Staten Island, NY – The state of New York has one of the highest cigarette taxes in the country, amounting to roughly $6 per pack in taxes alone. Naturally, people find ways around these obnoxious taxes by importing cigarettes from other states or selling off-brand products, and naturally the government acts like the mafia and does everything in their power to see that people pay up.
In New York City, the local tax authority has conscripted the local police to hunt down peop... (more)
A California man with a camera walked up to a pair of illegally parked Bakersfield cops Halloween night, demanding their names and badge numbers, asking what would they do if he had been parking there.
Neither replied as the cop in the drivers seat rolled up his window while Lazaro Lopez continued badgering them with questions.
FRESNO - Ex-convict Roger Steiner lives in a broken-down motor home that he bought for $500 and covered with a tarp to keep out rain, parked in a cow pasture. The landowner’s well went dry, so he has no running water. He lives on Social Security and dreams of striking it rich panning for gold.
“I (urinate) in a bottle. I roll feces in a newspaper and let it dry, then I burn it,” he said, reflecting on his living conditions since being released from federal prison... (more)
An elderly blind man that had his head slammed into a counter by a Denver Police officer after asking him to allow him to feel his badge to prove he was a cop, won an excessive force lawsuit against the department on Friday.
80-year-old Philip White, who is a retired school administrator with a Master Degree in Education, was at a downtown Greyhound Bus Terminal in Denver on May 22, 2012.
He was attempting to board a bus in order to go to Vail where he was to tak... (more)
A 90-yr-old woman was ordered to remove her bra for inspection by the TSA after they discovered she had sewn a small pocket onto the side to store a few dollars cash.
From ABC 7:
PORTLAND, OR -- The TSA says it's investigating an incident where a 90-year-old woman was forced to strip after setting off body scanners.
West Lafayette, IN -- In a blatant example of the double standard within the U.S. justice system, a current university president and former Governor of Indiana was recently caught on dash cam video driving over twice the speed limit and rolling through a STOP sign. Instead of issuing a ticket or shooting the suspect for exhibiting suspicious behavior, the offi... (more)
The tactics of the road pirates are shameless and know no bounds. There isn't anything these revenue generators for the state won't do to eat out the substance of their own countrymen.Under the auspices of protecting a duped public from distracted drivers, Montgomery County, MD Police Cpl. Patrick Robinson went undercover Tuesday morning to catch texting drivers dressed as a bum holding a sign that read, "I am not homeles... (more)
After thirteen years held without charges at the offshore U.S. prison at Guantanamo, 48-year-old British citizen Shaker Aamer was put on a private jet just after midnight on Friday and sent back to the UK.
According to reporting by Carol Rosenberg at the Miami Herald:
[Aamer] was one of Guantánamo's best known prisoners because some Britons, including
A St. Paul Minnesota Metro Transit police officer was relieved from duty on Saturday two months after allegedly brutalizing an autistic teenager that was never charged with a crime with... (more)
There are a few ways law enforcement agencies acquire cell tower spoofers. Very rarely do agencies pay for these expensive devices themselves. (Meaning with their funds drawn from their own departments. Obviously, no government agency is self-funded.) In most cases, funding in whole or in part is obtained from the DHS -- something nearly any agency can obtain simply by checking [X] BECAUSE TERRORISM when applying for a Homeland Security grant.
The FBI recently released its data on assaults on police officers in 2014. The good news is that reported assaults are down sharply. Unarmed and assaults with guns both dropped, while assaults with knives and edged weapons went up slightly. But overall, as this chart tweeted by University of South Carolina law professor Seth Stoughton shows, assaults on cops are at their lowest point since 1996 and have been dropping consistently since 2008.
Two Detroit police officers have been suspended without pay after being charged with multiple misconduct and embezzlement counts stemming from incidents that occurred between March 18, 2013, and Sept. 27, 2014.
Tactical response unit (SWAT) partners Charles Lynem and Chancellor Searcy turned themselves in and appeared before a judge on Tuesday.
The allegations against them include misconduct in office, embezzlement of less than $20,000, larceny of less than ... (more)
Oklahoma City, OK – A school resource officer was recently arrested after he was caught assaulting a student on a surveillance recording. The student had reportedly been in the hallway without a pass, and after he was confronted by officer Thomas Jaha, he went to get a drink of water.
Since he did not leave the hallway immediately and go directly back to class, Jaha went into a rage and attacked the 16-year old boy. Jaha is now facing a misdemeanor assault charge.
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A Houston cop's foot fetish gets him in trouble, a Georgia deputy's meth habit proves problematic, and a New Mexico police chief's greed costs him his job. Let's get to it:
The Richland County, South Carolina, deputy who slammed a student on a floor and tossed her several feet has been fired, Sheriff Leon Lott said Wednesday. Deputy Ben Fields violated police regulations when he threw the girl, the sheriff said.
Seneca, SC — On July 26, Seneca Police Lt. Mark Tiller ran towards 19-year-old Zachary Hammond’s car with his gun drawn as Hammond’s date, Tori Morton, allegedly sold a few grams of marijuana to an undercover cop.
According to Seneca Police Chief John Covington, Hammond drove toward Lt. Tiller in an attempt to murder him. Fearing for his life... (more)
If the officer feared he was going to run him over, he wouldn't have attempted to walk right up to his vehicle, potentially putting himself in his path. The cop knew the kid wanted to run away and wasn't a threat, hence his approaching his car to try and manually open his door. This was a straightforward murder by government drug dealers. - Chris, InfoLib
Chicago, IL -- After recording a video of plainclothes officers harassing him for ordering a Lyft ride at the airport, a YouTube user was ordered out of the car and had his cellphone confiscated in a failed attempt to delete the video. Although the Lyft driver pleaded with the cops not to impound his vehicle because he could not afford the fees, the officer sadistically punished the driver after blaming the passenger for recording him.
According to a YouTube user who wishes to rem... (more)
"Video of Toronto police officer Brian Smith, who was assigned to the Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy (TAVIS) unit as he tries to block Mike Miller's from recording the arrest of two young men."
It sounds like he's referencing the other video which was already released, in which the girl's flailing about while being assaulted is being deemed assault on a law enforcement officer by state worshiping "conservatives." - Chris
