2016/05/12 Infowars.com ATLANTA – Parents of two Atlanta Public Schools students are fuming after their daughters were accosted by local transit police and forced into a “truancy van” on their way to school. Twins Carrie and Colleen Miller attend Grady High School, about 2.5 miles from their house, and the girls and a friend decided … Read more
2016/05/07 Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project A triple amputee was left brutalized and humiliated after a police search on a train platform left him laying on the ground, struggling to re-attach his prosthetics. Social media has erupted in outrage after video of the incident was posted to Facebook this week. The video was first … Read more
June William | Courthouse News Service No Warrant? Stay Out of Garbage, Seattle Police SEATTLE (CN) — Seattle’s warrantless searches of garbage to enforce its recycling law is unconstitutional, a judge ruled. King County Judge Beth Andrus did, however, uphold the city’s ban on disposal of recyclables and compostable food waste. Though Seattle has one … Read more
Andrew Emmett | The Free Thought Project Philadelphia, PA – Police apologized on Wednesday after raiding an innocent family’s home and traumatizing a disabled woman who nearly fell down the stairs. Touted as “innovative” and “state-of-the-art,” the Real Time Crime Center mistakenly directed officers to the wrong house and another botched raid. Around 2:30 a.m. … Read more
2016/04/27 TUCSON (CN) — A federal jury awarded a Tucson couple $1.25 million after police searched their home and held them at gunpoint while responding to a 911 call from a neighbor who was known for making false reports. Jill and Rob Larson were pulled out of sleep around 9:30 p.m. on May 23, 2013 … Read more
Charity Smith | Courthouse News Service DETROIT (CN) — A man who drunkenly got behind the wheel but never left his driveway, should not have been charged with driving while intoxicated, the divided Michigan Court of Appeals ruled. It all went down in March 2014 when Northville police received three noise complaints about Gino Rea, … Read more
Brianna Blaschke | True Activist Student and Iraqi refugee Khairuldeen Makhzoomi was minding his own business, excitedly sharing his experience at an academic conference with his family on his flight home. Next thing he knows, Southwest Airlines removed him from the aircraft, simply because he was speaking Arabic while onboard. Makhzoomi arrived with his family in … Read more
Claire Bernish | The Free Thought Project Tecumseh, MI — Like a dystopic nightmare, a couple from Michigan faces not only large fines, but jail time over failing to return two library books — one of which is a classic by Dr. Seuss — despite their attempts to resolve the matter. Catherine Duren allowed her … Read more
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project San Francisco, CA — As if threatening government force to extort money from drivers who exceed an arbitrary limit of speed on the highway is not bad enough, police in California will begin issuing tickets to speeding bicyclists as well. Earlier this month, Marin County parks officials launched … Read more
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project 2016/04/17 Clark County, WA — In February, a family experienced a horrifying home invasion during which their children were taken from them, and they were assaulted. The father and husband, Ilya Petrenko caught the perpetrators on video — they were police officers with the Vancouver Police Department. According to Petrenko, … Read more
Brianna Blashcke | True Activist Remember when you were a kid, playing to your heart’s content outside, and were reprimanded by your parents for your reluctance to come back in the house? 24-year-old schizophrenic Cody Lee Miller has just encountered the adult version of that very same exchange, yet at a much higher price – … Read more
David Wells | Courthouse News Service INDIANAPOLIS (CN) – Indiana State Police fired a trooper Thursday on the heels of a second lawsuit alleging that the man was “proselytizing” citizens during traffic stops. The federal complaint filed Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana is the nonprofit’s second action in the last 18 … Read more