ACLU Archives - Cop Block

21,587 MA Drug Cases Tainted By Lab Chemist To Be Thrown Out

April 20, 2017May 10, 2017 Asa J 1118 Views Accountability, ACLU, ACLUM, american civil liberties union, American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Annie Dookhan, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Department of Public Health, Dishonesty, Dookhan Defendants, Drug Cases, drug cases dismissed, drug samples, dry labbing, Evidence tampering, Hinton lab, Justice System, lab chemist, Massachusetts, Matthew Segal, misconduct, obstruction of justice, perjury, Police State, Supreme Judicial Court

At least 21,587 drug cases will be dismissed because of the broad and blatant criminal misconduct of a Department of

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Cop Block Writer Views Unreleased Jay Anderson Footage, Shares Experience

December 6, 2016 Isiah Holmes 974 Views Accountability, ACLU, Activism, America 2016, ARTICLE, assault, black lives matter, Brutality, Civil rights, comment, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, cover up, Dishonesty, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, Featured, freedom, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, Jay Anderson, journalism, justice for jay, marching, news, No Justice No Peace, no victim no crime, police accountability, protest, share, social media, strike the root, Surveillance, Transparency, Update, video, Wauwatosa, wauwatosa officer no charges, wauwatosa police shooting, writing

Grey skies choked Milwaukee with gloomy overcast December 5th’s morning. At its cusp, 9:45am, I was to meet Jay Anderson’s

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Wisconsin’s ACLU: No Reason For Wauwatosa Police To Withhold Anderson Footage

December 3, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1228 Views Accountability, ACLU, America 2016, ARTICLE, assault, Brutality, Civil rights, cop block, Corruption, Dishonesty, documentary, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, Filming police, freedom, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, isiah holmes, jay anderson family, joseph mensah, journalism, Justice System, killer cop, milwaukee, milwaukee DA, milwaukee police, news, no victim no crime, official comment, Photography, police, police abuse, politics, speak friend and enter police documentary, strike the root, Surveillance, Transparency, Update, Wauwatosa, wauwatosa mayor, Wauwatosa police, wauwatosa police brutality, wauwatosa police cover up, wauwatosa police documentary, wauwatosa police misconduct, wauwatosa police shooting, writing

Jay Anderson’s case is beginning to get some serious traction, with both the public and influential organizations. It’s not just

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Articles CopBlock Submission Killer Cops Police Abuse Toxic Cops

Don’t Call the Pigs: An Informal Guide to Alternative Policing Within an Anarchist Justice System

October 19, 2016March 11, 2017 Kelly W. Patterson 1398 Views 3%ers, ABC, Accountability, ACLU, agorist defense services, american civil liberties union, Anarchist Black Cross, anarchists, anti-statist, assault, Black and Pink, black guerrilla family, Black Panther style community patrols, black panthers, Books for Prisoners, Brutality, C4SS, Cell 411, center for a stateless society, Civil rights, cop watch, copblock, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, crowdfunding, de-arrest, directly democratic community watch groups, Dishonesty, DoJ, Don’t Call the Pigs: An Informal Guide to Creating an Anarchist Justice System, Double Standard, entertainment and education, Eric Garner, Families Against Mandatory Minimums, FAMM, FIJA, Food Not Bombs, Free Alabama Movement, freedom, fully informed jury association, General Defense Committee, government agencies, high environmental costs of prisons, Huey P. Newton Gun Club, Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, Industrial Workers of the World, Institute for Justice, IWOC, IWW, jury duty, Jury nullification, Justice System, kelly patterson, Kurdish People’s Protection Units, legal fees, Libertarians, Logan Glitterbomb, media promotion, mike brown, mutual aid, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, national lawyers guild, Nationalism, NCADP, networking, nonviolent communication techniques, Patriotism, peacekeeper, people of color, Pink Pistols, police, police departments, Police State, Prison Ecology Project, prison industrial complex, prisons, public freedom campaign, Public Relations, punishment, radical public defender, Rest In Power, restorative and/or transformative justice process, RIP, Rojava, Shield Mutual, sounds good in theory, soveriegn citizen crap, soveriegn citizens, supplies reading materials, Sylvia Rivera Gun Club for Self Defense, TSA, unarrest, unfair living conditions, voluntary militias, Zapatistas

This post was written by Logan Glitterbomb and originally published at the Center For a Stateless Society (C4SS) under the title

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Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Provided Data Access for a Surveillance Product Marketed to Target Activists of Color

October 11, 2016 Brian Sumner 1348 Views #fuckyourbadge, ACLU, american civil liberties union, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, double-standards, excessive force, facebook, ferguson, freedom, GeoFeedia, Harassment, Instagram, Justice System, Matt Cagle, mike brown, no victim no crime, police abuse, Police brutality, Police State, repost, social media, strike the root, Surveillance, Transparency, Twitter

Originally published at ACLUNC.org by Matt Cagle The ACLU of California has obtained records showing that Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram

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Articles Police Abuse

Lawsuit After Video Shows Cop Snatch Protestor’s Phone, Concoct Charges Against Him

September 18, 2016 Asa J 985 Views ACLU, ACLU of Connecticut, actual damages, checkpoint demonstration, checkpoint protest, Connecticut, Connecticut State Police, copblock, copblock.org, creating a public disturbance, Dishonesty, dui checkpoint, false charges, federal lawsuit, film the police, Filming police, first amendment, fourth amendment, grudges, gun permit, Interstate 84, john barone, john jacobi, lawsuit, michael picard, officer John Barone, officer John Jacobi, officer Patrick Torneo, open carry, open carry activist, Park Road, Patrick Torneo, pistol permit, police accountability, police accountability activist, protest, punch a number, punitive damages, retaliation, Right Against Warrantless Seizure of his Property, Right to Receive and Memorialize Information, U.S. District Court, use of a highway by a pedestrian, West Hartford

In a federal lawsuit filed against three Connecticut state police officers, an avid police accountability and open carry activist is

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False Charges Against Tornado Relief Volunteer Exposes Corruption In Mayflower Arkansas

September 13, 2016September 13, 2016 Alia Atreides 1311 Views ACLU, alec karakatsanis, Arkansas, Corruption, Department of Motor Vehicles, False arrest, false charges, False imprisonment, FBI, KATV, Mark Winchester, Mayflower, Mayflower Police Department, Melissa Brown, Patriot Act, Robert Alcon, whistleblower

The following story was sent to us by an anonymous member of the Cop Block Network through the CopBlock.org Submissions

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Federal Judge Becomes First To Throw Out Warrantless Stingray Evidence

July 13, 2016July 17, 2016 Asa J 1169 Views ACLU, cell phone surveillance, Cell phones, cell-site simulator, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, DEA, Department of Justice, drug trafficking, Drug war, federal judge, Judge William Pauley, Maryland appeals court, Nathan Freed Wessler, Police State, Raymond Lambis, Stasi, Stingray, Surveillance, surveillance state, U.S. District Court, unreasonable search, warrantless search, Washington Heights

A federal judge has became the first to suppress evidence obtained without a warrant by U.S. law enforcement using a

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To the Police, You Are The Enemy

April 19, 2016April 19, 2016 CopBlock 1828 Views ACLU, Brutality, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, criminal law reform, Drug war, excessive force, freedom, militarized police, military, police, Police State, Transparency

There are a couple reasons why the United States military is not used to police its own citizens. Some of

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Indiana State Trooper Who Was “Policing For Jesus” Fired; Tried to Convert Drivers

April 13, 2016April 13, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1623 Views #JusSayin, Accountability, ACLU, american civil liberties union, Cambridge City, CBS 4, cbs4indy.com, Christianity, Christians, Civil rights, coercive, Connersville, convert, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Douglas G. Carter, Ellen Bogan, extremely upsetting, First Baptist Church, God’s Plan for Salvation, Harassment, Highway 27, home church, illegal pass, in, Indiana, Indiana State Police, Indianapolis, ISP, Jesus, Jews, Justice System, kelly patterson, Monty Python, Muslims, New York Times, no victim no crime, nobody expects the Inquisition, police, policing for Jesus, prayer list, probably things we are not aware of, proselytizing, questioning drivers about their religious beliefs, religion, religious affiliations, revenue generation, rights, road pirates, savior, sinners, termination, The Pope, traffic stops, Trooper Brian L. Hamilton, union county, unwanted, video, Wendy Pyle

An Indiana State Trooper somehow thought that giving people tickets was a really good opening to try and save their

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Articles CopBlock Submission Police Abuse Toxic Cops

Jails and the “Justice” System Punish the Poor For Being Poor

April 9, 2016March 7, 2017 Kelly W. Patterson 3365 Views Accountability, ACLU, american civil liberties union, assault, black woman, Brutality, building alternative forms of dealing with crime, chris hedges, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, criminalization of the poor, criminalizing homelessness, death in custody, Department of Justice, Dishonesty, DoJ, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, fair and equal treatment, focus of rehabilitation, freedom, gofundme, harassing the homeless, Harassment, high-profile victim, Homicide, Independence, jail, Jeffery Pendleton, Justice System, kelly patterson, low income, marijuana, meaningless term, New Hampshire, New York Times, no victim no crime, outstanding fines, peaceful and creative ways, people of color, perverse incentives that treat individuals as a stream of revenue, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, Policing for Profit, poverty, pre-detention centers, punishment, rights, Sandra Bland, strike the root, Texas, victimless crimes

This post was written by Nick Ford and originally published at the Center For a Stateless Society (C4SS) under the

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Fresno City Council Rejects Beware Surveillance Software (For Now)

April 7, 2016 Dylan Donnelly 1287 Views Accountability, ACLU, address-specific public data, american civil liberties union, back-end algorithms and variables, bells and whistles, Beware software, Booker T. Lewis, CA, California, Civil rights, color-coded threat levels, community involvement and participation, community policing, contract, controversy, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, facebook, Faith in Community board, first responders, freedom, Fresno, Fresno Bee, Fresno City Council, Fresno Peoples Media, Fresno Police Department, grant, Harassment, homeland security, Illegal search/entry, Instagram, Intrado, Justice System, Michael Lee, pastor, police, Police Chief Jerry dyer, Police State, potential danger to responding officers, public skepticism, rights, Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church, social media, Surveillance, trustworthiness, Twitter, Update

The Fresno City Council rejected a proposal by Police Chief Jerry Dyer Thursday to purchase the Beware software the police

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