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NewsObserver.com Jim Wise Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez broke his silence Wednesday on the death of a teenager in the back seat of a police car with a brief news conference that raised more questions about the Nov. 19 incident and drew an immediate rebuke from an attorney for the …

A Youtube video has surfaced from a DUI arrest on a 70 year old women that turns bad when Kevin Jones (badge #149) of the Glynn County police is trying to cuff the woman. She was taken down, and did not have her arms to break the force that Jones …

The increase in police brutality in this country is a frightening reality. In the last decade alone the number of  people murdered by police has reached 5,000. The number of soldiers killed since the inception of the Iraq war, 4489. What went wrong? In the 1970’s SWAT teams were estimated …

Welcome Back, Killer William Norman Grigg LewRockwell.com (With apologies to John Sebastian) Welcome back — your badge was your ticket out…. Erick Gelhaus, the Sonoma County, California Sheriff’s Deputy who gunned down 13-year-old Andy Lopez on October 22, has returned to “duty.” Gelhaus and an unidentified deputy spotted Lopez walking …

‘If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.’ -George Orwell   TomDispatch.com By Chase Madar If all you’ve got is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail. And if police and prosecutors are your only tool, sooner or …

The war on drugs has reached a new low. 22 students at one high school alone, most of which were special needs students, were targeted in a highly disreputable ‘sting’ operation. Children that have a hard time making friends because of their special needs, are easy prey for cops trying …

Another tragic police shooting happened last week in San Antonio. A 23 year old college student and prior valedictorian, Cameron Redus, was killed by a University of the Incarnate police officer Thursday night. Redus was pulled over for allegedly speeding when the situation escalated into the officer firing multiple shots …

A good Samaritan with a camera helped in catching an off-duty Detroit Police Officer and his former DPD accomplice, who were involved in a pistol-whipping and robbery outside a Citgo gas station. It was originally thought that the men conducting the robbery were impersonating police officers. Then, according to DPD Chief …

“You wanna grow up and be a man, look at me like a f****** man….You want to act like a bunch of hellions and she can’t f****** focus on what she’s doing…You want to act like crazy a**holes, do it at home!” screams Officer John Gurrieri to a bus full …

New York Times  By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.  An unarmed, emotionally disturbed man shot at by the police as he was lurching around traffic near Times Square in September has been charged with assault, on the theory that he was responsible for bullet wounds suffered by two bystanders, according to …