Judge Alex Kozinski has long been one of the few judges willing to speak up against our nation's thoroughly corrupted justice system. It's not the normal form of corruption, where juries and judges are openly bought and sold. It's corrupted, as in bastardized. Or debased. What was set up to provide citizens with a fighting ... (more)
The cost of resolving police-misconduct cases has surged for big U.S. cities in recent years, even before the current wave of scrutiny faced by law-enforcement over tactics.
The 10 cities with the largest police departments paid out $248.7 million last year in settlements and court judgments in police-misconduct cases, up 48%
Chandler, AZ — In March, Esmeralda Rossi was in the shower when two cops came to the door.
"I was in the shower," Rossi said. "My daughter came to the shower and said there are two officers at the door. So I just grabbed a towel."
Rossi had committed no crime, the police had no warrant, and they were only responding to a call about an argument between her and her estranged husband. However, these cops acted like they were raiding the home of a mass murder... (more)
Gardena, Calif. -- A federal judge ordered the release of a highly incriminating video that shows Gardena police officers gun down two men who were not only unarmed but posed no outward threat to officers.
Police dash cams recorded parts of the June 2, 2013, fatal shooting of Ricardo Diaz-Zeferino, who was shot eight times, with another man, Eutiquio Acevedo Mendez, being wounded in the attack.
The judge ordered the videos' release, overriding the emphatic obje... (more)
“Who needs direct repression when one can convince the chicken to walk freely into the slaughterhouse?”—Philosopher Slavoj Žižek
Despite the best efforts of some to sound the alarm, the nation is being locked down into a militarized, mechanized, hypersensitive, legalistic, self-righteous, goose-stepping antithesis of every principle upon which this nation was founded.
All the while, the nation’s citizens seem content to buy into a ... (more)
A Virginia Sheriff's deputy was indicted by a federal grand jury last Thursday after he allegedly used asset forfeiture in his personal life to seize over $200,000 from the Loudoun County asset forfeiture fund.
In essence, he stands accused of doing the exact same thing his bosses do to everyone else.
From InsideNova:
Frank Michael Pearson, 44, of Winchester, was indicted on four counts of theft concerning programs receiving federal ben
The FBI made much over the past week of their series of arrests of “ISIS terror plots” related to July 4. Today, we got the first glimpse of an arrestee, and our first chance to realize just how loosely the words ISIS, terror, and plot, are being used. At least the arrest actually happened on July 4, so that much is accurate.
The detained man was identified as 23-year-old Alexander Ciccolo, the son of a Boston police captain, who bought a pressure cooker from Walma... (more)
An innocent woman in need frantically flags you down, begging you for a ride.
Despite not going through the Uber app, she tells you she's in a hurry, asks you to book the ride on your own phone and begs you to drive "across the street" to her friend.
When you comply, all the sudden you're surrounded by a gang of cops who accuse you of acting as a "bandit cab" driver -- someone who takes money under the table for rides, rather than funnel cash through Uber and in... (more)
Myrtle Beach, SC — Julian Betton was like countless other young men who aren’t satisfied with the path of a minimum wage job, so he aspired for something more. Betton took to selling a plant to willing customers; the same plant that is completely legal in multiple states throughout the United States.
On a brisk fall night in Orangeburg, SC, Joel Robinson awoke in the hours just before dawn to the sound of intruders. These intruders had burst into Robinson’s house unwelcome and unannounced, storming inside with guns drawn.
Fearing for his life, Robinson did what any self-respecting and threatened individual would do – he picked up his gun and fired on the assailants, hitting one in the arm. Unfortunately for Robinson, these assailants were DEA agents, a special ... (more)
An Arkansas sheriff’s deputy was fired Friday after Faulkner County police officials said he exhibited “excessive force” in a filmed May 4 arrest following a high speed pursuit.
Faulkner County sheriff’s deputies stopped driver Harry Martin and passenger Christopher Cummings for a traffic infraction before being led on a 125 mph chase from Mayflower to Conway in which Cummings fired gunshots at officers, hitting patrol cars.
A Texas man is alleging in a excessive force lawsuit filed in Houston federal court, that Houston police officers assaulted him during a search for a burglary suspect in 2013.
36-year-old Nicolas Watson says two officers jumped out of an unmarked vehicle with their guns drawn in his southeast Houston driveway at around 2 a.m.. He was returning home from a haul as a truck driver
According to the lawsuit, one officer immediately placed Watson in a choke-hold, knoc... (more)
Josef Stalin’s Soviet Union was described as a society in which yesterday’s weather could be changed by decree. Collectivist spin-doctors have gone full-Stalinist in revising the story of Aaron and Melissa Klein, the Oregon couple who lost their wedding cake business — and stand to lose their home — because of a vindictive discrimination complaint filed by a same-sex coupl... (more)
Livonia, MI — In one 8-hour shift, and on one stretch of I-275 in Livonia, Michigan State Police wrote over 300 tickets for speeding, seatbelt violations, and other miscellaneous “violations” designed to collect revenue from drivers.
According to the MSP, this was done for the safety of motorists. The tens of thousands... (more)
Orange, TX — An infuriating police interaction was captured on an officer’s body cam this week after a man simply questioned why the officer was on his property.
The exchange began as officer Dylan Mulhollan had pulled over a cyclist for a missing reflector who then pulled onto the lawn of Ronald Warnell.
Warnell had come out of his house to see why a police officer was in his yard and he was immediately treated with disrespect, as if Mulhollan ... (more)
A Baltimore woman is alleging in a lawsuit that officers with a city police tactical unit shot her dogs and framed her boyfriend during a trumped up drug raid, all in order to help their informant friend get back at her for breaking up with him.
Jennifer Catalano says a seven-man squad from Baltimore’s Violent Crimes Impact Division raided the home she shared with her boyfriend near Grindon Avenue on the night of June 13, 2012.
Police have gone mum with the media after it turns out the SUV driver they were searching for who decapitated a 60-yr-old man in a hit and run was actually a cop in an unmarked police vehicle.
A new video out of Philadelphia shows a young Black man being severely beaten and tased by Philadelphia officers in what can only remind you of Rodney King.
On April 3 at approximately 7:30 p.m. Tyree Carroll, 22, was riding his bike on Locust Avenue in Germantown--near his home where he lives with his grandmother Nancy Carroll. According to fam... (more)
Well, Spain's officially a police state now. On July 1st, its much-protested "gag" law went into effect, instantly making criminals of those protesting the new law. Among the many new repressive stipulations is a €30,000-€600,000 fine for "unauthorized protests," which can be combined for maximu... (more)
A New Mexico cop gets hoisted by his own petard, a DC cop won't get to keep her drug-money Maserati, a border guard gets popped stealing pain pills from drivers, and more. Let's get to it:
