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Minnesota Cops Smoke-up Occupy Protesters, Then Lie Illinois Gets With the Times 9 Police Departments With Corrupt Pasts VA CopBlock Founder Receives $10,000 Settlement Check for Illegal Stop Why police don
 

Minnesota Cops Smoke-up Occupy Protesters, Then Lie

A story that demonstrates double-standards claimed by those with badges submitted by “Accountability.” As s/he noted, “There is are laws…one for police and one for you.” That view will change only when each of us sees that man-made legislation does not equal law. Note how, when an individual officer does wrong and is called-out for [...]

Illinois Gets With the Times – Lifts Threat of Jail for Filming Police

Last week a judge for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago said that eavesdropping legislation, long used by police and their allies to target those who attempted to document their actions, “likely violates” the First Amendment and ordered that authorities be banned from enforcing it. As Harvey Grossman, legal director of the ACLU [...]

9 Police Departments With Corrupt Pasts

Guest post from Hazel with Onlineclasses.org: If you want to learn more about the history of your city, explore the history of corruption within the city’s police department. Police corruption, which can include kickbacks, shakedowns, and protection of or even direct participation in illegal activities, has been around since the creation of the country’s first [...]

VA CopBlock Founder Receives $10,000 Settlement Check for Illegal Stop

Write-up below by Nathan Cox originally posted to Virginia CopBlock: About a year ago I was pulled over ILLEGALLY by officer Shawn Kelley of the VCU Police Department. He pulled me over because he didn’t like what I had say to him as I drove by him, which was “Stop Harassing People, we pay your [...]

Why police don’t want you too close.

PSOSGT, a frequent commenter on CopBlock.org, submitted the following as a guest post. He didn’t think it would be published but after reading it I thought it would make a good blog, including my responses to his statements. PSOSGT’s statements are block quoted. I realize this isn’t going to be posted, but I think these [...]

Cop Shoots Church Lady 5 Times For Being Parked In Front Of Church!

16 May 2012

This story comes to CopBlock.org from Dan Morales. On February 9th of this year Patricia Cook was killed by Daniel W. Harmon–Wright, also known as Daniel W. Sullivan. The “official line” is that the Harmon–Wright had his arm caught in her driver’s side window, and was dragged alongside the vehicle as she drove away, so he [...]

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Posted in Articles, Quick Hits, Virginia CopBlock27 Comments

“Rowdy” Laughs at LEOs in his Monster Truck

16 May 2012

This one comes to us from “Rowdy” Joey Gowdy via CopBlock.org/Submit. Good on you for recording your travels Rowdy – you never know what you’ll capture. If nothing else, evidence that the police “services” provided today by the New Albany, MS probably aren’t needed. I know I wouldn’t pay strangers to try to discern ways [...]

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Anything sketchy in former Keene PD chief departure?

15 May 2012

UPDATE: May 17th, 2012 – a friend informed of this post on Qualters started to look into the situation a little. I felt it worth sharing here the response that I sent as it shares a bit more information that I thought relevant to share here as I strive for transparency. You asked which of [...]

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State V. Kate (Jury Trial) – a Chalking 8 appeal

14 May 2012

UPDATE: Mon. May 14th 5:20PM Kate was found guilty of “resisting” by a Manchester Superior Court jury today. Her previous “sentence” from district court was 90-days suspended for two-years. Her new “sentence” is 30-days suspended for 30-days. It’s good that the threat hanging over her head is now lessened and that outreach was done and [...]

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KY State Police Like to go Poaching

12 May 2012

I live near Ft. Campbell, KY. My job has me driving up and down TN, KY & other states. On several occasions I personally witnessed KY state police speeding 15-20 mph over the posted speed limit… NOT chasing a suspect, NOT on any apparent call,.. just cruising 15-20mph faster than the posted speed limits in [...]

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Small town corruption

11 May 2012

Guest post We were stopped for no known reason by two officers and they asked to search my car. I told the officer that he couldn’t search. Then the officer told us that if we didnt let them search the car they were going to call the k9 dog. At that point I asked if we were free [...]

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This Is How You Beat A Man To Death

This Is How You Beat A Man To Death

11 May 2012

New Kelly Thomas Murder Video According to the article on The Huffington Post:  The 33-minute video starts with Thomas being approached by Fullerton Police Department Officer Manuel Ramos, who engages him in conversation. By minute 15, Ramos has already donned latex gloves… “You see my fists?” Ramos asks Thomas. “They’re getting ready to fuck you [...]

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Abusing the badge – Chicago PD

10 May 2012

Write-up below by Angela Caputo originally published on May 1st on Chicagoreporter.com. A small group of officers who have cost the City of Chicago millions in police misconduct lawsuits remain on the force with few signs of discipline. Rennie Simmons won a $99,999 settlement from the City of Chicago in 2009 that stemmed from a [...]

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