Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project Maricopa County, AZ — United States Senator John McCain is conducting damage control after a staff member of his re-election fundraising campaign was arrested Tuesday. Emily Pitha, 34 was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of drug charges after Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies raided her home and found an active … Read more
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project The criminal depths to which police will sink to bolster their budgets, apparently have no limit, as a recent case of police theft in Oklahoma illustrates. To keep society safe, sheriff’s deputies in Muskogee County, Oklahoma robbed a church and an orphanage of $53,000. Real American heroes. Eh Wah, … Read more
Brian Grosh | Courthouse News Service CLEVELAND (CN) — The family of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy gunned down by police while playing with a toy gun, reached a $6 million settlement Monday with Cleveland. Filed this morning with U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr., the one-page settlement order states that $5.5 million will … Read more
Kristan T. Harris | American Intelligence Report 2016/04/23 Police departments around the nation have taken predictive crime prevention to a new level by building fake user accounts, as well as posing as genuine people to gather information about local events, Tech.Mic reports. Local agents put on a “digital mask” and pose as “members of the community,” allowing them to … Read more
Cameron Langford | Courthouse News Service Bump in the Road in Sandra Bland Case HOUSTON (CN) – The former Texas state trooper at the center of the Sandra Bland story won’t be deposed for a lawsuit from the dead woman’s mother until his related criminal case concludes, a federal judge ruled. Brian Encinia scored a … Read more
Don Debenedictis | Courthouse News Service LOS ANGELES (CN) — Los Angeles police handcuffed, beat, Tasered and suffocated a Latino man to death and erased a witness’s cellphone video of it, his mother and children claim in court. Alex Jimenez died in South Los Angeles on April 13, 2015, when one or more unnamed LAPD … 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
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
Lisa Klein | Courthouse News Service The Chicago Police Department has deeply rooted problems with racism and lack of accountability for its officers’ actions, according to a report from the Police Accountability Task Force. “A painful but necessary reckoning is upon us,” the task force said of its findings. Mayor Rahm Emanuel called for the … Read more
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project The United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that police officers can lie to suspects in regards to a traffic stop — even when no violation has occurred. The ruling essentially gives police officers carte blanche to stop anyone they want for absolutely no reason — merely … Read more
Philip Janquart | Courthouse News Service 2016/04/14 An Idaho woman, an Army veteran, was jailed for eight days because she publicly confronted elected officials about their undisclosed business interests with an oil and gas company, she claims in Federal Court. Alma Plucinski sued the Payette County Board of Commissioners, the Payette County Planning & Zoning … Read more