A couple weeks ago, Portland Police from East Precinct gave unlawful orders to Mike Bluehair and Robert West, fellow Portland copblockers. The sergeants told them they are not allowed in front of Portland’s East Precinct. The side walk in front of the building is public property and as such, they have every right to be […]
Crying Over Spilled Milk: Authoritarianism in Schools and the Criminalization of Children
This post was written by Nick Ford and originally published at the Center For a Stateless Society (C4SS) under the title “Authoritarianism Means Never Having to Apologize over Spilled Milk.” Previously, the incident involving Ryan Turk was blogged about on the CopBlock Network in a post by Asa J, which can be found here. Posts […]
Fed Up Citizens Taunt and Take Pictures of Injured Officer
In a traffic stop that turned violent on Friday, August 7, 2015, a 6 year veteran of the Birmingham Police Department was beaten unconscious and left laying in a puddle of his own blood. The officer pulled over 34-year-old Janard Shamar Cunningham for being suspected in a string of burglaries in the area. The suspect exited […]
Copwatching and Its Impact On Policing, Law, and Justice in the California Law Review
Jocelyn Simonson, Assistant Professor of Lawyering at New York University School of Law, reached out to Cop Block contributors late last year, seeking assistance in contacting various Cop Block and/or other copwatching groups for a study on the practice and rise of copwatching and its importance to police accountability. Ms. Simonson recently completed a draft of […]
