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The High Cost of Vengeance Culture & Its Alternatives

November 17, 2016February 17, 2017 Alia Atreides 419 Views abolish the police, abolish the state, accountability is futile, Adaptive Anarchism, alternatives, copblock, jail, Joshua H, justice, policing alternatives, post-scarcity, Prison, restoration, restorative justice, Technology

Authoritarians and activists both operate on a fatal premise, which is that vengeance is justice. Vengeance culture permeates every aspect

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Articles Original Content 

The Police Are Just Regular People Who Make Mistakes

September 27, 2016September 27, 2016 Carrollton Speed Tax 525 Views Accountability, Carrollton, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, Double Standard, double-standards, film the police, freedom, justice, Justice System, police accountability, Police State, Transparency

We always seem to hear how “the police are just regular people who make mistakes”. We hear this because it’s an

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CopBlock Video Videos 

“F*ck Your Badge” Sign Destroyed by CopSuckers at Republican National Convention (VIDEO)

July 26, 2016July 26, 2016 Ademo Freeman 318 Views #fuckyourbadge, Cleveland, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, disputes, excessive force, Filming police, freedom, Freedom of speech, Harassment, justice, Justice System, no police, no victim no crime, Ohio, options, police, police abuse, Police State, Republican National Convention, rnc, rnc2016

On July 4th of this year I burned a “Thin Blue Line” flag (see video at end of post) as a

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Articles 

A Manifesto: The True Menace To American Security (It’s Not Cops)

June 17, 2016June 17, 2016 Georgia Sand 320 Views america, Bigots, biology, Birkenstocks, Boxers, briefs, brother, Bulletproof, Civil rights, Collective, collectivism, culture, danger, dangerous, dirty hippies, Donald Trump, Drinking, drunks, Due Process, enslavement, father, fear-mongering, freedom, Fuhrer, Gays, Genes, genocide, Hillary Clinton, hippies, Homicide, Husband, Islam, justice, men, monitoring, murder, Muslims, Nag Champa, National Safety, obama, Penis, Peril, police, Police State, prejudice, Prison, Promiscuity, Racism, Radical, rape, Safety, Sandalwood, science, security, Sluts, Surveillance, terrorists, threat, Trump, unbearable nuisance, United States, values, Video Games, violence

I have been writing for Cop Block since 2010, and as such, have been keenly aware of police abuse issues

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Articles 

Asian-Americans Protesting Liang Conviction Are Misguided And Racist

March 4, 2016March 5, 2016 Georgia Sand 335 Views #blacklivesmatter, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Akai Gurley, Asian-American, badge, black lives matter, brooklyn, Bystander, Chinese, Compunction, Conviction, crime scene, Crying, Guilty, Gun, hero, Ian Birk, injustice, innocent, jay cicinelli, John Williams, jury, justice, Justice System, Kelly Thomas, macho, Manny Ramos, manslaughter, Michelle Butler, Minorities, New York, nypd, Opression, Penal Code, Peter Liang, Race, Racism, Reckless, Selective Justice, Shaun Landau, Testify, trial

Rookie NYPD police officer Peter Liang was recently found guilty of  second-degree manslaughter in the shooting of Akai Gurley in

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My Letter to Deo Odolecki, Who’s Now Caged for Filming The Police

March 1, 2016 Pete Eyre 1230 Views Accountability, Ademo Freeman, arrested, caged, Censorship, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, deo odolecki, Douglas Odolecki, film the police, francis marion, frederick douglass, greater cleveland cop block, justice, legaland, letter, mail to jail, natural rights, no victim no crime, Ohio, parma, parma detention center, Parma Police Department, Pete Eyre, ralph waldo emerson, Tyranny

Douglas “Deo” Odolecki is now caged in Parma, Ohio. Though he’s surrounded by people who deem themselves “upholders of justice”

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Articles 

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

February 28, 2016February 28, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1240 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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Articles 

Spotlighting A Black Site: Chicago-Local Officials Pass Resolution Calling For DOJ Probe Of Homan Square

February 24, 2016 Isiah Holmes 381 Views 2016, Accountability, america, assault, black site, blog, Brutality, chicago, chicago police, Civil rights, Cook County, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, crimes, Dishonesty, DoJ, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, federal probe, Filming police, freedom, Harassment, homan square, illegal, Illegal search/entry, interrogation, Investigation, journalism, justice, Laquan McDonald, military cops, news, police, police abuse, police accountability, police killing, Police State, politics, prison industrial complex, rights, share, strike the root, Surveillance, surveillance state, tourture, Transparency, undercover officers, Update, warrior cops, Washington, writing

County officials near Chicago recently upped the ante amidst a federal probe of the cities police. Their grievances, however, don’t revolve

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Articles 

Prison Industrial Cancer: Former NYPD Crime Lab Researchers Sue State Police, Claim Intimidation And Supression

February 22, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1354 Views Accountability, blog, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, court, crim, crime lab, Dishonesty, DNA, double-standards, Drug war, falsifying data, freedom, Harassment, information, Intimidation, journalism, justice, Justice System, lab, lawsuit, New York, no victim no crime, police, police abuse, Police brutality, Police State, prison industrial complex, punishment, research, researcher, rights, science, scientist, share, strike the root, sue, Surveillance, Transparency, TrueAllele, writing

“It’s a sad day” doesn’t adequately describe when scientific fact is devoured and vomited back up by the prison industrial

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Videos 

You Don’t Have to be American to Understand Police Brutality

February 2, 2016 CopBlock 442 Views Accountability, Brutality, freedom, justice, peace, Transparency

While protesters took to Mall of America effectively “ruining” the day for people who buy things they don’t need and creating

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Articles CopBlock Submission 

How the System Made Me Plead Guilty

January 22, 2016 Ademo Freeman 1166 Views Accountability, baton, blake lefler, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, court, Courthouse, Dishonesty, district attorneys, freedom, Guilty, Harassment, josh bethune, justice, Justice System, lawyers, no victim no crime, not guilty, PLEA, plea deals, police, rights, strike the root, weapon

The post below was sent to CopBlock.org via the submission tab and written by Josh Bethune. While recognizing that “Badges Don’t

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Articles 

Book Review: Urban Yogini, A Superhero Who Can’t Use Violence

January 20, 2016February 2, 2016 Georgia Sand 367 Views Activism, assault, Authoritarianism, Banking System, Bretigne Schaffer, Children's Books, Civil rights, Comic Book, cop block, Corruption, Crackhead, democracy, Democratic Values, Elijah Espada, Filming police, Graphic Novel, Illustration, injustice, justice, Kelly Thomas, Metaphors, obstruction of justice, occupy, peaceful protest, Police brutality, police tactics, police violence, politics, Purple octopus, Raw milk, Santi Biondolillo, Sheeple, Social Ills, superhero, swat, swat raids, Talking Cat, Urban Yogini, Villain, Yoga

Urban Yogini, a comic series written by Bretigne Schaffer, chronicles a young lady’s adventures, and ultimately activism, in a growing

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