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Cop Arrested After Beating, Leaving Boot Marks on Face of Teen Over a Speeding Ticket

by Matt Agorist | Sep 23, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

Body camera footage released in April highlighted the gang mentality of many police officers as it showed them violently beating a 17-year-old boy over a traffic stop “like a pack of wolves.” It also illustrates how far cops will go to enforce a speeding violation. But this story does have a silver lining as the two cops responsible for the beating have been indicted. San Joaquin County district attorney Tori Verber Salazar announced that former Stockton Police Department officers Michael Stiles and Omar Villapudua were each indicted on felony counts of assault by a public officer and...

The FBI Pilfered 800 Safety Deposit Boxes, Pocketing People’s Life Savings

by Matt Agorist | Sep 22, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

For decades now, federal government and their cohorts in law enforcement have been carrying out theft of the citizenry on a massive scale using Civil Asset Forfeiture (CAF). The 1980’s-era laws were designed to drain resources from powerful criminal organizations, but CAF has become a tool for law enforcement agencies across the U.S. to steal money and property from countless innocent people. As the following case out of Beverly Hills illustrates, no criminal charge is required for this confiscation, resulting in easy inflows of cash for law enforcement departments and the proliferation of...

Revealed: Police Chief Paid Mother to Rape Her Child

by Matt Agorist | Sep 21, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

The idea of a family member selling a child relative for sex is absolutely horrifying. It should shock even the most callous of individuals. In America, we are told, police are here to protect us from the likes of these monsters who would dare peddle in the exploitation and abuse of children but often times, it is the exact opposite—as the following case illustrates. Kristen Naylor-Legg, 28, is a despicable human being who sold her own underage family member for sex. She pleaded guilty to the charges this week of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of a minor under the age of 18. The man...

Mom Swarmed By Police, Beaten, and Her Child Kidnapped For Social Media Credit

by Matt Agorist | Sep 17, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

As the Free Thought Project reported last October, the police shooting death of Walter Wallace Jr., a Philly man in a mental health crisis who charged officers with a knife, set off massive unrest in the city. On the first night of unrest, TFTP reported on multiple instances of police officers being attacked and actually retreating from rioters. On the second night, however, the cops appeared to be the ones rioting and an innocent mother and her toddler were caught in the middle of their violence. In a video posted to Twitter, dozens of riot officers are seen swarming an SUV. For an unknown...

Cops Flip Car Over Speeding Ticket, Kill 12 Year Old Boy

by Matt Agorist | Sep 16, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

As the Free Thought Project reports on a regular basis, police in the land of the free will go to violent and often deadly extremes to enforce even the most arbitrary “law.” If police claim to see you break one of these arbitrary laws like speeding, they claim the right to detain and extort you. If you choose to resist this extortion, police will then claim the right to kidnap you. And, as the following tragic case out of Georgia illustrates, if you resist this kidnapping, police will use deadly force like a pit maneuver, including against children. Last week, Charlie Moore was driving his...

Teens Beg for Life as Cop Unloads (and Reloads) Pistol Into Car

by Matt Agorist | Sep 14, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

When the entire dash cam footage was released, showing officer Allan Brown firing eleven shots into a vehicle—pausing only to reload—and firing another ten shots into the vehicle as the teens inside can be heard begging for their lives, the country was shocked. It is disturbing, to say the least. Yet despite the disturbing nature of the video, this week, in a split ruling by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, Brown was granted qualified immunity and he was exonerated. Christian Redwine, 17, was killed in the shooting and passengers Hunter Tillis and Hanna Wuenschel, two other teens, suffered...

Cop Pleads Guilty to Trafficking in Child Porn, Raping Dog

by Matt Agorist | Sep 1, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

As TFTP previously reported, a police officer from the Bossier City Police Department was arrested in December 2018 for filming unspeakable acts with animals. Officer Terry Yetman, 38, was charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse of animals—producing the evidence himself—including filming sex with his own police K9. This decorated cop was also charged with 31 counts of child pornography several months later. Now, nearly 3 years after his initial arrest, Yetman has pleaded guilty. TFTP learned at the time, Yetman, who had only been out on bail for two days for the 40 counts of animal...

Judge Strips Unvaccinated Mother of Parental Rights Over Son

by Matt Agorist | Aug 31, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

In an unprecedented violation of rights, a case out of Chicago, Illinois should worry even the most stringent pro-vaccine advocates. A well-meaning mother has been stripped of her parental rights in a tyrannical move by a Cook County judge. After learning she hadn’t taken the COVID-19 vaccine, judge James Shapiro stripped Rebecca Firlit of custody. “I miss my son more than anything. It’s been very difficult. I haven’t seen him since August 10th,” Firlit told FOX 32 News in an exclusive interview. Firlit has been divorced for 7 years and she has split custody with her 11-year-old son’s...