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Court Suppresses Phone Search, Telling Cops A Warrant With No Probable Cause Is Like Having No Warrant At All 22 July 2022 Not every crime is linked to a cell phone, no matter what cops may think. True, cell phones are omnibuses of information, containing overflowing email inboxes, social...

Border Patrol Agents Are Trashing Sikh Asylum-Seekers' Turbans “The turban is sacred.” At least 64 Sikh men have had their headwear confiscated and discarded by Yuma’s Border Patrol. 2 August 2022 Gurjodh Singh was leaning against a rusted vehicle barrier — planted like a giant jack in the...

New Arizona Law Will Make it Illegal to Film Within Eight Feet of Police Civil liberties groups oppose the law, saying it will impede First Amendment–protected activity and protect bad cops. 8 July 2022 Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, signed a bill into law Wednesday that will make it...

Cop with Gas Mask Stands By and Watches as Good Samaritan Rescues 2 Kids From Burning Home 10 July 2022 As we previously reported, the Justice Department is investigating the police response to the horrifying shooting in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 4th grade children dead along with two...

Federal Judge Rules Gruesome Medical Neglect in Arizona Prisons Violates Eighth Amendment 1 July 2022 Arizona prison officials were deliberately indifferent to "grossly inadequate" medical and mental health care, violating inmates' Eighth Amendment rights, a federal judge ruled Thursday in a...

To Promote Public Safety, Michigan Authorizes Cops To Rob Travelers at Airports The change represents a substantial reversal of civil forfeiture reforms aimed at protecting innocent property owners. 2 June 2022 Graham Filler, a state legislator in Michigan, describes two recently enacted...

What's especially chilling is how police in both instances not only failed themselves to help but actively attempted to stop bystanders from helping. Tempe Police Watch as Man Drowns 6 June 2022 Tempe police watched a man drown while refusing to offer assistance. "I'm not jumping in after...

Greg Abbott Screwed Over Truck Drivers in a Misguided Attempt to Increase Border Security The new inspection initiative duplicated screenings that were already being carried out, irking trade officials and truckers—even those who have supported Abbott up until this point. 15 April 2022 Last...

US Army & State Officials Facilitated Torturous Child Sex Ring by Ignoring Dozens of Complaints for a Decade 30 March 2022 The US Army and the state of Arizona facilitated through inaction, a decade-long child sex abuse ring ran by a top civilian commander, David Frodsham. According to a...

As America Slips Deeper Into Authoritarianism, State Brings Back Executions Via Firing Squad 22 March 2022 As TFTP reported, the Justice Department quietly amended its execution protocols in December 2020, no longer requiring federal death sentences to be carried out by lethal injection and...

Sen. Ron Wyden Catches ICE Illegally Collecting Americans’ Financial Data 15 March 2 022 ICE wants data and doesn’t care how it gets it. Its recently-elevated pursuit of all things not considered naturally American has increased its demands for information on… well, everybody. It works with...

Video Shows California Cops Arresting Mom and Grandma for Filming Them Mariah Herefored says police in Hemet, California, smacked cell phone cameras out of her and her mother's hands and violently arrested them 8 March 2022 Police officers in Hemet, California, arrested a mother and...

Cops Denied Qualified Immunity for Torturing Innocent Dad in Front of Kids, Tasering His Testicles 12 March 2022 As TFTP reported, disturbing bodycam video showed Arizona cops tasering a man 11 times, including on the testicles, as his horrified family scream for them to stop. The police are...

Phoenix City Council Says PD Can Have Surveillance Drones Without Any Policy In Place Because Some Officers Recently Got Shot 25 February 2022 The Phoenix Police Department wants drones and it wants them now. And, according to this report by the Phoenix New Times, it’s going to get them...

Arizona House Committee Approves Bill To Criminalize Filming Cops on the Job "You'll have a bunch of people who plead to avoid trial or go broke trying to vindicate their rights." 22 February 2022 The Arizona House Appropriations Committee on Monday green-lit a bill that would criminalize...

A Notorious Prison Tech Giant Is Poised to Cash In on Pell Grants for Incarcerated People Millions of dollars in college financial aid will soon be available to prisoners. Aventiv has taken note. 8 February 2022 Jerome “JJ” Taylor needed just one more humanities credit to earn his bachelor’s...

WATCH: 13yo Girl Repeatedly Punched by Police, Tackled for “Getting Too Close: 2 February 2022 Phoenix police are conducting damage control this week after video was posted online of one of their officers punching a girl, who is reportedly just 13-years-old. According to police, the girl was...

Biden’s DOJ continues to defend bad cops and wrongful convictions 26 January 2022 During the George Floyd protests, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden forcefully condemned the violent eviction of protesters from D.C.'s Lafayette Square just before President Donald Trump’s photo op at St...

You Can't Solve Homelessness by Making It a Crime In an August ruling, Washington's Supreme Court found that a homeless plaintiff's truck qualified as his homestead. 17 January 2022 A man's car is his castle. So declared the Washington Supreme Court, more or less, when it ruled last August...

"Innocence isn't enough": Arizona urges the supreme court to send Barry Jones back to death row The case has far-reaching implications: Should new evidence be ignored by the federal courts even when it exposes a wrongful conviction? 30 December 2021 THE MORNING OF the oral argument in Shinn...