Man Pepper Sprayed to Death by Police. While Tied to Chair. December 26, 2011 Print Version By John C Dvorak TAMPA – No doubt you’ve heard the adage: a picture is worth a thousand words. A picture of 62-year-old Nick Christie could be worth thousands of dollars when a jury sees it. The photo shows [...]
Financial Giants Put New York City Cops On Their Payroll October 12th, 2011 Via: CounterPunch: If you’re a Wall Street behemoth, there are endless opportunities to privatize profits and socialize losses beyond collecting trillions of dollars in bailouts from taxpayers. One of the ingenious methods that has remained below the public’s radar was started by [...]
First Circuit Court of Appeals Rules that Citizens Can Videotape Police August 31, 2011 Print Version Tiffany Kaiser – Daily Tech The First Circuit Court of Appeals reached a crucial decision last Friday allowing the public to videotape police officers while they’re on the clock. The decision comes after a string of incidents where individuals [...]
6 Creepy New Weapons the Police and Military Use To Subdue Unarmed People August 3, 2011 Print Version Source: Alternet From microwave energy blasters and blinding laser beams to chemical agents and deafening sonic blasters, these weapons are at the cutting edge of crowd control. The US is at the forefront of an international [...]
Miami Police Smashed Mobile Phones Belonging to People Who Witnessed Shooting; One Witness Hid His Phone’s Memory Card in His Mouth June 4th, 2011 This is a pretty timely development, coming just a day after the news about Apple’s iCensor technology. Via: Miami Herald: On Thursday, The Miami Herald spoke to the couple that [...]
StunRay disables your brain with inverse blindness April 4, 2011 Source: DViCE Until we figure out how to make a phaser that can be set to stun, we’ve been stuck with non less-lethal options like tasers (which can kill) and laser dazzlers (which can cause eye damage). StunRay is basically just a big flashlight, except [...]
Police Misconduct Costs NYC Taxpayers Nearly $1B to Settle Claims Published on 10-17-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Activist Post The increasing militarization of police has had profound social ramifications across the United States, as citizens increasingly feel threatened by those sworn to protect them. Beyond the social fallout, a recent Associated Press investigation [...]
Police Chief Beats the Hell Out of Defenseless Old Woman — She Gets the Video and Posts it to Youtube Published on 09-18-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Information Liberation You’re concerned with the way a death is being handled by the police in your small town of only 1000 people. You go [...]
National Police Misconduct NewsFeed Daily Recap 05-07-10 By Packratt, on May 8th, 2010 Sorry about the delay with Friday’s report, it’s been a long week and by the time I had a chance to sit down and start on this it was already 2:30am. In any case, here are the 20 reports captured in our [...]
Source: Federal Jack A lawsuit has emerged after police stopped a man and allegedly allowed a dog to bit him and planted drugs on him. The incident was caught on video.
A south suburban Chicago police officer was caught on a security camera beating up a high school special education student, CBS2 reports. Marshawn Pitts, 15, was walking down his school hallway when he says a Dolton, Ill. police officer went from berating him for his untucked shirt to slamming him to the ground and beating [...]
Louisiana Cop Accused of Beating Handcuffed Woman Back on the Job In 2007, Shreveport police officer Wiley Willis arrested 38-year-old Angela Garbarino on suspicion of drunken driving. While in custody, as captured on the video below, Garbarino began arguing with Willis about what she said was her right to make a phone call. About a [...]
. Update: A Photography is Not a Crime reader provided the names of the officers involved. According to the reader, the African-American cop is Wilbur Foster and the white cop is Marc Werbin. You can read their bios here. By Carlos Miller It was his first day in Miami and Jordan Chusid got an intimate [...]
A Boise, Idaho, police officer who pushed a Taser inside a man’s buttocks and threatened to “Taser his balls” violated use-of-force policy, but didn’t break the law, an ombudsman has found. The man in question, whose identity is being withheld, plans to sue the Boise police. On February 14 of this year, the “complainant,” as [...]
(sign petition to get him fired) Update: PINAC reader Theo put together a petition calling for the termination of Oklahoma State Trooper Daniel Martin. For whatever it’s worth, we will send it to Oklahoma Highway Patrol Chief, Colonel Van M. Guillotte, By Carlos Miller The fact that they have not stripped Daniel Martin of his [...]
