COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- The city of Commerce City has paid a huge financial settlement for the death of someone’s pet.
The city recently paid $262,500 to the family of a chocolate lab-mix named Chloe, shot and killed by police. The payment was part of a settlement to avoid a federal civil court trial... (more)
Free Talk Live's Mark Edge filmed himself refusing to answer questions about his citizenship at a border patrol checkpoint east of El Paso. The most comical thing about this video, and others in the past, is how the people checking for his citizenship are all Mexicans who can barely speak English. I think he would have done well to demand proof of their citi
In November, two Bloomfield, New Jersey police officers were convicted on numerous charges after suppressed dash-cam footage showed them beating a man who was facing years in prison because of their lies.
The video, which did not emerge until 30-year-old Marcus Jeter was already on trial in Feb... (more)
Police in Sweden have arrested a man in connection with a shocking viral video that allegedly shows him spitting on and hitting a woman with her children. Last Thursday morning, police report that the man, "punched and spat on a woman who stopped him from trying to steal from an elderly person."
DeKalb County Police Officer Robert Olsen, who shot and killed Anthony Hill last year, has been indicted on all six charges against him, including murder. The family and their supporters have expressed delight at the 'historic' grand jury decision.
The grand jury deliberated from 9:00am into early evening on Thursday, before indicting Olsen on two felony murder counts, one aggravated assault count, one making a false statement count, and two violation of oath by a public officer ... (more)
"Tony's very glad to be going back to work," said Steven D. Cahn, attorney for Anthony Sarni. "He's a police officer. That's what he's dedicated to doing -- serving the town."
In September 2012 Officer Sarni "served" the town of Edison NJ by asking a woman staying in a hotel room to model lingerie for him. He'd gone to the hotel to respond to a fire alarm (which turned out to be false). When the woman said "no," Officer Sarni allegedly told her that her "fate was in his hands." ... (more)
In a criminal trial that began against a Michigan officer this week, an unidentified 17-year-old testified on Wednesday that the cop continually sexually assaulted her – some times while on duty – since she was 15-years-old.
The girl said Emmett Township police officer Troy Estree – whom she is related to – engaged in t... (more)
Federal employees revel in the fact that they swindle land from private property owners at pennies on the dollar, in astonishing admissions captured in a recently released video.
"We went out to the mine and the owners were two little guys that had been in the Second World War," a California park service employee recalls at a retirement celebrat... (more)
Here you are: written evidence that asset forfeiture leads to law enforcement activity, rather than the other way around. (h/t Brad Heath)
The DEA has already been blasted by the DOJ's Inspector General for its confidential informant program. The DEA's informants were paid when they weren't producing intel. They were ... (more)
The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to pay $16.7 million and $7.6 million to Kash Register and Bruce Lisker, respectively, who were arrested as teens and spent a combined 60 years in jail for murders they did not commit.
While the two cases were independent of one another, they share a common complaint against the Los Angeles Police Department. Detectives concocted evidence against Register and Lisker, each man’s overturned conviction and lawsuit against the city stat... (more)
Nashville, TN — In May of 2014, Ronnie and Lisa Hankins were driving back from his grandfather's funeral in Virginia when they were targeted by a gang of police officers in search of cash.
As Lisa drove the couple westbound down I-40, they saw an officer, who happened to be with the 23rd Judicial District Drug Task Force, and Hankins correctly predicted that they were about to be pulled over.
"I told her we are going to get pulled over," Ronnie said to&nb... (more)
Palm Beach County, FL — A Florida sheriff has been exposed in a recent lawsuit for lying about one of his deputies who shot six times at an unarmed teenager. The victim, Jeremy Hutton is a 17-year-old boy with Down Syndrome, who nearly lost his life after he was hit with three of those six rounds.
According to a report by West Palm Beach's, Jose Lambiet,
Last year, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw signed two sworn, notarized affid
A Michigan cop, who works part time with the River Rouge police department, is claiming as part of a federal lawsuit that an unidentified sergeant released a suspect without arrest or citation in exchange for oral sex.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court last week by officer Dennis Whittie, names the city of River Rouge and former Police Chief Jeff... (more)
One of the most visible members of the armed militia that took over a wildlife refuge in Oregon says his four foster sons were taken away due to his involvement in the standoff, and he blames the federal government who "must have gotten to the governor."
Robert “LaVoy” Finicum and his wife Jeanette have fostered more than 50 boys over the last decade at their ranch near Chino Valley, Arizona. The couple is licensed and has a care contract with the Catholic Chariti... (more)
Being sold under the guise of preventing distracted driving, a newly proposed Vermont law would allow officers to rifle through motorists’ cellphones to see if they have been used recently.
“Essentially, it’s ‘show me your text log,'” said South Burlington Democratic Rep. Martin LaLonde, who is pushing the law as an amendment to the states 2014 ban on handheld use of electronic devices while driving.
A jury last Thursday found an Oregon State Police Captain negligent for ramming a motorcyclist and kicking him in the chest. Captain Robert Wayne Edwards was ordered to pay Justin Michael Wilkens $181,170 in damages over the August 3, 2012 police chase that left Wilkens with a broken collarbone and two fractured ribs.
On that afternoon, Wilkens was enjoying a spirited ride on Crow Road in Eugene when he drew attention to himself by passing a state trooper in an unmarked black Cama... (more)
According to the latest national data released by the FBI, at least 620,000 people were arrested for simple marijuana possession alone last year – a rate of 1,700 people per day, or more than 1 per minute.
The numbers, which are under-counted as some states don’t report arrest stats to the FBI, or do so on a limited basis – illus... (more)
A Gulf War veteran who moved to Colorado last year has had his children confiscated by the State of Kansas over his use of marijuana as a treatment for PTSD symptoms.
Raymond Schwab, 40, relied on medical marijuana to treat PTSD after he suffered severe side effects from medicines prescribed by the VA.
“They were making me crazy, they made me worse,” Schwab told The Denver Post.
After living in Kansas for years, Schwab, his wife Amelia and... (more)
The State of Idaho remains perversely determined to steal five years from the life of Matthew Townsend as punishment for publishing a defiant but harmless statement on his Facebook page. His supposed offense was to criticize Meridian Police Officer Richard Brockbank by name, demand the dismissal of an equally spurious "resisting and obstructing" charge filed by the officer, and to promise a "non-v... (more)
Officer Eric Parker was facing up to 10 years in prison after he had responded to a call on Feb. 6 about a suspicious person walking on Hardiman Place Lane. The caller said he had seen the man before and was nervous about leaving his wife home alone.
Sureshbhai Patel, who does not speak English, had arrived in the country about a week earlier. His son, Chirag Patel, is an eng... (more)
As state legislatures convene across the country, police unions and their lobbyists have begun a nation-wide campaign to preserve -- and, where possible, expand -- "Blue Privilege" in its various guises, from efforts to criminalize video-recording police to the preservation of the officially sanctioned larceny called "civil asset forfeiture."
Police unions in Maryland are pressuring the state ... (more)
This week, Harney County Fire Marshall Chris Briels resigned after discovering undercover FBI agents posing as militia members near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, which has been the site of a standoff for weeks now. According to Briels, he found FBI agents who were impersonating militia members lurking around the town's armory. When he inquired about the undercover operation with county Judge Steve Grasty he was told to back off.
Just before this discovery was made, there w... (more)
C'mon cops--how many times do we have to tell you? Don't rip off the department evidence room, don't peddle cocaine, don't smuggle drugs to prisoners, and especially, don't blow up your meth lab in the federal science lab you're supposed to be protecting. Let's get to it:
In Simpsonville, Kentucky, a Simpsonville police officer was arrested last Thursday in connection with the theft of thousands of dollars in cash, drugs, and guns from the police department. Officer Terry Putn... (more)
