Albert Woodfox, last remaining prisoner of the Angola Three, seeks to sue prison authorities for constitutional rights violations Nadia Prupis | CommonDreams.org After 41 Years in Solitary, ‘Angola Three’ Prisoner Renews Fight for Justice After serving more than 41 years in solitary confinement, the longest sentence in isolation ever served by …
Read More »Criticizing Cops in New York is a Hate Crime
Rosella Best spray-painted “NAZIS = NYPD”and instead of being charged with vandalism, the NYPD arrested her for a hate crime. Speaking Ill of the Police is a “Hate Crime” William Norman Grigg | LewRockwell.com The NYPD has now added its name to the roster of Officially Protected Victims by filing “hate …
Read More »Tennis Legend John McEnroe Waterboarded In Controversial Video Exposing the Police State
“It’s a pretty powerful clip,” says McEnroe. Los Angeles, CA (September 2, 2014) – Former Wimbledon champ JOHN McENROE gets waterboarded in “Clockwork,” a controversial new video from electronic rock band FUTURE USER centered around police militarization. Shot at an undisclosed location in Los Angeles, CA, the disturbing clip sees …
Read More »Police Arrest Young Black Politician For Distributing Voting Rights Leaflets
ThinkProgress.org | by Alice Ollstein CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA—The stars of North Carolina’s Moral Mondays movement took the stage on Labor Day at Charlotte’s Marshall Park to condemn the state’s record on voter suppression and racial profiling, and urge the community to organize and turn out at the polls this November. …
Read More »Where are the Class Action Lawsuits Against the Ones Responsible for Militarizing the Police?
Other than the endless wars cooked up in Washington by the neoconservative warmongers, the police are the greatest threat that Americans face. The police do not protect anyone. They get their jollies murdering, beating, and tasering American citizens. We would be much safer without the police. Paul Craig Roberts Goon …
Read More »Cop Cam: Ferguson Police to Wear Body Cameras
Following the shooting death of black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer, which sparked three weeks of protests and violence, officers in Ferguson, Missouri, are now wearing body cameras to film their work. RT.com Members of the Ferguson Police department wear body cameras during a rally August 30, …
Read More »In Florida, Non-Submission to a Police Beating is “Attempted Murder”
Every day, somewhere in this supposedly free county, some version of this script is played out: A police officer spies an individual committing a harmless but “illegal” act, aggressively pursues the subject, inflicts physical violence on the victim, then escalates that violence to lethal or nearly lethal levels when the …
Read More »Washington, DC protesters block streets in Michael Brown solidarity march
“We’re just three weeks into this, and this is only the beginning of this movement.” RT.com A crowd of protesters has taken to the streets of Washington, DC, expressing their solidarity with the people of Ferguson who gathered earlier on Saturday in remembrance of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager …
Read More »‘Vampire’ Cops to Establish Nazi-style Checkpoints Over Labor Day Weekend
Checkpoints, ‘no refusal’ blood draws now standard fare during national holidays The police state will be rolling out in full force this Labor Day weekend, as police departments in several states prepare to violate their citizens’ Fourth Amendment protections, under the guise of keeping drunk drivers off the road. Adan …
Read More »Federal Cybersecurity Director Convicted of Child Porn Charges
The former acting director of cyber security for the United States Department of Health and Human Services was convicted this week on child pornography charges upon completion of a four-day federal trial in Nebraska. RT.com On Tuesday, the US Department of Justice announced that Timothy DeFoggi, 56, was convicted by …
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