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« Previous EntriesThe threat of a police state looms over us
Sunday, February 10th, 2008By Dave Snyder The FBI is planning to announce the awarding of a $1 billion, 10-year contract in an increased effort to "protect the borders to keep the terrorists out, protect our citizens, our neighbors, our children so they can have good jobs, and have a safe country to live in," in the words of FBI Biometric Services Section Chief Kimberly Del Greco. This seems to be a ...
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US woman abused by police
Saturday, February 9th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq3jV1_GOTs[/youtube] This is common treatment for women in US jails The is absolutely nothing unusual about women being stripped naked and left without covering of any kind in cold jail cells for hours at a time. It's a popular humiliation technique used in corrupt police departments throughout the country. If it weren't for this video, a TV local station's news report, and the Internet, no one would know that ...
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Britain is becoming a police state
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008The pretence of oversight has been ripped aside by the Khan bugging affair: the security apparat has become a law unto itself Simon Jenkins Wednesday February 6, 2008 The Guardian The machine is out of control. Personal surveillance in Britain is so extensive that no democratic oversight is remotely plausible. Some 800 organisations, including the police, the revenue, local and central government, demanded (and almost always got) 253,000 intrusions ...
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Man dies after being shot with Taser gun
Monday, January 21st, 2008Katie Dawson A man who died after being shot by police with a stun gun had fatally injured himself, detectives said last night. Armed officers were called to an incident in the Goldington area of Bedford at 7pm on Saturday after reports of a dispute between a mother and a son, Bedfordshire Police said. Officers used the Taser gun after the knife-wielding man, who was in his thirties, threatened ...
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VIDEO: Police Arrest Brian Haw and Protesters
Sunday, January 13th, 2008If The Video Does Not Load Click Here To View ...
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Taser Torture Cop Suspended
Friday, January 4th, 2008Charges were dismissed today against a northeast Ohio woman who was handcuffed and tasered by a patrolman whose actions were recorded by police dashboard video. The Warren officer who arrested 38-year-old Heidi Gill outside a bar has been fired for lying to investigators in an unrelated traffic stop. Richard Kovach had refused to testify against the tasered woman on the advice of his attorney. The FBI is currently investigating the matter, and ...
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VIDEO: Police Taser Man Who Was On His Knees
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008The King County Sheriff's Office is investigating a scuffle that erupted when Seattle police tried to make an arrest on New Year's Eve. Police officers ended up using a Taser on the man who, at that time, was on his hands and knees. Nearly a dozen police officers and at least one firefighter chased and tackled the man Police say Richardson, 23, had a simple ...
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IPCC Menezes decision a ’scandal’
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007No-one is to be punished for police failings that led to an innocent man being shot dead on a Tube train. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said four senior officers, including Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick, should not face disciplinary action over the shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes. But the 27-year-old electrician's family branded the decision - which brings a series of police watchdog reviews into the tragedy to ...
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Police officers cleared in De Menezes case
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007Fred Attewill and agencies The family of Jean Charles de Menezes have bitterly criticised the decision of the police watchdog that no disciplinary action will be taken against four Metropolitan police officers for their roles in events leading to his fatal shooting. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) decision closes the last of the watchdog's reviews into the shooting of the innocent Brazilian electrician in July 2005 at Stockwell underground station in ...
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VIDEO: Police use of ‘Stun Gun’ for non compliance
Friday, December 21st, 2007Police use 'Stun Gun' on suspect while booking in at police station CCTV footage with clear audio.... of a man going through booking procedure in a police station on a felony four charge but he gets stunned, not tasered, for what essentially boils down to non compliance of emptying his pockets.
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VIDEO: New Orleans Police Attack Protesters
Friday, December 21st, 2007Protesters are pepper sprayed by police as they protest the demolition of several public housing developments in New Orleans
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Police brutality cases on rise since 9/11
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007By Kevin Johnson WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are targeting a rising number of law enforcement officers for alleged brutality, Justice Department statistics show. The heightened prosecutions come as the nation's largest police union fears that agencies are dropping standards to fill thousands of vacancies and "scrimping" on training. Cases in which police, prison guards and other law enforcement authorities have used excessive force or other tactics ...
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Tasers don’t reduce shootings
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Tasers don't reduce shootings, despite police and politicians' claims Despite claims by politicians and some police officers that Tasers would save lives by preventing shootings, the devices that are being used by a growing number of police forces were never meant as an alternative to guns, experts say. Statistics obtained by the Canadian Press bear out that idea, showing that in some of the cities that have recently adopted Tasers, the number ...
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‘Innocent man Tasered eight times’
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007Police are investigating a complaint that a man who later proved to be unarmed and innocent was repeatedly shocked with a Taser gun. Daniel Sylvester, the 45-year-old owner of an east London security firm, was driving home on October 20 when he was stopped by armed police. Mr Sylvester told The Guardian he got out of his car and was surrounded by officers, at least two of whom carried automatic ...
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VIDEO: The brutal reality of Americas police
Monday, December 17th, 2007A shocking look at american justice . in 3 years there were 2002 people killed in police custudy.
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