Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project Southfield, MI — This week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth District ruled that on an officer, who violently endangered the lives of an innocent grandmother and her three grandchildren by repeatedly ramming his car into theirs, is not immune from a lawsuit. On Oct. … Read more
Erin McAuley | Courthouse News Service PITTSBURGH (CN) – Pennsylvania police illegally arrested a Native American for what its police chief called an “unpatriotic” desecration of the flag, which he spray-painted and hung upside-down on his own porch – which happened to be across the street from the police station, the man claims in court. … Read more
“It is unacceptable that The Washington Post and the Guardian newspaper from the U.K. are becoming the lead source of information about violent encounters between police and civilians. That is not good for anybody,” said FBI Director James B. Comey. The FBI has been collecting data on Americans killed by the police for years, according … Read more
It is indeed an odd day when feminism has come to mean selling one’s body like a slave. In this day and age where “slavery is freedom,” we now present you with a bunch of hookers that teamed up with their pimp to support “the first female president.” The first feminists were insurrectionists against the … Read more
MarShawn M. McCarrel II was just 23 years old when he was pronounced dead on the Ohio Statehouse steps four days ago – February 8,2016. No one witnessed McCarrel shoot himself, according to Lt. Craig Cvetan of the State Highway Patrol. No one witnessed a man allegedly shoot himself on a public street at 6pm. … Read more
Andrew Emett | The Free Thought Project You Could be Killed for Doing What this Drunk Cop Did – Instead, He’s Let Go and Given an Apology The next time you see a dozen cops pummel a man suspected of a DUI, remember that this is how they treat their own. Poulsbo, WA — Instead … Read more
Claire Bernish | The Free Thought Project A nineteen-year-old engineering student and a 55-year-old mother of five were shot and killed by Chicago police answering an emergency report of a domestic disturbance — but the incident already echoes a spate of impossible-to-justify killings at the hands of Chicago PD. Relatives and friends of the two … Read more
2015/12/26 Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project Des Moines, IA — Imagine for a moment that you were open carrying a pistol in a public space and all of the sudden, you accidentally squeeze off a round. There are two possible scenarios that would take place; the first one being that police return fire … Read more
William Grigg | The Free Thought Project Douglas County, GA — Bobby Daniels was a peace officer by trade – a private security guard employed at CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta. When he learned that his emotionally troubled 25-year-old son Bias had suffered a breakdown and was holding a fellow security guard at gunpoint in a … Read more
2015/12/12 San Diego, Calif. – In a telling display of law enforcement’s lack of common sense, Joey Canales, 31, had his transit pass seized by a transit cop prior to boarding the trolley. The cop’s reason for seizing Canales’ transit pass was that the man, who’s been disabled since he was born, did not have … Read more
William Grigg | The Free Thought Project Like Brandon Ellingson, James Bava died at the hands of the Missouri Highway Patrol –but in Bava’s case, those hands were his own. Trooper Bava perished on August 28 when he crashed his patrol vehicle while giving pursuit to a speeding motorcyclist, later identified as twenty-year-old Serghei Pavel … Read more
John Vibes | The Free Thought Project On the day the trial started for the cops charged with killing Freddie Gray, CNN took to bashing the victim and his family. Baltimore, MD – When reporting on the case of police brutality victim Freddie Gray, the man that was killed by police in Baltimore earlier this … Read more