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...
Criminal Justice
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...
Tyre Nichols’ Killing Proves Why We Must End ‘Qualified Immunity’ for Police
by Jay Schweikert | Feb 6, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The brutal death of Tyre Nichols at the hands of Memphis police officers is one of the most egregious examples of police misconduct in living memory. On January 7th, officers stopped Nichols, a 29‐year‐old Black man, for alleged “reckless driving” (though Memphis...
TGIF: The Tyre Nichols Atrocity
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 3, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The brutal killing of Tyre Nichols literally at the hands (and feet) of several Memphis police officers might be a source of cognitive dissonance for some people. But before we get to that, let's begin at the beginning. To start with the moral basics, the officers who...
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...
They Smile and Shrug Their Shoulders at the Murder of a Man
by Kym Robinson | Feb 1, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Recently, many of us digitally witnessed five armed police officers beat Tyre Nichols to death. Oftentimes it’s easy for us to be voyeurs to violence and then conjure up a context or make an excuse for what it is that we are seeing. It’s the privilege of distance and...
GRAPHIC: Cops Beat Tyre Nichols to Death, Captured on Video
by The Free Thought Project | Jan 31, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The U.S. city of Memphis, Tennessee released several videos on Friday showing the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols by police. Nichols, a 29-year-old black FedEx worker who had been stopped for reckless driving, succumbed to his wounds in the aftermath of the incident....
No Matt Walsh, We Shouldn’t ‘Execute Drug Dealers’
by Trenton Hale | Jan 26, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Recently, Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire tweeted that Singapore is able have “nice things” (referring to the technological and economic advancements the country has made) because of their severe penalties on criminals, including the execution of drug traffickers. This...