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February 17th, 2022 - 4:10 pm § in Law and Courts

The cop and the teacher

Dennis and Cynthia Perkins are were a married couple. He was a cop, she was a teacher. They’re now facing up to 6,000 years in prison. A grand jury indicted them on 150 counts of “child pornography, rape, obscenity, … video voyeurism, … attempted rape, sexual battery of a ch[...]

January 27th, 2022 - 11:54 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism

Wanted: White male, age 49 —

So they arrested a 22-year-old black man with a similar name. Read story here. Below: The suspect (left) and the guy they arrested (right) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

January 26th, 2022 - 9:29 pm § in Politics, Racism

Support your local police

Who says we don’t? Well, apparently Jennie Nguyen thinks we don’t, if we also support racial equality and justice. Bravo, a cable network owned by NBC Universal that specializes in reality TV shows aimed at women, fired Nguyen from “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” The Hil[...]

January 19th, 2022 - 6:54 pm § in Law and Courts

Portland police training

Portland, Oregon, has one of America’s most violent police departments. This image, discovered by a city employee, was part of a PowerPoint training presentation. Police are supposed to be apolitical public servants; if they’re going to beat up protesters, they should beat them up equall[...]

December 19th, 2021 - 2:21 pm § in Politics

Trumper ex-cop busted by feds for punching mailman after local police looked the other way

The thick blue line may not work if you sucker-punch a federal mail carrier. Robert Guitierrez is a retired cop and a Trumper. He’d been arguing with the mailman “for a couple of weeks over politics,” a local TV station reported here. Inevitably, it came to blows. Three punches, to[...]

December 12th, 2021 - 12:10 am § in Health, Politics, Schools & Colleges

U. of Florida was pressured to destroy Covid-19 data

  GOP “reopen” governor’s reign of fear: Faculty Senate report slams political interference; MIAMI HERALD says “fear of upsetting state officials is pervasive among faculty” Download Faculty Senate report here Read Miami Herald story here – Florida Gov. Ron D[...]

November 23rd, 2021 - 9:11 pm § in Law and Courts

Killer cop on trial in Washington

Jeffrey Nelson (photo, left), 43, a violent police officer in Auburn, Washington, who allegedly sports fascist tattoos, has a history of using excessive force in arrests, and has killed 3 people during his 12-year career, is being prosecuted for murder. Prosecutors argue Nelson has a propensity to u[...]

November 20th, 2021 - 3:21 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism

Sheriff charged in black newspaper carrier case

A Kitsap County judge will “oversee the criminal case against Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer, who is charged with two misdemeanors over his confrontation with a Black newspaper carrier,” a Seattle TV station reported on Saturday, November 20, 2021 (story here). A states investigation (s[...]

November 11th, 2021 - 1:43 pm § in Racism

Racist ex-police chief assures us he’s not a racist

He was caught on surveillance video (below) “leaving a ‘Ku Klux Klan’ note on a Black officer’s raincoat,” NBC News says (here). That’s not all. He also “fashioned a KKK style hat out of paper” and told the officer “he had to wear it on his next [...]

November 5th, 2021 - 9:39 pm § in Politics

Leaked list reveals 65 Oath Keepers are police instructors

“A leaked list of people who signed up for the anti-government Oath Keepers group includes 65 who identified themselves as law enforcement trainers, an illustration of how extremist ideologies have proliferated in police departments across the USA,” USA Today reported Friday, November 5,[...]