This article was originally published on the Pontiac Tribune under the title “Militarized Authorities Raid DAPL Camp, Start Fires, Sport Trump Stickers” by the same author. With a government under Trump approving continued construction at Standing Rock, protesters are holding firm. For that, police have let loose a new wave of violence, and militarized tactics. […]
Video Shows Man Being “Mauled” During Arrest for Smoking on Campus at Fullerton (CA) College
A video posted to Twitter and since shared widely on Facebook and other social media as well shows a young man identified on the video as a student at Fullerton Community College, in California, being violently arrested by “Safety Officers” working for the school. (In a statement, quoted below, Fullerton Community College Interim President Dr. […]
The Department of Justice has (Finally) Decided to Start Keeping Track of How Many People the Police Kill
As everyone knows, the FBI and Department of Justice keep track of everything from how many people die sticking a fork in the toaster to how many times I stubbed my toe last year. So, of course, their is data and statistics on every crime committed in every city and state, no matter how minor […]
Viral Facebook Post Details Terrifying Encounter with Arizona Police
In a post going viral on Facebook, Ken Walton describes being arrested at gunpoint by an Arizona Highway Patrol officer who threatened to shoot him in the back in front of his 7-year-old daughter. Here’s what Ken says happened: My daughter and I are from San Francisco, on vacation, traveling through the Southwest. Today we […]
Must We Choose Between Mob Justice And The Police State?
By Bretigne Shaffer On May 25, 1911, Laura Nelson, her baby daughter and her teenaged son were kidnapped from a jail in Oklahoma by an angry mob. The two had been jailed for what, by all accounts, seemed to be the accidental death of a deputy sheriff during a scuffle at the Nelsons’ home where police […]
Building More Prisons is Not the Solution to Prison Riots
This post was written by Nick Ford and originally published at the Center For a Stateless Society (C4SS) under the title “More Prisons is Not Reform.” Posts and other content can be submitted to the CopBlock Network via the CopBlock.org Submission Page. (Note: This has been posted in its original form and no edits to […]
Peter Liang, Like So Many White Cops Before Him, Receives No Prison Time For Killing Innocent Man
When police officer Peter Liang was recently found guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting of Akai Gurley, some Asian-Americans went apoplectic and called racism, presumably because everyone knows police officers should and regularly do get away with murder, so the only reasonable explanation for Officer Liang’s unusual conviction must have been racial bias by […]
New Analytics Tool Can Predict Police Misconduct
City Council in Charlotte Vote to Pioneer New Predictive Analytics Misconduct Tool For Police American Intelligence Report A new predictive analytics tool may be able to prevent police misconduct by using meta data and historical records, FiveThirtyEight reports. The city council in Charlotte, North Carolina, voted to move forward and pioneer a new forecasting software, known as Early […]
Shifting Prisoners to New “State of the Art Facilities” Won’t Eliminate Prison Abuse
This post was written by Nick Ford and originally published at the Center For a Stateless Society (C4SS) under the title “Tutwiler Prison Will Live On.” Posts and other content can be submitted to the CopBlock Network via the CopBlock.org Submission Page. (Note: This has been posted in its original form and no edits to […]
If You Want True Reform, Abolish The Police!
This post was written by Nick Ford and originally published at the Center For a Stateless Society (C4SS) under the title “Ferguson, Accept No Substitutes: Abolish the Police!” Posts and other content can be submitted to the CopBlock Network via the CopBlock.org Submission Page. (Note: some links have been inserted, although no edits to the […]
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