Cops Are Cowards
It would be nice if the mythology about "the brave men and women of law enforcement," and the image of police that you see on TV and in movies, in some way resembled reality. But it doesn't.
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Cop Tells Kid "What Are You Going To Do If I Violate His Rights?" - Then He Sees Cop Watchers.
We walked up on officers harassing high school kids. Right when we go there everything changed. You can clearly hear a officer say "What are you going to do if I violate his rights?" talking about his friend they had detained. Once he seen us he got back in the car.
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This is What a High School Football Game Looks Like In a Police StatePrattville, AL — A 17-year-old high school student was having fun and talking to a girl at a football game Friday when all of the sudden a ski-masked Phenix City Police Officer comes from behind and assaults him.
Police officers were near the students because they were trying to move them back from the railing. Cameron Rader, the boy who was assaulted in the video says he was no where near the railing, and we can clearly see in the video that he was not near the railing before the... (more)
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Very Large Cop Waylays High School Girl, Chaos Ensues After Students Become Angry at the DeputySanta Maria, CA — A couple of lunchtime fights at Righetti High School Wednesday ended with police swarming the campus and 6 students arrested.
According to Kenny Klein, spokesperson for the Santa Maria Joint Union High School District, the trouble began when two female students got into a physical altercation which subsequently led to two boys fighting.
The fight apparently got messy as students began throwing food.
Two videos were taken showing a ve... (more)
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Washington Cop Attempts to Incite Photographer by Invading Personal Space
One tactic we occasionally see is when a cop stands directly in your personal space, close enough where he can kiss you, claiming he has the right to stand where he pleases -- when you know if you would do the same to him, he would fear for his life and kill you.
What they’re really doing is hoping the citizen pushes the cop off or punches him in the ... (more)
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Casino Can Steal NJ Man's Home Through Eminent Domain For No Specific Reason, Judge RulesSuperior Court Judge Julio Mendez has ruled a casino can steal a man's home through eminent domain because the state has the "authority" to do whatever it pleases.
From NJ.com:
ATLANTIC CITY — A Hammonton man's fight to keep the Atlantic City home that h ... (more)
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When the Rustlers Wear BadgesSweeney Gillette, a very successful cattle trader from Ontario, Oregon, had barely finished a pleasant chat with his ex-wife when his phone rang. In an agitated voice, Gillette's attorney reported that he had just been contacted by a Malheur County deputy District Attorney who accused the rancher of “unlawfully interfering with a witness” – namely, his ex-wife.
Since the attorney called literally seconds after Gillette had hung up, the call from the deputy DA must have come in the... (more)
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This One Police Department Shot 92 Dogs in Three Years. One of the Officers Has Killed 25 By HimselfBuffalo, NY — A high profile case of Buffalo police killing a man’s dog while looking for non-existent drugs, has led to a Freedom of Information request revealing some sadistic figures.
On June 3, 2013 Buffalo police raided a man’s home to look for crack cocaine. He was not there, nor was the crack.
The home belonged to Iraqi war veteran, Adam Arroyo and his 2-year-old pit bull Cindy.
Upon breaking down the door to Arroyo’s home, officers encountered... (more)
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Texas Trooper Vows to Send "Investigators" to Man's Home for Video Recording
A Texas state trooper threatened to send “the investigators” to a man’s house if he dared upload a video of him to Youtube.
The man uploaded the video anyway.
No word yet on whether the trooper -- who was wearing a body cam -- followed through on his promise, but he may not yet know since the video has less than 600 views since it was u... (more)
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Self-Described "Dirty" Deputy Yanks Woman Out of Car for Recording him Illegally Searching her Car
Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy pulled a woman over for a minor traffic violation, yanking her out of her car and throwing her into the back of a patrol car after she attempted to video record a deputy attempting to search her car without consent.
The incident, which took place in Temple City on November 6, left Veronica Tomas-Castro traumatized where sh... (more)
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Who Trusts This Government to Regulate the Internet?The principle of net neutrality is easy to understand and support; to treat the delivery all data equally. This has been the status quo. Works great. Few oppose that, but supporting the principle of net neutrality is not the same thing as supporting the government's plan to enforce that principle.
The alleged problem that the government claims needs fixing is that Internet service providers (ISPs) want to charge different rates to websites for different levels of data usage, often... (more)
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New Jersey Cops Pepper Spray Student for "Obstruction of Identification"
New Jersey campus police struggled to arrest a 27-year-old college student for more than seven minutes, pepper spraying him in the process, in a video going viral, never once providing probable cause, despite being asked several times.
The video begins with Brookdale Community College police trying to arrest Jeffrey Michel on a bridge while another ma... (more)
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Despite Compelling Video, Violent Past, And Multiple Lawsuits, Dept Stands Behind this "Decorated" Cop
Taunton, MA– Detective Robert Kramer of the Taunton Police Department is under investigation regarding his fifth accusation of brutality after an incident in June where he viciously assaulted a man during booking, and this time it was caught on film.
The officer, who was described in an email from Police Chief Edward James Walsh to Target 12 as ... (more)
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How Car Insurance Just Inadvertently Provided a Revolutionary New Way to Fight Speeding TicketsThe total number of people who receive speeding tickets is 41,000,000 a year with an average cost of $152.00 each. That is 1 in every 5 licensed drivers in the US.
The total number of speeding tickets paid each year $6,232,000,000.
Police and judges are completely dependent upon ‘catching’ people speeding. They need you to speed in order to make their salaries. This gives them a positive incent... (more) While I hate the idea of having someone tracking my driving, it's remarkable how ubiquitous surveillance generally serves to undermine the state rather than prop it up. - Chris, InfoLib |
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Obama in 2006: I Have Stolen Ideas From Jon Gruber LiberallyDespite his recent claim that Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber was just “some adviser who never worked on our staff,” President Obama said in 2006 that he had “stolen ideas” from Gruber “liberally.”
Then U.S. Senator Obama made reference to Gruber while giving a speech at the Brookings Institute, a D.C.-based liberal think tank, on April 5, 2... (more)
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Video: Romney Praises Gruber at 2006 RomneyCare Signing Ceremony
MIT professor Jonathan Gruber’s influence over government-run healthcare appears to be even more far-reaching than previously thought.
Video posted by GotNews.com reveals Gruber’s direct involvement in Massachusetts’ healthcare bill under Governor Mitt Romney.
"Jonathan Gruber at MIT devoted hours and hours to an essential econometric m... (more)
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"What'chu Gonna Do?" - Cop Threatens Men Who Caught Him Littering [Updated]
When Louisiana police officer Chester Lee Williams was confronted by two colorful Louisianian's for allowing his passenger to litter on the highway, the officer responded by immediately apologizing and writing himself and his passenger up for littering.
Just joking.
He responded the only way he knows how: with threats and i... (more)
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Newly Surfaced Video Shows Officer Darren Wilson Was A Thug With A Badge
Up to this point, all we've heard about officer Darren Wilson was that he's a "great guy" who "doesn't have a bad bone in his body."
This newly surfaced video completely shatters that ... (more)
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Police Departments Petition Feds for Advanced Cell Phone InterceptorsMultiple police departments across California’s Bay Area are looking to upgrade their Stingray cell phone interceptors to an even more advanced model.
IMSI catchers, portable devices commonly referred to as Stingrays, trick 2G cell phones into sharing their information by mimicking a cell tower. Limited by their ability to only intercept older model phones, law enforcement groups are petitioning the federal government for half a million dollars in grant money in order to purchase ... (more)
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Cops Stand Up to Department Corruption, Tired of Being Forced to Make Arrests & Write TicketsNormal, IL — A group of police officers filed a lawsuit against the town of Normal last week alleging that the police department is forcing them to write a certain number of tickets or face disciplinary action.
Patrol officers Brian Larimore, Deborak Weir, and Todd VanHovein, were tired of being forced to collect a minimum amount of revenue each month or face disciplinary consequences. They claim the department is abusing its power and have filed a 27-page lawsuit detailing these ... (more)
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Officials Attempt to Stop Wounded Warriors from Surfing on Veteran's Day--Over Facebook PostSan Diego, CA– As America celebrated its veterans this past Tuesday, officials in Solana Beach were busy harassing Wounded Warriors, reportedly because they had posted the event on Facebook and had not obtained a permit.
The 25 volunteers and the veterans were told to pack up their American flags and leave the beach, Joel Tudor told Fox5.
The Veteran’s Day event was organized by Operation Amped, a non-profit that aims to “share the ‘stoke’ of the surfing com... (more)
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No Charges For Kentucky Deputy Who Shot And Killed Girl Fleeing Underage Drinking PartyHEBRON, KY — Police charged into a darkened field trying to arrest teenagers for consuming alcohol without government permission, and killed a young woman in the process.
The deadly raid occurred in the early morning hours of Saturday, April 26th, 2014. After witnessing “cars full of juveniles” and “hear[ing] loud music and people screaming,” Boone County Sheriff’s Deputy Tyler Brockman radioed for “several patrol cars for assistance, as it seem[ed] like a large party with undera... (more)
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DWI Charges Dropped After Cop Destroys Video Of Him Shattering The Student's TesticleA New Mexico judge recently dismissed a DWI case against a man beaten so badly by an Albuquerque cop that he had to have surgery to remove a ruptured testicle. The officer then destroyed a bystander’s video of the incident, leading to the dropped charges.
In April, Albuquerque Police Officer Pablo Padilla pulled over a car operated by University of New Mexico student Jeremy Martin for driving while intoxicated. Martin, 25, pleaded with Padilla to let him go, disobeying the police ... (more)
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How Many Lies Can This One LAPD Officer Tell While Being Recorded?
Los Angeles, CA — Police accountability specialists Daniel Saulmon, AKA Tom Zebra, along with Ricky Munday, were responding to complaints of people being harassed by police in South Central Los Angeles when they ran into Officer Wank.
As Munday and Saulmon were biking down the road, they had to swerve into traffic to miss a patrol car that... (more)
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Under Texas Bill, Cops To Collect Traffic Fines On the Spot Via Credit or Debit CardA house bill recently introduced in the Texas legislature would allow police officers to collect immediate payment from "defendants" for Class C misdemeanor traffic fines "by use of a credit or debit card," completely circumventing the rule of law and citizens’ due process rights. H.B. No. 121, introduced on Monday by State Rep. Allen Fletcher, concerns "an alternative means of payment of... (more)
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Border Patrol Smashes Their Way Into Vehicle As Man Refuses To Comply With Internal CheckpointA man in Texas was dragged from his vehicle by border patrol agents who smashed through his window after he refused to answer their questions at a checkpoint more than 50 miles away from the Southern border.
“I am pretty sure my rights were infringed upon at the Hwy 281 Border Patrol Checkpoint just south of Falfurrias, Texas,” T... (more)
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8-Year-Old Boy Watches as His Mom is Beaten to a Pulp by Police Winnipeg, CA — Halloween night turned into a real nightmare for a Winnipeg woman after police showed up and beat her in her own home in front of her 8-year-old son.
Lara Sinclair has filed a formal complaint with the Law Enforcement Review Agency, stating that a Winnipeg police officer assaulted her on Halloween night.
Sinclair says that a misunder... (more)
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Saratoga Deputy Arrested for Slapping Citizen on VideoTwo days after a video went viral, showing a Saratoga County Sheriff’s deputy slapping a man because he did not consent to having his car searched, the deputy was arrested and jailed by his own department.
Sergeant Shawn Glans, who was placed on unpaid administrative leave, was also forced to resign in what will probably go down as the quickest internal invest... (more)
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Obamacare Architect: "Lack of Transparency" Was Key to Fooling 'Stupid Americans'In a newly uncovered video, Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber admits that a “lack of transparency” was key in getting the Affordable Care Act passed because "the stupidity of the American voter" would have otherwise killed the bill.
From 2009-2010 Gruber, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, served as a technical consultant to the Obama Administration during which time he helped craft the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more commonl... (more)
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