Showing posts with label violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label violence. Show all posts

Home Surveillance Records Cop Assaulting And Abusing Teen Without Cause; Charges Him With Resisting Arrest

Another criminal with a badge. Police in New Jersey are investigating allegations that one of their own officers roughed up and abused a teenager, and the whole thing was caught on camera. It happened Saturday night. The cop was at the teen's house and the young man ended up handcuffed in the snow in a t-shirt and no shoes. Michael doesn't want us to use     ... MORE

No Consequences For Cop Who Killed Innocent Cooperative Man Standing In His Own Home With His Hands Raised

White privilege didn't protect John Geer.     That's not to say he didn't have it. As a middle-class kitchen designer living in the pleasant Washington suburb of Fairfax, Va., he had nothing whatsoever in common with the impoverished black men killed by police in Missouri and Brooklyn last year. Those deaths triggered riots, marches and       ... MORE

Matt Agorist: Shock Video Shows Cops Run Down Man With Cruiser, Severely Beat Him, Charge Him With Assault

Can we all agree these cops are racist?     Surveillance cameras reveal the truth. Two Philly cops have been charged with the assault of a man after surveillance footage revealed the officers lied about the incident. The laundry list of charges that Officers Kevin Robinson and Sean McKnight are facing is lengthy: Aggravated Assault, Simple    ... MORE

Matt Agorist: Good Samaritan Saves Woman’s Life After Overpowering The Cop Who Was Trying to Kill Her

Protection from predators just his day job.     Louis Mossey was driving down a county highway when the car in front of him unexpectedly swerved off the road and hit a tractor in a John Deer store parking lot. He had no idea what he was about to witness. When Mossey gets out of the vehicle to check on the wellbeing of the occupants in the     ... MORE

The Authoritarianism Of The American Police State

by Matt Peppe.   Shielding accountability. Two days before Christmas, a “thug” launched an “unprovoked attack” on a female MTA employee on a Bronx subway platform, “choking her” and causing injuries, according to the Daily News. The “hulking brute” then fled the scene, “grinning as he made his may through the turnstile.” The newspaper description  ... MORE

NJ Cops Murder Man With Hands Up At Traffic Stop

by Nina Golgowski.  A newly released video capturing the police shooting death of a New Jersey man shows an officer warning the suspect not to move or he'll be "f---ing dead" before the man steps out of his car. Jerame C. Reid, 36, is seen exiting the vehicle with his hands raised at shoulder height when a Bridgeton police officer, who recognizes  ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Obama's New Year's Irresolution

The leader of the free world is cowering before terrorism. President Barack Obama's absence from the great gathering in Paris of national leaders from other countries, to show their solidarity with France in its opposition to Islamic terrorists, was another sign of the Obama administration's continuing irresolution in the face of terror.    ... MORE

California Legislature Seeks To Reign In Police Violence

Cops likely to get cameras and lectures.     After a year in which the use of lethal force by police officers spurred nationwide protests and bared outrage about the intersection of race and law enforcement in America, California legislators have returned to Sacramento determined to pass laws blunting police violence. “It will be probably the    ... 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,   ... MORE

Union Wants Violence Against Cops To Be Hate Crimes

by Joanna Rothkopf.     The sanctity of the badge. On Monday, the National Fraternal Order of Police requested that crimes against its members be officially considered hate crimes, a classification that means harsher penalties for offenders who have targeted cops because they are cops. The union represents over 300,000 police officers.       ... MORE

John W. Whitehead : You’re Either a Cop or Little People

A bad year for the little people.  For those of us who have managed to survive 2014 with our lives intact and our freedoms hanging by a thread, it has been a year of crackdowns, clampdowns, shutdowns, showdowns, shootdowns, standdowns, knockdowns, putdowns, breakdowns, lockdowns, takedowns, slowdowns, meltdowns, and ... MORE

Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim Private Corporations Status; Contend They're Immune From Open Records Laws

by Radley Balko.    So they're NOT public servants. That explains a lot. As part of the American Civil Liberties Union’s recent report on police militarization, the Massachusetts chapter of the organization sent open records requests to SWAT teams across that state. It received an interesting response. As it turns out, a number of SWAT teams in  ... MORE

VIDEO: Malcolm Gladwell - Excessive Force

Want To Cut Police Brutality? Make Cops Pay The Price

by Bonnie Kristian. It would be good for taxpayers -- and justice. Eric Garner's family plans to sue the New York Police Department for $75 million. Tamir Rice's parents have filed a wrongful death lawsuit. Michael Brown's family may likewise launch a civil suit against the St. Louis police. No matter the outcome of these three legal actions,    ... MORE

We Should Know How Many People Die In Police Custody

by the Washington Post editorial board. The leaders of a protest movement against excessive police force are weighing their next steps, The Post’s Wesley Lowery reported this week. The assessment follows both greater success than anticipated in triggering rallies across the nation and some backlash that blamed the protests       ... MORE

The Christmas Hope: A To-Do List for a Better World

by John W. Whitehead.     As a child, my Christmas wish list came right out of the Sears and Roebuck catalogue—toys, board games, bikes, action figures, etc. My parents, like so many in their day, belonged to the working-class poor, so while I never lacked for the necessities of life, many of the items on my wish list never came to be. Even so,    ... MORE

Thomas 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   ... MORE

VIDEO: Police State America - Missouri SWAT Tactics


Would this get mainstream media coverage had the victim been black?