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Shot By Cops, Thwarted By Judges And Geography

by Steven Woskow | Aug 25, 2020 | Blog

How qualified immunity works: U.S. courts show wide regional disparities in granting qualified immunity, the controversial legal doctrine now under fire for protecting officers accused of excessive force. The shooter was Fort Worth, Texas, police officer Hugo Barron....

Why Does Amy Klobuchar Hate Black People So Much?

by Scott Horton | Mar 22, 2019 | Blog

Evidently, she hates everyone. Here, see, according to the Washington Post, she's a guilty accessory to murder. (They don't call it that when one is employed by the state, but what do you call it?): "Christopher Burns, a 44-year-old black man, was unarmed and at home...

A Not So Isolated Incident

by Rob Faust | Jun 12, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice

Last week police footage went viral of an incident that happened at New Jersey beach. In the video, a 20-year-old woman, Emily Weinman, was punched in the head several times by a police officer while being arrested. The officer’s justification was that Weinman was...

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

https://youtu.be/8985Of40hTo Read the rest at boingboing.net.

Sioux Tribe Says Elder Beaten and Tased by Cop While Trying to Visit Dying Mother

by James Holbrooks | Sep 22, 2017 | Blog

This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. South Dakota — The Yankton Sioux Tribe is claiming police used excessive force to prevent one its tribal elders, 64-year-old Raymond Cournoyer Sr., from seeing his dying mother in a nursing home last weekend....

1,900 people died while arrested in 2015. Two-thirds intentionally killed

by Kate Irby | Dec 27, 2016 | Featured Articles, Justice

There has been a lot of debate recently over excessive force by police, especially after several high-profile deaths during arrests. Now a government agency is adding some vital statistics to that conversation. The Bureau of Justice Statistics released its findings on...

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The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil

The Trump administration's abduction and threatened deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old green-card holder and permanent legal resident of the United States, is horrifying not just for him and his pregnant wife, a U.S. citizen, but as a sign of things to come....

Roast in Hell Karl Marx

On this day when Karl Marx became a good communist.

Parenting w/Kyle Matovcik

Kyle joined me to discuss what to expect when becoming a parent. Alp

Chinese Chess Moves: A Tectonic Shift in Exquisite Platforms

If the Saab 37 Viggen and the F16 had a love child, it is the Chinese J-10C. The realignment begins, you are witnessing a tectonic shift away from US influence in all the conflict hot-spots on Earth. Meanwhile, the J-10C is equipped to fight against modern threats in...

All Flesh is Forfeit

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Aerial robotics dominate the battlefield. For the remainder of this century, ALL flesh is forfeit in the combat theater. The Kursk Thunder Run

Why Economic Growth Comes from Saving, Not Spending

Keith Knight and I debunk Paul Krugman’s argument that government spending is the cure for economic slumps.

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