Here is the Connecticut sample ballot for the November 4, 2014 election. Connecticut, like Delaware, New York, and most counties in New Jersey, no longer uses mechanical voting machines. But those four states continue to design general election ballots as though the mechanical voting machines were still in use. This ballot is unfair to the(More)… …read more
On October 7, former New York city Mayor Michael Bloomberg donated $1,250,000 to “Yes on 90″, the chief committee that is advertising in support of the top-two system that is on the November 4 ballot in Oregon. As previously reported, another billionaire, John Arnold, donated $500,000 on September 17, and another $1,000,000 on October 1,(More)… …read more
“You definitely have a dangerous circumstance where you’ve got a guy driving under the influence who is on duty, armed and handling a gun, and you’re going to give him a pass?”
A police officer in Red Bank, Tennessee showed up at a local firing range drunk last week.
The officer was so noticeably intoxicated that he was actually pulled aside by other police department employees and given a blood-alcohol test.
Detective Doug Millsaps blew a 0.114 and a 0.124 on the police department’s breathalyzer after attempting to participate in a firearm training drill, according to police Chief Tim Christol.
Initially, Millsaps was suspended …read more
The journey through the night was uneventful and we passed by Madrid sometime in the early morning. By midafternoon we were nearing the border and the boys had the rather …
Released documents show that New York City shelled out hundreds of millions of dollars to settle civil rights lawsuits involving the New York Police Department.
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The documents – released by the New York City Law Department – show more than 12,000 cases since 2009 where the city paid out $428 million in police-related settlements. The records were released after a Freedom of Information Act request was made by MuckRock, asking the department just how many civil rights lawsuits were filed against the city when the police department was listed as a defendant over a five-year period.
While the list will require further …read more
Marquette County, Mich. – The family of an unarmed man who was gunned down by an officer on July 14 of this year plans to sue in federal court after prosecutors cleared the officer of any wrong doing.
The circumstances surrounding the shooting are extremely troubling. Auto mechanic Timothy Mitchell, 46, had gotten into a verbal dispute at an area auto dealership. A call was placed to 9-1-1 alleging that he was highly intoxicated.
A police chase ensued but was broken off due to high speeds. At a later point the officer saw Mitchell’s vehicle crashed on the roadside with Mitchell standing …read more
On October 14, U.S. District Court Judge William O. Bertelsman, a Carter appointee, struck down Kentucky’s law that forbids any election signs or electioneering within 300 feet of the entrance to a polling place. Russell v Grimes, eastern district, 14cv-112. Here is the eleven page decision. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1992 that such(More)… …read more
On October 14, U.S. District Court Judge James I. Cohn denied injunctive relief in Adrian Wyllie’s lawsuit seeking an invitation into the Florida gubernatorial debate. Wyllie for Governor Campaign v Leadership Florida Statewide Community Foundation, sou. dist., 0:14cv-62322. The basis for the lawsuit was Wyllie’s contention that the debate sponsors had originally required a 12%(More)… …read more
Hundreds of residents in a southern-Mexican city smashed up the state capital building in a furious protest over the continued lack of information about 43 local college students, believed to have been abducted by corrupt police.
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The local police are allegedly working with a powerful drug cartel and it’s feared that 10 newly discovered mass graves may contain the bodies of the students taken on September 26. “Up to 20” charred remains were discovered on Saturday.
As an investigation is underway, 26 police officers have so far been arrested, a number of which admitted to working with the Guerreros Unidos – an …read more
The Weekend of Resistance, part of Ferguson October‘s four days of uprising for Michael Brown, wrapped up on Monday with a day of many demonstrations, direct actions, and arrests.
It was named “Moral Monday”, and was organized as a day calling for mass uprising all over St. Louis. Hundreds of activists traveled from around the country to participate in the resistance.
The civil disobedience began with a march from Wellspring Church to Ferguson Police Department lead by religious leaders, including scholar and activist, Dr. Cornel West.
As the leaders and activists marched through the rain and cold to the station they read …read more
