A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Iowa cops who seized $100,000 of cash from two professional gamblers on their way home to California from a World Series of Poker event. The men were pulled over for allegedly failing to signal before passing another vehicle. The problem is, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Police Abuse’
July 8th, 2015 - 1:56 pm § in Uncategorized
Freddie Gray case police boss fired
Baltimore police commissioner Anthony Batts was sacked by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake today, CBS News reports. A deputy commissioner will temporarily replace him. Batts was responsible for supervising the Baltimore police department when Freddie Gray, a black man, was killed in police custody. Gr[...]
July 6th, 2015 - 4:01 pm § in Misc.
NYC settles notorious Occupy case
In September 2011, New York City police corralled 6 female protesters inside netting and pepper-sprayed them. The video of this incident went viral. Today, the city agreed to pay the 6 women a total of $332,500. As usual in cases of police abuse, the taxpayers get the bill and the misbehaving cops g[...]
July 3rd, 2015 - 1:38 pm § in Uncategorized
California cops turn anti-lynching law upside down
This legislation can only be viewed as a rebuke of California’s police bullies. Until yesterday, the California penal code applied the term “lynching” to the crime of trying to seize someone from police custody. Now, the legislature and governor have removed that term from the [...]
June 30th, 2015 - 10:28 pm § in America
State trooper gets only 2 years for raping 81-year-old woman
What does it take for a cop to lose his job and go to prison? Jeffrey LaPorto was hired by the Connecticut State Police in 2000 and fired in 2010 after numerous incidents of misconduct, womanizing, and abuses of authority. Here’s what didn’t get him fired: “LaPorto’s miscondu[...]
June 30th, 2015 - 12:42 pm § in Misc.
Grand jury to probe Tulsa sheriff
Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz is a good ol’ boy who doesn’t see any reason for a grand jury investigation of how he runs his office, but he’s gonna get one anyway. After “more than 6,600 Tulsa residents signed a petition asking for the investigation, though only 5,000 si[...]
June 19th, 2015 - 5:10 pm § in Misc.
Ohio cop misses dog, shoots child
A Columbus, Ohio, cop shooting at a dog missed and shot a 4-year-old girl this afternoon. The girl reportedly is in stable condition. (Click here for story) Dog owners typically are very attached to their animals, and there have been a number of controversial police shootings of people’s pets.[...]
June 18th, 2015 - 11:03 am § in Uncategorized
The other pool incident
White cops attacked black kids at an Ohio swimming pool last week, manhandling a pregnant woman, and breaking a 12-year-old’s jaw and ribs. Even if the black mom made a ruckus with pool staff, I never read of cops treating whites like this. Read the story here. https://youtu.be/JcL_crG46gQ &nb[...]
June 17th, 2015 - 11:51 pm § in Misc.
America’s Lubyanka Prison
“Let us not pretend that this kidnapping … was somehow moral … just because it was lawful. … If Americans are not responsible for what happened to Kalief Browder … then we are not responsible for ensuring that it never happens again.” “[A] boy was snat[...]
June 12th, 2015 - 8:04 pm § in Misc.
2 Democratic Senators propose mandatory reporting of police shootings
Incredibly, the United States has no centralized reporting of fatal use of police force, and nobody knows how many citizens are killed by police in this country every year. Incomplete statistics kept by the FBI from voluntary reporting by some of the nation’s 18,000 police agencies suggest mor[...]