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Showing posts with label recording. Show all posts

DAILYMAIL: Cops Beat Up Terminally Ill Man -- Wrongly Assuming He Was Intoxicated While Taking Care Of His Kids

Who is the public servant?   The cops or the citizen who recorded them. You decide. Police officers in West Virginia brutally arrested a 39-year-old father of two who they say appeared intoxicated and was handling his kids roughly while walking them to the park. But his outraged family denies that 39-year-old Jeffrey Bane was under the        ... MORE

The Dark Side Of California's Cell Phone “Kill Switch” Bill

by Jake Laperruque.      This week the California legislature passed a bill that requires all smartphones to include a “kill switch” that can remotely render the device inoperable.  Although created to deter smartphone theft, this kill switch mandate could actually become a nefarious tool co-opted by government to suppress protests.  ...  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    ... MORE

Donald Sterling And What We're Learning About Privacy

by Mitch Albom.     Now that Donald Sterling has been banned, fined and condemned — the proper, if ugly, conclusion, in my mind — we should discuss how it happened. Most of us don't need to worry about angry mistresses, Department of Justice investigations, discrimination lawsuits and a history of bigoted comments. But all of us need to worry  ... MORE

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Eileen Shim: Taking Police Brutality To A New Level

What 3 NYPD officers did last week.     It hasn't been a good PR week for the nation's finest. First, the sheriff's deputy from Knoxville, Tennessee, choked an unresisting college student until he passed out. And then the disturbing video of Buffalo cops beating up a suspect who was lying on the ground in handcuffs came out. But if any police ... MORE

Amanda Warren: NYPD Breaks Child's Leg For Filming Them

Cop then adds insult to injury win assault on Mom.       One morning, last January, NYPD from the 63rd precinct, showed up at Krystle Silvera's home looking for her ex-boyfriend for violating an order of protection. But protecting is not how they responded to her family. Her cancer-stricken mother answered the door, confused by what   ... MORE