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When did the roles reverse? When did the hero become the person who saved people from the police instead of the other way around?

Louisville, KY — Louis Mossey was driving down a county highway when the car in front of him unexpectedly swerved off the road and hit a tractor in a John Deer store parking lot. He had no idea what he was about to witness.
When Mossey gets out of the vehicle to check on the wellbeing of the occupants in the crashed car, he is immediately met with yelling and cursing from a belligerent man.
The man yelled at …read more

Portsmouth, NH– An officer claims he feared for his safety when he used a stun gun on a 78-year-old man having a medical emergency, which caused him to crash into several cars.
The elderly man is diabetic and had low blood sugar when he reportedly crashed his vehicle into multiple parked cars in a Portsmouth parking lot. The officer reportedly commanded the man to stop, before he crashed into another vehicle and crashed into the police car. The officer claims the disoriented driver went to reach for something on his seat, causing the cowardly officer to tase him- twice.
“The …read more

Grand Rapids, Michigan – Two Kent County corrections officers testified in court last month that medical marijuana radically changed their lives for the better.
The two officers stand accused of illegally possessing marijuana butter. They were arrested with two other officers who received distribution charges. Todd VanDoorne and Mike Frederick both have medical marijuana cards, but the state’s medical marijuana laws explicitly forbid concentrated extracts such as the marijuana butter.
VanDoorne testified that he has neck pain and had to get a surgery in 2010 where vertebrae were fused together. Since the operation, he was prescribed pharmaceutical pain killers, but like many …read more

Hummelstown, PA– Authorities have released very little information about a traffic stop early Monday evening that left 59-year-old David Kassick dead.
Witnesses, on the other hand, have not remained silent and are adamant that the shooting was unjustified. Multiple witnesses are reporting that the man was unarmed and fleeing, potentially due to the fact that he was on probation for driving with a suspended license.
“It’s mind blowing that it went from possible traffic stop to jail time to him being in a body bag,” a witness told ABC27.
Kassick was pulled over by an unnamed female officer around 4 pm on …read more

This article about spending in California’s 2014 statewide elections has lots of interesting information, but one especially interesting point is that incumbent Treasurer John Chiang, a Democrat, spent only $24,293 on his re-election campaign. In November he won with 58.8% of the vote. …read more

Bills have been introduced in both Massachusetts and Vermont to provide that overseas absentee presidential primary ballots should allow a limited form of ranked-choice voting. Both states in 2016 will have March 1 presidential primaries, and in both states, the ballot will just be for president, not other office. The bills would provide that overseas(More)… …read more

Stuart, FL– Rosemary Aquino is a retired NYPD police officer, her Facebook page contains multiple images of her pride in the thin blue line and her former department, in particular. This pride is unsurprising as she spent 15 years on the force and was one of the first responders after the 9-11 attacks.

During the Super Bowl halftime, Aquino received a call from her 16-year-old son alerting her that he had been in a car accident after a tire fell off of his vehicle. The panicked mother jumped into her car and drove 30 minutes to the scene of …read more

Los Angeles, California – This weekend, police broke up a peaceful gathering of several hundred photographers and sent them home after their event was mistaken for a rave.
.@runwiththemob recap up now feat. @simplyyyG, @mrjasonblake, @mandeebence and more: http://t.co/tRHe5XdOkv #flaskmob pic.twitter.com/DLrBO4nJih
— Los Angeles Clicker (@RTxPhotography) February 2, 2015

Luckily, there were no arrests, injuries or incidents reported, aside from the fact that hundreds of people had their right to peaceably assemble violated the LAPD.
The event is called Photo Walk, and according to the organizer’s website they are “a group of like-minded creatives that get together once a month and take photos of …read more

The California Secretary of State has determined that Americans Elect is no longer a qualified party in California. This is because it neither has enough registrations to qualify, nor did it poll 2% for any statewide race in the June 2014 primary. It did have a candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Alan Reynolds, on the June(More)… …read more

Ken Broder has this commentary about the January 29, 2015 decision in Rubin v Padilla at All Gov. Rubin v Padilla is the case concerning California’s top-two system. …read more