John Harmon, a diabetic who owns a marketing company, was pulled over after low blood sugar levels made him swerve into another lane. The sheriff's deputies smashed his window, Tasered him, and charged him with resisting arrest. Now he's suing.
A counter-terrorism consultant told a meeting of law enforcement officials that the way to combat militant Muslims is to "kill them ... including the children." A self-described "former PLO terrorist" who "now speaks out for USA and Israel," made the
"It's a big problem, and from the number of cases, it's something we shouldn't ignore," DEA Lawrence Payne said. "It's not that we set out to target cops, but when we're in the middle of an active investigation into steroids, there have been quite a
Although this report is over 2 years old, it shows that this is a growing trend that is NOT an anomoly here and there, but going on everywhere, and has been for some time.
A compelling video of an altercation involving 20 or more police outside a Lincoln, Nebraska mobile home was mysteriously removed from youtube after being featured on several libertarian websites. The video titled 'Police State' had initially been po
In a brazen display of Constitutional ignorance, Atlanta police officers stormed into a gay bar last year without a search warrant and forced 80 people down at gunpoint, confiscating their cell phones to prevent photographs as they frisked everybody
Recently released footage from a police cruiser's dashboard camera shows the events leading up to the fatal shooting of a partially deaf man by a Seattle police officer.
John T. Williams, a Native American wood carver who was partially deaf, was k
This is the most chilling video I've seen in a while. This is a shocking film of an officer who goes absolutely berzerk at the sight of a man innocuously videotaping in public. The videographer, who identifies himself as a member of a Michigan govern
About one in four drunken driving suspects refuse to take breath tests, the department said, and law enforcement officials described the approach as a loophole commonly used to avoid prosecution. The government said the no refusal initiative exists i
More than five years after a man named Henry Glover was shot and his body burned here by police officers in the days after Hurricane Katrina, a jury has weighed in on the circumstances of his death. Three police officers were found guilty Thursday ni
Before the sun rose, the informant donned a white Islamic robe. A tiny camera was sewn into a button, and a microphone was buried in a device attached to his keys. The undercover FBI informant - a convicted forger named Craig Monteilh - then drove of
A Miami man whose beating at the hands of police was captured on cell phone video has been charged with resisting arrest without violence, a charge his lawyer says came from nothing more than the man's attempts to cover his head from the blows.
While some of the officers sampled responded to the scene where Drenth was found, and thusly could be tested in order to exclude them as supects, some of those sampled were NOT. Included are officers in the corruption case in Drenth's old precinct.
A Louisville man is facing several charges after police said his cell phone had illegal applications loaded on it.
According to arrest records, 21-year-old Cory Todd was driving his vehicle while playing loud music audible from 50 feet away.
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Luis Luna was arrested for videotaping a group of cops breaking up a fight. He was charged with interfering with police and spent the night in jail. Police stated he was arrested under orders of New Haven Assistant Police Chief Ariel Melendez
A former state trooper took a plea deal in the 1965 slaying of a black man that prompted the "Bloody Sunday" march at Selma and helped galvanize America's civil rights movement. He was sentenced to six months in jail.
Hundreds of protesters on Friday took to the streets of Oakland after a white former transit officer was sentenced to the minimum possible prison sentence of two years for fatally shooting an unarmed black man on a California train platform.
First, Constable Adam Josephs threatened to arrest a young woman for blowing bubbles in his direction during the G20 protest in Toronto earlier this year. Now he is threatening to sue Youtube for "ridicule" over a series of cartoon videos that have b
While some of us celebrated the fact the Department of Homeland Security acknowledged last week that photographing public buildings is legal, most of us are unaware that the DHS is creating a national database of people committing “suspicious activit
Tens of thousands of times over 6 years, police stopped and questioned people on NY City streets without the legal justification for doing so. In hundreds of thousands of more cases, officers failed to include essential details on required police for
Diop Kamau's home in a leafy, gated community just north of town is not easy to find — for good reason. For more than 2 decades, the 52-year-old former Calif. police officer has made a living embarrassing cops with a video camera.
She asked them to reason with her son. She expected they would issue a warning and cool things down. Instead, about 15 minutes later, Danny Frank Rodriquez was shot dead inside the trailer.
US officials unveiled the FBI's largest ever police corruption sweep saying 133 police, prison guards and army officers have been charged in a huge anti-graft crackdown in Puerto Rico. The suspects face charges relating to possessing and distributing
FBI agents and several supervisors cheated on an exam about new rules for terrorism and criminal investigations and for collecting foreign intelligence. Some FBI employees improperly consulted others while taking the exam, and others used answer shee
Since the 9/11 terrorists attacks, we’ve seen a sharp increase in First Amendment violations against photographers, usually in the name of keeping us “safe.” One of the reasons for this increase is the lowering of police hiring standards in the recru
Ms. Brandenberg, (Bernallilo County DA) I recently went through a, pro-se, 3 month long traffic case TR2748110 in Metro Court and had it dismissed on 8/11/10 due to failure to prosecute by the City, they didn't show up in Court after the Judge ordere
“Police chiefs and police officers have lost my respect, totally.” That’s what one reader told me immediately after the three opposition parties ganged up Wednesday to preserve the federal gun registry.
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"I don't think anyone needs to be thrown to the ground and have their neck broken because they were parked in the wrong spot,” said a store customer. “I mean he's an old man. It doesn't matter if you've been drinking. How belligerent can you be?"
Anybody that is halfway cognizant of the full ramification of drug prohibition, understand that if cops did not have drugs and prostitution enforcement, they would actually have to protect the rights and property of the Citizens. Why do that, when th
Three Dallas police officers, including one who was fired, will face criminal charges for their alleged roles in the beating of a suspect, which was caught on video by dashboard cameras, the police chief said Wednesday.