Sheriff deputies in Marin County California have once again demonstrated that it can be dangerous to call 911 for medical assistance. A 64 year old man who was tasered three times in his own home by Marin County Sheriff’s deputies has filed a lawsuit stemming from that incident.
The incident occurred on June 29, 2009 shortly [...]
Pitchess Detention Centre at Los Angeles County Jail will soon be employing a brand spanking new “nonlethal” weapon to break up fights.
From Yahoo News:
Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn’t violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your [...]
While Cop Block has been active, we’ve covered several stories in which police have attacked and/or killed dogs, but the number of puppycide stories in the news that we’ve heard about in just in the last month is shocking.
What *won’t* police “protect” us from?
The Hawthorne [California] City Council will vote Tuesday night on a proposed $300,000 payout to settle a lawsuit brought by an autistic teenager who was Tasered by a police officer.
I hear a lot of irrelevant considerations in the discussion regarding the Oscar Grant shooting. Some of these reasons include “because I like police,” “because without police, there would be anarchy,” “because police are racist,” or “because Oscar Grant was a thug.”
None of these opinions are relevant. Liking police has no bearing on what Mehserle [...]
When a city pays out large amounts of money to settle lawsuits against the police department the money does not come out of the pockets of the thugs who perpetrated the crimes or the chief thugs who either failed to prevent the abuses or actively encouraged them. Taxpayers foot the bill in one way or [...]
From truthout:
Hundreds of National Guard troops are expected to begin their deployment to the US-Mexico border on August 1 as part of the Obama administration’s attempt to halt the flow of weapons, cash and people to El Norte.
In a joint announcement with the National Guard Bureau, the Obama administration said it will [...]
Earlier last week, Oakland’s chief of police directed a thinly veiled threat to the public regarding the layoffs of 80 police officers from the Oakland Police Department. The police union recently asked for a guarantee of no layoffs for three years. City Council refused. City Council President Jane Brunner said, “We wish we could offer [...]
