For more than four years, questions swirled about the shooting death of Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr. at his home in Fort Pierce, Fla. After all, there were only three witnesses to how the entire episode unfolded: two St. Lucie County sheriff’s deputies and Mr. Hill. Mr....
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Ex-cop who gunned down ex-wife has a nearly 700-page internal affairs file
by A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner | Jun 1, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
A former Neptune Township police sergeant who gunned down his ex-wife as she sat helplessly in the driver's seat of her car had an internal affairs file that is nearly 700 pages - and was asked to stay on the force even after he offered to retire prior to the 2015...
TGIF: How an Anti-Semitic American Law Created the State of Israel and a Whole Lot of Trouble
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 1, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Shlomo Sand, a remarkable scholar who studies how "peoples," including the Jewish people, have been invented through myths propagated by court historians and politicians, makes a startling yet obvious connection in his book The Invention of the Land of Israel (2014):...
Supreme Court Rules 8-1 Against Warrantless Police Search in Important Fourth Amendment Case
by Damon Root | May 30, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
Fourth Amendment advocates scored a victory today when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 against a warrantless police search that involved an officer entering private property for the purpose of examining a motorcycle stored under a tarp in the driveway near a home....
After pointlessly groping countless Americans, the TSA is keeping a secret watchlist of those who fight back
by Jim Bovard | May 29, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
"I need a witness!" exclaimed the security screener at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Because I had forgotten to remove my belt before going through a scanner, he explained, I must undergo an "enhanced patdown." I told him that if he jammed his hand into...
Dad Confronts the Cop Who Killed His Unarmed Son, Secretly Records It
by Jack Burns | May 29, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
Kenosha, Wisconsin – A grieving father who has spent more than 13 years searching for answers in the case of his son’s tragic death, is now releasing the footage from a confrontation with the police officer who shot and killed him. Michael Bell Sr. told The Free...
TGIF: The Abused Jews of Iraq
by Sheldon Richman | May 25, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
From April 1950, nearly two years after the Zionists in Palestine unilaterally declared independence for the state of Israel, to March 1951, three bombs exploded among Jews in Baghdad, Iraq: one each outside a cafe on Abu Nawwas Street; at the US Information Centre, a...
Police set dog on a driver who politely refuses to answer questions
by A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner | May 24, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
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