Category Archives: Law Enforcement

Histories of commons repeat themselves as tragedy and farce

Posted on October 19, 2015 by ann li-summers

By ann summers “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” (Who watches the watchers) Juvenal Recently, a US rancher with unfortunate racist and fascist tendencies came to the attention of US media with unfortunate consequences but an interesting discourse path. I won’t repeat … Continue reading →

Posted in Capitalism, Countries, Democracy, Economic Policy, Economics, Fundamentalism, Government, Green, History, Jurisprudence, Law Enforcement, Legal Analysis, Local Government, Media, Police, Political Science, Politics, Religion, State Government, United States | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

“You can deal with it yourself.”

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Gene Howington

Your friend has been shot in a drive by shooting. You are not a trained medical first responder. What would you do? Most people would do exactly what 17-year-old Esperanza Quintero did last month when her friend Jaydon Chavez-Silver, also … Continue reading →

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Matt Taibbi on Former Attorney General Eric Holder and the Revolving Door between Washington and Wall Street

Posted on July 8, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro Earlier today, award-winning journalist Matt Taibbi was interviewed on Democracy Now! Taibbi talked about Eric Holder, the former Attorney General of the United States, and the revolving door between Wall Street and Washington. Holder is reportedly “returning home — … Continue reading →

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Draft of Justice Department Report Claims That Police Escalated Tensions in Ferguson, Missouri, Following the Death of Michael Brown

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro According to the draft of a Justice Department report, police in Ferguson, Missouri, escalated tensions after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. Matt Apuzzo (New York Times) said that the report “describes a chaotic scene in which … Continue reading →

Posted in Civil Liberties, DOJ, Equal Rights, Government, Law Enforcement, Local Government, Media, Missouri, Police, Political Science, Racism, Society, States, United States | Tagged , , , , | 5 Comments

Police Chief of Gulfport, Mississippi, Says That Open Carry Incident in a Walmart Store Could Have Turned into ‘Violent Misunderstanding’

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro Leonard Papania, the police chief of Gulfport, Mississippi, appears to be unhappy with his state’s open carry laws “after a man strolling through a Walmart Sunday night menaced shoppers by loading and racking shells into his shotgun…” The … Continue reading →

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This Just In: The Baltimore Sun Reports That Freddie Gray’s Autopsy Shows That He Died of ‘High-energy Injury’

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

Posted by Elaine Magliaro According to Reuters, the Baltimore Sun has reported that the autopsy of Freddie Gray, the Baltimore black man who died in April after being hurt while in police custody, “shows he suffered a ‘high-energy injury’ like those in … Continue reading →

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Two Alabama Police Officers Accused of Being Members of a White Supremacist Hate Group Put on Administrative Leave

Posted on June 20, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro The city of Anniston, Alabama, has placed two of its police officers on administrative leave while it investigates accusations that the men are members of a hate group. On Wednesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) posted … Continue reading →

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A Black Ex-Cop Writes about Race and Policing in the United States (VIDEO)

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro Redditt Hudson has an interesting article titled I’m a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing over at Vox. Hudson was a St. Louis police officer for five years. He currently serves as the board … Continue reading →

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Court Releases Photograph of Two Chicago Cops Posing As Hunters with Black Suspect Wearing Antlers

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro Here’s a photograph of Chicago Police Department officers Jerome Finnigan (left) and Timothy McDermott (right) posing with an unidentified suspect. (Note: The photo was obtained by The Chicago Sun-Times from a court filing.) The Chicago Police Department … Continue reading →

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Stateside California: Pregnant Black Woman Who Refused to Provide Identification Slammed to Ground and Arrested by Barstow Police

Posted on May 28, 2015 by Elaine Magliaro

By Elaine Magliaro The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) obtained a video taken in January outside a school building by a police body camera of an officer “responding to an apparent traffic dispute.” The dispute  … Continue reading →

Posted in Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Courts, Equal Rights, Jurisprudence, Justice, Law Enforcement, Local Government, Police, Racism, Short Video, United States | Tagged , , , | 90 Comments