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Cop Shoots Mentally Handicapped Teenager Having Crisis After Grandmother Calls 911

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

As TFTP reported earlier this year, body camera video showed officers with the Loveland Police Department attack 73-year-old Karen Garner as she walked home from Walmart. The officers neglected to provide aid, and they laughed and celebrated their brutality against an elderly woman with dementia. The video evidence showed that at all levels of the Loveland police department there are sadistic and depraved officers. Now, this same department is in the news once again—this time for shooting and gravely wounding an innocent developmentally delayed teen who needed help. According to the family...

Free At Last: Veteran Sentenced to Life In Prison for $30 Worth of Marijuana Released

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

Derek Harris is an honorably discharged veteran who put his life on the line for his country in Operation Desert Storm. His years of service to his country were but dust in the wind, however, to the state who threw him in a cage for the rest of his life for selling less than a gram of weed to an undercover cop. After rotting behind bars for more than a decade, Harris has finally gotten some good news as the drug war comes crumbling down. According to his attorney, Harris was resentenced to time served and will soon be released. Prosecutors in Vermilion Parish agreed to release Harris from...

After Two Years, Cop Charged For Shooting Mentally Ill Man and His Parents at Costco

by Matt Agorist | Aug 12, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

As TFTP reported in June of 2019, panic erupted inside a Corona, California Costco as multiple people were injured and one man was killed during a shooting. Dozens of shoppers immediately dropped to the ground as fears of the next mass shooting filled their thoughts. However, it turns out the “mass shooter” was an LAPD cop and his unarmed victims were a mentally disabled non-verbal man and his parents. After months of slow playing and refusing to release the surveillance footage, the Riverside County District Attorney announced that they would not charge the cop. Now however, over two years...

American Justice: Innocent Man Kidnapped, Drugged, and Caged in Mental Institution for Years

by Matt Agorist | Aug 9, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

Every time Joshua Spriestersbach tried telling the doctors, nurses, and staff at a state hospital in Hawaii that they had the wrong man, no one listened and his protests were answered with drugs. After nearly three years, the blithering idiots running the hospital finally figured out their blunder and instead of fixing their mistake, they covered it up by quietly kicking Spriestersbach out on the street with only 50 cents to his name. The Hawaii Innocence project is now representing Spriesterbach and this week they asked the court to correct this innocent man’s life. The filing by the...

After 6 Months Paid Leave, Cop Finally Charged After Entering Father’s Backyard, Executing Him

by Matt Agorist | Aug 4, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

As frequent readers of the Free Thought Project understand, police officers mistake innocent individuals for criminals all the time. Often times, their fear gets the best of them and these folks who have committed no crime and harmed no one, are beaten or arrested only to be exonerated down the road. One man in Idaho Falls, however, will not have a chance to be exonerated because the police who mistook him for a suspect—executed him. On February 8, 2021, Elias Aurelio Cerdas, a 26-year-old officer who graduated from training less than a year before the shooting, entered the backyard of...

Police Refuse Comment After Killing Hero Who Prevented Mass Shooting

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

In June, a deranged gunman, 59-year-old Ronald Troyke, began what was about to be a deadly mass shooting. His first victim would be Arvada Police Officer Gordon Beesley, and, according to the reports that evening, his next victim would be liberty activist and friend to many members of the Free Thought Project, including this author, Johnny Hurley. But it didn’t quite unfold like the original reports claimed. Hurley was actually the hero who stopped the gunman and when other officers arrived on scene, they killed the hero. It has been over a month since Hurley’s death and other than police...

ACLU Declares Second Amendment ‘Racist,’ Launches ‘War on Bill of Rights’

by Matt Agorist | Jul 28, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

For years, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, has chosen to stand against those who would attack our Constitutional rights. Even the Free Thought Project has been supported by the organization when a California sheriff attempted to force us to delete an article that was damning to his organization. Over the past several years, however, there has been a sort of rift happening inside the organization, with your right to self-defense right in the center of it. While they have been vehemently fighting for the right of transgender athletes to compete in sports, the ACLU has largely chosen...

WATCH: No Charges Filed Against Cop For Shooting Unarmed Woman in Car

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

On a regular basis, the Free Thought Project reports on instances in which police officers deliberately jump in front of moving vehicles, or claim to be in danger of being hit by a vehicle, in order to justify the execution of the driver. Over the years, we have reported on countless cases of unarmed motorists being executed by police for doing nothing other than fleeing. Cops are rarely charged in these instances because they claim the vehicle “made them fear for their life.” A 26-year-old young woman is now dead because an officer did this exact thing—he jumped in front of a moving car...

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