Non-Lethal Weapons Maker Under Fire For Deadly Results
Dees Illustration By Joe Wright In May of 2012 I wrote an article that began as follows: Two new studies reveal that supposedly non-lethal Tasers…
Police
500 Innocent Americans Killed by Cops Each Year
Lily Dane Activist Post “Knock and announce” police raids are on the rise. They are estimated to occur as many as 40 – 50,000 per…
Unarmed Handcuffed Teen Shoots Himself in the Head While In a Police Car
Kimberly Paxton Activist Post In an astounding feat that defies several of the known laws of nature, a 17-year-old North Carolina boy managed to shoot…
The FAA Creates Thin Privacy Guidelines For The Nation’s First Domestic Drone “Test Sites”
April Glaser and Jennifer Lynch Electronic Frontier Foundation Commercial unmanned aerial systems are set to start flying over US airspace in 2015. In November the…
Now Why Would Cops Need to Kill a Pet Parakeet?
Amanda Warren Activist Post The hundreds of pet dogs that get unnecessarily blasted by police each year, sometimes that many in just one city annually,…
18 L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputies Taken into Custody
Melissa Melton Activist Post After claims of civil rights violations rampant in the L.A. county jails came to light following a two-year investigation, 18 of…
The End of Private Property in the Era of the American Police State
John W. Whitehead Activist Post “No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.”—John Jay, first Chief Justice…
Sometimes Cops Find Your Stolen Car. Sometimes Cops Stole It.
Brave New Foundation Police officers are forcing people to choose between time behind bars or turning over their money and property — all without ever…
NYPD Aiming to Stop the Public Finding Out About Crimes
Chris Carrington Activist Post New York has 77 police precincts and all of them have been told to stop providing the media with details of…
Man Says Cops Threatened to Raid His Home and Kill His Dogs
Lily Dane Activist Post A Kansas City man had an unpleasant visit from the police last week. Eric Crinnian heard loud banging at his door….
Britain’s War on Press Freedom
Stephen Lendman Activist Post Press freedom is too important to lose. The right to express thoughts and opinions freely is fundamental. Without it all others…
NYPD Wants Stores to Point Security Cameras Toward Streets
Kevin Samson Activist Post New York City has become the epicenter of a massive apparatus of citizen surveillance, harassment, and control. It’s a place rife…
Cop Tasered Boy into a Coma for Trying to Break Up a Schoolyard Fight
Cedar Creek High School image credit: Larry D. Moore Chris Carrington Activist Post A Texas schoolboy who was tasered after intervening in a fight at…
Protected by TSA this Thanksgiving week?
Aaron Dykes Activist Post The idea of the TSA keeping you safe is a fairy tale scripted for children, and sheep. All through the busy…