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....
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WATCH: Cop Executes Unarmed Man on Knees With Hands Up
by Matt Agorist | Jan 26, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The Free Thought Project has reported on countless killer cops before, many of them with several notches in their belts for killing the citizens they are sworn to protect. However, Modesto police officer Joseph Lamantia, a 12-year veteran of the force, has shot five...
Complain About a Fast Food Order? Cops Could Smash Your Face In
by Matt Agorist | Jan 23, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
A video out of Ohio this week is causing a massive storm of controversy online after it showed a Butler Township police officer repeatedly punching a woman in the face. While the video is certainly enraging to the folks on the police accountability front it also...
My Favorite Michael Malice Quote
by Keith Knight | Jan 16, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
If the government didn't have a monopoly on security, only rich people would be able to have security just like when the government got out of other businesses, the only cars produced were limousines, the only clothes produced were tuxedos and the only food produced...
No Charges Filed After Cops Kill Innocent Husband in Pursuit of Unarmed Suspect
by Matt Agorist | Jan 12, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On the night of Aug. 21, 2021, Juan Olvera-Preciado, 59, had committed no crime, was not a suspect in any crime and harmed no one. These facts, however, were no defense against government-sponsored bullets being fired into his body, killing him. On the night he died,...
WATCH: Cop Shoots Man Over Ordinance Violation, Gets Exonerated
by Matt Agorist | Dec 21, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In February 2020, Ariel Roman, 33, while traveling on Chicago's public transit train, walked from one train car to another. That is all. For this action, two officers, assigned to Chicago's mass transit unit, chased him and tackled him on the train platform before one...
Cop Fired For Feeding Homeless Man a ‘Shit Sandwich’ Is Rehired 30 Miles Away
by Matt Agorist | Dec 14, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In November of 2016, the Free Thought Project brought you the disgusting story of a San Antonio cop putting feces on a piece of bread and giving it to a homeless man as food. For making a literal sh*t sandwich, San Antonio police officer Matthew Luckhurst was fired....
WATCH: Homeowner Investigating Break-In Killed by Cops on His Own Property
by Matt Agorist | Dec 7, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On the night Rajan Moonesinghe was killed by police, he had committed no crime and appeared to be investigating a potential break-in at his own home. Unfortunately, however, the fact that Moonesinghe had harmed no one was of no consequence to the Austin police officer...
Alabama Cops Jail 82 Year Old Grandmother for Unpaid $70 Trash Bill
by Matt Agorist | Dec 5, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Over the years, the Free Thought Project has reported on many asinine reasons police have used to arrest entirely innocent people who have harmed no one. Frequently, long grass on one's own property or a burnt-out license plate light can get people killed in the land...
Cop Shoots Unarmed Man in Head, Gets Slap on Wrist
by Matt Agorist | Nov 22, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In December 2017, community members began searching for answers after an unarmed man was shot and killed by a police officer in an unmarked car who claimed that he opened fire because he had his hand in his pocket. But their victim, 25-year-old Dennis Plowden Jr. was...
Texas Cops v. Journalism
by Will Porter | Nov 10, 2022 | Blog
Reason: In April 2017, [Priscilla] Villarreal, who reports near the U.S.-Mexico border, broke a story about a Border Patrol agent who committed suicide. A month later, she released the surname of a family involved in a fatal car accident. The agency that confirmed...
All-Black Militia Leader Speaks Ahead of Sentencing
by Ken Silva | Nov 8, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
It was an incident in Louisville one night in September 2020 that lasted scarcely eight seconds: all-black militia leader John Johnson exited his vehicle, turned on a flashlight attached to his AR-15 rifle, and scanned a downtown rooftop before walking to a nearby...
Taxpayers Liable After Cops Taze, Beat Elderly Man in His Home
by Matt Agorist | Nov 7, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On Friday, TFTP reported the story of Ruby Johnson—an elderly woman accosted in her home—by SWAT officers acting on bad information. She was innocent and police had no reason to be there. Highlighting the problem with police attacking the elderly, is that Johnson's...
Cops Handcuff Man for Carrying a Walking Stick Thinking It Was a Gun
by Keith Knight | Nov 7, 2022 | Blog
We should be very grateful to farmers and home builders, because without them we would not have as much food or as many homes. That in no way means we should blindly do whatever farmers and home builders tell us to do. Same goes for any group claiming to...
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Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
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