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Deputy Filmed Attacking Shackled Inmate In Courtroom Escapes Justice

September 15, 2015March 1, 2016 Asa J 1455 Views Accountability, Anthony Waller, Bill Lovingier, Brutality, Chief Deputy District Attorney Doug Jackson, Chief Judge Martinez, cop attacks inmate in court room, cop attacks Shackled inmate, copblock, copblock.org, cops beats handcuffed man, Corruption, courtroom, Denver, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey, denver police department, deputy Brady Lovingier, Dishonesty, District Court Chief Judge Michael Martinez, double-standards, excessive force, federal civil rights lawsuit, felony assault, Internal Affairs Investigation, Judge Doris Burd, Judge Michael Martinez, Justice System, lawyer Ken Padilla, Police brutality, special prosecutor, Statute of Limitations, surveillance video, unprovoked attack

A Denver deputy filmed violently attacking a shackled and handcuffed inmate without provocation has escaped justice after District Court Chief

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Grand Jury Fails To Indict In Inmate Beating Death Citing “Destroyed Evidence”

July 11, 2015February 4, 2016 Asa J 1156 Views Accountability, asphyxiation, assault, Brutality, Capt. David Thomas, Charlotte Correctional Institution, Charlotte County Florida, Charlotte County grand jury, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, correctional officers, Corruption, Dishonesty, double-standards, excessive force, Featured, Harassment, inmate beating, Justice System, larynx, Matthew Walker, May Atkins, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Prison, rights, solidarity confinement, Walkie Talkies

A grand jury in Charlotte County, Florida has failed to indict corrections officers involved in the beating death of an

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Officer Placed on Paid Leave Pending Investigation into Stolen Evidence

May 5, 2015May 5, 2015 Ademo Freeman 718 Views centre county district attorney', Corruption, Dishonesty, police, police accountability, Police State, state college police, stealing, tom king, trust

I’ll be honest, I was a bit surprised by this story and not because of the officer who stole from

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Ohio Student Charged with Homicide for Selling Mushrooms

September 8, 2011January 1, 2014 CopBlock 525 Views copblock, copblock.org, ohio cop block, ohiocopblock, Police State

After accepting a plea deal, former OU student, James Wagers, was sentenced to 90 days in jail for negligent homicide

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Update on Momma Ally: Evidence of police assault

September 9, 2010May 9, 2013 CopBlock 2104 Views Brutality, call food, Filming police, Momma Ally, Savannah GA

The Savannah Police Department doesn’t know what they got themselves into now that Cop Block is on the case of

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This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories

August 2, 2011January 1, 2014 CopBlock 817 Views cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, Drug war, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisville KY, New York, St. Louis MO, StopTheDrugWar.org

A sheriff whose alleged theft from the evidence room might be excused, a prison guard who also heads a violent biker gang, another prison guard with dope and an eye for the ladies, a pill peddling suburban cop, and a bribe-taking small town cop all make the rogues’ gallery this week.

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Jeopardizing Safety To Silence Tosa Officers “Was Common Practice” Claimed Ex-Detective

March 17, 2017March 20, 2017 Isiah Holmes 1492 Views Accountability, ARTICLE, assault, bigotry, Brutality, Civil rights, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, exclussive content, gay officer, gay rights, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, Intimidation, Investigative journalism, journalism, Justice System, LGBT descrimination, milwaukee, news, open records request, police cell phone surveillance, Police State, PTSD and police, strike the root, thin blue line, tosa officer joseph mensah kills twice in a year, Transparency, Update, Wauwatosa, wauwatosa ex-detective alleges sexual harassment, wauwatosa ex-detective stole drugs, wauwatosa mayor Kathy Ehly, Wauwatosa Now, Wauwatosa PD, wauwatosa police brutality, wauwatosa police harassment of teenagers, wauwatosa police misconduct, wauwatosa police officer joseph mensha, wauwatosa police shooting Jay Andeson, wauwatosa police surveillance, wauwatosa police teen drug crackdown, wauwatosa wisconsin, workers protections, workplace bullying, writing

After over 60 days, the Wauwatosa (Tosa) Police Department finally released an ex-detective’s 2013 resignation letter. However, WPD redacted large

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Tosa Officer Joseph Mensah Reassigned To Detectives After Anderson Shooting

January 29, 2017January 29, 2017 Isiah Holmes 3280 Views Accountability, america 2017, ARTICLE, assault, black lives matter, blog, breaking, Brutality, cell phone surveilance, conflict of interest, copblock, copblock.org, cops investigating cops, Corruption, cover up, david clarke and trump, Detectives, Dishonesty, double-standards, Drug war, E, excessive force, facist govenment trump, foia, freedom, Harassment, hiding documents, Illegal search/entry, Investigative journalism, Jay Anderson murdered, Jay Anderson's family, Joseph Mensah Wauwatosa, journalism, Justice System, milwaukee, milwaukee police, missing dash footage, news, open records request, open records violation, police accountability, police empolyee file, press release, silence, strike the root, surveillanc, Surveillance, tampering with evidence, Transparency, Update, Wauwatosa, Wauwatosa PD documentary, Wauwatosa police, wauwatosa police Jay Anderson shooting, wauwatosa police shooting 2015, wauwatosa police shooting 2016, writing

Cop Block contributors recently obtained Officer Joseph Mensah’s employee file, from the Wauwatosa Police Department. WPD’s silence largely spared Mensah

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Tosa PD Hiding info On Sexual Harassment Of Ex-Detective?

January 9, 2017 Isiah Holmes 1642 Views Accountability, America 2016, ARTICLE, assault, breaking, Brutality, city wide corruption, Civil rights, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, double-standards, drug addict, Drug war, drugs, evil, excessive force, fake open records document, FOIA violation, forged document, freedom, Harassment, hiding information wauwatosa police, Illegal search/entry, Intimidation, Jay Anderson, jay anderson cover up, jay anderson murder, journalism, Justice System, milwaukee, milwaukee police, news, no victim no crime, open records request, police accountability, robin schumacher, robin schumacher lawsut, silence, strike the root, Surveillance, tosa police sexully harass people, Transparency, Update, video, Wauwatosa, wauwatosa detective takes drugs from evidence room, Wauwatosa Now, wauwatosa officer joseph mensah, Wauwatosa police, Wauwatosa Police Department, wauwatosa police harassment, wauwatosa police misconduct, wauwatosa police robin schuamcher, writing

Since November 2016, the Wauwatosa Police Department has sat on a very sensitive open records request. Cop Block contributors requested

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Year of the Cop Sex Predator and Other Reflections on 2016

January 1, 2017January 1, 2017 Lorelei McFly 2476 Views 2016 in review, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ashley Neese, Captain George Brown, Celeste Guap, Christopher Lee Cook, Cop Apologists, cop sex predators, cops on dope, daniel holtzclaw, DEA, Deonte Lawrence Hamner, drug enforcement administration, drug overdose, Drug war, James Sims, Joe Gliniewicz, kratom, line of duty deaths, Matthew Lowery, michael slager, Nicholas Fernandez, Officer Dominique Heaggan-Brown, Officer William Slisz, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, opioid addiction epidemic, Police brutality, police brutality 2016, police shooting syville smith, sexual assault by police, sexual assault by police officers, Sgt. Craig Hutchinson, walter scott, War on Cops

Cop Sex Predators Hit the Mainstream A September 2015 investigation by the Associated Press had previously discovered that nearly 1,000

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NY Cop Known for Satire Videos About Police Brutality Charged with Choking/Harassment

October 22, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1694 Views Accountability, altercation, Angry Cops, assault, Brutality, buffalo, buffalo police department, choking, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, double-standards, excessive force, Harassment, harmless fun, humanized cops, internal investigation, internet famous, Justice System, kelly patterson, lighter side of the job, making light of police brutality, music video, New York, New York Daily News, ny, nydailynews.com, obstruction of breath, Off Duty Cop, Officer Richard Hy, paid vacation, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, police tactics, Satire, social media policy, Suspension, true nature, under scrutiny, video, vine.com, Vines, West Seneca, West Seneca Police Department

Richard Hy, a Buffalo Police Officer who became internet famous for 15 minutes earlier this year when he was suspended

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The Drug War is State-Sanctioned Theft

April 27, 2016May 5, 2016 Lorelei McFly 2853 Views Attorney General Loretta Lynch, cash, cash is criminal, Civil asset forfeiture, civil liberties, Civil rights, civil rights violations, criminalization, criminalization of the poor, Department of Justice, double-standards, drug cartels, drug prohibition, Drug war, drug war is state-sanctioned theft rape and murder, equitable sharing, Equitable Sharing Civil Asset Forfeiture Program, HSBC, Human rights, incentives, Institute for Justice, marijuana, overcriminalization, police crime, Policing for Profit, pot prohibition, state-sanctioned theft, unbanked, underbanked, United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch, victimless crimes, war on drugs

This is the first article in a series on how the war on drugs is state-sanctioned theft, rape, murder, and

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