Cops arbitrarily destroy a man's life. Family say a man beaten by three officers with the San Antonio police department last year is now paralyzed from the chest down after surgeons experienced complications attempting to repair his spine. Forty-three-year-old Roger Carlos was in the 10600 block of Westover Hills Blvd. in May, 2014 taking ... MORE
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Innocent Man Paralyzed After Unprovoked Police Beating
Cops arbitrarily destroy a man's life. Family say a man beaten by three officers with the San Antonio police department last year is now paralyzed from the chest down after surgeons experienced complications attempting to repair his spine. Forty-three-year-old Roger Carlos was in the 10600 block of Westover Hills Blvd. in May, 2014 taking ... MOREThe Corrupt System That Killed Laquan McDonald
by Conor Friedersdorf. A Chicago cop now faces murder charges—but will anyone hold his colleagues, his superiors, and elected officials accountable for their failures? Thanks to clear video evidence, Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was charged this week with first-degree murder for shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Nevertheless, ... MOREIn The Public Service - Heroic Cops Protect Community By Raiding A Group Of 90-Year-Old Women Playing MahJong
by Matt Agorist. As hundreds of thousands of rape kits collect dust and remain untested, cops are quick to jump to action to raid a group of elderly women playing mahjong. A concerned citizen, with a knack for blindly following all decrees handed down from the establishment on high, conducted their patriotic duty of ‘seeing something’ and then ... MORE
New Rankings Expose Worst “Policing for Profit” Offenders
Separating drivers from their money. When it comes to embracing transparency, no government enterprise fails more miserably than traffic enforcement. Police departments and municipalities resist disclosing the number of tickets they issue for fear of branding their communities as speed traps. And local courts routinely reduce speeding charges ... MOREStephen Lendman: Police State Europe
An opportunity for tyranny. Churchill once said: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” More recently, former Obama White House chief of staff/current Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel said earlier: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” Post-9/11, ... MOREEd Krayweski: Man Slams The Door On Cops Who Had No Warrant, Then Cops Break His Door Down And Kill Him
More from the American gestapo. An unknown number of sheriff's deputies showed up at the trailer where John Livingston and Clayton Carroll lived at 3:30 a.m., looking for someone as part of an unspecified "assault investigation." The cops were apparently told the person they were looking for no longer lived there. According to Carroll, ... MOREThomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
Current observations of a genius. Some financial institutions may be considered "too big to fail," but contemporary Western society may be too frivolous to survive. The Romans had bread and circuses to keep the masses passive and unthinking. We have electronic gadgets, drugs and pornography. Like the Roman Empire, we too may decline and ... MOREVideo Reveals Motorist Had His Hands Up Before Police Officers Executed His 6-Year-Old Son Strapped In Seat
by Michael Kunzelman. Good thing the cops were black and victims white. A police body camera recorded the father of a 6-year-old autistic boy with his hands up and posing no threat as police fired into his car, severely wounding the motorist and killing his son, the man's lawyer said Monday. "This was not a threatening situation for the police," ... MORE
A Prosecutor's Guide To Not Prosecuting A Killer Cop
'Public servants' protect each other. Lt. Mark Tiller did not violate the law when he fired two shots into a
moving vehicle in July, killing Zachary Hammond as the unarmed
19-year-old attempted to flee, a state prosecutor announced Tuesday. Tiller, a Seneca, South Carolina, officer, has maintained that he
fired his gun because he feared for his ... MOREPolice Prosecutions Have Increased, But Not Convictions
by Scott Shackford. I don't know that I would necessarily call it "good news" that we're
seeing more police officers facing actual charges and trials for fatal
shootings. Given, though, that there's been a notable increase
in the number of people killed by police in recent years, a doubling in
the frequency by which officers face trial in 2015 ... MOREDo Badges Grant Special Rights? Cop Shoots Unarmed Marijuana Dealer in Face and Kills Him, Walks Free
by Matt Agorist. Derek Cruice was a kind and loving young man who was murdered in cold blood by state agents because he allegedly sold a plant that is legal in five states. In March, a heavily militarized police SWAT team, knowing that Cruice had never been convicted of a crime, descended on his home on Maybrook Drive in Deltona. Police ... MOREFederal Court Orders The DEA To Stop Harassing Medical Marijuana Providers And Instead Start Obeying The Law
Enforcement zealots must learn to obey the law. In a scathing decision, a federal court in California has ruled that the Drug Enforcement Administration's interpretation of a recent medical marijuana bill "defies language and logic," "tortures the plain meaning of the statute" and is "at odds with fundamental notions of the rule of law." The ruling ... MOREPolice State America 2016: The Case Of An Unarmed Teen Who Flashed His Brights At A Cop And Ended Up Shot Dead
See the video from the police cruiser. The family of an unarmed teenager shot dead by a sheriff's deputy during a Michigan traffic stop in February has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit alleging that the officer's "entire course of action was illegal." The lawsuit, filed Wednesday against Eaton County Sheriff's Sgt. Jonathan Frost and the county, ... MOREShaun King: Police State Torture - Savannah-Style
The cover-up of a man tortured to death in state custody. It is now abundantly clear that Matthew Ajibade was murdered by police
in Savannah, Georgia. For over 10 months, police and prosecutors have
concealed the video evidence of his murder not only from the public, but
from Ajibade's closest friends and family members. His death in ... MOREWoman Flips Off Mayor, So He Sends SWAT Team After Her
by John Vibes. Cops deployed as tools for politician. Tina Warren has been fighting her local government over rising water bills, leaving her at odds with the town’s mayor, Bill Kirkpatrick. Warren has been running a number of campaigns against his policies, and she has even been flipping the mayor the middle finger every time she sees him. Tina’s ... MORE
U.S. Attorney General To Allow Police Departments To Keep The Number Of Citizens They Kill A Secret
by Jay Syrmopoulos. Throwing dirt on inconvenient truths. In complete reversal of course from the stated position of her predecessor, Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the federal government shouldn’t mandate police departments to report lethal shootings of civilians. Lynch’s statements diverge drastically from her predecessor Eric Holder, ... MOREThe Worst Cases Of Police Brutality In September
by Jess Colarossi. And they talk about a "war on cops." During the first week of September, police killed more civilians than the total number of police officers killed so far this year. By the end of the month, 99 people were killed, according to the Killed By Police database. At least 77 of them were shot and killed. The Guardian reports that 873 people have ... MOREM. David: Is It Ever Legal To Shoot Cops?
Badges do not grant special rights. Is it ever legal to shoot cops? A growing number of states
are passing laws that say that yes, in fact, sometimes it is well within
a citizen’s rights to shoot a police officer. Other states have already ruled in favor of citizens shooting police officers in self-defense, (even hip-hop legend Tupac walked ... MORE
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