lands to kill people — including Americans — he instructed Attorney General Eric Holder to find a way to make it legal — despite the absolute prohibition on          ... MORE