“This is what we’re gearing up for this year and what you’re going to see more and more of is these large-scale compliance inspections, just for starters.” Immigration and Customs enforcement (ICE) agents on Wednesday ...
Hill, who famously testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her, said the former vice president and then-committee chair should have shown leadership but “did just the opposite”. (Common Dreams by ...
C.J. Brown wrote four times as many pedestrian tickets as any other officer in Jacksonville over the last five years. Most of them went to blacks. His boss says he’s just “good at his job.” ...
Last Thursday CBS News-LA posted bodycam video that appears to show an LAPD officer plant drugs in a middle aged black man’s wallet. This is the first time that LAPD bodycam footage has ever been ...
Texas inmates donated more than $53,000 to charity to help with hurricane relief efforts. (The Free Thought Project, by Matt Agorist) Houston, TX — Showing that bad laws actually put good people behind bars, inmates serving time in Texas ...
Prison labor camps: they thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants. (Reveal News By Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter) The worst day of Brad McGahey’s life was the day a ...
It’s not big trafficking rings. Mostly, it’s through little guys like John Thomas. (By Mick Dumke, ProPublica) This story was co-published with WBEZ Chicago’s “Every Other Hour” series and the Chicago Sun-Times. John Thomas set up the deal the ...
The authorities don’t need a conviction or even for a suspect to be charged with a crime before seizing a car, cash or even a house. (The Conversation, by Nora V. Demleitner, Washington and Lee ...
According to a Sky News report, a recent carnival in Notting Hill was treated as a testing ground for police facial recognition systems. (Activist Post, Nicholas West) All things biometric are sweeping across the world ...
As officers tase teen: “I’ll keep on doing that until I run out of batteries.” The above video is disturbing to watch. It shows Jordin Norris, an 18-year-old in custody at a Cheatham County, Tennessee ...
A Chicago woman is tased by police and suffers a miscarriage but is now expected to receive a $500,000 settlement. A Chicago woman, Elaina Turner, and her boyfriend, Ulysses Green, crossed paths with a trouble-prone ...
A frantic and scared mom, Latasha Nelson, in Arlington, Texas recorded video of her 14 year old son’s arrest; an arrest based on zero evidence. The activist group Next Generation Action Network posted the mom’s ...
Marijuana decreases crime: dispensaries actually increase the ‘walkability score’ of a neighborhood which deters criminal activity. “Good people don’t smoke marijuana.” – Jeff Sessions, Attorney General “I reject the idea that America will be a better ...
LAPD Scandal: Seven teens in the LA cadet program arrested for stealing LAPD equipment. An officer involved is charged with statutory rape of a cadet. L.A.P.D. arrested A 31-year old Los Angeles police officer last ...
Off-duty officer Joe Joswiak pulled over Minnesota motorist Anthony Promvongsa for driving aggressively in July of 2016 and immediately began violently assaulting him. The ACLU just released dash cam of the incident and is calling ...
On June 8th, a New York corrections officer at Rikers Island admitted to sexual assault of a female inmate but thanks to a plea deal he will receive no jail time. As part of the ...
Twenty-year-old University of Virginia student, Stephen Dalton Baril, was indicted last week on charges of rape and forceable sodomy of a fellow female student. Baril turned himself in last Wednesday and attended his bond hearing later ...
The Portland Police Department shared photos on Twitter of an array of weapons seized at competing Portland protests in downtown. The two protests are located directly across the street from each other and have lined the street to ...
The case of Oscar Millan shows ICE’s renewed focus on strict immigration enforcement. Under the Obama administration, agents had discretion in cases of immigrants with gravely sick children. (ProPublica, by Marcelo Rochabrun) Early last Monday ...
Why is there one set of criminal laws for the private sector and another set for U.S. officials? (Re-posted with permission from The Future of Freedom Foundation, by Jacob G. Hornberger) The inspectors general for the ...
Jacob Ryan Delgadillo, a 30 year old Houston Independent Schools police officer, plead guilty to having an improper relationship with a 14 year old girl at the middle school where he worked. The improper relationship ...
Reposted with permission from ProPublica, by Joaquin Sapien Ruddy Quezada, a 54-year-old man wrongfully convicted of a deadly drive-by shooting in 1993, has won a $4.5 million settlement from New York state, according to court papers. ...
Reposted with permission from The Free Thought Project, by Matt Agorist. Johnson County, AR — Former deputy Robert Retford, with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department was arrested last November on charges of sexual assault. His ...
Reposted with permission from The Free Thought Project. Article by Claire Bernish. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, confirmed to the position Thursday by the U.S. Senate, is one in a string of disputed appointees to President ...
Under much controversy and ignoring Ledell Lee’s request for DNA testing, Arkansas executed Ledell Lee in the state’s first death row execution since 2005. Lee is one of eight men Arkansas is attempting to execute ...
Reprinted with permission from The Free Thought Project. By Jay SyrmopoulosApril 18, 2017 image: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/dyncorp-696×366.jpg Washington, D.C. – A retired Army general, who after leaving the military, worked as VP for embattled DynaCorp International for three ...
Story originally reported on ANTIMEDIA and reposted here with permission. A story last week highlights the fact that undocumented people in America aren’t the only ones affected by Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. On Friday, The Daily Beast reported ...
A representative of the FBI was grilled by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform regarding the agency’s growing biometric database. Article via Activist Post by Derrick Broze On Wednesday the House Committee on ...
Christopher Dorner was a former naval officer and police officer who reportedly declared warfare on the LAPD. While working for the LAPD he filed a report alleging use of excessive force by his fellow police ...
Christopher Dorner was a former naval officer and police officer who reportedly declared warfare on the LAPD. While working for the LAPD he filed a report alleging use of excessive force by his fellow police ...
A Democracy Now report on the 1985 bombing of a Philadelphia row house which contained the black liberation group, MOVE.
Former Nixon official John Ehrlichman admits drug war was an excuse to lock up blacks and anti-war left. In the April 2016 issue of Harper’s Magazine writer Dan Baum talks about the time he interviewed ...
Yes, our government actually spent thousands of dollars to practice shooting zombies.