Join me, Zooey, Diego Rivera and some friends for our election night coverage tonight at my youtube channel at somewhere around 7 PM Texas time: YouTube.com/scotthortonshow part one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nODQSAnAL64 part two...
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Don’t Trust ‘Waco Whitewasher’ John Danforth’s Election Advice
Trump’s attack on the debate commission is an attack on the election itself,” blares the headline from today’s Washington Post op-ed page. That article was written by former senator John Danforth, who has been a member of the Commission on Presidential Debates since...
Cop Kills Man
San Antonio Police officer Steve Casanova murdered Charles “Chop” Roundtree Jr., an 18-year-old sitting on his couch playing video games. Then his friend, the other security force agent, murdered the guy's dog. And all of us know for a fact already that they will all...
Shot By Cops, Thwarted By Judges And Geography
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....
8/21/20 Jordan Smith on the Pseudoscience Putting Americans Behind Bars
Jordan Smith discusses her research into the "BlueLeaks" archive of the leaked personal data of hundreds of thousands of cops and their cases. Smith was looking for evidence of unscientific techniques that the police use to elicit confessions and get convictions—and...
Abusing Amber Alerts
From KSAT.com: South Texas parents wanted in abduction of their 5 children; AMBER Alert issued "CPS officials were going to take custody of the children because of the parent’s involvement with drugs, sheriff’s officials said." So they abuse the Amber Alert system,...
Televised Brutality: Cops Raid Man’s Home For Benefit of TV Cameras
The controversial reality TV show “Live PD” was recently taken off the air, as the country is beginning to rethink its relationship with police, and how they are being portrayed in the media. Just like the show’s predecessor “COPS,” Live PD has been accused of...
Video: Cops Kill Six Year Old While Attempting To Shoot Unarmed Woman
In December 2017, the Free Thought Project reported on the tragic death of 6-year-old Kameron Prescott whose life was stolen from him when police opened fire on an unarmed woman suspected of stealing a car. In June of 2018, the family of the little boy who was gunned...
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