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CHICAGO  – South suburban Country Club Hills will pay $700,000 to settle a federal lawsuit claiming a police officer wrongfully shot a teenager who then spent 14 months in jail before he was found not guilty of attempted murder. Abeid Armour was 17 when a Country Club Hills police officer …

“I’m gonna hurt you more!” “You’re gonna get fucked up!” April 10, 2014 Springettsbury Township will pay $250,000 to each of two people whose brutal beatings were caught on video. The two people involved were Debra Williams and Steven Landis. Landis’ lawsuit claimed he was stopped by police while walking …

April 12, 2014 When Ted  installed his Timetec Roadhawk Dashcam, he was simply trying to defend himself in court against unlawful traffic stops. He had no idea that it would capture a wreck between him and a border patrol van. But that is exactly what happened. According to his blog …

War of words over standoff with feds intensifies Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com April 11, 2014 Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins has caused outrage by remarking that Utahns planning to travel to Nevada to support Cliven Bundy in his standoff against the feds “better have funeral plans”. Image: Tom Collins (YouTube). …

April 11. 2014 Filming police is one of the few ways to prove abuse of police power. Back in the summer of 2007, a police officer named Salvatore Rivieri in Baltimore decided to use his position to harass some skateboarding kids in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor area. As part of his …

from the apparently,-LISTENING-is-believing dept April 11, 2014 by Tim Cushing Tech Dirt Seeing how often official reports by law enforcement are contradicted by video recordings, you’d think judges would have become a bit more skeptical about the supposed “superiority” of officers’ recall powers. But that’s apparently not the case, at …

April 11, 2014 By Joseph Serna LA Times The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department acknowledged Thursday that its deputies mistakenly shot and killed a aspiring TV producer they thought was a stabbing suspect. In fact, John Winkler, 30, had gone to a neighbor’s apartment Monday night on Palm Avenue in …

Bundy family member tasered by BLM agents Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com April 10, 2014 Bureau of Land Management agents assaulted a cancer victim, set a dog on a pregnant woman and tasered Ammon Bundy during a confrontation yesterday as the dispute between Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy, his supporters and …

April 10. 2014 A family was on their private property, shooting their legally owned guns, legally, when police showed up in response to a call. No laws were being broken and as soon as the cops realized this, they should have vacated the property. But this is not what happened. …

April 9, 2014 Another disturbing video has surfaced of a cop brutalizing a child at school. A Santa Ana School Police Department officer is at the center of controversy after a concerned citizen, Elvia Fernández, filmed him putting a crying young boy in a chokehold. In the clip, we see a man …