The need for independent prosecutors in police shootings. A Justice Department report released last week makes a strong case
that Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson acted in
self-defense when he shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black
teenager, last August. The report suggests that Robert McCulloch, the
much-maligned ... MORE
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Showing posts with label shooting. Show all posts
Jacob Sullum: Darren Wilson's Friendly Trial
The need for independent prosecutors in police shootings. A Justice Department report released last week makes a strong case
that Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson acted in
self-defense when he shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black
teenager, last August. The report suggests that Robert McCulloch, the
much-maligned ... MOREIn The Public Service: Cops Break Into Home And Kill 74-Year-Old Man After Relative Requests Well-Visit Check
by Elisabeth Arriero. Gastonia police sent to check on the welfare of a 74-year-old man shot and killed him in his home late Saturday after he confronted them with a gun, police said. Police were called to the home of James Howard Allen about 10 p.m. Saturday because a relative of Allen’s in Anson County was worried about his condition, Gastonia ... MORE
"Hands Up Don’t Shoot" Activist Shoots Unarmed Man
Discovers police shootings are not so cut and dry. An outspoken “Hands up don’t shoot” activist in Arizona recently went through multiple police training scenarios, including one, where he shot at an unarmed man. Reverend Jarrett Maupin is a self described progressive baptist preacher and a radical political activist, ... MOREThomas Sowell: Who's Responsible?
Playing fast and loose with the race card. The cold-blooded murder of two New York City policemen as they sat in their car is not only an outrage but also a wake-up call. It shows, in the most painful way, the high cost of having demagogues, politicians, mobs and the media constantly taking cheap shots at the police. Those cheap shots ... MOREIn The Rush To Blame Everyone For The Shooting Of NYPD Cops, Don't Forget To Include The Actual Shooter
by Nick Gillespie. In the wake of the horrific and unjustifiable shooting of two NYPD officers who were sitting in a patrol car in Brooklyn, the mad rush is now on to indict a wide range of co-conspirators and "real killers." This is a tired and worn-out gambit and its high point (that is, low point) has already probably been reached in the Twitter feed of ... MOREThe Trials of Growing Up in a Police State
by John W. Whitehead. After a year dominated with news of police shootings of unarmed citizens (including children), SWAT team raids gone awry, photo ops of militarized police shouldering assault rifles while perched on top of armored vehicles, and reports on how the police are using asset forfeiture laws to pad their pockets with luxury cars, ... MOREMichael Hursh: The Great Police Violence Cover-Up
Most departments refuse to divulge the data. "Have a 20-year-old son, and I have a 12-year-old son, and I’m so
afraid for them. … This is about a war machine. It is us against the
[expletive] machine!” —Rapper Killer Mike. Perhaps the saddest thing is: We don’t really know what the truth is. We don’t really know if Killer Mike—his voice breaking ... MOREOver A Thousand People Are Killed By Police Every Year
by Joshua Krause. It seems like I can’t go a single day without hearing about someone being
shot and killed by a police officer. It’s become so commonplace in
America, that the news rarely makes national headlines unless police
abuse is suspected; and sometimes not even then. Unless you follow
organizations like Copblock, you’ll only hear about a ... MORE
Rob Hustle: Man Calls Suicide Hotline, Then Cops Kill Him
There must be strict laws against suicide. On October 21st, 2014, Jose Calzada, a 35 year old resident of Roy, Utah, was shot to death by a SWAT team after calling a suicide hotline for help: Jose Calzada called the hotline around 4 a.m. on Tuesday threatening to kill himself inside the home he shared with his girlfriend and her children ... MOREThe Police Are Still Out of Control (I Should Know)
by Frank Serpico. In the opening scene of the 1973 movie “Serpico,” I am shot in the face—or to be more accurate, the character of Frank Serpico, played by Al Pacino, is shot in the face. Even today it’s very difficult for me to watch those scenes, which depict in a very realistic and terrifying way what actually happened to me on Feb. 3, 1971. ... MORE
Grant Duwe: The Truth About Mass Public Shootings
Why do the numbers appear to be going up? Because previous shootings have been underreported. The findings from two separate reports
released in the last month—one
by the FBI and the other by progressive investigative media
outlet
Mother Jones—have been offered up as evidence that
"mass shootings" are occurring more ... MOREDEA Shoots Grandmother During Fruitless Drug Raid
by Ed Krayewski. Lilian Alonzo, a 49-year-old grandmother, was shot while trying to pick up an infant grandchild during a by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Manchester, New Hampshire, according to her son. Police in raids elsewhere arrested two of Alonzo's daughters in an oxycodone ring but neither of them lived with ... MOREDeath Penalty For Man Who Defends Self In No-Knock Raid?
State wants to kill him for protecting his home. Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against a man charged in the shooting death of a veteran Killeen police officer. Marvin Louis Guy, 49, has been indicted for capital murder in the shooting death of police Detective Charles “Chuck” Dinwiddie, 47, and is named in indictments charging ... MORE"The Police Force Is Watching The People"
by Sheldon Richman. Political philosophy — the libertarian philosophy included — can take you only so far. The libertarian philosophy provides grounds for condemning aggression, that is, the initiation of force, and along with some supplemental considerations, it identifies in the abstract what constitutes aggression, victimhood, and ... MORE
NBC: Man Shot, Paralyzed Over Unpaid Parking Tickets
Police state 2014 update. A man was shot Thursday morning in Lehigh County when a Pennsylvania State Constable tried to serve him with a warrant over unpaid parking tickets. The constable told the district attorney he felt his life was in danger as he tried to serve 38-year-old Kevin McCullers. McCullers, who had 31 outstanding parking ... MOREYour Drug Warriors At Work: Florida SWAT Team Shoots Teen Girl & Kills Dog During Pot Raid On The Wrong House
from InformationLiberation: Orange County, Florida sheriff's deputies waging an armed raid for a suspected pot dealer entered a family's home guns blazing and shot a teen girl and her dog, only to find out the suspect they were looking for hadn't lived in the home for weeks -- despite their claim to have "surveilled" the home extensively ... MORECaught 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
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