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“Drop his f***** ass, drop his ass!!” one officer can be heard saying on the dashcam right before six cops put 23 bullets into a man who was lying on the ground.

Martinsburg, Virginia – This week, the family of a Virginia man who was killed by police is filing for an appeal in their lawsuit against the city, which was railroaded out of court last year after the incident occurred.
In the aftermath of this case, it was discovered that police not only shot an innocent man 23 times while he was surrounded by a half dozen officers, but also that …read more

This story could be ripped straight from The Onion, but it is actually true.

Cleveland, OH– Eight white Cleveland Police Department officers and one Hispanic officer are suing the city of Cleveland claiming that non-black officers are facing harsher discipline than black officers when they kill black people.
The lawsuit was filed on Friday, not even a week after a white Cleveland officer shot 12 year old Tamir Rice who playing with a toy gun in a park, then offered no first aid during the four minutes they spent watching the child die in agony.
The paperwork was filed the day before the …read more

The Green Party of Taiwan has existed since 1996, but had never elected anyone until the election held a few days ago. See this story. …read more

Two initiatives are circulating in Maine on election law topics. Maine Citizens for Clean Elections is virtually finished circulating an initiative that would (1) fully fund the public funding program; (2) require disclosure of top donors who make independent expenditures; (3) require disclosure of fundraising for transition and inaugural committees. This initiative has been circulating(More)… …read more

Ferguson, MO — A group of Ferguson residents who happened to have dark skin, armed with pistols and AR-15 rifles, descended upon a business which happened to be owned by a person with light skin.
These four men stood outside of this business, which was a Conoco gas station, to protect it from rioters and looters who burned other businesses to the ground over the past week in the St. Louis area.
The reason these four brave men protected this business had nothing to do with their skin color nor the skin color of the owner of the store.
These men were protecting …read more

As previously noted, last month Kentucky Educational TV, a government agency, sponsored a U.S. Senate debate and only invited the Democratic and Republican nominees, even though the Libertarians also had a nominee on the ballot. The party sued and failed to gain injunctive relief, and the debate went ahead with only two candidates on October(More)… …read more

Cleveland, Ohio – Earlier this week we reported that a police officer shot a young boy for playing in a park with a toy gun just seconds after exiting his vehicle.
The video footage to surface after the incident showed absolutely no restraint on the part of Cleveland patrol officer Timothy Loehmann, who fired the shot that killed young Tamir Rice.
Now it has been revealed that after realizing what they had done, the officers waited nearly four minutes before providing medical assistance. ABC News 5 reported that Cleveland officers are trained in how to treat medical injuries, in fact, it is …read more

A pregnant St. Louis woman is now blind in one eye after St. Louis County Police shot a bean-bag round at a vehicle she was riding in as the car drove away from a gas station near Ferguson, Missouri early Tuesday.

RT.com
The incident occurred amid high tension following a grand jury’s decision not to indict white police officer Darren Wilson for the fatal August 9 shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson.
Dornella Conners told KMOV that she was riding in a car driven by her boyfriend, De’Angelas Lee. They had stopped at a gas station in the 10000 …read more

These are not issues being fabricated by protesters that are angry over the lack of an indictment. These are serious legal issues being raised by respected legal professionals, scholars, and judges that perceive massive corruption of the legal system in this case.
Ferguson, Mo. – While the blowback from the Ferguson grand jury decision to not indict officer Darren Wilson continues to ripple across the country, many are coming to the realization that the way the prosecution presented its case to the grand jury ran contrary to the way grand juries are supposed to operate.
A recently released statement by the National …read more