A stunning new exposé by The Intercept, which includes the publication of classified documents leaked by an intelligence source, provides an unprecedented look at the U.S. military's secretive global assassination program.
The series of articles, titled The Drone Papers, follows months of investigation and uses rare primary source documents and slides to reveal to the public, fo... (more)
You know what group of the public just hasn't been given enough protections? Law enforcement officers.
To date, all they have is:
• The power to enforce laws as they interpret them, even when said law doesn't actually exist
• Qualified immunity
• "Exigent circumstances" justifications for acts of... (more)
Eaton County, MI — The family of Deven Guilford filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan against Eaton County Sheriff Deputy Jonathan Frost and Eaton County.
Around 8:00 pm on February 28, 2015, the 17-year-old Grand Ledge High School was shot seven times by Eaton County Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Jonathan Frost. While he was driving to his girlfriend's house after playing basketball at his church, Deven was stopped because ... (more)
Fox Lake, Ill. – For the past month, the death of police officer Joe Gliniewicz has remained a mystery, but an interesting detail surfaced this week that shows a strange coincidence between his death, and the investigation of one of his superiors.
According to WGN TV:
WGN Investigates has learned that the village sought approval t
Baltimore, MD -- A police sergeant was suspended Tuesday after cellphone videos captured him spitting in the face of a handcuffed man. Although the man was restrained on the ground and not fighting back, police charged him with assault, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct.
Shortly after 8 p.m. on Monday, Sgt. Robert Mesner and several other Baltimore police officers approached a group of people sitting on the steps of a building and ordered them to move. Although upset that t... (more)
There's an app for just about everything it seems, including apps for parking tickets, apparently. One of these apps, called Fixed, is specifically designed to do several things with parking and/or traffic tickets. When you get a ticket, you take a picture of it with your camera on your phone. From there, the app allows you to automate the process of paying the ticket or disputing it. Specifically, by scanning the picture of the ticket you... (more)
It's jail and prison guards gone bad this week, plus a trio of suburban Cleveland narcs get nailed, and a Customs agent goes to prison for waving load of marijuana through his port of entry. Let's get to it:
Albuquerque, NM — Albuquerque can be a tough town name to spell. However, many people with their finger on the pulse of police brutality and corruption can spell it forward and backward as the Albuquerque police department is one of the most corrupt and violent departments in the country.
From 2010 through 2014, there were four fatal police shootings in England, which has a population of about 52 million. B... (more)
Police officers are not mere government functionaries, but rather angelic beings bearing a divine commission to impose summary punishment -- and must be obeyed, prayed for, and never spoken of other than in tones of chastened gratitude and unalloyed reverence. This was the message preached by Pastor Jay Dennis of Lakeland, Florida's First Baptist Church on the Mall during "Law Enf... (more)
"Right after this, I yelled in my loudest command voice, "Help! Please call the police! This TSA agent just stole my cell phone! Please record this!" ... (more)
Minnesota law enforcement's last-ditch effort to keep body camera footage out of the hands of the public has failed. Back in February, legislators made the first effort, pushing a bill that would have limited recording requests to the subjects of the recordings. It also included a 90-day destruction p... (more)
After being called to provide medical help to a woman in need, an Ohio cop shot a family's dog which allegedly charged at him and accidentally hit their four year old daughter with his stray bullet.
The family claims after the shooting the officer got back into his car and eventually drove off without telling them whether he called for help an... (more)
Cutler Bay, FL — Rita Guzman, 25, was arrested last week after being violently pulled from her vehicle by a power-tripping police officer as she attempted to pick her daughter up from school.
Guzman was not wanted for murder, or theft, or even a subject of the state's immoral war on drugs. She hadn't caused harm to anyone or anything. Instead, Guzman had fallen victim to the latest revenue collection scheme conducted by Miami-Dade cops at Dr. Edward L. Wingham Elem... (more)
RENO, Nev. (CN) - Sparks, Nev. police answering a call about a suicidal woman shot the woman's daughter by mistake, then killed the mother, and the daughter wants them to pay for it.
Darcie Latham sued Sparks, its Police Department and three officers in Federal Court Wednesday, accusing them of shooting her in the upper leg, then killing her suicidal mother, whom police thought had a gun.
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The uniquely restrictive New York State law that is used to conceal the disciplinary histories of police officers -- even some who have committed crimes -- reared its head again last week in misconduct proceedings against the officer who brutalized the retired tennis player James Blake during a mistaken arr
Savannah-Chatham County, GA — During the trial of two former deputies and a contract healthcare worker charged with killing a computer science student in police custody, jurors recently reviewed the surveillance video showing the cops beating the student to death. Although at least nine deputies were fired for their involvement in the incident only two deputies and a nurse have been charged with felony manslaughter and falsifying reports.
Pittsburgh, PA -- In a blatant abuse of authority, a Pittsburgh police officer was caught on video assaulting a Cubs fan during last week's National League Wild Card game between the Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates. After the belligerent cop placed the sports fan in a chokehold and slammed him to the ground for asking a simple question, Pittsburgh security guards can be seen on video attempting to destroy evidence by smacking the cellphone out of his friend's hands.
When 16-year-old Matthew Robinson and his mother, Eva, took their dog out for a walk one September evening four years ago, they never once thought they'd end up in a federal courtroom. Yet that's where they have been as their terrifying case against two police officers was put in the hands of a jury this week in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Tased, beaten, and terrorized -- the Robinsons were not suspected of any crime when they were stopped by police beside their home in Dover, Arkansas... (more)
Seattle, WA — On January 19, Jesse Hagopian was pepper sprayed by police while leaving a peaceful Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally and march. The incident was not in dispute as everything that happened was caught on video.
Officers had set up a bicycle barricade to block the march, but some people walked through the blockade, Hagopian did not.
The video clearly shows Hagopian come walking along calmly, minding his own business and talking on his cell pho... (more)
Houston, TX – A police officer was recently suspended after it was discovered that he was mailing speeding tickets to random people who were not even driving in the area at the time. Officer David Carter is now under investigation because a number of drivers disputed their tickets, and it was determined that it would have been impossible for them to be speeding in the area where they were accused.
Emanuel Morfin is one of the drivers who caught on to Carter's scam, and he to... (more)
