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“They fined me for honking my horn to bring to their attention to something that they had done illegally. And I find that an abuse of power.”
A Canadian man received a $162 ticket last week for flashing his lights, and honking his horn at a police officer who was breaking the law. 69-year-old Michael Reilley had regularly noticed people making left turns through a dangerous intersection where left turns were not allowed during high traffic hours. This had always bothered him, but when he saw a police car do it, he was more annoyed than usual.
“I was immediately annoyed …read more

There is no question that police treat black and white people differently. Statistics across the board, from the length of prison sentences to the frequency of stops, show that black males get the short end of stick the majority of the time.
To highlight this well-known stereotype, an internet pranking group, Simple Misfits, conducted an experiment. First a ‘white guy’ would attempt to break into a car in broad daylight. For 30 minutes he was able to operate unmolested as he jammed a coat hanger wire in and out of a car door in an effort to break in.
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This week, thirty-two prison guards with the Florida Department of Corrections were fired after they were all implicated in the deaths of various inmates.
Prisons in the region have been under a great deal of scrutiny in recent years, due to a string of inmate deaths and assaults carried out by prison workers.
The bad press has pushed regional management to take drastic action, firing all of the guards who were implicated in the recent high profile killings.
Prison union officials have called the action a “Friday night massacre” and are defending the actions of the officers, saying that they were simply following …read more

A U.S. District Court in Arkansas has set a hearing in the week of July 27, 2015, for the independent candidate petition deadline lawsuit, Moore v Martin, 4:14cv-65. The 2013 legislature moved the deadline from May to March, even though a similar Arkansas deadline had been held unconstitutional three times in the past. Other pending(More)… …read more

Last year, Twenty-seven-year-old mother Shaneen Allen was arrested for traveling through New Jersey with a firearm that was legally registered to her residence, just miles away in Philadelphia.
Allen is now facing weapons charges that could result in a ten year prison sentence if she is convicted. People all over the country have been showing support for Allen in her case, and locally some supporters have paid for billboards to raise awareness about her situation.
The New Jersey Second Amendment Society, the Second Amendment Foundation and Gun Talk Radio gathered roughly $4,000 from local supporters to help with legal fees and …read more

Under a new trespassing law cops in Burien Passing can now remove people from public spaces if they smell something which is “unreasonably offensive to others,” that could be anything from body odor to too much cologne or perfume.

Homeless people in the US are quickly finding themselves in an increasingly hostile environment.
Whether the dehumanization is to make way for the up and coming comic book festival or just a run of the mill sadistic police gang murder, the homeless are losing their right to exist.
Beat downs and arrests by police are, unfortunately, becoming a larger and larger part of the …read more

Hartville, OH — Uniontown police Sgt., Michael Batchik responded to a 9-1-1 call at Hartville Marketplace last week of a person trapped in a vehicle which was on fire.
Apparently the victim crashed into the vehicle in front of his after apparently passing out with his foot on the accelerator.
When Batchik pulled up to the scene he quickly and selflessly throws himself into harms way to rescue the unconscious man inside the dangerously smokey vehicle; which could have exploded at any moment.
Moments after Batchik disappears into the smoke he’s seen pulling the unconscious man away from the SUV.
For his courage and …read more

Washington, DC is littered with surveillance devices designed to trick surrounding mobile phones into logging onto signal-lifting networks, thereby allowing for tracking or call-monitoring purposes.

RT.com
While traveling around the capital city with Washington Post reporters, a top executive using his company’s mobile-security technology detected as many as 18 such devices mimicking legitimate cell towers around the city, especially in sensitive areas around the likes of the White House, the US Capitol building, and foreign embassies.
Aaron Turner’s company Integricell is one of many outfits that has developed technology to indicate surveillance devices – known as ISMI catchers – used by police, intelligence …read more

Today we’re announcing a new developer tool in beta: our multi-sig API.

We’re still working on a great consumer interface around this, but for today we’re releasing it to developers only.

Does this put me in control of my Bitcoin?

Yes. Yes it does. When you go and create a multisig account, you provide the extended (BIP32) public keys, which only enable us to create new receive addresses for your convenience. But only you have the extended private keys that can sign transactions and move coins out of these addresses.

How to use

Learn how to use the new API in this new tutorial.

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