Florida cops accused of beating driver for not rolling down his window all the way (VIDEO)Cell phone video footage of a Florida traffic stop is beginning to go viral after the man who recorded his encounter with police pleaded online for assistance because he says law enforcement’s actions forced him to move. Curtis Shannon has raised $1,745 in three days after creating a crowdfunding site to help ” recover ” from an incident that occurred outside his St.
Man arrested for filming NYPD stop-and-frisk gets $125k settlementReuters / Eduardo Munoz The New York Police Department reached a $125,000 settlement with a man who says he was arrested and strip-searched for photographing officers performing a stop-and-frisk operation in 2012. Dick George was sitting in his car in Flatbush on June 14, 2012, when he spotted three African-American youths getting searched by police employing the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy.
County officials refuse to pay medical bills for toddler burned by SWAT grenadeOfficials in Georgia’s Habersham County are refusing to pay for the mounting medical expenses of a toddler seriously injured by a flash grenade after a failed SWAT team raid earlier this year. Bounkham ‘Bou Bou’ Phonesavanh was just 19 months old when a Habersham SWAT team initiated a no-knock warrant at his family’s home at around 3 a.m.
Human rights groups accuse US of war crimesThe United States is facing increasingly harsh criticism over its use of lethal drone strikes to target suspected terrorists. American drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen may amount to war crimes, according to a pair of reports released by international human rights groups Tuesday.
NYPD threatens mass arrests at Ferguson solidarity rallyThousands of people in New York rallied in solidarity with residents of Ferguson on Thursday, showing support to people across the US who have been victims of police brutality. The NYPD threatened mass arrests if people did not stop blocking traffic.
Muslim Americans sue feds over placement on terrorist watchlistA group of five Muslim American men included on the watchlist of suspected terrorists maintained by the United States government filed a federal complaint on Thursday this week contesting their placement.
Press freedom? Police target media, arrest and teargas reporters at Ferguson protestsTwo reporters were detained at the Ferguson protests, and police behaved as “soldiers” with the “enemy combatants,” journalists said. Outrage over the incident spilled into both the media and social networks.
Could Providence Lawsuit Against Wall Street Giants Save City Pension Fund?From one of the world’s largest automakers to its largest stock market, Providence is taking some of the most iconic institutions of corporate America to court in a series of lawsuits that could net the city millions in winnings. In April, the city filed a federal lawsuit against 40 Wall Street firms for alleged violations of U.S.
White House torture report withholding critical facts, says top senatorOne of the Senate’s top Democrats and a major author of the Intelligence Committee’s historic report on the CIA’s use of torture claims the White House is withholding important facts as it prepares to release the document to the public. As a result, California Sen.
Confirmed: CIA spied on Senate staffThe head of the Central Intelligence Agency apologized privately to lawmakers on Tuesday after an internal review revealed that CIA employees had secretly monitored, as alleged, the computer usage of certain Senate staffers. Director John Brennan’s admission this week that members of his agency ” acted in a manner inconsistent with the common understanding ” among the CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee came months after Sen.
White House accidentally leaks post-9/11 CIA torture report findingsReuters/Larry Downing When the CIA first began using its controversial interrogation and detention methods after the September 11th attacks, it reportedly declined to tell the Secretary of State and other American ambassadors about its actions.
CIA admits to spying on SenateCIA officials improperly hacked the Senate Intelligence Committee’s computers as staffers compiled a report on “enhanced interrogation” techniques, the spy agency’s inspector general has concluded. In a statement shared with The Hill, CIA spokesman Dean Boyd said the internal watchdog determined “that some CIA employees acted in a manner inconsistent with the common understanding” between the agency and the committee about access to the network they used to share documents.
Congress alarmed by possible CIA access to confidential whistleblower emailsReuters/Jason Reed The CIA obtained a legally protected, confidential email between whistleblower officials and Congress this spring, raising questions over whether the agency illegally has access to other communications regarding whistleblowers, McClatchy reported.
‘Concrete facts are not necessary’ – Obama administration makes blacklisting air passengers easier than everA never-before-published document released by The Intercept on Wednesday reveals the flexibility with which United States officials may place individuals on watchlists and deem them terrorists without obtaining concrete proof.
Elderly veteran arrested for asking gov’t officials to speak louderA 76-year-old military veteran was arrested for disorderly conduct at a public county board meeting for asking officials to speak up when they refused to use the microphones. The hearing was over a controversial new plant in the area.
Google to face lawsuit over providing consumer data to advertisersReuters / Francois Lenoir A federal judge has denied Google Inc’s attempt to dismiss a privacy lawsuit brought against the technology giant for commingling user data across its different products and offering that data to advertisers without permission.