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....
https://youtu.be/-xusygFr6cE [W]ar is simply a euphemism for theft-funded mass murder, a blatant crime that we would never dismiss if non-government actors were to engage in it. What if justice required us not to have double standards? This book seeks to dispel the...
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...
Richard Lee Richards, 61, was accused of stealing an item from Walmart in November 2021, and instead of due process and having his day in court, he was executed on the spot. An investigation began after video footage was released showing an officer dumping 9 rounds...
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,...
A Washington, DC district court judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by the fiancé of murdered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Hatice Cengiz was seeking accountability for Saudi Arabia’s de facto head of state – Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – but the White House told the court to throw out the case.
A former stand-out agent at the Drug Enforcement Agency, José Irizarry, says the police force knows the drug war is unwinnable. In an interview with the Miami Herald, Irizarry claimed that a group of agents calling themselves “Team America” are using their power for profit.
As frequent readers of the Free Thought Project know, police officers are arrested weekly in this country for sex crimes involving children. This is a massive problem but becomes even worse when victims of child sex abuse seek out help and run right into the arms of...
This is from The Wall Street Journal last week: FTX suffered a “complete failure of corporate controls” that culminated in an “unprecedented debacle,” its new chief executive officer said Thursday. John J. Ray, who has helped oversee some of the biggest bankruptcies...
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...
The US Department of Justice is investigating the death of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, according to the Israeli defense minister. Senator Ted Cruz blasted the investigation for marking Tel Aviv as President Joe Biden’s “political enemy.”
On Monday, the Department of Justice announced myriad charges against former Kansas City Police Department detective Roger Golubski and three other men—Cecil Brooks, LeMark Roberson and Richard Robinson. The group of men is alleged to have been kidnapping young Black...
A recent headline screamed out: “New York Judge Awards $6.7 Million To 21 Graffiti Artists For Destroyed Murals." That might be right. There is an actual law on the books which could support such a judicial finding. Alternatively, the award was possibly made for a...
When parents of children at Narraguagus Jr/Sr High School in Harrington saw officer Jeffrey Bishop's car parked in front of the school, they likely felt secure knowing that a cop was "protecting" their children. But Bishop was protecting no one. Instead, he was...
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