Before her horrific death last month, Brianna Grier, like so many people before her suffered from mental illness. Occasionally, this mother of two, would need to be hospitalized to get herself back to a state in which she could function. But when police officers...
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Who Was Tony Timpa?
by Keith Knight | Jul 26, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/zQiIPeHLQp4 “Unless it be to do justice on an offender,” Locke continued, no one may “take away, or impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another.” Long traces out a key implication of...
During Response Training for Civilian Unrests, Cops Beat Fellow Officer to Death
by Matt Agorist | Jun 29, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The mother of a Los Angeles police officer is coming forward this week alleging that her son 32-year-old officer Houston Tipping, was beaten to death by fellow cops during department training last month. Tipping was playing the role of a civilian and was beaten by...
Cops Wake Up Unarmed, Sleeping Man Just to Kill Him As He Raises His Hands
by Matt Agorist | Jun 21, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The city of Mesa, Arizona settled a lawsuit with the family of a young man who was killed by police in September of 2020. As TFTP previously reported, Angel Benitez was found asleep in a car which was reported stolen. Benitez, for whatever reason, drove away from...
The Harrowing Conversations
by Kym Robinson | May 15, 2022 | Blog
I sometimes coach (MMA etc) cops and military types. They know my opinion on certain things and I am not shy about expressing them. I at times feel a hypocrisy in working with them and have even mentioned that to them. Those few I work with, are "nice" men. Easy to...
End No-Knock Raids So Cops Stop Killing Innocent Homeowners
by Matt Agorist | Apr 28, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In the land of the free—thousands of times a year—American police officers kick in doors, smash windows, deploy tear gas, and explode flashbang grenades all to serve a single, often unarmed, individual with an arrest warrant. These militarized affronts on the homes...
The Communist Party of China Imposes Tyrannical Lockdowns and Deadly Food Shortages
by Keith Knight | Apr 16, 2022 | Blog
(Photo Credit: shimlatimes.in) Here are a collection of excerpts from mainstream sources on the Shanghai lockdowns. **Reminder**: China has one of the highest vaccination rates on the planet at 86.1%. In Shanghai, 25 million people remain locked down as 26,087 new...
Cop Enters Family’s Backyard, Shoots Innocent Father, ‘Sentenced’ to Firearms Training
by Matt Agorist | Apr 13, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As frequent readers of the Free Thought Project understand, police officers mistake innocent individuals for criminals all the time. Often times, their fear gets the best of them and these folks who have committed no crime and harmed no one, are beaten or arrested...
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US Navy Follies: The Other Ghost Fleet
The US Navy and Marines have not conducted an amphibious assault on contested beach since Inchon in Korea (10-19 September 1950 although arguably the last major contested amphibious campaign in May of 1945 of Okinawa) and have practically abandoned surface maritime...
Anti-War Blog – Be Proud
Proud mother come and see what your soldier sons are doing, see them search crying children who no longer can walk the streets to go from home to school. They kidnap little boys, to torture or imprison. Maybe they shatter their arms and send them on their way. Cry for...
The Culture of Lying and Deceit in the US Army
It's not just the Army and all the services practice this level of institutional cravenness and dishonesty. Deceit and covering up errors is a long time practice in the US uniformed armed forces. The article is older but more true over time. The gravest peril of the...
Manned Tanks: Stop Building These Things
Arguably one of the best manned tanks ever made, the refurbished M1 Abrams is not faring well in the Ukraine and it is estimated the UKR forces have lost 20 of the 31 tanks supplied to them. This is not only a result of inadequate training, immature doctrine and...
Lead-bottom: McHale’s Navy Comes of Age in the 21st Century
USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE-11) 2020 The US Navy continues to go the way of the Royal Navy from a storied force in history to a surface fleet plagued with problems and seemingly incapable of getting anything right as we have documented in these pages at the...
Interview: Biden’s Faux Ceasefire Efforts Facilitate Israel’s Genocide
I discuss the latest news about Israel and the US role in its conflicts with the Palestinians and Hezbollah.