“Retinal obfuscation” gun a new tool for militarized law enforcement A firm that provides non-lethal equipment to law enforcement is set to release a new “compliance weapon” that temporarily blinds targets for up to 15 minutes, amidst a national conversation about the militarization of police in the aftermath of unrest …
Read More »When Police Fear the Police, It’s High Time Americans Have this Conversation
“We gassed non-threatening, non-violent protesters,” replied the former Chief of Police. Let’s not kid ourselves anymore America. What we are calling the militarization of of police has already taken place, on a large scale. We are now seeing a domestic military, pretending to be a police force. To help solidify this …
Read More »Judge With Anti- Drinking and Driving Message Arrested For Hit & Run on a Bus While Drinking and Driving
He engaged in a high speed chase with police, which eventually ended with a police helicopter following him and tracking his vehicle down. Judge Dean L. Wilson of Perry County, Ohio got in a car accident while drunk last week, and was charged with a DUI. Wilson is well known …
Read More »This Guy’s Awesome Car Got Him Charged with Impersonating a Police Officer
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 …
Read More »Man Assaulted and Arrested for Filming Militarized Police Raid, From Across the Street
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 …
Read More »The Pentagon is Giving Grenade Launchers to Campus Police
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 …
Read More »Cop Resigns over Texts About ‘N*ggers,’ ‘Pulling a Ferguson’
A Baton Rouge police officer has resigned after it was discovered that he allegedly sent a string of extremely racist text messages. When the messages were exposed, Michael Elsbury, who has been with the department for about 15 years, resigned. Saturday night Mediaite posted a photo of Elsbury on their twitter. …
Read More »Muslim Lawyer Sues NYPD After Being Arrested for ‘Blocking the Sidewalk’ During Pro-Palestinian Rally
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 …
Read More »8-Year-Old Girl Tased by Cops: State Attorney Claims It Was The Best Option
“Deploying a taser was the best viable way to diffuse the situation.” Pierre, S.D.- In October of 2013, four officers responded to a 911 call by a babysitter that an 8-year-old girl had a knife and was trying to cut herself. The family disputes the contention that the girl was …
Read More »Dear Internet, Not Mad Enough at Cops? An Officer in Maine Shot a Cat
Its not just dogs and the unarmed who make officers “fear for their lives,” another innocent victim has been shot by police; this time it was a cat. After calling for backup because he believed the animal may be rabid, Gorham Police Department Lt. Christopher Sanborn opened fire on the …
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