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Law enforcement officers in the US state of Missouri should be investigated by authorities for human rights abuses, according to a recent Amnesty International report. The organization also highlighted intimidation of protesters in the state.
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Police officers point their weapons at demonstrators protesting against the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri August 18, 2014 (Reuters / Joshua Lott)
The report, published on Friday, is based on the international human rights organization’s research into actions of police in Ferguson, Missouri.

An unarmed black teenager was killed by a police officer in Ferguson in August, with weeks of protests erupting in the region …read more

Delaware’s member of the U.S. House, John Carney, will debate two of his three opponents on Monday, October 27. See this story. The Republican nominee is unwilling to participate. …read more

On October 23, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate from Tennessee, Gordon Ball, debated five of his opponents. However, the Republican nominee, incumbent Senator Lamar Alexander, did not participate. The U.S. Senate race has nominees from the Green Party, the Constitution Party, and eight independents. Of all the partisan statewide races in the nation, the(More)… …read more

Roy, Utah – A Roy, Utah man, Jose Calzada, 35, placed a call to a suicide prevention hotline at 4:00 a.m. Tuesday morning and threatened to kill himself, seven hour later he was shot and killed by police, according to law enforcement.
According to ABC 4, neighbors described Calzada as a quiet, friendly man, who was divorced and now lived in the home with his girlfriend and her children.
The first tragic mistake in this case was made when the Weber County Consolidated Dispatch Center sent officers to the residence rather than some type of crisis response team trained to deal with …read more

Harris County, TX — Deputy Collins with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office was accused of going 50 mph through a residential neighborhood by a citizen who claimed to have witnessed it.
After seeing Deputy Collins blow by him, the citizen then honked his horn to get Collins’ attention and let him know that he thought he was driving at unsafe speeds.
Collins then pulled over the the citizen who honked at him, with no lights on, and the two get in an argument.
Working up enough courage to try and pull over a cop for speeding is hard enough; lying about a police …read more

Here is the New York Times story about the New York gubernatorial debate of October 22, which included the nominees of the Democratic, Republican, Green, and Libertarian Parties …read more

On October 22, Evan Falchuk, gubernatorial nominee of the United Independent Party of Massachusetts, filed a lawsuit in state court, seeking to regain his invitation to the October 27 debate. See this story. The basis for the lawsuit is breach of contract. …read more