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.
A Nevada cop who pulled a woman over for speeding ended up dragging her out of the car after she refused to roll her window down all the way, even though she had already rolled it down halfway and had already handed the cop her driver license.
But the Carson City police officer insisted she roll the window al the way down because he was finding ... (more)
Cultural commentator Mark Dice returns with another video highlighting how the combination of the cult of personality and general ignorance can lead Americans to agree with any ridiculous statement one can think of.
This time Dice, donning his Obama t-shirt once more, has passers by agreeing with him that it is a good idea for the German Communi... (more)
Utah is considering a bill that would allow patients with certain debilitating conditions to be treated with edible forms of marijuana. If the bill passes, the state's wildlife may "cultivate a taste" for the plant, lose their fear of humans, and basically be high all the time. That's according to testimony presented to a Utah Senate panel (time stamp 58:00) last week by an age... (more)
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.
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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)
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)
Washington Parish, LA — A man’s 30-second cell phone video has helped to expose an ominously plotted conspiracy within the Louisiana “justice” system.
Two years ago, Douglas Dendinger, 47, accepted an offer of $50 to act as a process server. All he would have to do is hand an envelope containing a lawsuit alleging police brutality to Chad Cassard, a former Bogalusa police officer.
Everything went smoothly. Dendinger handed the envelope off to the former cop in front... (more)
Amherst, MA– University of Massachusetts Amherst student, Thomas Donovan, who is majoring in legal studies and had planned to become a Massachusetts State Trooper, has filed a lawsuit alleging his civil rights were violated after he was pepper sprayed, assaulted, and arrested for filming police brutality.
The officer also repeatedly stomped on his cellphone in an attempt to destroy the evidence and cover up the crime- but the video survived.
A Houston police officer is coming under fire for his actions captured on camera during an encounter with an open-carry activist.
The video, uploaded to Youtube Monday by gun rights group Open Carry Texas, depicts a Houston police officer approaching, then harassing a man who is openly displaying an AR 15 rifle, which is perfectly legal in Texas.
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Baltimore, Maryland – In recent weeks, we have been reporting on a number of disturbing cases where school police officers have brutally attacked small children and even senior citizens in some instances.
The Baltimore City School District is one of the places where these attacks have recently occurred, and now they are considering allowing the school police officers to carry guns.
Supporters of the measure have argued that this would offer more protection against o... (more)
Baltimore, MD — A Baltimore police officer is being investigated after a cell phone video exposed his attempt to bully an innocent man.
Had the camera not been recording the police interaction of 19-year-old Antonio Moore a jury would have most assuredly convicted him of the charges he faces for being assaulted by a cop.
After he had been punched in the face, Moore was then arrested and charged with second-degree assault and disorderly conduct.
The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.
The facility, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago's west... (more)
Those were the words uttered by Orlando police officer Peter Delio, after kneeing a non-resisting handcuffed suspect in the stomach so hard he rupturing his spleen.
As this newly released video shows, the only "resistance" 40-year-old Robert Liese could have put up was the resistance his abdominal muscles showed when faced with an unprovoked pounding.
Officer Delio had already cost the city $15,000 in a previous settle... (more)
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.
Fresno, California – 78-year-old grandmother Mary Poole was brutally assaulted and pepper-sprayed by a police officer when she attempted to deliver cupcakes to her grandchildren at school.
The children’s parents are in the midst of a divorce and custody battle, so Mary wanted to do something nice for the children. She decided to deliver a gift in a neutral setting.
“I hadn’t seen my granddaughters for some time and I wanted to see them, and so I baked some cupcakes ... (more)
Twenty-five year old Terry Gillenwater will not be holding up any more pharmacies. That's because he was shot dead while committing an armed robbery at the Good Family Pharmacy in Pinch, West Virginia.
Gillenwater entered the pharmacy wearing a mask, pulled out a gun, and aimed it at the people behind the counter. What he didn't know was one of those people, pharmacist Don Radcliff, had a concealed-carry permit and was armed. Radcliff immediately took out his pistol, aimed it at G... (more)
Ft. Lauderdale, FL– A video uploaded to YouTube on Sunday shows Fort Lauderdale police officer Victor Ramirez harassing and assaulting an elderly gentleman at the Broward Bus Terminal in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The man is not being aggressive or threatening in any way when he is shoved to the ground and slapped by the officer. The man was reportedly trying ... (more)
Vista, CA– Antonio Martinez is 22 years old, but doctors say he has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old.
Sheriff’s Deputy Jeffrey Guy was unfazed by the fact that Martinez has down syndrome, and it didn’t stop this cop from beating the 4"² 11"³, 158 pound man during an unlawful detainment.
Guy stopped Martinez for the “crime” of pulling up the hood on his bl... (more)
Armed only with a clipboard, a pen and an Obama T-shirt, activist Mark Dice succeeded in getting Americans to sign a petition without even telling them what it was for or why he was asking for their support.
Dice regularly highlights how brainwashed many Americans are by asking them to sign ridiculous phony petitions. This time, however, he garnered many signatures without even bothering to explain what it was the people were signing.
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Key West, Florida– A shocking video uploaded to YouTube on Sunday shows an elderly gentleman with his hands up, posing no risk or threat to the officers, get tased in front of horrified witnesses.
The video, taken by a witness who was with his family on their way to Key West, shows officers yelling at people to get out of their vehicle. The el... (more)
A five year Air Force veteran is suing two Orlando police officers and the city after video emerged of one of the officers viciously beating him, while the other turned away to avoid capturing footage on a body cam he was wearing.
Refus Holloway was attacked after police were called to the scene where the veteran was attempting to break up a fi... (more)
A TRUCK driver has found out the hard way that you don’t need to be caught by a radar to be booked for speeding in New South Wales.
Chris Smith was driving a B-Double on the Newell Highway on Saturday when was pulled over by a Highway Patrol officer as part of Operation Drink Drive at about 5.10pm.
Habersham County, GA — Sheriff Joey Terrell and one of his deputies were shot and injured while responding to a domestic violence complaint that involved another officer.
Terrell has been the subject of a number of reports at The Free Thought Project, because he is the law enforcement official who authorized the “no knock raid” that maimed and nearly killed a young toddler. ... (more)
Laredo, TX– The officers involved in the fatal shooting of Jose Garza, 30, who suffered from schizophrenia, last August have been cleared of any wrongdoing, both criminally and professionally. They have now returned to the force.
Back in August, police arrived at a truck stop after receiving a call about a man with a gun. Witnesses, however, say th... (more)
"I am fighting for my son," says Lyn Ulbricht, the mother of 30-year-old Ross Ulbricht, who faces life in prison as the alleged creator and operator of "Silk Road," an illicit online marketplace that was shut down by the feds last year. "But [this fight] is bigger than Ross, and I think one website is far less dangerous than the government trampling on our rul... (more)
