Russell J Matson Is it a crime to decorate your car like a vehicle from one of your favorite movies? This case is definitely  “more than meets the eye.” Or maybe less. My client accused of impersonating a police officer for decaling his Maserati to look like Barricade from Transformers. On …

You go inside right now…it’s a lawful order…go inside right now”   In Gresham, Oregon, a man was filming a heavily militarized SWAT raid on his iPad from across the street, when he was assaulted by 1st Amendment violating thugs dressed in Kevlar.    According to the man who uploaded …

The Pentagon’s 1033 program, which allows the Defense Department to unload its excess military equipment onto local police forces, has quietly overflowed onto college campuses.   HANNAH K. GOLD | VICE NEWS In 1968, students at Columbia University staged a mass uprising other college campuses in protesting not just the war …

Her detention is “characteristic of a pattern and practice of the NYPD in aggressive over policing of people of color and persons lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights.” RT.com A Muslim woman, and human rights lawyer has taken her accusations of NYPD’s abuse and racism to court, following her violent detention …

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 …

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 …

“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 …

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. …

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 …

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, …