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Story is about the degree to which KKK members are embedded in local law enforcement agencies, especially in Florida: Former FBI informant who thwarted KKK-law enforcement murder plots goes public for his own safety 23 December 2021 From 2007 to 2018, Joseph Moore was an undercover...

Solano deputies, Vacaville councilmember promote anti-government militia 4 February 2021 Daniel “Cully” Pratt of the Solano County Sheriff’s Office has a side business making decorative wood carvings. Some feature characters from movies starring his brother Chris Pratt, like “Jurassic World”...

Watchdog; Federal anti-terror unit investigated journalists 11 December 2021 A special Customs and Border Protection unit used sensitive government databases intended to track terrorists to investigate as many as 20 U.S.-based journalists, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press...

A man filmed a Massachusetts state trooper taking a nap in his car. Then he was retaliated against, he says. 10 December 2021 In a video posted online late last month, Nick Ford walked up to a Massachusetts state trooper’s cruiser on the side of the highway and knocked on the window. Slumped...

Inside federal prisons, employees are committing the crimes 14 November 2021 More than 100 federal prison workers have been arrested, convicted or sentenced for crimes since the start of 2019, including a warden indicted for sexual abuse, an associate warden charged with murder, guards taking...

Man shot by trooper among many with mental illness history 12 November 2021 A man fatally shot by a Virginia state trooper after a police chase and a crash that killed his passenger had been mentally ill for years, according to court records. Brian Michael Price, 45, was judged not guilty by...

Cleveland Votes for More Police Oversight, While Minneapolis Rejects Abolishing, Replacing Cops 2 November 2021 Minneapolis voters Tuesday rejected the activists who had been trying to get rid of the city's police department and replace it with a new department intended to provide a public...

Cop Charged With Murder After Killing 11-Year-Old Girl in Car Ramming Assault What began with a speeding ticket turned into a deadly flipping of an SUV with a family inside 29 October 2021 Police are overly fond of the practice they bloodlessly call the "precision immobilization technique,"...

Tiny wrists in cuffs: How police use force against children 19 October 2021 Royal Smart remembers every detail: the feeling of the handcuffs on his wrists. The panic as he was led outside into the cold March darkness, arms raised, to face a wall of police officers pointing their guns. He was...

Louisiana State Trooper Carl Cavalier A Black state trooper spoke out about police brutality. Louisiana police want to fire him. 14 October 2021 More than a year had passed since a Black motorist in northern Louisiana died after being violently arrested by state police, but state trooper...

Two incidents, two lawsuits, same two cops: Unarmed 75-year-old Michael Clark Tasered without warning by Colorado officers Nicholas Hanning & Ellie Summers Officers Nicholas Hanning & Ellie Summers arrested Brady Mistic for not complying with their orders. That’s because he is deaf. Nicholas...

Two incidents, two lawsuits, same two cops: Unarmed 75-year-old Michael Clark Tasered without warning by Colorado officers Nicholas Hanning & Ellie Summers Officers Nicholas Hanning & Ellie Summers arrested Brady Mistic for not complying with their orders. That’s because he is deaf. Nicholas...

White House says images of Border Patrol with apparent whip are 'obviously horrific' 20 September 2021 White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Monday called pictures that appeared to show a U.S. Border Patrol agent on horseback with a whip to deter migrants "horrific," but declined to say...