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Photography Is Not a Crime

This week’s award for The Most Arrogant Police Department in the Country goes to the boys in blue from Seattle, who are not even pretending to care about saving taxpayers’ money in lawsuits over public records. Internal documents obtained by attor

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The man shot by Washington County tactical officers Tuesday night had grabbed a gun because he thought intruders were on his property after his wife had checked on their barking dog in their backyard and saw a stranger in dark clothing.

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by William N. Grigg (Pro Liberate)

Officer Skweres told Smith that "he could make it look like [the accident] was my fault or he could give the driver a ticket for failure to obey signs," she recently recounted to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The price of a favorable assessment would

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Photography Is Not a Crime

eattle police were caught on dash cam telling a pair of innocent robbery suspects that they would "make stuff up" to ensure the charges would stick, even though there was a complete lack of actual evidence. That incident is just small sample of wh

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Washington Post

In 2 lengthy and high-profile trials in the District’s federal court, federal prosecutors failed to win a single conviction. One reason for the courtroom setbacks can be traced to the ribald texts exchanged between the informant and his FBI handlers.

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L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise

Hardly a week goes by we don't hear that any man, woman, or child who exercises a given unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, or human right (the particulars change from moment to moment) should be looked upon by local police as a terrorist

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Lew Rockwell blog

In medieval monarchies, canon were often inscribed with the legend ultima ratio regum ("the king's final argument") — a Latin phrase that means, essentially, "Submit, or I'll murder you." That would be a proper inscription for the shotgun wielded by

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Photography Is Not a Crime

The Miami-Dade police officer who had me arrested as I was covering the Occupy Miami eviction is a public information officer, meaning it is her job to deal with the media. You would think Major Nancy Perez would have known better than to single out

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Cantu, a diesel mechanic, was making his lunch January 22, 2010, when he saw a few cops streaking across his yard. A deafening explosion shook the room as a flash bomb shot through the door. Nearly 20 officers crashed in. "Get on the ground!" they

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CBS News

Police in Calumet City were defending their actions after officers shot and killed a 15-year-old boy, who has a form of autism, after he threatened them with a knife. Stephon Watts’ family said he suffered from Asperger’s Syndrome — a high-functionin

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Photography Is Not a Crime

I was released Wednesday morning after spending several hours in the Miami-Dade County jail and I spent the next several hours retrieving my possessions from the police department across town and then trying to recover video footage the cops apparent

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Photography Is Not a Crime

The problem with the mainstream media is that too many reporters don’t know the actual law when it comes to police confiscating cameras or deleting photos. And they think the only way to find out the law is to ask police.

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Photography Is Not a Crime

A woman said three Houston police officers beat her up after she tried to video record them arresting her husband Friday night. Annika Lewis also said the officers took the memory card out of her phone. Lewis and her husband are black. The thre

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CBS News

The Los Angeles Police Department teamed with military special operation forces Wednesday evening to conduct multi-agency tactical exercises in the skies above downtown LA. Many questioned what was going on Wednesday night as a Black Hawk helicopt

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AP

4 police officers, including the president of the local police union, were arrested by the FBI on charges they assaulted illegal immigrants and created false reports to cover up abuses in a New Haven suburb where a federal investigation found life wa

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Wall Street Journal

A federal agent who accidentally shot himself while lecturing children on gun safety lost his appeal Tuesday in a lawsuit over release of the video that subjected him to ridicule on the Internet and late-night talk shows.

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Photography Is Not a Crime

Melbourne police officer Derek Middendorf turned off his dash cam before stepping out of his patrol car and kicking a mild-mannered 66-year-old man with dementia in the groin. The hulking cop then fell on top of the feeble Albert Flowers, punching

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A local soldier provided back up for local police officers during a major drug operation. U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Lazaro Perez went along with Miami-Dade Police officers during Operation Machete, which consisted of a series of drug raids at sever

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