And now another episode of racism from the people hired to protect and serve us. Today’s episode comes from a police officer in Baton Rouge Louisiana. Michael Elsbury, who has been with the department for about 15 years, still faces…
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You’ve always heard that cops and ticket agents have daily or monthly quotas they must meet. That they must generate a certain amount of cash from the people they’re supposedly “serving.” And you may have found this hard to believe….
At one point in our short history, voting was a right. A right people fought and died for. But thanks to Republicans and their massive voter suppression drives, encouraging people to vote these days is now seen as a crime,…
A little levity in a nation that has slowly become a Policestate. Video
You know, I’m really getting sick and tired of all these posts about police brutality. And I would love for the day when there will be no more posts to publish about police brutality. But until that day comes, I…
Crooks and Liars posted this video showing one of the police officers working the crowds in Ferguson Missouri, at an apparent “OathKeepers” gathering. The video is a bit long, but there are bullet points highlighting the juicy parts, where the…
On the ground in Ferguson Missouri, CNN’s Jake Tapper became irate! Not at the protesters, who, for the most part were peacefully following the new set of protesting rules set on them by the Ferguson Police Department. No Tappa was…
Ferguson police continue to protect the identity of the killer of Michael Brown while releasing the preliminary autopsy report, and the report showed that Michael Brown, the black teenager killed by police because he walked in the street, was shot…
Welcome to the New York, where the police officers are called “the finest in the world,” but they still resort to the tried and proven primitive method of choking people inorder to restrain them. After a Staten Island man named…
A 400-pound asthmatic Staten Island dad died Thursday after a cop put him in a chokehold and other officers appeared to slam his head against the sidewalk, video of the incident shows. “I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!” Eric Garner,…
Somehow, although his statement is reprehensible, I expected him to say something worse about the police than a comparison to Nazis. After all, he is a Republican and today’s Republicans pride themselves on saying and doing the most outlandish things….
This is a sad and unfortunate story, and it is fully representative of the road we are traveling as a society It was supposed to be a family night out at the movies. A father, a mother and their 19-year-old…