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Daniel Holtzclaw, an Oklahoma City police officer, is out on bail and on paid leave, after his arraignment hearing on Wednesday. Bond was reduced from $5 million to $500,000 after his attorney requested it be reduced to $139,000.
The officer was arrested on August 21 on four counts each of sexual battery, indecent exposure, and oral sodomy; two counts of rape; and one count each of burglary and stalking. The 16 charges against Holtzclaw’s stem from alleged assaults on six black women that took place while on duty. The charges state that he would threaten the women with arrest if …read more

On September 5, the Michigan State Appeals Court ruled that if an individual signs a petition twice, neither signature counts. As a result, a recall election in the city of Benton Harbor is now removed from the ballot. The trial court had ruled that one signature does count. The recall petition only has enough valid(More)… …read more

“Everyone was drunk, they were telling people they were cops and to f— off, and some were fighting with patrons and themselves, and there was maybe even a little ass-grabbing.”
Stranger than fiction, this story sounds like something straight out of Hollywood. Unfortunately it’s true.
The largest class in the history of the Port Authority Police Department, graduated on August 22, at the Dunn Sports Center in Elizabeth New Jersey.
Immediately following the graduation more than a dozen officers broke off from the group and began to raise hell.
The newly anointed boys in blue ended up in the Texas Arizona Bar and Grill, …read more

Seattle- Even America’s most beloved sport isn’t immune from the encroaching police state. During last nights season opening NFL football game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers, at Seattle’s Centurylink Field, undercover law enforcement officers dressed not in plain clothes, but in the jerseys of the opposing team.
While to some it may seem innocuous, it begs the question as to why law enforcement feels the need to actually wear the jerseys of the opposing team.
The stated purpose of the undercover officers at the game is to detect and suppress illegal activity and out of control fans. Would …read more

Rosella Best spray-painted “NAZIS = NYPD”and instead of being charged with vandalism, the NYPD arrested her for a hate crime.
Speaking Ill of the Police is a “Hate Crime”
William Norman Grigg | LewRockwell.com

The NYPD has now added its name to the roster of Officially Protected Victims by filing “hate crimes” charges against 36-year-old Rosella Best, who had tagged police vehicles and a public school with anti-NYPD graffiti. Among the entirely defensible sentiments inscribed by Best are “NYPD pick on the harmless,” “NYPD pick on the innocent,” and — in a display of familiar but increasingly justified hyperbole — “NAZIS=NYPD.” (Assuming that …read more

Last week, Resy, the New York-based restaurant reservations app for last-minute premier tables, became the first iOS app to fully integrate the Coinbase OAuth2 protocol and enable its customers to make seamless payments using bitcoin. Available immediately in the Apple App Store for free, Resy is one of the first bitcoin iOS integrations to emerge since the Apple ban on bitcoin wallets was lifted in June. And as of today, consumers can also pay for reservations with bitcoin on their Android devices.
Instead of settling for an early or late reservation at the hottest restaurant in town, Resy helps consumers land …read more

It is tragic to think that this man’s final moments were spent watching this officer make a mockery of his pain.
Sadrettin Saskın, 35, overwhelmed by financial distress decided to take his own life by plunging into the Bosphorus Strait from the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul this week.
Turkish cops took a selfie as the man committed suicide by jumping from Istanbul Bosphorus bridge pic.twitter.com/J6ojqXwHeb
— Fuat Kircaali (@FuatKircaali) September 1, 2014

During his final moments, while other officers tried to offer him assistance and talk him out of it, one arrogant and heartless officer can be seen smiling for his own camera as …read more

High School students are staging protests and using the hashtag #FreeSamHouston, after witnessing brutality in their own high school, and posting it to instagram.

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Ixel Perez, a 4’10″, 100 pound, 10th grade student at Sam Houston High in Texas, was brutally detained by three officers in her high school for refusing to turn over her cell phone.

Perez’ mother, Gladys Santos, has kidney problems and receives dialysis treatment, reports Click2Houston. Perez’ father had sent a text to the 10th grader, worried when he couldn’t locate her mother.
“I didn’t want to let go of my phone so they …read more

According to this story, an attorney associated with the Illinois Republican Party has filed a lawsuit in state court, seeking to remove the statewide Libertarian Party slate from the November ballot. …read more