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Richmond Co., GA– Deputy Alton Walter of The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office has been arrested and charged with False Imprisonment and Cruelty to Children in the 1st Degree. He faces the two felonies, after handcuffing a 12-year-old child to a basketball goal and beating him, sending him to the hospital with injuries.

The mother of the child said he was making some new friends and staying out a bit later, so she was mildly concerned. To help try to keep her son on the right path, a family friend suggested having a deputy they knew come over and talk to the …read more

A string of repulsive videos has been posted to YouTube in the last 24 hours of police officers violating the rights of people who choose to film them. The videos are of police encounters from California all the way to Florida.
Apparently there are still cops across the country who haven’t heard of YouTube yet. Well, these four videos will serve to enlighten them.
The first of the four videos comes from Lakeside, Colorado. A man shopping at a Wal-Mart saw police arresting a shoplifter. When the man filming, Chris Hoover, started recording this altercation with police, he had no idea …read more

On February 12, the California Peace & Freedom Party, the California Libertarian Party, and the Alameda County Green Party filed this request for a rehearing in Rubin v Padilla in the State Court of Appeals. This is the lawsuit over whether the top-two system injures voting rights of voters who want to vote for a(More)… …read more

On February 9, the Virginia Senate passed SB 742. Here is the text of the bill. It says that when no one gets as much as 50% in a general election for a statewide office, there shall be a run-off between the top two contenders. Oddly, the bill does not specify the date of such(More)… …read more

On January 30, a trial court in San Diego County, California, refused to enjoin the city of Del Mar from holding an internet election on an advisory ballot measure. The court allowed the election to go ahead, despite the California election code, because the measure is only to gage public opinion and has no legal(More)… …read more

Andrew Gripp, adjunct professor of political science at Delaware County Community College in Media, Pennsylvania, has this essay posted at IVN. It contrasts how much freedom voters have in an open primary, with how much freedom they have in California’s top-two system. …read more

Washington, D.C. – The government is making a seemingly concerted effort to obscure from public view exactly how cell phone signal interceptors, know as “Stingray” devices, are being secretly utilized by law enforcement.
Stingray devices, generically known as international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) catchers, are designed to emit a signal that is stronger than nearby cell phone towers in order to force phones in the vicinity to connect to them. Once connected, all call records, location data, text messages and metadata are accessible to those in control of the device.
This technology was originally developed for anti-terrorism operations by Harris Corporation, but …read more

Los Angeles, California – A police officer accidentally shot a 15-year-old child after he saw someone else pointing a toy gun. The boy that was injured was not the person holding toy gun and was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The police then detained the group of children that were present, and blamed the entire situation on them.
Speaking to the media this week, Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Cmdr. Andrew Smith denied any responsibility on the part of the police, but instead blamed the children who were just playing with a toy gun.
“It’s certainly an unfortunate …read more

Today we’re excited to announce support for bitcoin buy and sell functionality in the following 5 countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Norway and Croatia. Users in these countries can now link their bank account via SEPA and easily buy and sell bitcoin with euros.

Coinbase buy and sell functionality is available in 24 countries worldwide. If we don’t yet support your country, sign up on our global page to be notified when we add it. …read more

Nine Democratic members of the New Hampshire House, along with the independent member, have introduced CACR 10. It would amend the State Constitution to convert gubernatorial terms from two years to four years. Currently, all states have four year gubernatorial terms except for New Hamnpshire and Vermont, which elect governors every two years. Thanks to(More)… …read more