If We Prick the State, Does It Bleed? [Pictured: Yes, these are Oregon Sheriff's deputies.]
“The taxpayers are entitled to everything Mr. Esbensen cost them,” declared Malheur County District Attorney Dan Norris, affected piety suppurating from every syllable, during an August 28 hearing before visiting Judge Gregory Baxter in the County Court.
William Esbensen, the man from whom Norris and his office was seeking tens of thousands of dollars in “rest... (more)
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If Police Come To Your Door Without a Warrant, Shut Them Down Like This Guy
If police come to your door and you don’t need their help, you can simply decline to answer. They cannot come into your home without a search warrant.
Even if the police have probable cause, they cannot come in your home without a search warrant.
You might even be a suspect in a criminal investigation. In such a case you should remain s... (more)
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Innocent Man Tased & Arrested In Front of his Children While Picking Them Up From Day Care
Chris Lollie, of St. Paul, Minnesota was tased infront of his children as he went to pick them up from school on January 31. He claims he was racially profiled as all he was doing was sitting down waiting to pick up his children when he was approached by the police, seemingly for no reason.
He was charged with trespassing, disorderly conduct and obst... (more)
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Dashcam Nails Cops Who Beat Man While Shouting "Stop Resisting Arrest"
Two cops from Bloomfield, NJ's police department have been indicted, and another plead guilty after a suppressed dashcam video showed them beating a man who was facing years in prison for "resisting arrest" (the DA dropped his charges right away).
The video -- shot from a second police car that crossed the highway median and rammed the victim's vehicl... (more)
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Officer To Citizen: "You Must Be Doing Something Wrong If You Invoke Your Rights"
Two videographers were in Jacksonville Florida conducting a First Amendment Audit on Wednesday. They were filming prisoners being transported in and out of the Duval County Courthouse’s sally port.
A sally port is usually behind a wall or other fixed protection but the this one empties right on to a public roadway.
The first cameraman i... (more)
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Hair Trigger Police State: Gamer SWATTED While Streaming Live Online
Online gamer “Kootra” was well into his first person shooter roll with friends when he began hearing disturbing sounds coming from inside the building.
“Uh oh, this isn’t good, they’re clearing rooms. What in the world? I think we’re getting swatted.” Kootra aka Jordan Mathewson said just prior to several heavily armed SWAT agents busting down his doo... (more)
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Crash Victims, Witnesses Accuse Cops Of Fabricating Police Report Regarding Officer-Involved Collision
EL PASO, Texas – Victims and witnesses of a northeast El Paso collision involving an El Paso Police Department cruiser claim the officer caused the crash, and that police fabricated statements in the accident report to blame an innocent woman.
That woman is named Allyson. Her attorney asked us that we do not use her last name.
“I don’t ... (more)
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Florida Man Records Himself Getting Attacked By Cop For Not Rolling Down Window All The Way
A horrifying video has emerged showing St. Petersburg police forcing a man out of his car before pouncing on him, leaving him hospitalized with several injuries, all because the cop claimed he was in fear for his life.
At least that what he says in his report, where he wrote the following:
I exited my marked patrol cruis ... (more)
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This Citizen Gives a Cop a Taste of What Police Harassment Feels Like
Citizen to Cop: “Sir, I’m gonna need your license and insurance please…I smell marijuana in your car.”
Cop watcher, Jake D, was out conducting police officer accountability Sunday night when he came upon an Arlington, TX police officer double parked.
Although double parking in a private lot probably wouldn’t land you any tickets, it cou... (more)
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Bay Area Rapper Vindicated by Gas Station Surveillance FootageRico Rossi pulled into the gas station to get some gas. Suddenly road pirate vehicles surrounded his vehicle. Doors opened and police employees rushed at Rossi, shouting commands, with guns drawn.
Rossi was ordered to the ground. Still unsure of what provoked this undesired police “service,” Rossi got down on both knees and raised both hands into the air. It was at that moment that Glenn Walkup, an employee of the Martinez Police Outfit, squeezed the trigger of his Taser, aimed sq... (more)
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Over $455,000 Seized from Medical Marijuana Patient Slapped with Civil Asset Forfeiture
In March 2013, Steve Oates' home in Goodyear, Ariz. was stormed by police, SWAT, and DEA agents because of a marijuana grow room in the guest house.
"It was like something you see in the movies. It was 6:30 in the morning, and basically you hear 'bang! bang! bang!' on the door, and next thing you know you hear the crash of a battering ram," says Oates... (more)
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Missouri Cop Who Pointed Gun At Photojournalist Was In Fear For His Life
It didn’t take long for police in Missouri to justify one of their officers pointing a gun at a photojournalist and threatening to kill him, then telling him to “go fuck yourself” when asked for his name and badge number during the protest... (more)
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Federal Law Ordering US Attorney General To Gather Data On Police Excessive Force Has Been Ignored For 20 YearsAre police officers getting worse or is this apparent increase in excessive force nothing more than a reflection of the increase in unofficial documentation (read: cameras) and public scrutiny? What we do know is that as crime has gone down, police forces have escalated their acquisitions of military gear and weapons... (more)
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Ferguson: A Libertarian Look -- Will Grigg on the Tom Woods Show
Will Grigg joins Tom to discuss the killing of Michael Brown, the police, and the situation in Ferguson, Missouri, in general.
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FL Cops Shoot At Man Carrying Unloaded Gun, Kill Innocent College Student With Stray BulletFlorida police responding to a report of a crazed lunatic with a gun outside an Orlando, Florida night club shot at the reportedly uncooperative gun-wielder, Kody Roach, 23, nine times. One of their bullets went astray and killed an innocent young woman inside the club, 22-year-old female college student Maria Fernanda Godinez of Cocoa Beach. Godinez was killed by the stray bullet, yet the suspect who was hit six times survived. Officer Eduardo Sanguino, who it's believed shot the bullets whi... (more)
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Taxpayers Forced to Pay $5M in Damages After LAPD Executed Unarmed Man on Live TV
Remember that time the LAPD executed a man on live television?
On Wednesday, Los Angeles City Council voted on a five million dollar settlement to his family. The lawsuit filed by the man’s parents, alleged that police were inadequately trained, used excessive force and committed battery and negligence, ABC reports.
Brian Beaird ... (more)
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School Kid Suspended & Arrested For Imagining Shooting A Dinosaur
In another case of school officials adhering to ridiculous zero tolerance policies, a student from South Carolina was suspended and arrested by police recently after writing an imaginative story about using a gun to shoot a dinosaur.
The offender, 16-year-old Alex Stone of Summerville High School in a suburb of Charleston was in the course of completi... (more)
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Alabama Police Officer Assaults Man For Recording at Anti-Police Brutality Rally
At a rally against police brutality on Saturday in Alabama, a police officer tried to grab a man’s phone to prevent him from recording the officer’s actions.
Tyler Henderson was among a throng of people holding signs in downtown Mobile, one of the many outcries against police brutality spurred by the recent incidents in Ferguson, Misso... (more)
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Student Suspended For Saying 'Bless You' After Classmate Sneezed DYER COUNTY, Tenn. (CNN) -- A young girl, who claims she was standing up for her religious beliefs in the classroom, was suspended after breaking a class rule of saying "bless you" after a classmate sneezed.
When Dyer County High School senior Kendra Turner said bless you to her classmate, she says her teacher told her that was for church.
"She said that we're not going to have godly speaking in her class and that's when I said we have a constitutional right," said... (more)
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Army to Continue 'Black Helicopter' Training Over Twin Cities Despite AngerThe U.S. Army is set to continue training exercises involving low flying “black helicopters” over Minneapolis and St. Paul tonight despite residents and local officials expressing outrage at the danger posed by the unannounced drills.
With the agreement of local police departments, the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment out of Fort Campbell Kentucky has been conducting the exercises, which involve low flying Night Stalker black hawk helicopters buzzing over rooftops and i... (more)
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Ferguson Cop Tells Protester "Go F*ck Yourself" & Threatens To Kill Him
From NY Daily News:
A suburban St. Louis police officer who threatened to kill media members as he pointed his high-powered rifle at a group of people filming Tuesday night’s protests in Ferguson, Mo., has been suspende ... (more)
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Furious About Ferguson? Work to Free Shaneen AllenWhatever we eventually learn about what happened in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, Michael Brown is beyond mortal help. The same is not true of Shaneen Allen, a 27-year-old working mother of two and robbery victim who faces an eleven-year prison term for the supposed offense of carrying a legally licensed firearm.
Like the late Mr. Brown, Allen – a resident of Philadelphia, Pen... (more)
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MSNBC Host: Maybe Cops Need Military Gear to Deal With "Anti-Government" Groups
MSNBC host Ed Schultz suggested on his show last night that police like those currently occupying Ferguson, Missouri may need military gear in order to deal with the threat posed by “anti-government groups.”
“The Department of Homeland Security recently came out with a report saying the biggest threat to our security is here within our own borders,” ... (more)
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Video: Sadistic Cop Repeatedly Uses Stun Gun on Unresponsive Handcuffed ManManderson, S.D. - A startling display of police brutality was captured on camera on Friday, Aug. 15th. Officer Becky Sotherland, 32, of the Pine Ridge tribal police screams at a man to get into her vehicle as he lay on the ground helpless and handcuffed.
The man, incapacitated, unresponsive, and unable to get into the vehicle, is hit with a stun gun repeatedly as Sotherland yells at him to get in the car threatening that, “It’s gonna get you again," referring to the 50,000 volts o... (more)
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Did Michael Brown Steal Cigars -- Or Pay For Them?If Michael Brown committed a felonious strong-arm robbery at a convenience store just minutes before he was shot, why didn’t anybody from the store call 911? The report was made by a customer following what appeared to be an altercation between the 6’4″ Brown and a much smaller store employee.
According to the store’s owner, police didn’t issue a subpoena for the store’s surveillance ... (more)
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Oregon Deputy Arrests Man for Recording after Claiming it is a Crime
An Oregon deputy claimed it was illegal to record him before arresting a man who had been recording a traffic stop from a considerable distance.
The Klamath County sheriff’s deputy had walked up to the man after having pulled over the man’s girlfriend.
Here is the exchange that took place:
Deputy: Wh ... (more)
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Utah Cops Arrest Man for Recording Mom's Traffic Stop; Handcuff and Neglect Mom during Diabetic Shock
Police in Utah arrested a man for video recording a conversation they were having with his mother before arresting his mother for failing to disperse the area after her son's arrest, sending her into diabetic shock as they were walking her from the patrol car to the jail.
That led to Vernal City police dragging her handcuffed, unconscious body into th... (more)
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