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Key West Police Wrongfully Arrest Homeless Man Then Assault Him After Turning Their Body Cameras Off

March 3, 2017March 3, 2017 Kelly W. Patterson 1727 Views Accountability, Arnaud Gerard, assault, Brothas in Blue, Brutality, bullying of homeless, Chief Donie Lee, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, criminalization of the poor, Dishonesty, double-standards, excessive force, Filming police, fl, Florida, freedom, Fuck y’all Motherfuckers!, good cop, Harassment, homelessness, independent newspaper, kelly patterson, Key West, Key West Police Department, Kristopher Knight, KWPD, Naja Gerard, Officer Julio Gomez, Officer Michael Chaustit, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, probable cause, Publix, rights, Rough Arrest, TheBluePaper.com, trespassing, video

The following videos were originally posted at the “Blue Paper” an independent newspaper located in Key West, Florida. All commentary

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Las Vegas Metro Police Department Conducted Raid on Homeless Camp Just Before Christmas

January 22, 2017January 22, 2017 Kelly W. Patterson 1593 Views 24/7 Bail Bonds, Accountability, bail bonds agency, Civil rights, CMART, cold weather, Community-Oriented Policing Unit, Confiscation of Property, copblock, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, County Multi-Agency Response Team, criminalization of the poor, criminalizing homelessness, Dishonesty, Donna Lieberman, double-standards, Harassment, homeless outreach, homelessness, Illegal search/entry, kelly patterson, las vegas, las vegas metropolitan police department, lvmpd, metro, Molasky Family Park, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Nevada, no victim no crime, not on my watch, NV, people without houses, police, police abuse, police raid, Police State, poverty, record cold temperatures, rights, Sergeant Ryan Cook, stealing blankets, Taylor Barton, winter

The following post was shared with the CopBlock Network by Arkady Bukh, via the CopBlock.org Submissions Page. In addition, Bukh

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Days Before Christmas, the LVMPD Conducted Raids on Homeless People Stealing Blankets and Winter Shelter

December 31, 2016January 1, 2017 Kelly W. Patterson 2400 Views Accountability, Civil rights, CMART, cold weather, Community-Oriented Policing Unit, Confiscation of Property, copblock, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, COPS TV show, Corruption, County Multi-Agency Response Team, criminalization of the poor, criminalizing homelessness, Dishonesty, double-standards, Food Not Bombs, Harassment, Help of Southern Nevada, homeless outreach, homelessness, housing instability, housing options, Illegal search/entry, jason nellis, Jazoof, Jonas Rand, kelly patterson, las vegas, las vegas metropolitan police department, lvmpd, metro, Molasky Family Park, Nevada, no victim no crime, not on my watch, NV, Park Police, people without houses, police, police abuse, police raid, Police State, poverty, record cold temperatures, rights, Sergeant Ryan Cook, stealing blankets, unapologetically positive attitude, UNLV, winter

The following post was written by Jonas Rand, a UNLV student and member of Food Not Bombs Las Vegas. It

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The Drug War is State-Sanctioned Theft

April 27, 2016May 5, 2016 Lorelei McFly 2827 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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“Justice” For The Wealthy, Law Enforcement For The Poor

April 19, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1941 Views 2008 financial meltdown, Accountability, America’s Divided Justice System, assault, attorney general, Barack Obama, Barclays, Bill Clinton, blocking pedestrian traffic, book review, broken windows, Brutality, C4SS, center for a stateless society, Civil rights, Collateral Consequences, cop block, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, Covington and Burling, criminalization of the poor, criminalizing homelessness, Department of Justice, deportation, Dishonesty, DoJ, double-standards, draconian punishments, Drug war, dystopian reality, economic inequality, England, eric holder, Fairfax Financial Holdings, financial crimes, fishing with dynamite, fraud, freedom, gang of well-funded hedge fund managers, Goldman Sachs, graffiti, harassing the homeless, Harassment, Howard Safir, HSBC, Immigrant, indirect negative economic consequences, injustices, jail, James C. Wilson, JP Morgan Chase, Justice System, kelly patterson, late-night phone calls, Latin America, Lehman Brothers, low income, massive kidnapping industry, Matt Taibbi, Minorities, New York Police Commisioner, New York Press, nightmarish bureaucracy, no victim no crime, Patreon, people of color, phony accusations of a criminal activity, Playboy, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, Policing for Profit, poverty, ptutocracy, punishment, repost, rights, robo-signing, Rolling Stone, Rudy Giuliani, strike the root, The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap, The Nation, threats, too big to fail, too big to jail, victimless crimes, wealthy offenders, zero tolerance

This post was written by James C. Wilson and originally published at the Center For a Stateless Society (C4SS) under the

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

April 9, 2016March 7, 2017 Kelly W. Patterson 3310 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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Help Bring Yosue Joel Rios Home for the Holidays

December 20, 2015December 21, 2015 Lorelei McFly 1594 Views arlington virginia, call flood, call floods, Christmas, criminalization of the poor, fairfax, fairfax city police department, harassing the homeless, helping, helping the homeless, holidays, homeless, Northern Virginia, poverty, victimless crimes, Virginia, virginia cop block, virginia copblock, Yosue Joel Rios

The enduring popularity of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and recent proliferation of programs like National Geographic’s Live Free or Die

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