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Demonstrators in Oakland, California marching in solidarity with Ferguson, Missouri on Wednesday held up mirrors in the faces of police officers as a creative protest tactic. Commondreams.org “I was holding up the mirror because I wanted the police to just look at themselves,” one protester, Nichola Torbett, told KPIX 5. “Especially if …

“They are breaking the law,” said Tony Rothert, legal director of the ACLU of Missouri. Last week the Ferguson police department, after heavy pressure from journalists and civil liberties groups, finally released the incident report from the day officer Darren Wilson shot and killed unarmed teen, Michael Brown. Although they …

A police officer in a St. Louis suburb has been suspended over a series of Facebook posts, insulting Ferguson protesters, who have been rallying in condemnation of the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer. RT.com The police department in Glendale, Missouri, announced in a Friday …

To implement his latest Strategy, President Obama has requested $25.5 billion in funding for fiscal year 2015.   Bush’s National Drug Control Strategy By Laurence M. Vance LewRockwell.com The Obama administration has finally released its 2014 National Drug Control Strategy. It “builds on the foundation laid down by the Administration’s previous …

Baltimore City police have been accused of using excessive force on multiple people during a drug arrest, and using a taser on a nearby woman who was holding a baby. The police claim that the woman was not holding a baby at the time that the taser was used on …

Five hundred is more than one killing by police per day. Yet the reports of the shootings seldom get beyond the local news. Why then has the Ferguson, Missouri, police killing of Michael Brown gone international? By Paul Craig Roberts PaulCraigRoberts.org There are reports that American police kill 500 or …

“I was there on the ground! That is NOT what happened!” Talib Kweli, rapper and activist, was on CNN Thursday explaining why he is on the ground in Ferguson, doing his own reporting. Kweli explains the power of Twitter reporting, but concedes that in order for it to be effective, …

“It all seems to stem from a militarized police force threatening the rights of people to assemble.” Actor, NRA member, and special member of the Louisiana sheriff’s reserve force, Orlando Jones, has put a new spin on the Ice Bucket Challenge. Instead of donning a bucket of ice and water, …

As lawmakers in Washington, DC, consider ways to stem the flow of military equipment to local law enforcement agencies, police lobbies and organizations are firing back at the possibility. RT.com In fact, the National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) – which lobbies for 1,600 different SWAT teams in the United States …

A police officer in Mills, Wyoming was recently accused of  leaving his K-9 dog in a police car for over 6 hours on a hot day with the windows rolled up.  The dog was found dead after spending an entire hot day in the car without any water or ventilation.  …