Trigger happy cops in the United States could learn much from their British counterparts. Fatal shootings by police in the United States has become a major political issue in recent years, and official figures out of Great Britain paint a stark contrast with those coming out of the USA. As of August 1st of this […]
There’s a man with a gun over there telling me I got to beware. Last Thursday seven Deputy U.S. Marshals dressed in combat gear with automatic weapons showed up at the door of a Houston man and arrested him for failing to pay a student loan debt from 1987 totaling $1,500. Paul Aker told Fox […]
Conservative website run by Tea Party favorite Allen West applauds cops for statistics showing that 30% of fatal cop shootings aren’t justified. Conservative website AllenBWest.com has a curious article entitled: “Statistics for police violence show 70% of shootings are justified.” Maybe it’s just the contrarian in me, but when I first glimpsed the headline I […]
Nine police officers were captured on video slamming a teenager onto a concrete sidewalk and assaulting him. His crime – jaywalking. Early Tuesday morning Stockton, California police arrested the 16-year old boy and charged him with trespassing and resisting arrest according to a report by RT. According to RT, “the teen was walking near the […]
The Guardian reports that a white police officer was caught on a recording discussing to kill a black suspect and get away with it. Officer Troy Middlebrooks, an Alabama police officer, “proposed murdering a black resident” and manufacturing false evidence suggest self-defense according to The Guardian. Even worse, Middlebrooks is still on the job: Officer […]