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Cops Charged With Burglary, Murder After Breaking Into Man’s Home, Shooting Him 76 Times

by Matt Agorist | Nov 2, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

The family of a 26-year-old Atlanta man who was killed after police shot him 76 times, thought for years that their only course of action was a civil rights lawsuit against the officers involved. However, this month, five years after Jamarion Robinson was gunned down in his own home, the officers who killed him are being held to account. Eric Heinze, an assistant chief inspector with the US Marshal’s Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, and Kristopher Hutchens, a Clayton County police officer working with the task force, have now been charged with felony murder. In addition to the two...

Cops Fire 25 Rounds Into Crowd at High School Football Game, Kill 8 Year Old Girl

by Matt Agorist | Oct 29, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

When 8-year-old Fanta Bility and her family attended a high school football game back in August, they never imagined that their worst nightmare would come true that night. Sadly, however, according to a lawsuit filed this week, thanks to a group of trigger happy police officers using excessive force, that is exactly what happened. As Fanta and her family walked out of the game that night, police opened fire into their group, killing Fanta and wounding several others, including her older sister. It has been two months since little Fanta took her last breath and no one has been charged. Now,...

Video: Cops Run Teen Off Road, Paralyzing Him, and Flee the Scene

by Matt Agorist | Oct 27, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

An attorney for several crash victims has released surveillance footage from the night of a major accident in which six people were seriously injured. In the video it appears that three Honolulu cops chase down a Honda Accord before it was run off the road in a horrific crash. Police then flee the scene immediately after—leaving the occupants to suffer and possibly even die. The footage of the video was released by attorney Michael Stern who is representing the driver of the vehicle that night on Sept. 12. Jonaven Perkins-Sinapati had just left a party and had five other people inside his...

Report: Nashville’s ‘Kids for Cash’ Sentencing Scheme

by Matt Agorist | Oct 19, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

In 2008, a case of two judges from Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania—Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella—shocked the country when these insidious human beings were convicted of accepting money in return for imposing harsh adjudications on juveniles to increase occupancy at for-profit detention centers. The scam was known as “kids for cash” and it exposed the harsh reality of the school to prison pipeline. This egregious practice led to reforms which many thought would prevent such atrocities in the future but as a new report out of Nashville, Tennessee proves, that was not the case. According to a...

Cop Admits To Raping Children, Sentenced to 20 Years

by Matt Agorist | Oct 13, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

It was a dramatic day in a Jacksonville courtroom this week as multiple child victims spoke out at disgraced officer, Matthew Butler’s sentencing hearing. After facing a slew of charges related to the sexual assault of multiple children under the age of 10, Butler pleaded guilty to just three charges. However, they were so horrific, that he received two decades in a cage. According to the State Attorney’s Office, the child-raping cop pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted capital sexual battery involving two separate survivors. A third charge involving a third survivor was resolved and...

Unvaccinated Woman Denied Life-Saving Medical Procedure

by Matt Agorist | Oct 7, 2021 | Featured Articles

Primum non nocere or “First do no harm,” is part of the Hippocratic oath to which doctors across the United States and the West swear to follow. The ethical code is issued by medical associations, such as the AMA Code of Medical Ethics, and provides a comprehensive overview of obligations and professional behavior of a doctor to their patients. This oath has been battled in courts for years over doctors refusing to participate in abortions, gender reassignment surgery, or other medical procedures based on religious beliefs or conscience—but rarely have doctors ever refused to provide...

Watch: Cops Sit on Man Having a Seizure Until He Dies (Taxpayers To Foot Bill)

by Matt Agorist | Oct 5, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

After the death of Eric Garner in 2014 shook the nation, the phrase “I can’t breathe” has become a chilling symbol for violence doled out at the hands of the state. TFTP has reported on multiple instances in which entirely peaceful and often innocent people have muttered those words just before police officers squeeze the last bit of life from their bodies. George Floyd’s last words also partly consisted of “I can’t breathe.” Since his death, TFTP has reported on far too many more instances in which victims of police violence have managed to say those words just before they die. “If you can...

On-Duty Cop Solicited Child for Sex, Will Serve No Jail Time And Won’t Be Registered as Sex Offender

by Matt Agorist | Sep 27, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

Benjamin Reinhart, a disgraced officer with Genesee County received some great news this week. Despite being caught up in a child sexual trafficking sting, he won’t have to go to jail and he won’t have to register publicly as a sex offender. Reinhart was “sentenced” this week as part of a plea deal, to just five years of probation. The Genesee Human Oppression Strike Team, or GHOST, caught the officer in April attempting to lure a child for sex. He was on duty at the time. Despite facing multiple charges, Reinhart was given a sweet plea deal for pleading guilty in August to a single count of...