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Republic, MO Officer John Tinsley’s Questionable Account of Destry Meikle Shooting

September 18, 2016September 18, 2016 Danny 1686 Views Accountability, authoritarian attitude, Blake, Brutality, Captain Klineline, carelessness, chris, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, Destry Meikle, Dishonesty, Double Standard, EMS, emt, excessive force, facebook, Fire Captain, Firefighter, Google Plus, Greene County Prosecutors Office, Homicide, John Tinsley, Justice 4 Destry Meikle, known noise, lack of training, Missouri Police Department, officer, officer hughes, police, police accountability, Police brutality, protect and serve, questionable account, Republic, Republic Police Department, role of police officers, RPD firefighter, seizure disorder, seizures, southwest missouri copwatchers, video, Witnesses, YeOldeJournalist

Original article posted @ SouthWest Missouri CopWatchers & YeOldeJournalist Was He In Reverse? Ems & Firefighter Accounts Differ From Officer’s. Destry

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Roseland (IN) Police Chief Uses Position to Influence Child Custody; Drives Unsafely with Child in Police Vehicle

June 23, 2016June 24, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1634 Views Aaron Cantanzarite, Accountability, all the time in the world, assault, Brown Mackie College, Brutality, car accident, child car seat, Civil rights, cop block, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, custody trial, custody/stipulation agreement order, Disability, Dishonesty, Double Standard, ex-wife, extracurricular, Harassment, in, Indiana, Jennifer Szymarek, joint legal custody, Justice System, Keira, Kelly Catanzarite, kelly patterson, massive head injury, muscle weakness, myasthenia gravis, no good real reason, perfectly good and decent mother, perjury, personal vehicle, physical custody, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police Chief, probate court, probate judge, rights, Roseland, Roseland Police Department, share custody with an ex-wide, short summer vacation, South Bend, Sports, stipulation order agreement, summer parenting time, town marshall, unable to afford auto insurance, unsafe driving, video, Vincent Campitti, Witnesses

The following post was shared with the Cop Block Network by Jennifer Szymarek, via the CopBlock.org Submissions Page. In this

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Prisons Can’t be Exonerated of Their Role in The Police State

February 5, 2016February 4, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1522 Views a prisoners’ character, Accountability, african-american, anarchism, assault, assigned social role, barbaric, broken system, Brutality, C4SS, CA, California, center for a stateless society, Children, CIU, Civil rights, confinement, Conviction, Conviction Integrity Units, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, criminal justice system, Dishonesty, disposable, exonerated, false confession, federal convictions, fit of rage, force, freedom, future criminal activities, guilty plea, Harassment, institutions, involved with the wrong people, Justice System, kelly patterson, liberty, medecine, mentally handicapped, Minorities, modus operandi, myriad of reasons, National Registry of Exonerations, NBC, New York, Nick Ford, no crime, ny, one or a handful of incidents, Plea Bargain, police, police abuse, police accountability, police misconduct, Police State, poor exercise in judgement, Prison, prisoners, prisons are not innocent, Professor Samuel Gross, public spectacle, punishment, Race, racial element, Racism, recidivism, reform, restitution, restraint of individual's liberty, rights, state convictions, strike the root, System, Texas, the state, Torture, TX, U.S. District Judge John L. Kane, university of michigan, Witness intimidation, Witnesses, wrongful conviction, You Cannot Exonerate Prisons

This post was written by Nick Ford and originally published at the Center For a Stateless Society (C4SS) under the

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Book Review: “Crooked Brooklyn” Tells Tales Of Criminal Cops

December 17, 2015 Georgia Sand 2507 Views attorneys, bias, bribes, brooklyn, Corruption, Credit Union, crime, Crooked Brookly, DA, Details, Detectives, District Attorney, gang, Hit men, Homicide, Hostile, Jerome D. Cohen, judges, jury, Jury Polling, Liquor Store, Litigation, Michael Vecchione, mob, murder, nypd, Organized crime, pension, police, Political Corruption, Political Leader, politics, Prison, prison sentence, Prosecution, prosecutor, robbery, sentencing, trial, Trial Testimony, trials, Undertaker, Vecchione, voir dire, Witnesses

Crooked Brooklyn is a sort of memoir by former District Attorney Michael Vecchione, and is replete with behind-the-scenes stories from the

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Fed Up Citizens Taunt and Take Pictures of Injured Officer

August 11, 2015August 11, 2015 CopBlock 1863 Views abuse, authority, birmingham, bystanders take pictures, cop beaten, Disrespect, fear, fed up citizens, FOP, FOP President Heath Boackle, hospital, Janard Shamar Cunningham, Larry Freeman, life or death, pictures, police abuse, robbery, social media, suspect, Traffic stop, unconscious, video, Witnesses

In a traffic stop that turned violent on Friday, August 7, 2015, a 6 year veteran of the Birmingham Police

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When There Are No Cameras: The Case Of Aaron Parrish

June 12, 2015June 12, 2015 Georgia Sand 1489 Views Aaron Parrish, assault, Bainbridge, BikeFest, Christopher Kines, Civil rights, Consequences, Corruption, courts, Dishonesty, Double Standard, Elizabeth Croley, false report, FBI, Federal Rights, felony, film the police, GA, Georgia, Harassment, lawsuit, lawyer, Litigation, physical abuse, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police Lies, police reports, Police State, probation, rights, Robert Umbach, Sheriff, Sheriff's Son, thin blue line, victims, video, Witnesses

Proponents of filming police understand the vital importance of recording police interactions. Not all members of the public have the

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