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 […]
Police dressed in SWAT gear stormed an 81-year-old man’s home, handcuffed him, broke his hip, and then left him without calling for medical assistance, according to a lawsuit filed in Georgetown, Texas. The incident, which took place in September of 2014, began at the home of Herman Crisp. Crisp says he was sitting outside his […]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Colorado is representing two African-American men who were recently stopped and detained by police in an case of what the ACLU calls blatant racial profiling. And they have the encounter on video. In the video, Ryan Brown and his brother, Benjamin Brown, are seen being placed in handcuffs on […]
Usually in this world, you either have to be famous (in a good way) or infamous to get a billboard with your face on it. Or you can just shoot two of your fellow citizens, be placed on administrative leave, and be a threat to the community you live in. And this is where the […]
The attorney for the family of a man shot and paralyzed by a Palm Beach County deputy says that newly released dashcam video confirms what they have always suspected: 20-year-old Dontrell Stephens did not have a weapon and was never given an order to get on the ground. In dashcam video from 2013, Dontrell Stephens is seen […]
So we now have the cellphone video of a police officer in South Carolina shooting an unarmed man eight times in the back as the man attempts to run away. The cop has been terminated from his position, arrested, and charged with murder. This is what needed to be done in response to the officer’s […]