On January 13, Virginia held a special election to fill the vacant State House seat, district 74. The independent candidate won the election with 42.3% of the vote. Here is a link to the State Board of Elections’ web page, showing the election returns. The winner, Joseph D. Morrissey, had been elected in 2013 as(More)… …read more
It is likely that a Maine initiative will be on the ballot in November 2015 that would expand the state’s public funding program. See this story. Another election law initiative that is circulating, to provide for instant-runoff voting, will probably be on the ballot in November 2016, not 2015. Thanks to Political Activity Law for(More)… …read more
The cop claims he “feared for his life” after acting as the aggressor and approaching the two paramedics, who did nothing to him, and punching them.
San Diego, CA — A surveillance tape from a Golden Hill 7-Eleven was just released which shows a San Diego cop assault two members of an ambulance crew.
The trial began Tuesday for Anibal Solis, a parking enforcement officer with the SDPD, who is accused of attacking a paramedic and EMT from Rural/Metro.
During the trial Solis says he heard the paramedics call him a “Nazi.”
“As he’s holding the door, he hears it: ‘F*** Nazi.’ He sits …read more
“In 30 years of law enforcement, I’ve never seen an arrest warrant issued for someone as young as nine.”
Post Falls, ID– In a story that could be straight out of the onion, an Idaho prosecutor is back peddling all over the place and claiming that he made a mistake when issuing an arrest warrant for a 9 year old child over a pack of chewing gum.
“I have concluded that my office’s request to have an arrest warrant issued was a mistake under the circumstances,” McHugh said in a statement. “I regret this having taken place and will do everything in …read more
Plano, TX — A Plano police officer has been arrested twice in a three week period for indecency with a child and for possession of child pornography.
Jail records indicate that 44-year-old Richard Bradford was arrested on December 23, 2014. He was charged with indecency with a child and transferred to the Collin County Jail.
His bail was set at $50,000 and sometime after the 23rd he posted it.
On January 8, 2015, he was arrested again. This time around, he was charged with possession of child pornography. Despite being an obvious repeat offender and a risk to the public, he was granted …read more
“We didn’t violate the law in any way….It’s a very odd law … It’s absolutely absurd. It’s completely absurd. The fact is, it’s such a violation of our First Amendment right.”
Iron County, Utah – Four activists from California were recently arrested in Utah for taking pictures of agricultural buildings.
These four became the first out-of-state activists to be charged under the state’s controversial “ag-gag” laws, which prevent people from filming conditions inside of factory farms.
“They wanted to document the ‘trail of tears,’ if you will, from Utah to the slaughterhouse in Los Angeles,” said California-based attorney T. Matthew Phillips, who represents …read more
Missouri Representative Mike Colona (D-St. Louis) has introduced HB 249, which would bring back the straight-ticket device that Missouri stopped using in 2006. …read more
New York has long had the nation’s most restrictive law concerning when voters may switch from one particular party to another. Current law does not allow anyone to switch, and vote in the primary of the new party, unless the voter makes the change in the year before the primary. State Senator Daniel Squadron (D-New(More)… …read more
This marks the FIRST time in the history of one of the most violent police forces in the US, in which any officer has faced criminal charges for shooting someone in the line of duty.
Albuquerque, NM — According to multiple sources, the two Albuquerque police officers who shot and killed “illegal camper” James Boyd, last year, will be charged Monday with murder.
The APD has one of the highest rates of officer involved shootings in the country and the body cam footage of James Boyd’s execution helped to raise national awareness to this problem.
James Boyd, 38, had been camping in a …read more
The website was nothing more than a way for people to anonymously exchange goods and services in a secure fashion.
New York City, New York – Accused Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is scheduled to appear in court this week, where he faces life in prison for operating a website.
Ulbricht was arrested October 1, 2013, at a San Francisco public library, where he was surrounded and captured by FBI agents who also confiscated his computer.
He was accused of running and operating the controversial Silk Road website, where drugs were openly, and safely bought and sold by anonymous drug users and sellers.
Ulbricht …read more
