When 8-year-old Fanta Bility and her family attended a high school football game back in August, they never imagined that their worst nightmare would come true that night. Sadly, however, according to a lawsuit filed this week, thanks to a group of trigger happy...
Criminal Justice
Video: Cops Run Teen Off Road, Paralyzing Him, and Flee the Scene
by Matt Agorist | Oct 27, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
An attorney for several crash victims has released surveillance footage from the night of a major accident in which six people were seriously injured. In the video it appears that three Honolulu cops chase down a Honda Accord before it was run off the road in a...
Report: Nashville’s ‘Kids for Cash’ Sentencing Scheme
by Matt Agorist | Oct 19, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In 2008, a case of two judges from Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania—Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella—shocked the country when these insidious human beings were convicted of accepting money in return for imposing harsh adjudications on juveniles to increase occupancy at...
Texas Is Not Free: A Case of Civil Asset Forfeiture
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Oct 18, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On May 14, 2019, Ameal Woods drove from rural Mississippi to Houston with $42,300 in cash. He was ready to achieve a major goal he and his wife had worked, saved and borrowed for: Purchasing a second semi truck for the fledgling trucking business he operated with his...
When Barack Obama Got Away with Murder
by Jim Bovard | Oct 15, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
[Yesterday was] the 10th anniversary of the drone killing of Abdulrahman Al-Aulaqi, a 16 year old born in Colorado and killed in Yemen. He perished as part of Obama’s crackdown on terrorist suspects around the world. His father, who was also an American citizen, was...
The War on Drugs for Her
by Kym Robinson | Oct 14, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
She had just turned fifteen. She was a good girl, though some of her friends had a wilder side. They did like to party. She was excited to attend a music festival, a large one geared to people under eighteen. While she was there the police were conducting an operation...
Cop Admits To Raping Children, Sentenced to 20 Years
by Matt Agorist | Oct 13, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
It was a dramatic day in a Jacksonville courtroom this week as multiple child victims spoke out at disgraced officer, Matthew Butler’s sentencing hearing. After facing a slew of charges related to the sexual assault of multiple children under the age of 10, Butler...
What’s Worse: Murder vs. Traffic Fatalities
by Walter E. Block | Oct 6, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Economics, Featured Articles
The murder rate in 2020 was at an all time high, and commentators are in a tizzy about this. It turns out that there were 21,570 homicides in the United States. This is an unprecedented increase of almost 30% compared to 2019. An additional 4901 people were murdered...