Archive for the 'Police State' Category
Rio de Janeiro: Police Spray Automatic Weapons Fire at Fleeing Suspect Vehicle in Crowded Neighborhood
May 8th, 2013Madness. Via: Independent: Footage of a shootout between police and an alleged drug trafficker in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has emerged. In the short video, police can be seen firing from a helicopter at a car, as it speeds through the city. The car eventually stops and is surrounded by people from the local area […]
Alabama School to Jail Program
May 8th, 2013Via: Courthouse News Service: After a diabetic high school student fell asleep in study hall, the school police officer slammed her face into a filing cabinet, arrested her and took her to jail, she claims in court. Tieshka Avery claims she was so violently abused that she vomited in the police car. And all because […]
U.S. Judge Receives 28-Year Jail Term for His Role in Private Prison Kids-for-Cash Scheme
May 5th, 2013Via: Independent: An American judge known for his harsh and autocratic courtroom manner was jailed for 28 years for conspiring with private prisons to hand young offenders maximum sentences in return for kickbacks amounting to millions of dollars. Mark Ciavarella Jnr was ordered to pay $1.2m (£770,000) in restitution after he was found to be […]
Family Visits Hydroponic Store, Cops Raid Family’s House for Drugs… Find Tomatoes
May 5th, 2013Via: Kansas City Star: It took eight months for authorities to decide to raid the Leawood home of Robert and Adlynn Harte for drugs. And then it took a year for the Hartes to find out why sheriff’s deputies thought they had drugs in the first place.
‘Counterinsurgency Methods Used to Fight Gang Crime’
May 3rd, 2013Via: CBS: Massachusetts State Trooper Mike Cutone realized that the methods of the insurgents he combated as a Green Beret in Iraq were similar to those used by the Springfield gangs. “Insurgents and gang members both want to operate in a failed area,” he tells Stahl, referring to the breakdown in cooperation between the citizens […]
Florida: Teen Faces Felony Charges for High School Science Experiment
May 2nd, 2013Via: Riptide: Kiera Wilmot got good grades and had a perfect behavior record. She wasn’t the kind of kid you’d expect to find hauled away in handcuffs and expelled from school, but that’s exactly what happened after an attempt at a science project went horribly wrong. On 7 a.m. on Monday, the 16 year-old mixed […]
FinFisher Now Used in 36 Countries
May 2nd, 2013Via: Quartz: A new report from Citizen Lab, a Canadian research center, shows surveillance software sold by FinFisher, a “governmental IT intrusion” company owned by the UK-registered Gamma International, is now active in 36 countries. That’s up from the 25 countries reported two months ago. Gamma’s product, which it sells exclusively to governments, infects computers […]
Baby Taken from Parents Who Wanted 2nd Doctor’s Opinion
April 28th, 2013Madness. Via: KSDK: A Sacramento family was torn apart after a 5-month-old baby boy was taken from his parents following a visit to the doctor. Research Credit: alvinroasting
Man Dies in Police Raid on Wrong House
April 27th, 2013Via: ABC: A 61-year-old man was shot to death by police while his wife was handcuffed in another room during a drug raid on the wrong house. Police admitted their mistake, saying faulty information from a drug informant contributed to the death of John Adams Wednesday night. They intended to raid the home next door. […]
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Talked for 16 Hours Before He Was Read His Rights
April 27th, 2013Via: Salon: According to the AP, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev answered questions for 16 hours before he was read the Miranda warning that he could remain silent and could ask for a lawyer. Once Tsarnaev was told that, he stopped talking. (So much for the idea that everyone has heard Miranda warnings so many times on TV […]
