Pasco, WA– Police in Pasco, Washington, on Wednesday, made a ridiculous claim. They stated that a citizen’s video that showed them killing unarmed Antonio Zambrano-Montes, 35, as he ran away, could not be used as evidence.
The video, which was published to YouTube on February 11, captured the shooting very clearly and had been viewed over 1,600,000 times as of Thursday February 19.
Zambrano-Montes’ shooting marks the fourth killing by Pasco police in less than a yea... (more)
Green Bay, Wisconsin – A news team in Wisconsin recently discovered that applicants for police jobs throughout the state have declined sharply over the past year. Target 2 News in Green Bay decided to go around to their local police departments and ask them to actually dig through their records for an accurate count of how many people have been applying for jobs over the past few years.
They discovered that in some areas, interest in police jobs dropped by nearly 50 percent in the... (more)
Prosecutors have dropped the charges against a Sunset Park fruit vendor who was arrested for assault and resisting arrest last fall after a cellphone video contradicted the police account, and proved that the officer who accused him couldn’t have witnessed the crimes he supposedly committed.
Police arrested Jonathan Daza on Sept. 14 following a ... (more)
Metairie, LA — A cell phone video captured the brutal beating of a high school student by a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Deputy.
On Friday night, Brady Becker, 17, found himself laying on his back in front of the Lakeside Mall in Metairie. A cop was on top of him, pummelling his face.
According to the police, this star receiver who’s a Junior at St. Charles Catholic High, had exchanged words with a group of deputies just prior to a fight ensuing.
Riviera Beach cops broke a 90-year-old woman's door down and threw a flashbang into her home as part of a violent drug raid, yet they found no drugs.
While the local media are suggesting the raid must have been on the wrong home, the police are insisting they got the right address and say just because the woman didn't know drugs were being sold at her home doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Seeing as there's no actual evidence any drugs were sold at her home, we are... (more)
St. Louis, MO — A former Bellefontaine Neighbors police officer has come out of the quota closet and is exposing the department’s highly unethical revenue collection scheme.
Ten-year veteran of the force, officer Joe St. Clair was ordered to carry out a policy that he says required cops to issue a certain number of traffic tickets, and even traffic arrests. If the cops failed to do it, they cou... (more)
Carnell Alexander says he got a shock during a traffic stop in Detroit in the early 1990s. The officer told him he is a deadbeat dad, and that he was under arrest.
The problem? Carnell didn’t have any kids.
He’d been made dad by default after an ex listed him as father w... (more)
An elderly man in North Texas chose incarceration over paying a fine after committing an act of compassion he didn’t consider to be a crime.
Gainesville resident David Parton, 76, languished in the Cooke County jail for nine days after feeding nine stray cats in violation of a city ordinance prohibiting the act.
Wichita, KS– A Wichita mother and local business owner has taken to YouTube to express her anger over a violent no-knock raid that occurred on Friday morning at the home she owns and rents to her son and his friends.
Taylor Tymony, 22, and Michael Kostelecky, 21, were home on Friday around 10 am. That’s when officers, armed with rifles burst through the unlocked door to the home they share with another friend, with a battering ram.
An award-winning, nationally recognized teacher gave a "mic-dropping" speech that ends with the announcement of her teaching resignation at Elyria, OH public schools.
Stacie Starr was not just any teacher, however. She was the number one finalist in 2014's “Live with Kelly and Michael” 'Top Teacher' award, a people's choice and enviable contest of sorts. It's like the "American Idol" for teacher contestants, and it drove her into the national limelight. This prompted many news seg... (more)
St. Louis, MO — A lawsuit was filed, and charges have been dropped after dash cam video was released showing St. Louis cops turning off their cameras prior to further assaulting an 18-year-old man.
The retired schoolteacher is the latest to fall victim to the Garden State’s gun laws — the 72-year-old is facing up to 10 years in prison for having an antique flintlock pistol in his car.
In this exclusive report, his attorney notes that VanGilder is facing the same felony charge... (more)
A cop who has been fired and now faces third-degree assault charges after brutally paralyzing a 74 year old man has received support from an online campaign that has already raised over $3000.
In a bizarre turn of events, an Indiegogo campaign has been set up by pro-police supporters for Officer Eric Parker of Madison, Ala... (more)
New York, NY– YouTube prankster Valeriy Abramov, the man who brought you Officer Oinkie McBacon is at it again, and this time, he is farting- or at least pretending to, at the police.
In his latest video for his channel, ValTV, Abramov is pushed, intimidated, and threatened, for the apparent crime of having gas (or seeming to).
“Soylent green is people!” appears to be a movie quote forgotten by many Americans given that some of them signed a petition to have it added to the Michelle Obama school lunch program.
The famous line comes from the 1973 film Soylent Green starring Charlton Heston. The plot revolves around a dystopian future in which an oppressed population is... (more)
A mother in Richmond County, concerned that her son was falling into bad company, asked a local Sheriff's deputy to help set the 12-year-old boy on a straight path by talking to him. Instead, the cop opted to handcuff the child to a pole and beat him senseless.
Deputy Alton Walter has been fired and arrested following the incident, during which he is also alleged to have electrocuted the child with a taser.
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Video has been released showing a Madison, Alabama police officer partially paralyzing an elderly Indian man for the crime of being "suspicious" while taking a morning walk.
57-year-old Sureshbhai Patel, who does not speak English, had come to America to help his son and his wife take care of their new 17-month-old baby boy.
... (more)
NBC's Law & Order SVU took on the "GamerGate" controversy by portraying GamerGaters as ISIS-style terrorists who hate and rape women. If you think most government propaganda is overboard, watch and marvel at what the private sector can create.
Question: When do you know that you live in a tyranny?
Answer: When the citizens vote to ban red light cameras and the city reacts by suing them.
St. Charles County, MO — St. Peters, O'Fallon, Lake St. Louis, and a councilman from O'Fallon have filed a lawsuit against their OWN CITIZENS.
In November of last year, the citizens of St. Charles County democratically expressed their anger with the use of red light cameras in their town. S... (more)
California deputies confronted a group of teens parked on the side of a residential road, accusing them of “suspicious activity” because they were in a “gang neighborhood.”
But it was also the same neighborhood where one of the teens lived. That teen, the one in the backseat doing the talking, made it clear he was not a gang member. That he was ... (more)
During a unique conversation hosted by the New School and the New York Times on Thursday, the three people most responsible for bringing the story of mass global surveillance programs orchestrated by the U.S. National Security Agency were brought together for the first time since they first met in a Hong Kong hotel in 2013.... (more)
Pasco, WA — A man was publicly executed by Pasco police Tuesday as dozens of witnesses, including children, watched in horror.
A cell phone video uploaded to Facebook Wednesday shows several officers chasing down the fleeing man, who had his hands in the air, and then firing multiple rounds at him.
Police have not yet released the man’s identity.
The stop occurred after the man was acting erratically by the roadway. Officers were responding to a comp... (more)
Espańola, NM– An Espańola middle school principal Robert Archuleta, is contacting the FBI to try to get a student expelled after some students were caught misbehaving, and one 14-year-old allegedly took it too far.
Four rambunctious students were throwing workbooks and erasers out of their 8th-grade classroom window, when one student grabbed the flag and tossed it out the window and into the snow with the other items.
... (more)
Convicted on all counts, said the jury in the case of Ross Ulbricht, the man who built the original Silk Road website. He faces a minimum of 30 years in prison and a maximum of life.
Never mind that the online drug-distribution market is bigger than ever, and that there are dozens of newer and more polished versions of the Silk Road. It is inconceivable that they will ever go away in this digital age. And the administrators have learned from this trial. They will be more careful ... (more)
Madison police last week roughed up a 57-year-old Indian citizen who was walking on the sidewalk outside his son's home, leaving the older man temporarily paralyzed and hospitalized with fused vertebrae.
"He was just walking on the sidewalk as he does all the time," said his son, Chirag Patel, this morning. "They put him to the ground."
No crime had been committed. Madison Police on Monday issued a statement saying the department had suspended the officer and were i... (more)
State officials in North Carolina have launched an investigation after a police officer in Gastonia shot and killed a 74-year-old man while performing a welfare check.
Gastonia police Chief Robert Helton explained at a press conference on Sunday that a family member had asked officers to check on James Howard Allen on Saturday afternoon, The Charlotte Observer reported.
Helton said that Allen’s family had asked for the welfare check because the 74-year-old vete... (more)
Precedents exist for requiring citizens to produce special ID for domestic travel; they include Nazi Germany, apartheid South Africa and Russia (both Imperial and Soviet).
Over the Christmas season, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) quietly announced that America was walking down that path. By 2016, all domestic air travel will require either a traditional passport or a federally-compliant ID card called “Real ID.” State driver's licenses will no longer allow ... (more)
