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Man Killed By Wauwatosa Officer Was “Shot In The Head Four Times” With Hands Up, Says Parents

August 24, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1754 Views Accountability, assault, Barry Weber, Body-cam, Brutality, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, cover up, DA office, dash cam, Dishonesty, documentary, double-standards, Drug war, Ed Flynn, excessive force, Filming police, foia, free information, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, Jay Anderson, jay anderson killing, journalism, Justice System, madison park shooting, militarization, milwaukee, milwaukee police, Milwaukee riots, news, no victim no crime, police abuse, police accountability, politics, Stingray, strike the root, Surveillance, Transparency, Update, video, Wauwatosa, Wauwatosa police, wauwatosa police killing, Wisconsin, writing

Two months. It’s nearly been two months since an unidentified Wauwatosa officer shot 25 year old Jay Anderson in his

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After Recent Shootings of Police, Cops Prepare to Double Down on the Police State

July 29, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1626 Views Accountability, AR-15 assault rifle, assault, Barack Obama, Baton Rouge, Brutality, CA, California, Civil rights, conversations about police brutality, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, crosspost, dallas, Darius Shahtahmasebi, deadly attacks, deliberately deliver lethal force, demagoguery, Denver, denver airport, Denver police union, Dishonesty, Donald Trump, double-standards, doubling down, empowering, excessive force, freedom, Harassment, helicopter patrols, Here Are the New Tactics Police Are Preparing to Roll out in Your Community, Homicide, hope and change, in, Indiana, Indianapolis, Justice System, Kansas, Kansas City, kelly patterson, KS, la, Louisiana, militarization, minority groups, ongoing issue, onion, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, police tactics, politically acceptable, politicians, protect and serve, protests, racist tirades, Reuters, rights, riot gear, robots, san diego, Satire, Shootings, shootings of unarmed citizens, solo patrols, strategies and tactics, strike the root, summary execution, Surveillance, Texas, theantimedia.org, TX, underlying issues, United States, uniting, uprising, we have your back

The following post was originally published at TheAntiMedia.org under the original title “Here Are the New Tactics Police Are Preparing

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Feds Transferred $2.2B Worth Of Military Equipment To Police Since 2006

May 12, 2016May 12, 2016 Asa J 1394 Views 1033 Program, Adam Andrzejewski, airplanes, Arizona, armored vehicles, bayonets, California, copblock, copblock.org, Dept. of Defense, executive order, foia request, freedom of information act request, helicopters, Law Enforcement Equipment Working Group, M14 rifles, M16 rifles, militarization, militarization of police, military gear, military surplus equipment, mine detectors, mrap, open the books, pentagon, Police State, police state daily, President Obama, Tennessee, Texas, The Militarization of Local Police Departments, Virginia, Working Group

The federal government has transferred around $2.2 billion worth of military gear to local police departments around the country since

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Lost In The Rhetoric, What Cops Think Is Appropriate Lacks Common Sense

September 26, 2015September 26, 2015 Kelly W. Patterson 1198 Views Accountability, Allen Hall, assault, bad apple, Bowling Green State University, Brutality, CA, California, Civil rights, copblock, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, double-standards, excessive force, Featured, freedom, Harassment, JD, Justice System, kelly patterson, militarization, PhD, Philip M Stinson, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, rights, Stockton, Update, video

This post was submitted by Allen Hall, via the CopBlock.org submissions page. He states: My general thoughts after doing a

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Inside the Mind of Police: Poll Hints At Cop Mentality/Culture

August 18, 2015August 18, 2015 Alia Atreides 4630 Views Activism, anti-cop fervor, anti-cop protests, armored vehicles, Filming cops, filming the police, Internet, job satisfaction, Joshua H, K9, law enforcment as a career, militarization, narcotics, original content, policeone, policeone.com, polls, replica firearms, special assignment, swat team, toy guns, vice, war on drugs, welcome leos

I was recently shown a poll from PoliceOne.com that made me pretty delighted. When (so far) almost 1,900 officers were

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DO NOT ALTER!

Meddling Kids: And They Would Have Gotten Away With It … 8/3/15

August 5, 2015August 4, 2015 Alia Atreides 2053 Views 911, a sick joke, abuse of force, activists, Alabama, Alan Buford, albuquerque, alex horton, Arkansas, assaulted, asset forfeiture, Berkeley, Black Liberation Project, Brandon Jones, Brian Fanelli, California, Cato Institute, cecil the lion, Charles Dewey, Charlie Alvarez, child pornography, Cleveland, cleveland police patrolmen's association, Colby, conflicting accounts, crash, cremated, David Downey, deal with it yourself, death in custody, Decatur, dispatcher, district attorneys, Doug Dewey, dwi, ethics audits, excessive force, Fairfax County, feature, filing the police, fired, Flint, Florida, Frank Linham, grumpy dog, Harold 'Alex' Dominguez, illegal spending, Jade Helm, Jason Sigman, Joshua H, Kansas, killed by police, LA Times, lapd, laundromat, Los Angeles, Lowell, manhunt, Matthew Sanchez, Mauray Deshaun Randolph, meddling kids, medical treatment, Michigan, militarization, Minneapolis, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, no final visit, no restitution, Ohio, Oklahoma, Osceola, pepper-sprayed, Police brutality, police chase, Police Officers Bill of Rights, police shooting, prescription drugs, Radley Balko, ray tensing, rent-free, robbery, Sam Dubose, Springdale, student loans, Ted Rall, thrown to ground, Tremaine Brown, unarmed man, Virginia, Walter Olson, weapon fired, Weatherford, westchester county police

Every week at CopBlock.org we bookmark many stories of police abuse, corruption and brutality; as well as other stories of

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National Blue Alert Act of 2015- What Does It Mean?

May 20, 2015May 20, 2015 Alia Atreides 1717 Views centralization, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, first amendment, free speech, Joshua H, Law, legislation, militarization, National Blue Alert Act, National Blue Alert Act of 2015, police hero, Police State, potential for abuse, Rafael Ramos, Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu National Blue Alert Act of 2015, tactics, unforeseen circumstances, Wenjian Liu

Named after the two New York cops who were murdered days before Christmas in 2014, the Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu

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NYPD Requests 450 More Cops For Counterterrorism

May 18, 2015May 18, 2015 Alia Atreides 1419 Views america, Commissioner William Bratton, counterterrorism, expansion, fearmongering, isis, Islamic State, israel, Joshua H, militarization, militarization of law enforcement, militarization of police, nypd, police militarization, Police State, war on terror

As if the War on Terror wasn’t terrifying enough, thrusting our military into an unjustifiable war that cannot be won,

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Book Review: Radley Balko’s Rise of the Warrior Cop

June 23, 2013June 21, 2013 CopBlock 882 Views Accountability, Civil rights, libertarian, militarization, militarization of police, military police, police abuse, Radley Balko, Rise of the Warrior Cop

Radley Balko, civil liberties crusader and blogger published a book called “Rise of the Warrior Cop.” Scott H. Greenfield shares

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Pentagon Updates Regulations For Open Military Dictatorship

May 20, 2013May 17, 2013 CopBlock 722 Views 911, Accountability, Armor, body armor, boston, Brutality, Civil rights, Civil War, constitutional law, constitutional rights, Corruption, double-standards, Featured, freedom, Kevlar, martial law, militarization, militarization of police, military, Muslims, Nationalism, Paranoia, Propaganda, Racism, Revisionist History, terrorist, Terrorist cop, US Constitution, war on terror, Weaponry, weapons, who are the real terrorists

Submitted by November Yankee The manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects offered the nation a window into the stunning

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Boots on Campus

February 28, 2013January 1, 2014 Pete Eyre 1033 Views american enterprise institute, antiwar.com, big brother, boots on campus, center of excellence for operational neuroscience, coinitelpro, college, Connecticut, cop block, copblock.org, department of defense, dick cheney, henry giroux, heritage foundation, john gaddis, john stillman, joseph lieberman, kelley b. vlahos, lynn cheney, manhattan institute, militarization, military intelligence, nathalie batraville, new haven, Police State, reserve officers training court, rotc, stanley mcchrystal, surveillance state, the grand strategy program, the huffington post, the yale herald, washington institute for near east policy, yale daily news, yale medical school

Boots on Campus: Yale Flap Highlights Militarization of Academia was originally posted to antiwar.com by Kelley B. Vlahos on February

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Today is International Day Against Police Brutality

March 15, 2012March 8, 2012 Georgia Sand 630 Views Accountability, Double Standard, Drug war, Featured, Grenade, International Day Against Police Brutality, militarization, murder, police accountability, police murder, Police State, Qualified Immunity, resisting arrest, Tank, Tasers

March 15 is International Day Against Police Brutality. Cop Block is growing in size, and our support is ever increasing.

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