by Ryan Cooper. 50 years of failure is enough. One of the many depressing aspects of the 2004 election was the crushing defeat of pro-gay marriage forces. Republican operatives, cynically stoking turnout with outright lies, put gay marriage bans on the ballot in 11 states, every one one of which was passed overwhelmingly. So it's jarring that gay ... MORE
Showing posts with label violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label violence. Show all posts
The Beginning Of The End Of The War On Drugs
by Ryan Cooper. 50 years of failure is enough. One of the many depressing aspects of the 2004 election was the crushing defeat of pro-gay marriage forces. Republican operatives, cynically stoking turnout with outright lies, put gay marriage bans on the ballot in 11 states, every one one of which was passed overwhelmingly. So it's jarring that gay ... MORETyranny: An Essential Feature of Socialism
by Doug Reich. I recently heard a television pundit lament the likely outcome of his own prediction that the liberally biased media, after a temporary fit of outrage over the egregious scandals engulfing the Obama administration, will return to its sycophantic posture just in time for the next election cycle. While I agree with this prediction, the more ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: The Only Truly Compliant, Submissive Citizen In A Police State Is A Dead One
"Serve and protect" has become "comply or die." Americans as young as 4 years old are being leg shackled, handcuffed, tasered and held at gun point for not being quiet, not being orderly and just being childlike—i.e., not being compliant enough. Americans as old as 95 are being beaten, shot and killed for questioning an order, ... MOREPolice Brutality Can't Be Overlooked Any Longer
by Nadiah Abuswai. Truly senseless violence. Martese Johnson, 20, was beaten by police outside Trinity Irish Pub in Charlottesville, Va., March 18. Police officers beat the University of Virginia junior over a suspicion that he was using a fake I.D. to get into the pub. A video shows police after forcing Johnson to the ground and handcuffing him, while ... MOREGRAPHIC VIDEO: Homeless Man Killed By LA Cops
Justifiable force? You decide. WARNING: Graphic violence and language.
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 ... MORENo 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 ... MOREMatt 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 ... MOREThe 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 ... MORENJ 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, ... MOREUnion 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. ... MOREJohn 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 ... MOREMassachusetts 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
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