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Nobody Was Drinking At The Party Where Police Killed Jordan Edwards
Post Date: 2017-06-30 10:35:27 by Deckard
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There was never a reason for Jordan Edwards to be fatally shot by a police officer ― and a new report reveals that there was never even a reason for authorities to be at the party the teen was attending. No teens were drinking or doing illicit drugs at a house party in suburban Dallas where Edwards, 15, was killed on April 29, a law enforcement official told the Dallas Morning News this week.A newly released autopsy report also reveals that Edwards wasn’t under the influence when officer Roy Oliver shot him. The officer was responding to a reports that teens had been drinking at a party.Oliver, 37, was fired and then charged with murder within a week of the ...
TSA Wants to Know What Books You’re Reading Before Allowing You to Board Planes
Post Date: 2017-06-30 09:32:17 by Deckard
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By Derrick Broze The federal government will soon begin searching through travelers’ books at the airport as airlines test out fingerprint scans. Next time you choose to take a flight in the United States, you will not only be given the option of a free walk through the full body scanner or a complimentary rub down courtesy of the Transportation Security Administration. Your next flight might include a search of your laptop, books, and possibly a fingerprint scan. Since the launch of the Trump administration travelers have been subject to increasingly invasive measures in the form of laptop searches and discrimination against those traveling from majority Muslim countries. Now the ...
“I Was Wrong”: Judge Admits Jailing People for Pot “Haunts” Him After Cannabis Saved His Life
Post Date: 2017-06-30 09:24:08 by Deckard
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Prior to this year, the state of Florida was regarded as one of the worst possible states to be caught in possession of cannabis. According to a 2009 analysis by former NORML Director, Jon Gettman, no state in this country punished people more severely for minor marijuana offenses than Florida. However, thanks in part to a former Florida judge, all this is gradually changing. By October 3, for the first time in its history, the state will issue IDs to medical marijuana patients. However, according to the former judge, the law doesn’t go nearly far enough. Throughout the course of his career as a Florida judge, Doug Bench hated marijuana. He admits to locking up hundreds of ...
Cop Gets Off With "Boating Violation" for Handcuffing College Kid and Watching Him Drown
Post Date: 2017-06-30 09:16:30 by Deckard
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Versailles, MO — Nearly two years after Trooper Anthony Piercy was charged in the death of Brandon Ellingson, who drowned in the Lake of the Ozarks with his hands cuffed behind his back, the case has been closed. Predictably, the offending officer is getting off with less than a slap on the wrist. For handcuffing a college student, negligently casting him into a lake, and watching as he drowned, Trooper Piercy pleaded guilty to a simple boating violation. On May 31, 2014. Trooper Piercy arrested Ellingson under suspicion of OWI and negligently placed the wrong life jacket over the handcuffed 20-year-old’s torso. Piercy then drove his patrol boat away from the ...
Milwaukee County Sued For Requiring 10 Page Permit Application to Play Pokemon Go in Public Park
Post Date: 2017-06-30 08:14:11 by Deckard
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When Pokemon Go took the nation by storm in the summer of 2016, officials in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, were not amused. Sure, the hugely popular augmented reality game was getting kids (and adults!) to roam around outside—probably doing more to get kids moving than Michelle Obama ever did—in the hopes of catching and battling their fictional "pocket monsters," but Milwaukee County officials were worried about how the game's popularity was affecting parks and other public spaces. Augmented reality games like Pokemon Go require gamers to be in certain physical locations in order to collect pokemon or complete in-game tasks, and public parks became hot spots for the ...
More marijuana busts in NJ than ever — and arrests aren’t fair
Post Date: 2017-06-30 00:34:45 by Gatlin
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The ACLU in New Jersey has issued a new report that claims blacks in the state are unfairly targeted when it comes to arrests for marijuana possession and use. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, blacks were three times more likely to be arrested for marijuana in New Jersey than whites between the years 2000 and 2013. “These arrests are disproportionately made against blacks despite evidence that shows that blacks and whites use marijuana at the same rate,” policy counsel Dianna Houenou said Thursday. She says when you consider what she terms the “collateral consequences” attached to a marijuana arrest — including possible incarceration, loss of ...
Federal authorities make arrests and seize 1,100 pounds of marijuana
Post Date: 2017-06-30 00:27:32 by Gatlin
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Two U.S. citizens and 12 Mexican nationals were arrested Monday and federal authorities seized 1,100 pounds of marijuana east of Nogales. The marijuana is worth an estimated $600,000, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection news release. On June 26, Border Patrol agents patrolling Arizona Highway 82 said they spotted a suspicious Ford van heading east from Nogales. The van stopped at an intersection and the driver and a passenger climbed out of the van and ran, said authorities. Both men, who were U.S. citizens, were taken into custody a short distance away. Agents looked inside the van and found dozens of large marijuana bundles, said officials. In the meantime, two Air and ...
Nebraska was destination for trafficking ring's black market marijuana, officials say
Post Date: 2017-06-30 00:21:57 by Gatlin
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A Colorado marijuana trafficking ring illegally shipped the drug to a half-dozen other states, including Nebraska, authorities announced this week. A Denver grand jury indicted 62 people and 12 businesses this month in a case that targets the largest illegal marijuana operation discovered since Colorado legalized recreational pot in 2012, Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman said. The ring operated under the guise of medical marijuana patient caregivers, property managers servicing growers and small business owners while producing more than 100 pounds of illegal pot each month for shipment to Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Ohio, Oklahoma and other states. "The black market for ...
Cops May Still Use Marijuana as a Reason to Search You — Even After Legalization
Post Date: 2017-06-30 00:13:57 by Gatlin
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For as long as the War on Drugs has persisted, marijuana and its skunky, distinct smell have been used by law enforcement as probable cause to search vehicles and detain individuals on the street. Now that recreational weed is legal in California, it would seem the validity of this oft-used technique may be on shaky ground. But Ryan A. Casey, an attorney at West L.A.’s Panish Shea & Boyle LLP, said legal weed may actually give police officers more opportunity to stop-and-frisk. “I think cops could still cite it as probable cause to stop if it is technically illegal to do it in public, but how much they will actually do that or whether it will increase or decrease remains to ...
Colorado announces largest pot bust since drug was legalized
Post Date: 2017-06-30 00:03:54 by Gatlin
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Colorado police recently busted a drug trafficking ring that they said was shipping pot to other states, and even NFL players. According to police, it is the largest pot bust since the drug was legalized in 2012. Colorado officials announced Wednesday that they have busted a mammoth marijuana trafficking ring that pretended to be growing weed for sick people but was instead illegally shipping the drug to a half-dozen other states and bilking investors, including former NFL players. A Denver grand jury indicted 62 people and 12 businesses in a case that involved federal and state agents executing nearly 150 search warrants in 33 homes and 18 warehouses and storage units in the Denver area. ...
Father, teen son choke kidnapper, shoot him 5 times during attempted robbery
Post Date: 2017-06-29 08:50:56 by cranky
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Police were on the scene of a deadly shooting at the SunTrust Bank in DeKalb County on Wednesday morning A kidnapper was choked and shot five times during a deadly confrontation after he forced a father and son to drive to an ATM at gunpoint early Wednesday, DeKalb County police said. Police don’t expect to file charges against Roy Farrell, 39, and his 16-year-old son, who were first confronted by the suspect at The Oaks at Stonecrest Apartment Homes on Evans Mill Road. “This was a justified shooting (self-defense),” DeKalb police spokeswoman Shiera Campbell said. The father and son were questioned by police, but were released. The suspect initially approached the ...
Your thoughts
Post Date: 2017-06-29 08:05:59 by BobCeleste
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Thursday, June 29, 2017 07:35:00 AM Points to ponder: Democrats are despicable, RINOs, like Susan Collins, are their excrement. I support Law Enforcement only when Law Enforcement supports my Constitutional Rights. Today's silver fix for using silver as a form of payment is $20 US. Poster Comment:Agree, disagree, comments.
Manhunt underway for suspects who 'kidnapped and raped woman to "teach her a lesson about dating black men"'
Post Date: 2017-06-29 07:37:34 by cranky
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Justin Akeen Fedrick, 27, and Keon Dellshai Gordon, 26, are accused of raping the woman on June 22 at a home in Clermont, Florida Rodney Cooper, 32, is accused of standing guard outside the room as they attacked herA police report describes how the two men told her they wanted to 'teach her a lesson about dating black men' They allegedly warned her that if she went to the police, they would attack her again in a way that was 'ten times worse' Cooper was arrested the day after the incident but police have not yet found the other two men Two suspects are wanted for violently raping a woman in Florida to 'teach her a lesson about dating black men'. Justin Akeen ...
Dad sets a trap for 33-year-old sending sex pics to his underage daughter, and it’s on video
Post Date: 2017-06-28 16:40:06 by Tooconservative
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When an Oklahoma family discovered their 15-year-old was having an inappropriate online relationship with a much older man, they hatched a plan to capture him rather than just take the case to the authorities. What happened when he arrived at the trap was all captured on video. Del City Police Maj. Jody Suit told KOCO-TV that the father of the family discovered a man was sending his daughter lewd photos over the internet. “The pictures were being sent back and forth, and sexual behavior, or at least sexual acts, virally were occurring,” he said. “The family took it upon themselves to pretend to be her and invite the suspect to the house to meet her in the backyard in a ...
The A-10 Warthog Lives
Post Date: 2017-06-28 15:13:02 by Tooconservative
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On Monday, the House Armed Services Committee released a draft of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act. It included $103 million to keep the second-most controversial plane in the Air Force’s fleet, the A-10, flying. Senior brass in the Air Force have been trying to retire the A-10 Thunderbolt II, commonly called the “Warthog” for its less-than-comely appearance, for years. Faced with tough budget constraints, the Air Force has tried to prioritize its core missions, including a long-term search for a new strategic bomber dubbed the “Long Range Strike Bomber Program.” The other priority for the Air Force has been the most expensive weapons system in ...
Senior CNN producer: ‘The entire Trump-Russia narrative is bullsh*t’
Post Date: 2017-06-28 13:57:42 by Deckard
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(INTELLIHUB) Senior CNN producer John Bonifield was recently caught on camera admitting that CNN is only pushing the Trump-Russia narrative for “ratings” and that he knows it’s all “bullsh*t.” “It’s mostly bullsh*t right now. Like, we don’t have any big giant proof,” the senior producer stated in the video obtained by Project Veritas. “I just feel like they don’t really have it but they want to keep digging — and so I think that the President is right to say, like, look, you are witch hunting me. Like you have no smoking gun, you have no real proof […] If it was something really good — it would leak.” The, ...
Three Chicago Cops Charged With Conspiring to Cover Up Murder of Laquan McDonald
Post Date: 2017-06-28 12:52:13 by Deckard
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Three police officers were indicted on Tuesday on state felony charges of conspiracy to cover up the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was shot by a Chicago police officer three years ago.From CBS Chicago:Special Prosecutor Patricia Brown Holmes said Det. David March and patrol officers Joseph Walsh and Thomas Gaffney have been charged with conspiracy, official misconduct, and obstruction of justice. The three allegedly conspired to try to “prevent or shape” an independent probe of McDonald’s shooting on Oct. 20, 2014, at the hands of Officer Jason Van Dyke.In a prepared statement, Holmes said,“The indictment makes clear that these defendants did more ...
“We just simply don’t know how to govern”: Congressman admits GOP in total disarray
Post Date: 2017-06-28 11:27:59 by Willie Green
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Republicans are in full control of the government — and they have made a complete mess of it. Republicans have complete control in Washington, but are unable to do the bare minimum it takes to run the most important government in the world. Despite their electoral victories and governing majorities, Republicans can’t get their own party in line to support their health care bill — the one they’ve been threatening for eight years — and the budget process has also ground to a halt. And Paul Ryan’s tenure as House speaker, even as his party controls Congress and the White House, has been one failure after another and has made him deeply unpopular. While America is ...
Cops Randomly Stop Innocent Man, Assault Him, Search Him, Let Him Go
Post Date: 2017-06-28 10:47:31 by Deckard
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Dev Sanders is a veteran who lives in Maryland and works for the state. But not even serving his country could have prepared him for the treatment he says he received at the hands of the United States Park Police. Officers Keyes and Easter (Sanders claims) pulled him over on I-295 near the National Security Agency and told him he was stopped because he was following the car in front of him too closely. We at The Free Thought Project have published many stories indicating it’s one of many excuses police will use to unlawfully stop someone, mostly in an attempt to see what’s inside a car or fish for anything to use to extract revenue from a citizen or deprive them of freedom. ...
Police stop and question 20 MILLION motorists every year or 50,000 every day
Post Date: 2017-06-28 10:37:12 by Deckard
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According to a Stanford Institute project called “The Open Policing Project” which looked at over 100 million police traffic stops. “Police pull over more than 50,000 drivers on a typical day, more than 20 million motorists every year.” Does that mean 50,000 people are breaking the law everyday? Is there an epidemic of lawbreakers on our streets? Of course not, so why are police stopping 20 million motorists every year? Police across the country don’t just ticket millions of Americans every year, they’re also questioning them. Unfortunately the “Open Policing Project” doesn’t mention how many passengers are stopped and ...
Sarah Palin Sues New York Times for Defamation
Post Date: 2017-06-28 07:44:10 by cranky
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On Tuesday evening, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin hired Hulk Hogan’s lawyers and sued the New York Times for defamation for falsely accusing her in a June 14 editorial of inciting Jared Lee Loughner to shoot Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ). The Times’ editorial was published on the day that James Hodgkinson shot House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) while he was practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game with his GOP teammates. “Today, Sarah Palin took a stand against The New York Times Company by filing a lawsuit which seeks to hold The Times accountable for stating that Governor Palin is part of a ‘sickeningly familiar pattern’ of politically motivated ...
Does Marijuana Increase the Risk of Vehicle Crashes?
Post Date: 2017-06-27 21:55:02 by Gatlin
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With decades of research, the link between alcohol and motor vehicle crashes is clear. But the research on cannabis and driving is mixed. driving and marijuana Last month a high school senior in Ohio drove off the road on the way home from prom, striking two utility poles and killing his passenger, 17-year-old Lindsey Rotuno. The Ohio Highway Patrol eventually confirmed that driver Chase Johnson, 18, had marijuana in his system. Rotuno was not wearing a seatbelt. Police are still investigating the crash, and the Lorain County prosecutor’s office has yet to determine if Johnson will face charges. But some opponents of marijuana legalization are concerned that these types of crashes ...
New Study Finds Marijuana Users Are Happier And More Successful In Life
Post Date: 2017-06-27 13:41:33 by Deckard
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Shattering the stereotype of the lazy pothead, new research suggests cannabis users are actually more satisfied, more successful, and even more likely to volunteer in their communities than their nonsmoking counterparts. Last week, the Independent described to its readers how the research was carried out: “The study, conducted by market researchers BDS Analytics, surveyed consumers and abstainers across a wide variety of mental, social and financial factors. These included life satisfaction levels, attitudes towards parenting and employment data. "The survey analysed extensive data from two US states that have voted to legalise the sale of cannabis — California and ...
“I Could Kill You!” Cop Pins Teen Down, Chokes Him for Running Through His Grass
Post Date: 2017-06-27 13:31:07 by Deckard
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Lansing, MI — Parents of a 15-year-old boy are outraged this week after a cell phone video showed an off-duty Lansing police officer pin down their son and hold him to the ground by his throat — for being in his front yard. The video was taken Saturday and it shows 15-year-old Jordan Brunson scared for his life as an off-duty Lansing cop physically and verbally assaults him. The officer accuses the teens, Brunson and the teen filming, of trespassing and says he is holding him down until other officers arrive on the scene. “I was scared, but I was trying to keep calm at the same time,” Brunson says. The teen filming had just been beaten up pretty bad by another group of ...
Cops Brag About Harassing Homeless Man Fixing Bikes for Money, So Facebook Destroyed Them
Post Date: 2017-06-27 13:17:12 by Deckard
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Kennewick, WA — A 38-year-old homeless man was attempting to earn some honest money by providing a much-desired service to the residents of Kennewick, Washington last week, when he was threatened with extortion and arrest by the local police department who effectively ended his enterprise. After the Kennewick Police Department threatened the homeless man and prevented him from making a living, they took to Facebook to shamelessly brag about it. However, Facebook was not buying it. The homeless man was not selling drugs, panhandling, or harassing local businesses and their patrons. He was providing willing customers, who were in need of bicycle repairs, with a service for which they ...
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