The passing of 2016’s unofficial cannabis holiday, 4/20, brought with it encouraging news from the DEA. America’s prohibition dragon head approved the study of medical benefits from smoking gunja. These developments suggest a shift in some extremely outdated perceptions to which many in government continue to cling. It wasn’t long ago that the Drug Enforcement […]
What the Fairfax County Police Department has Learned Since Killing John Geer – UPDATED
An Object Lesson in How Fairfax County Treats Its Veterans This article has been updated several times since its original publication to include subsequent statements from the Fairfax County Police Department, a police union, and Alex Horton: 8/13/15 update with video of Major Mike Klein of the FCPD Internal Affairs Bureau trying to discredit 9/13/15 […]
Garbage Collector Lives Matter
This Memorial day weekend, Americans are shifting their hero worship from police to veterans and soldiers fallen in war, but the U.S. military isn’t the only industry that often demands the lives of it “employees.” According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4,585 American civilians died while doing their jobs in 2013, and being a police […]
Buffalo, NY Police Execute Iraq War Veteran’s Best Friend, After Raiding Wrong Apartment
By Davy V. As an Iraq war veteran, Adam Arroyo saw more than his share of bullets flying. However, Arroyo would have never imagined that he would one day come home, to find his own apartment riddled with bullet holes, and his pet dog Cindy executed, by Buffalo, NY Police officers, after they executed a […]
