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The Blue Mafia: New Book Explores Police Brutality and Consent Decrees in Ohio

October 20, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1842 Views Accountability, assault, Baltimore, Blue Mafia, Bob Evans, Brutality, California, chicago, Civil rights, Cleveland, consent decree, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, Department of Justice, Dishonesty, DoJ, DoJ Civil Rights Division, doj investigation, DoJ settlement, double-standards, drug trafficking, excessive force, ferguson, Filming police, Freddie Gray, freedom, Harassment, Homicide, illegal strip searches, insurers, John Mandopoulos, Justice System, kelly patterson, lapd, law firms, lethal force incident, Michael Brown, Missouri, MO, New York, OH, Ohio, planting evidence, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police Brutality and Consent Decrees in Ohio, Police State, Police Unions, presidential election, rampart crash unit, Richard Olivito, rights, Steubenville, Steubenville Police Department, strive everyday to reach compliance with the decree, Tim Tolka, video, warren, warren police department, WPD

The following post was shared with the CopBlock Network by Tim Tolka, via the CopBlock.org Submissions Page. Within the post,

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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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When Current Police Behavior was Predicted by “Ridiculous Satire”

October 7, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1712 Views Accountability, assault, audacity, barking out insane commands, Brutality, Civil rights, Colton Dunn, cop block, Cop v. Black Guy, copblock.org, Corruption, Dejuan Yourse, Dishonesty, double-standards, eating ice cream while black, elaborate scheme, EURweb.com, excessive force, ferguson, Filming police, freedom, front stoop, funny or die, Greensboro, Greensboro Police Department, Harassment, Ice Cream, innocent non-threatening man, innocently eating ice cream, kelly patterson, Key And Peele, Lesser of Two Evils, Missouri, MO, NC, no victim no crime, North Carolina, not the onion, Officer Jackson, Officer Travis Cole, outrageously ridiculous scenario, Phil Augusta Jackson, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, policing disparities in black neighborhoods, rights, Satire, sitting on his own porch, stormtroopers, Surveillance, swat, tackled punched handcuffed and kidnapped, the onion, video

It’s been a while since it was easy to tell the difference between actual politics and an Onion article, but

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St. Louis Police Sergeant Embezzled Over $80,000 From The “Ethical Society of Police”

September 15, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 784 Views Accountability, Bad apples, clowns, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Darren Wilson, Dishonesty, Ethical Society of Police, evils perpetrated by clowns, ferguson, good cops, Great Clown Invasion of 2016, Justice System, Kansas, kelly patterson, KS, Missouri, MO, police, police accountability, Police Union, Post-Dispatch, Sgt Heather Taylor, south carolina, st louis, St. Louis Police Department

A sergeant with the St. Louis Police Department, who was the head of a group that represents black police officers

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Feds to Finally Start Tracking Killings by Police in Nationwide Database

August 9, 2016November 30, 2016 Alia Atreides 915 Views accountability is futile, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Department of Justice, FBI, ferguson, Joshua H, killed by police, Michale Brown, Missouri, nationwide database, police killings

Late Monday it was announced that the Department of Justice would be instituting a system of collecting the names of

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Obama Pushes For Greater Federal Control Of Police Following Shootings

July 10, 2016 Asa J 1435 Views 10th amendment, 21st Century Policing, Alton Sterling, Barack Obama, copblock, copblock.org, Dallas police shooting, Dept. of Justice, discrimination, Diversity Initiative, federal funding, federal lawsuits, federal police force, federalized police, ferguson, grants, justice department, Law Enforcement Diversity Initiative, local police, Michael Brown, Missouri, nationalized police, Philando Castile, poland, Police State, Political Correctness, President Obama, President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, racial bias, Racism, systemic racism, Task Force on 21st Century Policing, warsaw

Following the Dallas police shooting that left five officers dead and the cop killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile,

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How Teenagers Got Police to Back Down and Remove Military-Grade Weaponry From Their High Schools

June 8, 2016June 8, 2016 Brian Sumner 1267 Views Alternet.org, assault, Augustus F Hawkins High School, Brian David Sumner, Brutality, Bryan Cantero, CA, California, Chief Steven Zipperman, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, demilitarization, Double Standard, double-standards, excessive force, ferguson, Fight for the Soul of the Cities, film the police, freedom, grenade launchers, Labor Community Strategy Center, LASPD, LAUSD, Los Angeles, Los Angeles School Police Department, Los Angeles Unified School Board, M-16, militarized police, militarized police force, mine-resistant ambush protected, Monique Jones, mrap, police, police abuse, Police brutality, Police State, public schools, repost, Sarah Lazare, So Cal, video, weapons of war

Last month students in the Los Angeles School District won a two year battle to have military grade police equipment

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A Brief History of the Phrase, “Fuck the Police” Using Real World Examples

May 17, 2016March 14, 2017 Brian Sumner 3349 Views art acevedo, Brian David Sumner, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, excessive force, ferguson, film the police, Filming police, Freddy Centeno, Fresno CA, FTP. Daily Beast, fuck the police, Gardena Police. Gardena CA, Ice Cube, john pike, no victim no crime, police, police abuse, Police brutality, Police State, repost

Using some fictitious examples the Daily Beast comprised some basic law enforcement interactions that would lead people to say “fuck

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Judge Rules Against City of Ferguson in Three Protester Arrest Cases

May 13, 2016May 13, 2016 Brian Sumner 944 Views Brutality, charges dropped, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, court, Court Case, Darren Wilson, Dishonesty, Double Standard, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, ferguson, film the police, Filming police, innocent, Justice System, lawsuit, legal system, mike brown, not guilty, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, Transparency

A judge has ruled against the City of Ferguson in three cases where protesters were arrested after a prayer vigil

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Federal “Investigations” Only Enable Local Police Departments’ Abuses

April 15, 2016April 15, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1320 Views Accountability, assault, Baltimore, baltimore police department, broken police department, Brutality, chicago, Civil rights, Cleveland, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, counterproductive, Department of Justice, detroit, Dishonesty, DoJ, Double Standard, enabling abuse, excessive force, FBI, federal bureau of investigation, federal civil rights probe, Federal Monitor, ferguson, Freddie Gray, freedom, Harassment, Homicide, indifferent to injustice, Justice System, kelly patterson, Laquan McDonald, Los Angeles, National Guard, new orleans, newark, pittsburgh, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, Police Unions, political calculation, reforms, rights, strike the root

The following post was originally posted at NationalInterest.org by Timothy Lynch under the title “Washington Can’t Fix Broken Policing.” It addresses

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Amidst A Deadlock: Supreme Court Ruling Could Weaken Fourth Amendment Protections Against Illegal Searches

February 28, 2016February 28, 2016 Isiah Holmes 3394 Views 4th amendment, Accountability, arrestees, ARTICLE, blog, Chief Justice John Roberts, Civil rights, clerical errors, compromisingly deadlocked, constitution, constitutional protections, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, court, Detective Douglas Fackrell, Dishonesty, double-standards, Drug war, Edward Strieff, excessive force, factual realities, feared for my safety, ferguson, fourth amendment, freedom, good faith, Harassment, illegal search, Illegal search/entry, in the line of duty, journalism, judge, justice, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Scalia’s death, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Law, lawsuit, lawyers, live to fight another day, loopholes and bypasses, low income, minority communities, Missouri, MO, New York Times, news, police, police abuse, police abuses, police reform, police search, Police State, predatory exploitation of residents, public frustrations, ramifications, rights, ruling, scalia, share, strike the root, suppress evidence, Supreme Court, tie breaker, traffic warrant, Transparency, uncertain doors of possibility, Update, Utah vs Strieff, valid exemptions, VOA News, Warrior Cop, writing

Amidst grounding itself, a post-Scalia supreme court stands compromisingly deadlocked. Before its remaining justices sits a case which, if lost,

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Justice Department Files Civil Rights Lawsuit Against the City of Ferguson

February 12, 2016February 12, 2016 Brian Sumner 2319 Views Accountability, ArchCity Defenders, assault, Brian David Sumner, Brutality, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Darren Wilson, Department of Justice, Dishonesty, DoJ, Double Standard, double-standards, excessive force, Executive Director Thomas Harvey, Featured, ferguson, film the police, Filming police, freedom, Harassment, Homicide, Justice System, lawsuit, mike brown, Missouri, MO, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, rights, thinkprogress.org, Update

(ANTIMEDIA) — In response to Ferguson City Council requesting amendments to a consent decree, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that it will “aggressively”

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