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Parent Arrested After Asking Questions at School Meeting
A Baltimore father was forced out of a public meeting between parents and leaders of his child’s school district Thursday and faces a possible 10½ years in jail on charges of assaulting a police officer after being removed when he dared to ask an unscripted question, reports an article on “Activist Post.” - 2013/09/22
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30K cops, others can access Ohio driver’s license database with no oversight
Ohio allows thousands of police officers and court employees to access driver’s license images online without oversight, by far the nation’s most permissive system.
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Thief caught green-handed by British police trap
A thief was caught not so much red-handed as green-faced in London after breaking into a car in that sprayed him with a liquid that glows emerald under ultraviolet light.
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Criminal Pulls Gun In Back Seat of Police Car
An intoxicated man pulled a loaded handgun on two Metro Transit police officers while in the back of their squad car, after a pat-down by the officers failed to find the weapon.
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Driver killed after car chase from White House to Capitol
A woman with a 1-year-old girl in her car was fatally shot by police near the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, after a chase through the heart of Washington that brought a new jolt of fear to a city already rattled by the recent Navy Yard shooting and the federal shutdown.
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Video raises police brutality questions
Jason Carroll reports on a video that is raising questions about force used by the Atlantic City Police Department.
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America’s police are looking more and more like the military
America’s streets are looking more and more like a war zone. Last week, in a small county in upstate New York with a population of roughly 120,000 people, county legislators approved the receipt of a 20-ton Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle, donated by the US Defense Department to the county sheriff.
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Traffic stop becomes deadly gun battle
An Oregon man opened fire on a state trooper during a traffic stop. He was later found dead in his car.
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Riverside Cop Tricks Autistic Teen into Buying Pot
The undercover operation, titled "Operation Glass House," spanned a few months and included undercover officers in three area high schools: Chaparral, Temecula Valley, and Rancho Vista Continuation. The officers posed as regular high school students and would ask other students for drugs. Twenty-two students were arrested - the majority of them are reported to be special needs students like the Snodgrass' son.
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Video Captures Cop's Alleged Excessive Force
A Chicago woman has filed a lawsuit against the Skokie Police Department claiming an officer used excessive force after she was arrested for DUI.
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Entrapped! When Craigslist predator stings go too far
Everyone thinks they've been "entrapped" by police, but some men actually are.
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1938 Police Shootout, Los Angeles
Feb. 17, 1938: Tear gas drifts from a home in the 1700 block of East 22nd Street as Los Angeles police trade gunfire with barricaded suspect George Farley. The bodies of a deputy city marshal and his helper — shot and killed by Farley as they tried to serve an eviction notice on him — lie in front of the barricaded home. Killed were Deputy Marshal T. Dwight Crittenden and Leon W. Romer, both 60.
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Cops Are Creating Totally Bogus Facebook Profiles Just So They Can Arrest People
It's no secret cops use social media to monitor the public, but it might surprise you that they create fake Facebook profiles to nab criminals — in direct violation of the website's terms of service.
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Citizens Rise Against Police Brutality Nationwide
Epidemic of police criminality finally gets public attention. It appears as though people finally have had enough. Following continuous police brutality, people are taking to the streets.
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Woman allegedly forced to strip; 2 officers charged
Two Philadelphia police officers are facing charges related to an incident where a woman was allegedly forced to strip naked while one of the accused officers pleasured himself.
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UC Davis pepper-spray officer awarded $38,000
A former UC Davis police officer whose pepper-spraying of protesters gained worldwide notice thanks to a viral video has been awarded more than $38,000 in workers' compensation from the university for suffering he experienced after the incident. Former police Lt. John Pike, who gained a degree of infamy for his role in the incident, was awarded the settlement Oct. 16 by the state Division of Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.
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Police: Tenn. man had loaded rifle in bag at JFK
Keenan Draughon was arrested trying to board a flight to Charlotte, N.C., after Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police found the weapons
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Partnership between Facebook and police could make planning protests impossible
A partnership between police departments and social media sites discussed at a convention in Philadelphia this week could allow law enforcement to keep anything deemed criminal off the Internet—and even stop people from organizing protests.
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Police firing GPS tracking 'bullets' at cars during chases
In Iowa and Florida, they have a new method of chasing suspects. The police car's grill opens up and out is projected a better method of keeping up with the vehicle they're chasing.
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How wild rumour led a mob to murder an innocent man
Guilt haunts the community where an Iranian eccentric falsely accused of being a paedophile was beaten and burned to death.
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