Donald Trump campaigned as the candidate of “law and order,” and catered shamelessly to police officers and other first responders. But a section of the tax scam bill he just signed proves that he and the Republican party truly are liars and hypocrites. The section of the bill in question allows wealthy corporate CEOs can […]
President Trump has decided to reverse a decision made during the Obama administration and will now allow restrictions to be lifted which will American police departments access to excess military equipment for use against U.S. citizens. As you might expect, Fox News is all in favor of turning police departments into paramilitary units, and Fox […]
In case you were wondering what role the police play in the lives of people in this country, it turns out they’re actually ministers sent by God to punish all the bad guys. So by that logic I guess the cops who shoot innocent people are working for Satan. Robert Jeffress, the pastor at First […]
We’re all aware that drones are used in areas such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, both for surveillance and to shoot Hellfire missiles at suspected terrorists who are on the so-called “hit list” of bad guys. These drones are hard to spot, almost impossible to evade, and almost always lethal. Back here in the United […]
After waiting two long years for justice to be done, the family of Larry Jackson, Jr. was hoping to see Detective Charles Kleinert, the Texas police officer they believe executed their loved one in cold blood, put on trial for manslaughter next week. Instead, Kleinert has been granted total immunity from prosecution by a federal […]
Speaking in Chicago yesterday, President Obama told a room of some 14,000 police chiefs from around the country that he has nothing but respect and admiration for what police officers do, but added that he himself has been subjected to police harassment on more than one occasion simply because he’s black: “There were times when […]
In today’s world, where virtually everyone who has a cell phone is also carrying a video camera, police know they are being watched like never before. And one member of the Atlanta Police Department got caught arresting a man for doing nothing, then let the man go after realizing he was being recorded. The video […]
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. […]