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This is the video Gardena police didn't want you to see
In the two years since Gardena police officers fatally shot an unarmed man, city officials fought to keep graphic video of the killing under wraps.
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Colorado cop slams handcuffed teen to hospital floor, knocks her teeth out (VIDEO)
A newly-published video shows a Colorado Springs police officer going to extremes during a November 2013 arrest, slamming a handcuffed 18-year-old woman face-down into the ground, knocking out her teeth while she was in hospital.
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Man mistakenly detained for child porn wants public apology
A Virginia man wants his name cleared after police made a huge mistake. Last week, two Norfolk, Virginia, police officers walked into Ryan Kilgore’s workplace and tried to arrest him for possession of child pornography. “They asked if they could see a manager. So, I went to get my service manager,” said Kilgore, who is a computer engineer. A couple minutes later, Kilgore was called into the manager’s office.
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B.C. man in Guy Fawkes mask killed by RCMP identified, Anonymous ‘hacktivist’ group vows revenge
A man shot and killed by police in northern British Columbia has been identified. The corners’ service has issued a news release identifying the man as James Daniel McIntyre, a 48-year-old resident of Dawson Creek, B.C. The release says McIntyre was fatally shot Thursday night outside a restaurant in Dawson Creek, where a hearing for the Site C hydroelectric dam was taking place. Eyewitness video shows a man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask laying...
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Man dies after being allegedly hogtied facedown by Mississippi police
A Mississippi man died Saturday night, prompting an investigation into the Desoto County Sheriff's office's methods of detaining him. Troy Goode, 30, died hours after being arrested at a shopping center in Southaven, Miss., at about 7:45 p.m. Witnesses say multiple officers held Goode down and hogtied him. Paramedics later strapped him to a stretcher facedown and took him to Baptist Memorial Hospital, they said.
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Police spy on Facebook drug pages
Letters warn group members: "Police have been monitoring your Facebook profile."
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Waco Is Suppressing Evidence That Could Clear Innocent Bikers
Why is Waco, Texas, fighting to suppress multiple videos of the shootout that killed nine bikers at the Twin Peaks restaurant on May 17? Why are some attorneys in the case now prohibited from talking to the press? And why haven’t Waco officials revealed how many of the nine victims were killed by bullets from police officers’ guns?
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Police officer shoots man to death in Cincinnati
Cincinnati police are investigating the fatal shooting of an apparently unarmed black man by a University of Cincinnati police officer.
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The Case for Banning High-Speed Police Chases
On the evening of January 22, 2002, somewhere in the suburbs of Chico, California, 15-year-old Kristie Priano loaded into the back of the family minivan with her brother and parents. An honor roll student and high school basketball standout, she was to start in a game that night. Around the same time, across town, another teenage girl had just stolen her mother’s Toyota Rav4 to go for a joy ride. Informed of the theft, the local police dispatched several...
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Thai Scapegoats...
The provincial court in Koh Samui has given defence lawyers for two Myanmar workers accused of murdering two British tourists on Koh Tao access to evidence for DNA testing, a defence attorney said Friday.
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Romania's 'Sewer People' Have Been Raided by Police
Police in Romania have raided the intricate network of sewers in the capital city of Bucharest, where hundreds of people — including children — are believed to live. The massive anti-drug operation, carried out earlier this week, followed months of surveillance, Channel 4 News reported, with officers detaining dozens of people for questioning on suspicion of trafficking.
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N.Y. City must release misconduct records for officer in chokehold case
A state judge has ordered New York City to release a summary of misconduct findings against the police officer who put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold in a case that added to the national debate on how police deal with minorities. In an opinion dated on Friday, the one-year anniversary of Garner’s death, and released publicly late Wednesday, State Supreme Court Justice Alice Schlesinger granted a freedom of information request from the Legal Aid Society.
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In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me.
I got home from the bar and fell into bed soon after Saturday night bled into Sunday morning. I didn’t wake up until three police officers barged into my apartment, barking their presence at my door. They sped down the hallway to my bedroom, their service pistols drawn and leveled at me. It was just past 9 a.m., and I was still under the covers. The only visible target was my head.
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Our Definitions of National Security Crimes Are Fucked
I realized something the other day. For the purposes of hacking, a theater (or at least any mall it was attached to) might count as critical infrastructure that would deem it a National Security target, just as Sony Pictures was deemed critical infrastructure for sanction and retaliation purposes after it got hacked.
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Methuen police gave preference to those who wouldn’t arrest fellow officers
A state commission said officials preferred job candidates who said they’d treat friends and family differently in drunken driving cases.
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Tucson PD releases names of people possibly connected to prostitutes — after removing those who happen to be cops
And yet somehow, the world's oldest profession survives.
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Marijuana Grower Shot SWAT Cops Who Kicked Down His Door, Jury Says They Don’t Blame Him
Recently, there has been some talk about places that allow you to shoot officers if they are in the wrong when they enter your home.
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University of Cincinnati Officer Indicted in Fatal Shooting of Samuel DuBose
The officer, Ray Tensing, is accused of killing Mr. DuBose during a traffic stop near the campus on July 19.
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Alabama Police Officer Breaks Down on Stand, Admits to Repeatedly Lying to Cover Up for Fellow Cop Beating Handcuffed Man
An Alabama police officer broke down at the trial of a fellow cop, admitting to lying to internal affairs, to the FBI and to a federal grand jury about his colleague beating a handcuffed man
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Native American Woman Dies in Jail, Begging for Help. Officers Told Her to “Quit Faking”
Earlier this month, a Lakota woman, was jailed on an alleged bond violation over a driving infraction. Her pleas for help allegedly fell on deaf ears and she died in jail.
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