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In 1993, I watched the Waco, “Standoff” live on the NBC Nightly News as a young man while eating meatloaf in front of the TV with my family. What exactly is a, “Standoff?” In my early years, I understood a standoff  as an incident which one party was wrong and the State comes in to [...]

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Extraction teams caused a lot of panic during this year’s May Day General Strike for the Occupy crowd. Oakland Police sent large groups of officers into crowds of demonstrators to make surgical arrests. As many presumed, this type of police action created more problems then it solved. One “surgical arrest” would lead to panic, causing [...]

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In 2010, the United States Coast Guard told the Philadelphia Gun Club (PGC) in no uncertain terms that it could not shoot over the Delaware river, a public waterway, without a safety zone. The PGC does not have, and cannot obtain a safety zone because it cannot pass an environmental test that is first required.

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I’ve never sought to be kidnapped and caged. Yet that’s happened five times not because I harmed person or property, but because I asked questions of those who operate as if they have extra rights. The surest way to curtail such rampant unaccountability is not to hide or remain silent when you or a friend [...]

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  I was recording police from across the street on a public sidewalk. Keep in mind I do nothing that is against the law. I have every right to film them in their duties. I in no way addressed the officer OR the guy the officer was talking too. The passenger, who is not engaged [...]

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[originally posted by Jim Keane at AmericaMagazine.org] Readers of this blog may recall my post from two weeks ago today about Joe Hoover, S.J., a classmate of mine at the Jesuit School of Theology who was found guilty of obstructing a public thoroughfare during an Occupy Oakland march on January 28, 2012.  Joe was sentenced [...]

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Guest submission and video by a loyal Cop Block fan! To submit your story click HERE and to take part in CopBlock.org’s “Featured Content of the Month” contest, click here. Its almost been a year since Kelly Thomas from Fullerton, CA, a homeless man, was senselessly and brutally tortured and murdered by the ruthless Fullerton Police [...]

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Vincent Bess, USMCBess on YouTube, was at the gas station with his friend when he noticed police questioning a man. He decided to film it and sent it to CopBlock.org as the first submission for the “Featured Content of the Month” contest. The above video contains  his footage, which I edited into a more compact [...]

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