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Daytona Cop Sentenced to 25 Years After Organizing Child Pornography Ring

by Matt Agorist | Mar 20, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

In March 2022, the Daytona Beach Police Department’s Advanced Technology and Cybercrime (ATAC) unit launched an investigation after receiving a tip about a child porn distribution ring that was being run on a social media app. After doing some digging, Daytona cops made a disturbing discovery—the perpetrator distributing images of child sexual abuse on the app—was one of their own. In April 2022, Officer Brandon Fox, 23, was arrested and charged with 7 counts of possession and distribution of child pornography. According to police, they received information regarding an individual sharing...

Cop Arrested After Beating Innocent Man for Not Using Sidewalk

by Matt Agorist | Mar 8, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

Walking across the street in a manner not fit for the police state can often end in serious injury or death—not necessarily because of a car running you over. Unfortunately, this country's enforcement of jaywalking laws has gone to the extreme, and a new video of a Michigan State Police trooper proves this point. MSP Trooper Paul E. Arrowood, 43, was arrested on single counts of common law offense or misconduct in office and assault and battery. The first charge is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. While this officer certainly deserves the maximum sentence, his actions that...

WATCH: 14 Year Old Girl Held at Gunpoint Over Seatbelt Violation

by Matt Agorist | Feb 27, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

In the land of the free, if law enforcement witnesses you driving your personally owned vehicle with dark window tint or without your seatbelt on, they will pull you over and issue a citation, otherwise known as extortion. If you refuse to acknowledge this extortion or attempt to resist it, you will be kidnapped and caged. If you refuse to be kidnapped and caged, you can and will have violence brought upon you and can and will be killed. The Free Thought Project has reported on numerous traffic citations over the years, which started with victimless crimes and ended with someone getting...

Man Naps in a Car Parked In His Grandmother’s Driveway, So Cops Shoot Him

by Matt Agorist | Feb 9, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

On New Year's Eve, Anthony Maclin, 24, was asleep in his car in his grandmother's driveway. He had committed no crime, was not suspected of a crime, and harmed no one. However, none of this was a defense against three police officers surrounding his car, firing for seven straight seconds, and filling Mclin with holes. On the night they filled Maclin with holes, police were responding to a call about an unidentified man sleeping in a car in a woman's driveway. Maclin was in a rental car with Florida plates, and his own grandma called police because she didn't recognize the car — a mistake she...

SWAT Raids Innocent Family’s Home, Shoots 12 Year Old Boy in Bed, Covers Up Body Cam

by Matt Agorist | Feb 2, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

In their effort to go after people for possessing and selling substances deemed illegal by the state, U.S. law enforcement personnel will lay waste to anyone in their path. As TFTP has reported time and again, even innocent children, including sleeping babies, are not exempt from the terror and violence doled out by the American Drug Warriors. A 12-year-old boy in Illinois learned this the hard way in 2019 after cops shot him and shattered his kneecap during a fruitless raid to make a drug arrest. Now, the taxpayers—not the police officers who shot him—are being held accountable for the...

WATCH: Cop Executes Unarmed Man on Knees With Hands Up

by Matt Agorist | Jan 26, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

The Free Thought Project has reported on countless killer cops before, many of them with several notches in their belts for killing the citizens they are sworn to protect. However, Modesto police officer Joseph Lamantia, a 12-year veteran of the force, has shot five people, killing four of them. His most recent victim was Trevor Seever, 29, who finally got this killer cop arrested. Lamantia shot Seever in the back on December 29, 2020. Lamantia was fired and charged with voluntary manslaughter three months after he killed Seever. Seever was unarmed and posed no threat when Lamantia killed...

Complain About a Fast Food Order? Cops Could Smash Your Face In

by Matt Agorist | Jan 23, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

A video out of Ohio this week is causing a massive storm of controversy online after it showed a Butler Township police officer repeatedly punching a woman in the face. While the video is certainly enraging to the folks on the police accountability front it also highlights the monopoly police maintain on the use of violence. America's security force can and will escalate violence to the point of beating a defenseless woman—over a dispute about cheese. Butler Township Police Chief John Porter held a presser this week to discuss the video which was taken on Jan. 16. He pointed out that the...

No Charges Filed After Cop Shoots Wheelchair-Bound Elderly Man in Back (9 Times)

by Matt Agorist | Jan 19, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

Richard Lee Richards, 61, was accused of stealing an item from Walmart in November 2021, and instead of due process and having his day in court, he was executed on the spot. An investigation began after video footage was released showing an officer dumping 9 rounds into the man as he scooted by him—in his wheelchair. Nine months later, officer Ryan Remington, the clearly trigger-happy officer, was charged after he decided to open fire on the disabled elderly man because he didn't immediately stop when told to do so. On Tuesday, however, Remington escaped accountability with a judge who was...