Police say they saw an object in Stephan Clark’s hand before firing 20 bullets that killed him in his own yard Sunday night in Sacramento, with the disturbing moment made public through body camera footage released Wednesday night. The two officers were responding to...
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Senate Votes to Endanger Sex Workers and Censor the Internet
by EFF | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
Today [March 21, 2018] was a dark day for the Internet. The U.S. Senate just voted 97-2 to pass the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA, H.R. 1865), a bill that silences online speech by forcing Internet platforms to censor their users....
Donald Trump’s Authoritarian Opponents
by Jim Bovard | Mar 17, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
President Trump has said and done many things to appall the friends of freedom. From Trump’s pro-torture comments to his praise of police brutality to his cruise-missile barrage against Syria to his threat to annihilate North Korea, there are ample signs that he...
The Presumption of Innocence: Not Just for the Courtroom
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 17, 2018 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Justice
Journalist Peter Hitchens wrote the following in the connection with the events in Salisbury, England, involving a former Russian double agent and his daughter, but it is worth keeping in mind always: The presumption of innocence is not just a great liberty and...
Cop Hits Woman’s Car At 94 MPH, Killing Her Infant. Police Arrest Woman For Negligent Homicide.
by Tim Cushing | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
This is how things go in the US, where law enforcement is treated like a favored religion and everyone who isn't on the inside is just grist for prosecution mills. Here's the setup, via Matt Pearce. A Baton Rouge police officer was arrested Friday on a count of...
Cop Hits Woman's Car At 94 MPH, Killing Her Infant. Police Arrest Woman For Negligent Homicide.
by Tim Cushing | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
This is how things go in the US, where law enforcement is treated like a favored religion and everyone who isn't on the inside is just grist for prosecution mills. Here's the setup, via Matt Pearce. A Baton Rouge police officer was arrested Friday on a count of...
The War on Opioids Has Become a War on Patients
by Jeffrey A. Singer | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
As Anne Fuqua recently pointed out in the Washington Post, non-medical drug users accessing heroin and fentanyl in the underground drug market are not the only victims in the opioid crisis. Many patients whose only relief from a life sentence of torturing pain are...
Frederick Douglass: Lion of Individualist Liberalism
by Jonathan Bean | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Frederick Douglass, whose bicentennial birthday fell on Valentine’s Day, is one of the great figures in American history, a hero whose legacy is celebrated even by those who might otherwise contest his actual ideas. Illustrating this truth, the New York Times marked...
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