Archive for the 'Police State' Category
Britain: Police Break Into Homes; Lecture People About Burglary Risks
June 28th, 2011I didn’t believe that this was real. I thought that some hoax had been picked up by a tabloid newspaper and that it was off to the races from there. Nope. It’s real. This is the ‘Operation Poppins’ page on the London Metropolitan Police website. Via: The Sun: COPS are breaking into homes in a […]
Sunny Sheu: Murdered for Investigating NY Foreclosure Judge Joseph Golia?
June 24th, 2011Via: Naked Capitalism: The details are thin but they sure don’t smell right. The short form is that Sunny Sheu had his house stolen from him by fictive buyers who used forged documents. Judge Golia of Queens engaged in what appears to be highly questionable behavior in failing to reverse the sale. Sheu started investigating […]
Cop Who Executed Unarmed Man Released from Prison After One Year
June 16th, 2011People who protested are facing longer jail sentences. Via: San Francisco Bay Guardian: Johannes Mehserle, the former BART police officer who shot and killed Oscar Grant while he was lying face down on the Fruitvale station train platform on New Year’s Day 2009, was released from a Los Angeles jail June 13 after serving a […]
CopBlock: Manchester PD
June 13th, 2011Via: Cop Block:
School Surveillance: How Big Brother Spies On Pupils
June 11th, 2011Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse by Annette Fuentes Via: Guardian: ‘Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that increasingly have come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. From metal detectors to drug tests, from increased […]
Los Angeles Abandons Red Light Cameras; Most Citations Unpaid
June 8th, 2011Via: CBS: The civilian board that oversees the Los Angeles Police Department has put the brakes on the city’s red-light traffic camera program. The Police Commission agreed Tuesday to reject a proposal from police officials to award a new contract to the company that has been operating the cameras. An audit last year questioned the […]
California: SWAT Team Breaks Into Home, Detains Family Over Student Loan Default
June 8th, 2011Update: Questions, Questions News10 dissappeared the first story about this. Via: News10: A federal education official Wednesday morning offered little information as to why federal agents raided a Stockton man’s home Tuesday. The resident, Kenneth Wright, does not have a criminal record and he had no reason to believe why what he thought was a […]
Miami Police Smashed Mobile Phones Belonging to People Who Witnessed Shooting; One Witness Hid His Phone’s Memory Card in His Mouth
June 4th, 2011Update: Narces Benoit’s Video —End Update— 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 saw the end of the 4 a.m. police chase on Collins Avenue, then watched and filmed from just a […]
Park Police Arrest People for Dancing at Jefferson Memorial
June 2nd, 2011Ok, please stop submitting this. Yes, it’s stupid that these people were arrested, but these types of tactics are a total waste of time. If you want to protest, do it as a general strike that shuts down the Ponzi scheme economy, make a lot less taxable income, produce your own food, participate in local, […]
Aussies to Be Fined for Swearing [???]
May 31st, 2011Nat, they’re coming for you. Via: Sydney Morning Herald: Australians may have a love of plain speaking but new laws are set to curtail some of their more colourful language with police issuing on-the-spot fines for obnoxious swearing. The country’s second most populous state Victoria is due to approve new legislation this week under which […]
