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Taxpayers Left Holding the Bag After Cops Kill Man Who ‘Pointed Finger Like a Gun’

by Matt Agorist | Mar 14, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

On the night of March 12, 2020, Donnie Sanders, 47, was merely driving down the road, minding his own business when an officer with the Kansas City police department began following him. Moments later, Sanders would be shot and killed. He was unarmed and had harmed no one. Last March, the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office announced that no charges would be filed in the death of Sanders because prosecutors claim Sanders pointed his fingers or hand in the shape of a gun which justified the unidentified officer dumping four rounds into the unarmed man. After seeking and not receiving any...

Cops Shoot and Kill 12 Year Old Boy in Back, Claim He Was a ‘Threat’ While Fleeing

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

A tragedy unfolded on Tuesday in Philadelphia after a 12-year-old boy was shot in the back and killed. The boy was running from several police officers when two of them opened fire. Police have since claimed that even though 12-year-old Thomas Siderio was running away, he was still a threat. The incident unfolded Tuesday night as four plainclothes officers, in an unmarked car, saw the boy and another child standing on the street corner. The officers claimed that one of the children appeared to be holding a handgun. According to police, as they activated their lights in the undercover...

Father Charged With Attempted Murder After Defending Family During Police Raid

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

Corey Marioneaux Jr., 24, is a father of two, church-going husband with no criminal record. So when he heard his front door getting smashed in last week just before 5 a.m. as he slept in his bed, the last thing going through his head was, “it must be the cops, I’ll just act completely defenseless with my wife and children in the house.” Instead, he did what any father and husband should do and defended himself. Unfortunately for Marioneaux, it was the cops and defending his family from them has landed this innocent father in jail, facing many years behind bars. Luckily, during the early...

Single Mom Facing Prison For Allowing 14 Year Old Daughter to Babysit Siblings

by Matt Agorist | Feb 10, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

Over the past two years we have witness the state, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, stoop to unprecedented lows in regards to how to treat our fellow humans. Two weeks to flatten the curve turned into children being forced to stay home for months, deprived of social interaction as they watched society and the economy around them crumble thanks to government lockdowns and tyranny. Government’s role in this debacle cannot be understated. Local municipalities across the country closed down schools, daycares, and non-essential businesses leaving working parents on the hook for child care —...

Stopped for ‘Obstructing Sidewalk,’ Man Handcuffed, Kicked In Testicles and Face By Cops

by Matt Agorist | Feb 2, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

A disturbing video was leaked which subsequently led to calls for the chief of the Hammond police department to resign. It shows multiple officers put boots and knees on a man’s face and neck as other officers savagely kick and punch him. The entire time, the victim, Kentdrick Ratliff, was handcuffed and unable to defend himself much less pose a threat to the officers. This week, Seth Stoughton, an attorney and former police officer who teaches at the University of South Carolina School of Law, testified in front of the Hammond City Council, claiming that the video of Ratliff’s beating is...

Police Shoot Sleeping Teen on Couch (While Serving Warrant on Wrong Person)

by Matt Agorist | Jan 27, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

If you were to read the local news sites in Las Vegas earlier this month, you would think that police—while saving the public from a dangerous murderer—were ambushed and two of them were shot, barely escaping with their lives. The “shooter’s” face, plastered on news sites, telling the public that he fired 18 shots at officers before they finally and heroically killed him. But Isaiah Tyree Williams wasn’t so much a shooter as he was a victim of police violence. Their badges do nothing to change this reality. After police executed Williams in his own home, a report from a local CBS affiliate...

500 Criminal Cases Could Be Dropped After NYPD Officer Caught Framing People for Drug Crimes

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

Charges against the now-disgraced NYPD detective Joseph Franco are being welcomed by the families of more than 130 more New Yorkers as it is leading to the dismissal of their family members’ charges. Franco was reportedly caught framing innocent individuals last year and this is the second wave of case dismissals tied to his corruption.. Last April, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez’s Conviction Review Unit asked for the dismissal of 27 felony convictions and 63 misdemeanor convictions based on Franco’s corrupt policing. Now, that number has grown as Bronx Supreme Court Justice David...

WATCH: Insane Cop Strangles Female Officer After She Interferes With Brutalizing Restrained Suspect

by Matt Agorist | Jan 19, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles

Since the murder of George Floyd rocked the nation in 2020, across the country police departments and municipalities have passed legislation requiring cops to intervene if they see their fellow officer—like Derek Chauvin—committing a crime or violating someone’s rights. Since then, TFTP has reported on several instances of good cops stepping in to stop bad cops from unleashing their pent up anger on unwitting suspects. In the following scenario, however, a good cop stepped up to stop a bad cop and it got her attacked. A veteran Sunrise police sergeant is on desk duty and under investigation...