Adam Klasfeld | Courthouse News Service MANHATTAN (CN) — As Attica prisoner Ahmed Ferhani hangs onto life following a suicide attempt, his supporters gathered at Manhattan’s One Police Plaza to shed light on a case that once set New York City abuzz with allegations of terrorism and entrapment. Ferhani was 26 years old when prosecutors … Read more
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project Minooka, IL — The Minooka Police Department decided that the benefits from police body cameras do not outweigh the inconvenient administrative work associated with their use. They have halted the department use of body cameras after only six months. In 2013, a high-profile study of the use of … Read more
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project Jasper, TN — Last month, Lisa Marie Palmer, upset that her children had missed the bus, again, decided that it would be a good learning experience for them if they walked to school. Palmer then got in her car and drove in front of her two daughters as … Read more
Nick Rummel | Courthouse News Service PHILADELPHIA (CN) – Four years after settling a class action and agreeing to curb potential constitutional violations, Philadelphia police continued making unconstitutional stops and frisks last year, according to a report released Tuesday by the ACLU. The 61-page report found that tens of thousands of Philadelphians are still stopped … Read more
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project Maricopa County, AZ — Members of the group Legalize Marijuana Arizona, purchased a campsite at the Nascar races at the Phoenix International Raceway in Arizona recently, only to be shut down and run out of the park by Free Speech-hating prohibitionist deputies. Deputy Don Hess with the Maricopa … Read more
Cameron Langford | Courthouse News Service HOUSTON (CN) – The former Texas state trooper made infamous by his arrest of Sandra Bland has two weeks to explain why a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the dead woman’s mother should be stayed, a federal judge ruled. Brian Encinia pulled Bland over on July 10, 2015, for … Read more
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project Polk County, FL — As the Free Thought Project reported last month, there is a queue of police departments around the country who are pining away in hopes that the FBI will soon bully Apple into ruining privacy as we know it. However, one rogue sheriff in Florida … Read more
John Vibes | TrueActivist.com The recent case of a homeless man racking up massive fines has exposed the widespread police practice of fining homeless people for being homeless. Émilie Guimond-Bélanger, a social worker at the Droits Devant legal clinic in Montreal spoke to the media about a case that she worked on where a homeless … Read more
Elizabeth Warmerdam | Courthouse News Service LOS ANGELES (CN) – A man who spent 13 months in jail for a murder he did not commit can press claims of unlawful arrest and fabrication of evidence against Los Angeles and two police officers, a federal judge ruled. Roy Galvan, who was acquitted of the murder of … Read more
Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project Philadelphia, PA — In an asinine blow to freedom of speech, U.S. District Judge Mark Kearney of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued a ruling Friday stating that citizens do not have a First Amendment right to record the police in public. The ruling was based on the … Read more
Andrew Emett | The Free Thought Project Cairo, Egypt – Convicted of murder, inciting riots, destruction of government property and threatening cops, a four-year-old Egyptian boy was sentenced to life in prison this week. Although the boy was less than two years old during the civil unrest in 2014, he was convicted in absentia due … Read more
Matt Reynolds | The Free Thought Project RIVERSIDE, Calif. (CN) – The federal government on Friday told a federal judge it doubted that Apple is really concerned about the privacy of millions of iPhone users, and that the tech giant’s resistance to unlocking terrorist Syed Farook’s iPhone is driven by “marketing concerns.” In a motion … Read more