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Cops Sicced on 8 Year Old Girl’s Lemonade Stand

by Matt Agorist | Aug 15, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

Asa Baker is an 8-year-old girl from Ohio with an overwhelming entrepreneurial spirit. Over the hot summer, rather than spend the days inside watching TV, Asa would set up a lemonade stand in her front yard to make some cash. “It’s fun and you get lots of people,” Asa told FOX 8 news in an interview, adding that lots of truckers stop buy and pay more than the $1 per cup that she charges. “Especially on a country road, I get a lot of people,” she said. Unfortunately for Asa, however, her summer of entrepreneurial spirit would come to a grinding halt when police shut down her stand for...

Cops Throw Man Suffering Diabetic Shock in Jail, Watch Him Die

by Matt Agorist | Aug 9, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

When he was arrested in February of this year, Gilbert Gil, 67, had committed no crime and had harmed no one. Sadly, however, his innocence offered no protection from the pernicious abuse of the California police state. The nightmare for the Gil family began when a combination of his dementia and his diabetes created the perfect storm. Jennifer Schmidt, Gil’s daughter says she became worried on February 12 when her dad didn’t show up at her home after he got off of work. Because he has dementia, Schmidt had placed a tracking device on his keys and when she found him, he was miles away in...

WATCH: Cops Kill Handcuffed Woman by Dropping Her From Patrol Car

by Matt Agorist | Aug 3, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

Before her horrific death last month, Brianna Grier, like so many people before her suffered from mental illness. Occasionally, this mother of two, would need to be hospitalized to get herself back to a state in which she could function. But when police officers showed up instead of EMS—taking Brianna to jail instead of the hospital—Brianna would never have a chance to get herself back to a functioning state. Instead, she’d be thrown from a police cruiser while driving down the road, and die. When Hancock County Sheriff Terrell Primus visited Mary and Marvin Grier last month, he told them...

What Happens When a Town’s Entire Police Force Quits?

by Matt Agorist | Jul 25, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

This month, without warning, the taxpayers of Kenly, N.C. found out that the police department they have been paying for “protection,” no longer wished to serve them. The entire department, including the police chief and every single officer on the force, turned in their resignation letters and abandoned their positions. The move caught the entire town, including the mayor and the town attorney off guard as there was no warning given or demands made prior to the mass exodus. WNCN reported that Kenly police chief Josh Gibson told the news outlet that he and his officers are quitting because...

Cop Involved With Breonna Taylor’s Murder Has Record Expunged Clean

by Matt Agorist | Jul 21, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

On September 23, 2020, knowing that there would be backlash for their decision, streets in downtown Louisville were blocked off officials, police put on high alert, and government buildings were boarded up as officials announced the charges against former officer Brett Hankison for his role in the raid which left Breonna Taylor dead. The subsequent outrage was well deserved as Hankison was not charged for anything that led to the death of Taylor. Instead, this trigger happy cowboy cop was charged with “first degree wanton endangerment” for shooting like a madman which led to taxpayer-funded...

Armed ‘Good Samaritan’ Stops Mass Shooter in Indiana, Long Before Police Arrive

by Matt Agorist | Jul 19, 2022 | Featured Articles

In Greenwood, Indiana, residents who visit the Greenwood Park Mall are not allowed to carry guns. This policy makes the mall an easy target for deranged psychopaths who wish to cause harm to others as they know their victims won’t be able to defend themselves. This is likely why a deranged psychopath chose the mall on Sunday and began murdering innocent people. Three people were fatally shot and two were injured when a mass shooter opened fire inside the Greenwood Park Mall and while this is certainly tragic—it could’ve been far worse. As FOX 59 reports, last updated in April 2020, Simon...

Family’s House Burned, 15 Year Old Killed in SWAT Raid

by Matt Agorist | Jul 13, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

An innocent family is homeless and a 15-year-old boy is dead after a SWAT team engaged in a standoff to arrest a suspect for a parole violation. Police are now conducting damage control to avoid taking the blame. Last week, police said they were pursuing a suspect, Qiaunt Kelley, for a federal felony warrant for robbery. They later changed their story to say that Kelley was wanted for violation of parole. While on the run, Kelley ran into the home of an innocent family and barricaded himself inside the home, according to police. A standoff ensued for hours as police demanded Kelley exit the...

Park in Your Own Driveway? A $1,500 Fine in San Francisco

by Matt Agorist | Jul 6, 2022 | Featured Articles

Things really seem to be going “uphill” in San Francisco. A couple from the city, who has parked in the same spot “every day for the last 36 years” was ticketed $1,542 for parking in their own driveway this month. As many people do, the couple lives on a hill in a city where parking is always at a premium. The couple has been parking in the carpad in front of their house—which they say has been there since the house was built in 1910. But now the city planning department is saying it is “illegal to park in the front yard of a house” and threatened further tickets should the couple—Judy and...

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