Wyoming Governor Vetoes Asset Forfeiture Bill, Because Asset Forfeiture 'Is Right'
posted 03/04/2015, 8:39 PM (Techdirt)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
With the abuses of asset forfeiture being loudly publicized, there has (finally) been some legislative pushback against these abusive programs. Wyoming's legislators -- hoping to institute asset forfeiture reform -- ran into pushback themselves from the state's governor, who vetoed the popular bill (which passed out of the Senate with an 80-9 vote) when it hit his desk.
Governor Matt Mead explained his reasons for doing so in a letter to the Senate president Phil Nicholas. According to Mead, he didn't agree that Wyoming has an asset forfeiture problem and saw no reason to curtail a program that is (supposedly) so effective in fighting the Drug War.
Now, while Wyoming hasn't made splashy headlines with bogus busts, it's more likely due to the limited population than better laws or better law enforcement. Mead's letter explaining his veto contains three examples he feels prove Wyoming is better-behaved than most when it comes to separating citizens from their possessions. But none of those are particularly persuasive.
One deals with $17,000 being returned after "procedural safeguards" were ignored. The other two simply assume the seizure of funds was completely justified, even though no corresponding conviction is noted in his explanation.
In one case, a car owner denied knowing whose $327,000 was found in his vehicle. Fully justified, of course, because as Mead explains, the seized funds were spent "to enforce drug laws." In the other case, $415,000 was found in a vehicle being carried on a semi trailer full of vehicles. This, too, was taken an... (more) |
Six-Year-Old Child Suspended For Making Gun Shape With Hand
posted 03/04/2015, 8:39 PM (Infowars)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
The latest case zero tolerance madness has occurred in Colorado Springs, as a first-grader has been suspended from school for pointing his fingers in the shape of a gun.
It’s a familiar tale, as Elijah Thurston became just another in a long list of children to be punished for innocent imaginary play.
The boy allegedly made the gun shape with his hand and said, “You’re dead” while pointing at another child in his class.
Hawaii Cop Beats Man, Then Tries to Confiscate Camera From Witness
posted 03/04/2015, 8:37 PM (PINAC)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
 A Hawaiian cop was stripped of his gun and placed on desk duty after he was caught on video slamming a man to the ground before trying to seize the camera from the witness.
The incident took place on Saturday and resulted in no arrests, leaving Honolulu police officer Siave Seti Jr. with little explanation as to why he felt the need to attack a man before trying to seize a phone.
The video was posted on a local news site, which did not post the entire video, only th... (more) |
Police Chief Arrested For Brandishing Gun At Two Separate Bars
posted 03/04/2015, 8:34 PM (The Southern)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
 Orient Police Chief Joe Brown is being accused of making threats and brandishing a gun at two separate bars Saturday night in the small Franklin County town.
Brown, 39, of Herrin was arrested Monday afternoon at the sheriff’s office on charges of intimidation and official misconduct, according to a statement released by Franklin County Sheriff Donald Jones.
Sheriff Jones said his office responded to the Phillip Whiteside American Legion Post 1961 about 10:22 p.m. th... (more) |
MPD Officer Accused Of Lewd Act With Teenager
posted 03/04/2015, 8:33 PM (WREG)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis police officer accused of preying on a teenage girl was due in court Monday.
Police say Derrick Abdul Wakil, who is charged with two counts of solicitation of a minor, offered the 14-year-old girl a ride while she was walking to school.
The girl said he was dressed as a police officer and drove a marked MPD vehicle.
The girl said she was picked up at Walker and Neptune in South Memphis by Wakil, who said he would give her a ... (more) |
Federal Appeals Court Endorses Suspicionless Detention Of Air Force Officer
posted 03/03/2015, 9:59 PM (TheNewspaper)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
 An Air Force major detained at a suspicionless roadblock five years ago will not be able to sue for damages. A sharply divided Fifth Circuit US Court of Appeals panel concluded on Thursday that Border Patrol agents could hold Major Richard Rynearson indefinitely simply because they did not care for his attitude.
Rynearson was driving to work on March 18, 2010 along Highway 90 in Uvalde, Texas, when he was stopped at an immigration roadblock set up 67 miles from the border with Mex... (more) |
Teen Avoids Jail While he Watches Friends Get Sentenced for Same Crime, Because His Dad's a Cop
posted 03/03/2015, 9:59 PM (The Free Thought Project)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Westminster, CO — In Westminster, Colorado, if you spray-paint an underground tunnel, you will face jail time — unless you’re the son of a Westminster cop.
For Alex Gonzalez and his two friends, this ridiculously harsh sentence is now a reality. However, their fourth friend, Paul Damian Perez, has received a much lighter sentence of unsupervised probation.
Perez has some “pull” on the inside, his dad is Westminster police officer.
“I do know that his ... (more) |
Autopsy Contradicts Denver Police in Killing of Teenage Girl
posted 03/03/2015, 9:59 PM (PINAC)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
 Denver police claimed they killed 17-year-old Jessica Hernandez because they were in fear for their lives as she drove a stolen car towards them in a narrow alleyway, striking one of the officers and leaving him injured.
But an autopsy report released last week states that police shot at her from the left side, meaning they were not in any danger of being run over.... (more) |
Denver Policeman Accused Repeatedly Of Excessive Force Taken Off Streets
posted 03/03/2015, 9:59 PM (Reuters)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
A Denver police officer who has cost the city more than $1 million to settle excessive force cases for which he was never disciplined has been pulled from street patrol, a department spokesman said on Friday.
Shawn Miller has been placed on "non-line assignment" duty pending a review of his conduct and a plan to improve his performance, Denver Police Commander Matthew Murray told Reuters.
According to internal affairs files released this week, 40 complaints have bee... (more) |
No-Knock Warrant Bill Draws Debate In Georgia
posted 03/03/2015, 9:58 PM (11 Alive)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
ATLANTA (WXIA) -- Georgia legislators are currently debating bills that would restrict police use of no-knock warrants. But some believe those bills would actually have the opposite effect.
Police reform has been a hot topic nationwide since the deaths, by police hands, of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York. Those pursuing reform are passionate about ending no-knock warrants, which allow police to enter the home of suspected criminals unannounced.... (more) |
7 Creepy Robots for Cops
posted 03/03/2015, 9:58 PM (Reason)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Cops use robots to defuse bombs, confront barricaded suspects and rescue victims during disasters. But they also use robots that can see, record and track what you are doing all day long. If you aren't paranoid by the thought of cops knowing your business, watch as Reason TV counts down 7 Creepy Robots for Cops. |
Cop Arrests Subway Musician Just To Give Him "Something To Fight For"
posted 03/02/2015, 7:10 PM (Gothamist)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Erik Meier estimates that in six years of singing and playing guitar in the subway, police have written him a summons around ten times, and each time his ticket has been dismissed. When two NYPD officers approached him on the 2nd Avenue station platform last Thursday night and told him to pack his gear, they also asked him if he'd been in trouble before. "I told her that all my tickets had been thrown out, and she said, 'Oh you like to fight your tickets, huh? We'll give you something to fight f... (more) |
Cleveland: 12-Year-Old's Police Shooting Death His Own Fault
posted 03/02/2015, 4:01 AM (CNN)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Pleading innocence, immunity and ignorance, the city of Cleveland responded to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Tamir Rice's family by saying the 12-year-old's death was his own fault.
In November, Cleveland Officer Timothy Loehmann fired the fatal shots at Tamir within two seconds of arriving outside a recreation center where the sixth-grader was playing with a pellet gun. ... (more) |
Chicagoans Detail Abusive Confinement Inside Homan Square Police 'Black Site'
posted 03/02/2015, 4:01 AM (The Guardian)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
A Chicago man says he was confined for three days – shackled, interrogated and fed only twice, his whereabouts unknown – inside the police “black site” at the epicentre of public outcry over allegations of abuse said to focus on minority citizens.
Four black Chicagoans have now come forward to the Guardian detailing off-the-books ordeals at the facility, including another who describes being detained in “a big cage” with his wrists cuffed to a bench so he couldn’t move.... (more) |
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Friday February 27th, 2015
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Man Falls Asleep On Bus, Cop Pummels And Pepper Sprays Him
posted 02/27/2015, 3:56 PM (Infowars)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
A homeless man in San Francisco was savagely beaten and pepper sprayed by a cop after falling asleep on a bus.
Video footage shows a clearly intoxicated Bernard Warren being woken by Officer Raymond Chu of SFPD. Struggling to get Warren to move, the cop becomes impatient and starts pushing Warren.
Warren, clearly not in any state to act as a threat, then tells Chu "Don't touch me. I could beat your ass," which immediately sets the officer into thug cop mode.
... (more) |
Feds Raid Texas Political Meeting; Fingerprint And Photograph All Attendees, Seize Phones
posted 02/27/2015, 3:56 PM (Police State USA)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
 BRYAN, TX — Federal and local police forces raided a political meeting, taking unusual measures to document every attendee by taking fingerprints and photographs, and seizing every cell phone and all recording equipment in the meeting hall.
The raid took place on February 14, 2015, at VFW Post 4892 in Bryan, Texas. At 10:10 a.m., an “army of policing agencies with flashing emergency lights” showed up, shut down the meeting of “congenial and unimposing” Texans and forced them to h... (more) |
Wrong Man Jailed For Child Porn; Real Suspect Can't Be Charged
posted 02/27/2015, 3:53 PM (WWLP)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
ALBION, Mich. (WOOD) — Billy Dean Rowe, who lives near Albion, Michigan is a meat cutter by trade and a married father of four who spent three nights in jail for child porn — a crime he didn’t commit.
“I was in the cell,” Rowe, 50, told Target 8. “I just laid in the bed all the time. I didn’t do anything. I didn’t do nothing. I just did a lot of praying.”
Billy Joe Rowe, 41, of Clio, who police say confessed to the child porn, never was charged and — because of mist... (more) |
Felony Murder: Why A Teenager Who Didn't Kill Anyone Faces 55 Years In Jail
posted 02/27/2015, 3:53 PM (The Guardian)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Blake Layman made one very bad decision. He was 16, an unexceptional teenager growing up in a small Indiana town. He’d never been in trouble with the law, had a clean criminal record, had never owned or even held a gun.
That decision sparked a chain of events that would culminate with his arrest and trial for “felony murder”. The boy was unarmed, had pulled no trigger, killed no one. He was himself shot and injured in the incident while his friend standing beside him was also shot... (more) |
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Thursday February 26th, 2015
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LAPD Officers Won't Be Charged In Fatal Shooting Of Corvette Driver
posted 02/26/2015, 1:06 AM (LA Times)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Prosecutors have declined to file criminal charges against three Los Angeles police officers who shot and killed an unarmed man at the end of a televised pursuit in 2013.
A Jan. 29 letter from Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey, released Monday, states there was "insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt" that Officers Armando Corral, Leonardo Ortiz and Michael Ayala "did not act in self-defense and in the defense of others" when they fatally shot Brian Beaird, a 51-year-old ... (more) |
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Wednesday February 25th, 2015
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Video Footage Counters Philadelphia Police Version of Fatal Shooting
posted 02/25/2015, 2:00 PM (RT USA)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
 New footage from a 7-Eleven convenience store surveillance camera appears to contradict the stated rationale two Philadelphia, Pennsylvania police officers gave for the Dec. 15 shooting death of Brandon Tate-Brown.
The Philadelphia Police Department has maintained that Tate-Brown was pulled over by officers because the lights of his 2014 Dodge Charger were not turned on. They say one officer was knocked to the ground in a tussle with Tate-Brown, who was then shot and killed by ano... (more) |
Think You Have The Right To Demand Police Identify Themselves? Look Closer.
posted 02/25/2015, 2:21 PM (BoingBoing)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
Many of us believe that we can ask any police officer for their name or badge number, and that a refusal to provide it is a violation of the law. We are often outraged when officers conceal their identities, especially when they are suspected of wrongdoing. But even when policy or legislation mandates that they disclose, officers rarely receive punishment if they fail to do so.
Depending on your jurisdiction, which could be city, college, county, or state, officers may have no obl... (more) |
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Tuesday February 24th, 2015
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Gun Law Should Apply Only to Commoners, Not Cops, Ohio Supremes Rule
posted 02/24/2015, 2:31 PM (InformationLiberation)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
A paranoid trigger happy cop who shot an unarmed motorcyclist in the back after he cooked up a fantasy the biker was attempting to pull a gun on him should not have been held to account under an anti-gun law mandating extra punishment for use of a gun during the commission of a crime, because despite the law as passed saying it applied to everyone, it should only apply to commoners, so says the majority on the Ohio Supreme Court.
From Cleveland.com:
COLUMB ... (more) |
SWAT Raids for Mundanes, Taxi Rides for the Elite
posted 02/24/2015, 2:31 PM (William Norman Grigg)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
 Summoned from his slumber by the insistent pounding on his front door, Mark Casterline opened his bedroom window to ask what was wanted. By way of reply a blinding spotlight was trained on him. An instant later his front door was kicked in to admit more than a dozen armed men, who dragged him naked from his bed.
“They intended to kill me,” Casterline said during an interview in the kitchen of his home outside of Ontario, Oregon. “I was sound asleep when the SWAT team showed up and... (more) |
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