A federal judge has just ordered the government to return $167,000 it took from a man passing through Nevada on his way to visit his girlfriend in California. The officers really wanted that money, too. They used two consecutive stops to jerry-rig some probable cause… even though at that point they thought they were only dealing with $2000. From the original stop forward, the entire situation was deplorable, indisputably showing that everyone involved was more interested in taking ... (more)
A police officer in Federal Heights, CO has pleaded guilty of attempted third-degree assault after video emerged of him beating and literally torturing a restrained suspect while his colleagues looked on.
Officer Mark Magness is seen on the video hauling a man out of a police car and smashing his face into a wall, causing him to blee... (more)
The McKinney (Texas) Police Department is under lots of outside scrutiny, thanks to the racially-tinged antics of its police force -- namely the since-departed Officer Eric Casebolt, who barrel rolled into infamy in a cell phone-captured video that culminated in him pinning down a 14-year-old girl while waving a gun at two teens.
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A rookie deputy responding to a non-emergency with no lights nor siren active drove 89 in a 40 and crashed his car into a young woman, her sister who was a passenger in the car was killed in the crash. Despite crying in court, the deputy was given a 10 year jail sentence after the judge questioned his sincerity.
The Sun Sentinel reports:
Former Broward Sheriff's deputy Franklyn McCurrie, convicted of causing a fatal accident by racing to the scene of a no
And with that, a Metra police officer tasered 20-year-old Josh Hutchinson on Sunday night, June 21.
It started after a train conductor called police about young passengers using foul language. Metra police officers arrived and arrested Hutchinson for disorderly conduct. Were that the end of the story, the offic... (more)
The Secret Police in Orwell’s dystopian society were employed by the Ministry of Love. In that ironic designation we find the genuine meaning of the insistent refrain that “love” triumphed when the US Supreme Court consummated the long campaign to bring the most intimate human institution fully under the state’s control.
Those presently celebrating the state’s “affirmation” of same-sex relationships are intoxicated by the knowledge that t... (more)
Here's something you see all too rarely -- not because the government's civil asset forfeiture programs aren't routinely abused -- but because it's a good way to spend lots of money fighting a losing battle.
Vu Do, owner of two nail salons in New York City, is trying to retrieve nearly $44,000 -- his life savings which he had put t... (more)
The government's use of a cruel and unusual three-drug lethal injection cocktail which makes people feel like they're being burned alive is A-OK, the Supreme Court has ruled.
Politico reports:
The Supreme Court on Monday approved the use of a lethal injection techni
A mother in Westbrook, Maine was arrested by police and charged with child endangerment after she let her 7-year-old daughter play unsupervised in a park a few hundred feet from their home.
Nicole Jensen told reporters with WMTW that police asked her to accompany them to the station because her child was “outside unsupervised”.
Phoenix, Az – Phoenix police officer Timothy Morris was arrested by his fellow officers on charges of sexual assault and kidnapping, according to Sgt. Jonathan Howard.
Morris reportedly held and sexually assaulted a 23-year-old-woman after he contacted her about a misdemeanor. According to the woman, the incident occurred around 3:3... (more)
Police drafted a 14-year-old child into drug informant slavery with the "permission" of his drug informant father and had the boy work for them for three years, then busted him for selling cocaine a year after they abruptly decided they were done with him.
BROOKLYN (CN) - Two undercover police officers must pay more than $430,000 to two brothers they falsely arrested for selling cocaine, a federal judge ruled.
Brothers Jose and Maximo Colon had spent an hour-and-a-half at the Delicias de Mi Terra nightclub in Elmhurst, N.Y., on Jan. 5, 2008, when plainclothes Officers Henry Tavarez, Steven Anderson and Alan Figueroa arrived, according to a U.S. Magistrate Judge's 47-page Report and Recommendation.
The over-the-top paranoia inflicting police forces these days could not be more evident than in a video posted to Facebook Wednesday by a Wisconsin man named James Wells.
After being pulled over for a missing front license plate, the Racine Police Officer refuses to let Wells reach into his glove compartment for his drivers license and proof of ... (more)
Sometimes exercising your right to be free from unlawful search and seizure is a dangerous proposition. Some cops assume that a citizen taking a stand for their own liberty is a challenge of their authority. In many ways they are correct, but one common denominator in all abuses of authority is the escalation of force by those wearing badges.
A poll conducted jointly by The University of Texas and The Texas Tribune has found that a majority of Texans believe that the federal government is likely to order a “domestic military intervention” to arrest political protesters and violate property rights.
The poll was conducted primarily to discover whether Texans felt Governor Greg Abbott was correct ... (more)
Moath al-Alwi, who has been a prisoner of the U.S. government and detained at the offshore prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since 2002 without ever being charged with a crime or afforded a trial, has a simple yet urgent question for the American people and the U.S. government: Why am I still here?
If the war in Afghanistan is now over, as he has heard President Obama and other lawmakers say many times, the Yemeni national wonders what possible reason could the U.S. have in keeping a... (more)
The Newton Police Officer who was arrested late last year after being accused of showing his penis to several young male drivers during traffic stops has just accepted a plea deal that allows him to resign from the Newton Police Department instead of being terminated.
Local NJ.com reports:
Jason Miller, 37, appeared before Judge Thomas Critchley in Sussex County Superior Court Monday with his attorney, Anthony Iacullo, for the fir
Edinburg, TX — A video posted to YouTube this week shows that filming police is not always a solemn experience — it can be funny too.
A Texas cop was caught in a ridiculously compromising and cartoonish situation. The state trooper somehow managed to become stuck in the window of his patrol car.
In a true ‘WTF’ moment, the passersby capture the officer flailing about in a frantic effort to free himself from the grip — of his window. ... (more)
