Tag: police violence
Video: Cop assaults and arrests nurse for refusing to draw blood
Although Payne has been suspended from the department’s blood draw program, the abusive detective remains on active duty while under internal investigation.
Video reveals deputies torturing restrained teen with stun gun
Those involved have been placed on administrative leave while an investigation is conducted.
Trump’s call for police brutality is no joke
Donald Trump's call for police brutality was not his first public incitement to violence.
Fox News host: “Police brutality was exaggerated”
Greg Gutfeld: “Police brutality was exaggerated. I believe it's exaggerated...”
Police kill innocent man while serving warrant at wrong address
Lopez had no criminal record and the officer's account of events doesn't fit with eyewitness accounts.
Body cam video shows cop shoot tail-wagging dogs
The Minneapolis police say that officers will now receive additional training for encountering dogs on possible burglary calls.
How movements can succeed in the face of government repression
Rather than seeing and treating soldiers and police as the “enemy,” nonviolent movements should find creative ways to engage them and to draw many of them to the side of the movement.
The police state can come after Trump protesters, but it can’t...
Facing up to 75 years in prison, 135 Inauguration Day protesters are refusing to collaborate with the prosecution.
There are good policing rules – why won’t officers use them...
“The good stuff never applies to people of color, ever.”
3 Chicago cops charged with obstruction for falsely justifying teen’s death
Dashcam footage revealed that none of the officers told the truth about McDonald’s death.
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ICE at the gates: Rights groups warn Trump airport deployment risks civil liberties crisis
Civil liberties advocates, unions, and lawmakers raise alarm over use of immigration agents in airport security amid shutdown-driven staffing crisis.
California’s herbicide spill ignites growing movement to ban paraquat nationwide
The spill, which closed a major highway and sent at least ten people to seek medical attention for respiratory symptoms, became a catalyst for a renewed political battle over the chemical's future in California.
Why Donald Trump just can’t stop going to war
When imperial America offers help, it just might get you killed.
The Age of Arrogant Amateurism – as ‘know-it-all’ opportunists seize power to control, not...
To win big in this brave new world, forget tested skill-sets and the wisdom of experience: chutzpah and risk-taking, even gambling, are paramount, then the facile ability to learn on the job how to cling to power.
Traders placed massive bets minutes before Trump Iran post raising insider trading concerns
Unusual oil and stock trades worth hundreds of millions of dollars occurred minutes before the president’s social media announcement about Iran peace talks, prompting calls for investigations into possible insider knowledge.