Cop Runs Stop Sign, Hits Sober Driver, Dept Covers it Up By Framing the Man for DUINew York, NY — On April 19, Oliver Wiggins was driving his Nissan Maxima on Glenwood road when he was suddenly t-boned by an NYPD cop. The officer was driving without his flashing lights and did not have on his siren when he blew through a stop sign and plowed into Wiggins.
In typical police fashion, the officer, instead of apologizing and admitting he made a mistake, treated Wiggins as if it were his fault. The officer accused Wiggins of being drunk. He was then arrest... (more)
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Facing Down Taser, Sandra Bland Was Told By Officer: "I Will Light You Up!"While many questions still remain about what exactly happened to Sandra Bland in a Texas jail cell before she was found dead under mysterious circumstances on July 13, those looking for answers about why she was initially placed under arrest three days earlier were offered a look at devastating dash-cam footage released by the Texas Department of Public Safety on Tuesday evening whic... (more)
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Federal Charges Brought Against Officer In Baby Bou Bou CaseThe case agent who allegedly provided false information to a Habersham County SWAT team that maimed a toddler has been charged with federal civil rights violations.
Attorney Mawuli Davis, who represents the parents of Bounkham "Bou Bou" Phonesavanh, the 19-month-old who sustained severe injuries to his face and chest, along with possible brain damage, after a stun grenade deployed during the May 2014 raid landed in his playpen, confirmed the charges to The Atlanta Journal-Cons... (more)
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Officer Suspended After Video Shows Him Strike Seated, Handcuffed Man It only took four and a half years for the Buffalo Police Department to take disciplinary action against Officer Anthony L. Porzio.
Porzio was captured on video striking a handcuffed man seated on the front hood of a police car in a December 11, 2010 incident that was uploaded to YouTube in 2012.
Now, following a disciplinary review, internal arbitrators have suspended Porzio for 30 days without pay.
The footage shows two female officers approach... (more)
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Shocking Video Shows LAPD Cops Shoot Man in Wheelchair with 3 Bean Bag Rounds and a TaserLos Angeles, CA — Three rounds with a bean bag gun and a taser — deployed against a man in a wheelchair.
The LAPD is facing criticism after a video surfaced that shows them firing beanbag rounds at a man in a wheelchair and then hitting him with a taser.
According to LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith, the man in the wheelchair, Christopher Adam Zareck, 43, swung a pole at police when they tried to take him into custody.
Police were called to the sce... (more)
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Family Threatened With Government Fine For Parking Cars in Their Own DrivewayGovernment officials in Cobb County, Georgia are threatening a family with a fine for parking too many cars in their own driveway.
The Oviedo family were hit with the violation notice after local bureaucrats acted on an anonymous complaint that there were four cars parked on the property. Local ordinance rules which were recently changed mandate that a maximum of two cars be parked at any one time.
The family has relatives visiting and their two kids are home from c... (more)
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NYPD Officials Apparently Deleting Incriminating Communications Related To Alleged Illegal Summons QuotasThe NYPD doesn't care for transparency. Its relationship with open records requesters ranges from "frosty" to "antagonistic." It even employs its own in-house, completely arbitrary classifica... (more)
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Even If You Think Kim Dotcom Is Guilty As Sin, The US Government Stealing His Assets Should Concern YouEarlier this year, we covered a very troubling situation involving Kim Dotcom and the US government. As you almost certainly already know, Dotcom is fighting extradition from New Zealand to the US to face a bunch of charges concerning criminal copyright infringement. We've written about those charges as well as the extradition fight many times. However, while all of this was going on, the Justice Department filed a separate lawsuit, not against Dotcom himself, but against all of his... (more)
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Top NIST Cop Allegedly Caught Manufacturing Meth In NIST Lab, No ChargesA top NIST security officer was allegedly caught manufacturing meth inside a U.S. government NIST laboratory, yet no charges have been filed against him and the local Montgomery County police will only say they're "investigating."
News 4 reports:
An explosion tore through a government lab in Maryland this weekend, and Montgome ... (more)
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Federal Appeals Court Declares Air Fresheners SuspiciousDriving a vehicle that has a couple air fresheners, rosaries and pro-police bumper stickers at 2 MPH over the speed limit is suspicious. That was the finding handed down last Thursday by the Fifth Circuit US Court of Appeals. A unanimous three-judge panel upheld the March 9, 2011 traffic stop that led to the conviction of Ruben Pena-Gonzalez in South Texas. ... (more)
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City Fires Official Tasked With Police Accountability, for Finding Too Many Cops Guilty in ShootingsChicago, IL — Lorenzo Davis is a 65-year-old retired Chicago police commander who left the department in 2004 after 23 years of service.
During that time, Davis had obtained a law degree, masters in criminal justice, and he’d woken up to what he referred to as a lack of discipline within the ranks of the Chicago Police Department.
“I did not like the direction the police department had taken,” Davis said in an interview with WBEZ. “... (more)
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Driverless Cars: Disrupting Government Reliance On Petty Traffic EnforcementSelf-driving cars are on the way, and in their wake, they'll leave a variety of entities slightly less better off. Insurance companies may be the first to feel the pinch, as less-than-risk-averse drivers are replaced with Electric Grandmothers more than willing to maintain safe speed limits and the proper distance between ... (more)
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General Wesley Clark: Some WWII-Style Internment Camps Are Just The Thing We Need To Fight Domestic RadicalizationSo, we're engaged in a war of sorts. Against capital-T "Terror." It's a very ambiguous war that couples troop deployments with a dense mesh of surveillance programs. As is the case with all wars, there are those "up top" who see the only way to fight back -- or just "secure" the nation -- is to expand the government's powers.
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Cop Runs from Citizen Asking a Question -- Citizen Gives Chase -- Thug Informants Threaten CitizenSoap Lake, WA — Gavin Seim is no stranger to calling out government for violating the law. Seim is a liberty activist, speaker and former US Congressional challenger from Washington state. He is a devoted activist who is not afraid to go toe to toe with would-be tyrants.
Seim has made it his mission to expose police in Washington who are violating the law by impersonating citizens. The Washington State Law, states that it is unlawful for police officers to drive unm... (more)
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Single Mom Arrested for 'Abandoning' Her Kids in the Food Court While on a Job Interview 30 ft AwayHouston, TX — Laura Browder is a single mother of two who was hopeful about her new start in Houston, Texas. Last week, Browder optimistically went to the Memorial City Mall for a job interview.
Because the job interview happened on such short notice, Browder did not have the time nor the money to line up a sitter for her 6-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son; so she brought them along.
Browder’s potential new boss had agreed to meet her in the foo... (more)
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Boise Officers Flash-bang Wrong ApartmentBoise Police and Swat were serving a warrant inside an apartment building on July 16th for theft and drugs. They busted down the door and threw a flash-bang into the apartment unit. The only problem was, it was the wrong address.
Police Deputy Operations Chief Eugene Smith said Friday the error "is rare and certainly regrettable." He says officers apologized to the apartment occupants and began to do "all they could to make it right, including paying for repairs and se... (more)
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Video Shows Cops Attack Teen For Refusing To Give NameA short video has surfaced showing officers in West Deptford, New Jersey, attack a teenager for refusing to state his name.
The footage shows one officer ask the boy, identified as 18-year-old Chris James Cuneo, “Whats your first name?”
“I’m not telling you,” the teen responds.
“OK then, you’re going to get arrested for obstruction,&r... (more)
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Cop Fired For Maliciously Modifying Another Cop's Weapon To "Teach Him A Lesson"Georgetown, Texas – Officer George Bermudez was fired from the Georgetown police department after it was discovered that he intentionally and maliciously tampered with a fellow officer’s weapon. The situation began on February 2nd when Bermudez was asked to pick up another officer’s weapon from the Williamson County Firearms Range where they were practicing.
The rifle was left behind by Officer David Lanier, but instead of picking the weapon up and doing him... (more)
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Cop Writes Letter Thanking Dept for His 3 Years of Paid Suspension, Called it 'A Dream Come True'Waterloo, ON — Waterloo Regional Police officer, Craig Markham was criminally charged and convicted of breach of trust in October of 2012. However, he was not fired because he appealed the ruling and, instead, was placed on paid administrative leave. For the next three years, Markham continued to draw his $90,348 annual salary — he would never work another day.
Markham was so grateful to his former employers that he wrote a letter enthusiastically thanking t... (more)
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Creating Crime: FBI Bribes People to Take Fake Drugs onto Planes So they Can Bust ThemDallas, TX — Apparently the FBI has a hard time finding criminals these days, as they have resorted to bribing people into committing fake crimes so they can later bust them.
It’s already widely known among those who are awake to government corruption that nearly 95 percent of terrorist arrests in the US have been the result of the FBI foiling its own entrapment plots as a part of the so-called po... (more)
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Court Shuts Down Government's Attempt To Claim An In-Car GPS System Is A 'Container'Almost everyone gets from Point A to Point B in a vehicle. This works out well for police officers looking to perform Fourth Amendment-skirting searches. The "motor vehicle exception" allows law enforcement to search the interior of vehicles without a warrant as long as probable cause exists that contraband or evidence may be hidden inside it. This exception can be extended to cover the contents of locked trunks,... (more)
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Oklahoma Cops Refuse to do Bidding of Corrupt City Officials, Entire Department QuitsChelsea, Oklahoma – This week, every single cop at the Chelsea police department resigned from their jobs after the recent arrest of a local business owner created a deep rift in the department.
Details of the arrest and why it was so contentious are unclear, but it was reported that the officers at the scene disagreed as to whether or not the suspect should have been arrested.
A local businessman, Brian Haggard, was arrested under suspicion of DUI and ci... (more)
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Civil Rights Activist Arrested At Traffic Stop, Found Dead In JailSandra Bland was a civil rights activist and advocate who was mysteriously found dead in jail after a bizarre traffic stop arrest.
Bland was found dead in a Texas jail just after being arrested for allegedly being “combative” during a routine traffic stop.
Now, her friends and family have launched a campaign that is calling out the police and questioning the authorities’ ruling of her jailhouse death as a suicide.
The ruling of a su... (more)
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Old Man Stopped By Cops For Driving 5 MPH Under Speed Limit, Beat Up And Falsely Accused Of Resisting Wins CaseSACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) - A federal judge has upheld a verdict in favor of a 78-year-old who was disabled by a stroke and had been a model citizen until he was stopped by two young California Highway Patrol officers for driving five miles under the speed limit. In the course of arresting the disabled man, one officer punched him in the gut, knocked him to the ground and then falsely accused him of resisting arrest.
"The verdict was vindication of the obvious fact that, howeve... (more)
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Nevada: Government Must Pay For Taking Cash From Innocent MotoristA motorist passing through Nevada had all of his cash taken, legally, by a Elko County sheriff's deputy. This week, lawyers for Straughn Gorman presented the bill for legal costs that the government owes for illegally stopping and searching Gorman's 2001 Trail-Lite motorhome and grabbing the $167,070 he was carrying.
Last month, US District Judge Larry R. Hicks blasted prosecutors for only telling "half of the story" to obtain the search warrant that uncovered the cash. On Monday,... (more)
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Colorado Springs Police Slam Woman's Face on the Ground, Accused of Excessive ForceA video from 2013 was recently obtained and released by the Colorado Springs Independent as part of a report about police brutality.
The video shows an incident that is at the cent... (more)
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Police Dept Caught Giving Preference to Job Candidates who Said they Wouldn't Arrest Fellow CopsMethuen, MA — In what can only be described as a “see, I told you so” moment for those in the police accountability sector, a police department in Massachusetts has been caught in a perfidious hiring scheme. They were giving preference to job candidates who said they wouldn’t arrest fellow cops.
In other words, the Methuen police department was only hiring cops who promised to be corrupt and cover for their fellow corrupt officers.
According ... (more)
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Dashcam: Cops Kill Unarmed Mother, Applaud their Marksmanship, Brag About her Face ExplodingBrunswick, GA — Caroline Smith was at a low point in her life. She suffered from PTSD, Dissociative Disorder, and was struggling with drugs and alcohol. These things should have never been a death sentence, but thanks to two Georgia cops, they were.
An eye-opening investigation by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Action News was published earlier this month that shines a much-needed light on this case. The report illustrates the tragic events leading up to the ... (more)
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