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Cops Using Fake Ebola-Tainted Drug Scare To Trick People Into Arrests

March 29, 2016March 29, 2016 Asa J 1169 Views ACLU, ACLU of Texas, American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, Burnet County Jail, Central-Texas, Chastity Eugina Hopson, Chastity Hopson, copblock, copblock.org, deceit, deception, Dishonesty, Drug war, Ebola, end the drug war, facebook, facebook post, Granite Shoals, Granite Shoals police, Granite Shoals Police Department, heroin, Matt Simpson, Methamphetamine, no victim no crime, Police Lies, Police State, Public Citizen, Snopes, Sting operation, Texas, Texas ACLU, Tom Smith

Last week, the Granite Shoals Police Department shared a now-deleted post on Facebook warning that the supply of methamphetamine and heroin in

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Is LA Police Chief Beck Shirking Claims Of Transparency

March 7, 2016March 7, 2016 Danny 1492 Views Accountability, ACLU, Brendon Glenn, Brutality, California, copblock.org, Corruption, DA Jackie Lacy, District attorny jackie lacy, excessive force, jackie lacy, lapd, lapd police chief, police accountability, Police brutality, police chief beck, Police Chief Charlie Beck, shot in the back, Transparency, unarmed black man, video

“The family of Brendon Glenn is calling on the LAPD to release the video” Brendon Glenn was an unarmed black

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A.C.L.U. To Challenge Philadelphia Ruling That You Have No Right To Film Police

February 27, 2016February 27, 2016 CopBlock 2549 Views A.C.L.U., Accountability, ACLU, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Dishonesty, Double Standard, double-standards, Featured, film the police, Filming police, freedom, Justice System, Philadelphia, police accountability, Police State, rights, Severin, Severin Freeman, Severin Johnson, Transparency, Update

This story was first reported by Jeremy Roebuck of Philly.com Civil rights lawyers said Wednesday that they intend to appeal

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Cop Filmed Breaking Mans Jaw With Kick Resigns With $230K Pension

February 25, 2016 Asa J 1261 Views Accountability, ACLU, ACLU of Delaware, assault, Attorney James Liguori, broken jaw, Brutality, Civil rights, civil rights lawsuit, cop kicks man in face, copblock, copblock.org, Cpl. Thomas Webster, dash cam video, dash-cam footage, Delaware, Delaware Attorney General's Office, Director Kathleen MacRae, Dover Police, Dover Police Department, excessive force, excessive force lawsuit, facial lacerations, felony, felony assault, film the police, James Liguori, Justice System, Kathleen MacRae, La Mar Gunn, lacerations, Lateef Dickerson, lawsuit, NAACP, Officer Thomas Webster, pension, Police State, President La Mar Gunn, second-degree assault, superior court, Thomas Webster

A Dover, Delaware police officer indicted and arrested on an assault charge last May, escaped conviction following a jury trial in

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Articles Police Abuse

A Touch Of Dystopia: Milwaukee Police Hid Stingray Use From Courts, Says ACLU

February 20, 2016February 20, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1795 Views 7th circuit court of appeals, Accountability, ACLU, america, american civil liberties union, American police culture, amicus brief, blog, Brutality, cell phone data, Civil rights, comment, constitution, cop block, copblock.org, cops, Corruption, courts, data collection, Department of Justice, discuss, Dishonesty, DoJ, double-standards, Drug war, dystopia, Ed Flynn, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, encouraging police to prey on the people, excessive force, FBI, federal bureau of investigation, federal probe, federal program, freedom, fugitive, Harassment, illegal, Illegal search/entry, insanity by definition, intelligence cop, jail, journalism, judge, Justice System, milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, milwaukee police, monitoring, MPD, news, no victim no crime, nondisclosure agreement, oddly vague language, orwellian, overuse, phone tracking, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, police industrial complex, Police State, politics, PR event, prison industrial complex, rights, scrutinous pressure, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, share, stingrays, streamlining convictions, strike the root, subverting the courts, Surveillance, surveillance state, sustainable democratic models, Transparency, undisclosed Stingray use, unethical, Update, warrantless data collection, Warrior Cop, wi, Wisconsin, wisconsin police, writing

Scrutinous pressure continues to bury Milwaukee’s police department despite its recent DOJ-sponsored public forum. Days later, the ACLU blasted the

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Police Use Dirtboxes on Airplane to Collect Your Phone Conversations and Data, ACLU Says

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 Kristan T Harris 2660 Views ACLU, ACLU Says, brtbox, cop block, dirtboxes, drones, eff, FOP, kristan harris, Kristan T. Harris, orange county, pof, police spy on citizens using airplanes, Police State, Police Use Dirtboxes on Airplane to Collect Your Phone Conversations and Data, Stingray, Surveillance

The ACLU Reports Police are Collecting Private Phone Conversations Using Airplanes and Hi-Tech Government Spy Equipment The Rundown Live Police have turned

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Articles CopBlock Submission

Questionable FBI Surveillance Aircraft Fleet Outed by Coalition of Journalists, Activists, And Techies

February 3, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 2459 Views Accountability, ACLU, aerial surveillance program, aerosol chemistry, air quality, air support, aircraft surveillance, airport, ap, Associated Press, az, Baltimore, Baltimore PD, baltimore police department, baltimore riots, Benjamin Shayne, boston, CA, cell phone collection tech, cell phone data collection technology, cell phone tower, chicago, Christopher Allen, Civil rights, cop block, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, cryptic program, curfew, death in custody, Dishonesty, Double Standard, drones, electronic signals collection, FAA, FBI, FBI spy planes, Federal Aviation Administration, federal bureau of investigations, fictitious corporations, First Amendment protected activity, flight data analysis, flight path, flightaware, flightradar20, foia requests, Freddie Gray, freedom, Freedom of Information Act, Fusion.net, FVX Research, glistening with trepidation, Harassment, high altitude observation of potential criminal activity, houston, huffington post, IBT, identifying people by their cellphones, IL, Illegal search/entry, Improv Online, infrared camera, inspector general, International Business Times, John Wiseman, justice department, kelly patterson, KQM Aviation, Kyllo v. United States, ma, mall of america, Maryland, md, Minneapolis, Minnesota, MN, modern western society, modified radio receiver, Nathan Wessler, NBR Aviation, NG Research, night vision, phoenix, photo surveillance, police, police accountability, Police State, Public safety, publicly accessible information, PXW Services, rapid response by police officials on the ground, reddit, rights, Robert Lindley, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, scanbaltimore.com, seattle, Southern California, subliminal pressure, Supreme Court, Surveillance, suspicious planes circling US neighborhoods, the daily mail, The Man, tracking aircraft registration numbers, Twitter, TX, unsung heroes, Update, video, Virginia, WA, washington post, web feeds, wide reaching and indiscriminate

The following post was submitted to the CopBlock Network by Isiah Holmes, who has been featured several times previously on

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Articles Killer Cops

Inmate Locked In Hot Shower Until Skin “Slips” Off – Death Ruled Accidental

January 25, 2016 Asa J 2485 Views Accountability, ACLU, ACLU of Florida, Brutality, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, CPR, Dade Correctional Institution, Darren Rainey, Florida, hot steam, Howard Simon, inmate, inmates skin melts off, Justice System, mental illness, miami dade, Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office, Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, Police State, psychotic episode, schizophrenia, shower, skin melts off, U.S. Department of Justice

The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled that being locked in a steaming hot shower for two hours until his skin “slipped”

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Cops Using Social Media Surveillance To Calculate Your “Threat Score”

January 12, 2016 Asa J 1582 Views ACLU, american civil liberties union, Beware, Beware software, big brother, Bureau of Justice Statistics, California, Chief Jerry Dyer, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, Fresno, Fresno Police Department, gunshot detector, houston, Matt Cagle, New York City, orwellian, Orwells hell, Police State, Privacy, privacy rights, Real Time Crime Center, rights, San Joaquin Valley, seattle, social media, social media posts, Surveillance, surveillance algorithms, surveillance cameras, surveillance center, surveillance software, surveillance state, threat level, threat score, washington post, worrisome messages

Police in California are using state of the art surveillance tools to determine an individual’s “threat score” based on social

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Bill Would Criminalize Filming Police In Arizona

January 11, 2016January 11, 2016 Asa J 1294 Views Accountability, ACLU, american civil liberties union, Arizona, Arizona ACLU, attorney Dan Barr, civil liberties, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, Dan Pochoda, film the police, Filming cops, Filming police, filming the police, first amendment, photography is not a crime, police accountability, recording cops, Senate Bill 1054, Senator John Kavanagh, Transparency, unconstitutional

An Arizona lawmaker has introduced a bill, that if passed, would criminalize filming the police in certain circumstances. Rationalizing that recording

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2015 And The Myth Of The War On Cops

January 2, 2016January 2, 2016 Asa J 1942 Views 1033 Program, Accountability, ACLU, american civil liberties union, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, department of defense, Dishonesty, Drug war, fake war on cops, law enforcement support office, Myth Of The War On Cops, national law enforcement officers memorial fund, pentagon, police deaths, Police State, swat, swat raids, The Guardian, U.S. Government’s Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services, War Comes Home, War on Cops

2015 saw several high-profile killings of officers around the county, leading police supporters and pundits the nation over to rail against a

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Happy New Year: Enjoy “No Refusal,” Forced Blood Draw Checkpoints

December 31, 2015 Asa J 2208 Views "no refusal" DUI checkpoints, ACLU, ACLU of Mississippi, Andres Wallace, austin, blood draw checkpoints, Civil rights, constitution, constitutional, copblock, copblock.org, DUI checkpoints, forced blood draw, freedom, Georgia, Happy new year, Harassment, Louisiana, New Years Eve, New York City, no refusal, Police State, search warrant, Self-ownership, Tennessee, Tennessee Highway Patrol, Texas, U.S. Supreme Court

As major U.S. cities implement a police state amid New Years Eve terror fears, police in some states around the country are

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