Texas is often the incubator for the stupid and extreme. Hunt County Sheriff Randy Meeks wrote an op-ed in the Herald-Banner newspaper, and here’s what has been percolating in his brain: “Due to recent events, I can no longer be silent concerning what our country allows. It is amazing to me that the criminals who break […]
A member of the Philadelphia Police Department has been reassigned to desk duty and had his service weapon taken from him after a video surfaced showing him pressuring a driver to purchase a ticket for a police fundraiser. On the video, Officer Matthew Zagursky is shown holding the tickets in his hand and saying: “You and […]
A Georgia honors student was arrested when a clerical error led police to believe he was someone whose driver’s license had been suspended. Marcus Green, a student at Georgia State University in Atlanta, was pulled over on Monday evening for speeding. He fully expected to receive a speeding ticket, but was arrested instead. Somehow the officers who arrested […]
An unarmed 19-year-old college football player was shot and killed by police in Arlington, Texas, after the young man’s car allegedly crashed through the front window of a car dealership. Christian Taylor was a defensive back on the Angelo State University football team. According to police, officers were called to respond to a burglary around 1 a.m. […]
The family of a gay man who died in custody in Galveston, Texas, is seeking to find out more about why their son allegedly did not receive needed medication which eventually led to him suffering a fatal seizure. In March, Jesse Jacobs turned himself in at a jail in Galveston as part of a 30-day sentence he had been […]
A police officer in Sarasota, Florida, has been suspended after a video surfaced showing him feeding an intoxicated inmate as if he’s a zoo animal. In the video, Officer Andrew Halpin can be seen tossing peanuts into inmate Randy Miller’s mouth as Miller sits handcuffed in a chair. Miller is unable to catch the peanuts in his mouth, so […]
On Friday, a federal judge ordered the immediate seizure of thousands of documents and numerous computer hard drives from the office of Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The order was in connection with an ongoing racial profiling case. U.S. District Judge Murray Snow issued the order during emergency hearing he convened after a court-appointed […]
Imagine you’re sitting quietly in your home, just you, your family, and your trusted dog. All of a sudden a SWAT team busts through the door, aims semiautomatic rifles at you, shoots your dog dead, and then threatens to kill one of your children. Sounds like something out of a nightmare, doesn’t it? Well, it […]