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WATCH: Cop Flips Over Pregnant Woman’s SUV to Give Her a Speeding Ticket

by Matt Agorist | Jun 10, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

Cops, as the Free Thought Project reports on a regular basis, are extremely quick to escalating force. From baton blows to trigger pulls, American cops love to dish out the violence with extreme prejudice. There is another form of violence police use that doesn’t get mentioned as much but is just as deadly. It is called the Precision Immobilization Technique (PIT) maneuver and a pregnant woman in Arkansas is seeking to change police policy after a cop used a PIT maneuver on her after accusing her of speeding—a traffic ticket. Last July, Nicole Harper was driving home on the interstate when...

Police Employee in Australia Caught Sexually Assaulting 13 Year Old in Elevator

by Matt Agorist | Jun 8, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

Glenn Roche, 54, is a vile human being and thanks to surveillance footage from inside an elevator the world will now know just how vile. Also thanks to the surveillance footage from the elevator, this police employee will be going to jail. On Thursday, Roche was found guilty of indecent assault of a child after frightful footage showed him sexually assault a 13-year-old girl inside an elevator. Roche, an employee of the New South Wales police force in Sydney, Australia, is seen in the footage trapping the panic-stricken child in the elevator. After he chases her into the elevator, he blocks...

‘I Can’t Breathe’: Three Cops Charged With Murder For Beating Innocent Father to Death on Walk Home

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

For months after her brother Manuel Ellis’ death in police custody, Monet Carter-Mixon fought for answers. She was told that her brother who is a father of two and active member of his community’s church, randomly attacked two cops and was subsequently killed while doing so. But Carter-Mixon didn’t believe the official story and set out on a mission to expose the cops who killed her brother. It worked. According to police, on March 3, 2020, Ellis had been at church all night playing drums with the church band before he was killed. He then went to his mother’s home afterward before going to a...

No Arrest Made for Off-Duty Cop Who Shot Woman Driving Herself to Hospital

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

Over the weekend, Lecresha Murray says she began feeling sick so she decided to drive herself to the hospital. Her trip would be dangerously interrupted, however, when a seemingly trigger happy cop decided to dump multiple rounds into her body for no reason. Despite the officer shooting the unarmed woman six times on Sunday, he has yet to be arrested. “I’m a victim that got shot by an off-duty police officer that did not identify himself,” Murray said. “For no reason, I didn’t approach him, I didn’t threaten him. I don’t do anything. He just opened fire for no reason.” According to Murray,...

Former ‘Officer of the Year’ Commits Suicide as He Admits to Participating inChild Rape Ring

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

Last week, a standoff took place between Liberty County law enforcement and a fellow cop from one county over. Harris County Precinct 1 deputy Robert Johnson engaged in a standoff with multiple SWAT officers for several hours before taking his own life. After his suicide, we learned that during this standoff, this decorated Houston cop had confessed to utterly horrifying crimes against children. He also named names. According to authorities in Liberty County, Johnson became the subject of an investigation earlier this month over allegations he had sexually abused a child. KPRC reports: On...

In Developed World, America Has the Least Trained, Most Deadly Police Force

by Matt Agorist | May 25, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

Ever wonder why cops yell “quit resisting” as they beat a person who’s not resisting? Or why they shoot people who pose no threat? Maybe the answer is right in front of us. Many folks who are given authorization to use deadly force and authority to kidnap and cage citizens—aren’t the sharpest tools in the chest. One would think that giving someone so much authority should come with testing their intelligence for competence. However, one would be wrong. In an analysis conducted by TFTP in 2014, we found that hairstylists in nearly every state are required to have significantly more training...

Cops Shoot Unarmed Man 122 Times Over Broken Tag Light

by Matt Agorist | May 20, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

On the night he was killed, Lester Machado, 24, was targeted by police who falsely claimed he was driving with a broken license plate light. For some reason—which we will never know—Machado did not stop when police attempted to pull him over and police used this as a reason to chase him down and fire more than a 100 rounds into his car. Machado was unarmed and his car was disabled when six cops fired a stupefying 122 bullets into his car, executing him in firing squad fashion. Though Machado’s tragic death unfolded in 2017, attorneys for the family have discovered new evidence in the case...

Parents Catch Cop on Video ‘Puncturing Their Toddler With Unknown Object’

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

Imagine for a moment that your toddler is found screaming and crying in agony and bleeding from a puncture wound. You have no idea what happened so you pull out your phone to check your home surveillance system. Then imagine you find a video of your police detective neighbor abusing your toddler, and causing the puncture wound. For a family in Savannah who lives next door to Savannah Police Detective Vincent Miller, 32, this became a reality over the weekend. Georgia Bureau of Investigation says it has arrested the Savannah Police detective for child abuse. The veteran detective was caught...