Badge Abuse

East Dublin, GA — A devoted husband and loving father and grandfather’s life was stolen by incompetent militarized police last month, for no reason. An attorney representing David Hooks’ widow says that the shooting did not go down as law enforcement authorities stated in initial news releases, and the “true facts …

Your chances of living in an electronically locked-down police state are very high. This is far more dangerous to what the United States was than even a successful bombing of a mall. By Fred Reed LewRockwell.com I read that Apple and Google have begun encrypting the data of customers so …

“Right here what, baby? I’m on a call.” Those were the words uttered by 28-year veteran of the Dallas PD, Cpl. Les Richardson as he drove by a mother screaming for his help as her children were being taken at gunpoint. Richardson was fired this week for his negligent actions in refusing …

You’ve probably seen old movies where the protagonist is approached by a Nazi or Soviet guard and ordered to “show your papers.” We know that’s a tell-tale sign of a police state. So if police ever ask you to show ID during your travels, it’s natural to feel violated. Flex …

Paramilitary storm troopers raid a vegetable garden in an amazing display of incompetence. Cartersville, GA — Heroic Georgia police task force, in an effort to keep the citizens of Cartersville safe from a plant, descended onto the house of a man who’d dare grow vegetables in his own yard. Dwayne …

The Florida State Attorney’s Office is investigating Orlando Police Officer William Escobar after body cam footage the department claimed didn’t exist has mysteriously surfaced. In June, a video was uploaded to YouTube which was recorded by Luciarae Fripp, the sister of 25 year old Refus Holloway, a former military police …

Cincinnati, OH — A police department in Ohio whose history more closely resembles a street gang than a police department, has been shut down. The Public Entities Pool of Ohio is an insurance group which solely provides insurance for public entities. When an entity becomes too risky to insure, that entity’s coverage …

“There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors.”—Professor …

“We’ll get CPS to take your baby!” Sandusky, OH — A mother and father were on their way home with their 2 week old baby when they were stopped by Sandusky police officers. Andre Stockett, the father and the passenger in the vehicle, and the man who took the video, …

Video has recently surfaced showing Baltimore City Police Officer Gualberto Diaz breaking down the door of a Brighton Street apartment, just before he allegedly assaulted a number of the occupants inside, while pointing his gun and making death threats. While these are the same actions that Diaz carries out in …