Pin ItemailprintHere’s some shocking footage from Occupy DC on Sunday. U.S. Park Police used a taser on a protester who was doing nothing and who had his hands in the air. Police say he was tearing down fliers warning protesters about the ban on camping in McPherson Square. Police added that the unidentified individual was [...]
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Here’s something that will probably creep you out. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has quietly released details of its plans to monitor Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks. The plans show that the FBI is doing so in order to better respond to crises, and to possibly even predict them. Hello, “Minority Report”. A document [...]
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UPDATE: The Supreme Court has basically overturned this ruling The all-out assault on your civil rights continues. There goes the Fourth Amendment too. A federal judge in Missouri has ruled that the FBI didn’t need to obtain a search warrant to covertly attach a GPS device to a suspect’s vehicle in order to track his [...]
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Sunday will mark the beginning of a brand new year, and with it will come the enactment of several new laws that were passed in 2011. In all, almost 40,000 laws were passed in 2011, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Many of these new 2012 laws go into effect on New Year’s [...]
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Here’s another fine moment for those who’ve pledged to “serve and protect,” as police at the University of California – Davis pepper-sprayed Occupy protesters who were peacefully sitting passively on a sidewalk. As seen in the video above, one on-looker seems to know what’s coming and warns the protesters to protect themselves and close their [...]
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Google has been asked by a U.S. law enforcement agency to remove several videos exposing police brutality from YouTube, the company revealed in its latest update to an online transparency report. Another request filed by a different agency required Google to remove videos allegedly defaming law enforcement officials. The two requests were among 92 submissions [...]
In Orlando, Florida, some activists were arrested last week for having the audacity to feed the homeless. The Orlando cops certainly have the full support of this guy. He says no matter what the laws are, he’s happy the police blindly enforce them, even by using lethal force if necessary. Gee, I wonder if he’s [...]
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Kenneth Wright has no criminal record and had no reason to believe a California S.W.A.T team would be breaking down his door at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. “I look out of my window and I see 15 police officers,” Wright said. Wright came downstairs in his boxers as a S.W.A.T team broke down his [...]
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God, I love this. There is nothing more maddening that cruising along down the highway, only to get stuck behind some asshat going 50 m.p.h. in the left lane. Do they ever pull over and let you by? Rarely. They figure it’s their God-given RIGHT to be in the left lane, damn it. Luckily, if [...]
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Sgt. Andrew Davenport, a highway patrol officer in Utah, has been put on leave due to dash-cam video showing him punching Darla Wright, a 53-year-old woman, multiple times during a traffic stop. The footage was captured back in in August, according to CNN. The incident is under investigation and Davenport is on paid administrative leave, [...]
Ah, more taser fail madness. A Cincinnati police officer is in hot water after he used a taser on woman who was on her knees with her hands in the air. Celeste Thomas was a passenger in an automobile that was involved in an accident when Officer Anthony Plummer decided that her submission to his [...]
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Police in Wyoming repeatedly tasered a 76-year-old man who was riding on an antique tractor during a local town parade because the tractor accidentally bumped a police vehicle. Bud Grose was tasered repeatedly after his 1958 John Deere tractor accidentally bumped a police car in the annual Deer Creek Days parade on August 1. Here’s [...]
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