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Viral Video Shows Protester Tased For A 'Fuck Bad Cops' Sign For the officer's excessive force, the protester was later awarded a $175,000 settlement over the 2016 incident. 21 July 2022 A TikTok video that recently went viral shows a police officer chasing and attempting to tase a protester...

Training And Expertise: Denver Cops Hit Five Bystanders While Shooting At ‘Felony Menacing’ Suspect 29 July 2022 Sometimes you’ve got to shoot a few civilians to make the public safe. (h/t Maggie McNeill) More often than not, police do not stop a mass shooting. In Denver over the weekend...

Cops Mistook Innocent Dad’s Diabetic Shock for Intoxication, Threw Him in a Cage and Watched Him Die 4 August 2022 When he was arrested in February of this year, Gilbert Gil, 67, had committed no crime and had harmed no one. Sadly, however, his innocence offered no protection from the...

Reverse Keyword Warrant Challenged After Cops Asked Google To Search Millions Of People’s Data Multiple Times 11 July 2022 Cops have been running to Google for years, warrants and subpoenas in hand, asking the data behemoth to give them info they can sift through to find criminal suspects...

LGBTQ Pride Organizers Weigh Multiple Threats, From Police Brutality to Vigilante Violence Between angry cops, hateful politicians, and plotting right-wing extremists, they have their hands full. 24 June 2022 Seattle’s Pride Parade, among the largest in the country, will return this weekend...

Appeals Court Says It’s Perfectly Fine For Cops To Unreasonably Extend Traffic Stops 3 June 2022 The Supreme Court made it pretty clear in its Rodriguez decision that pretextual traffic stops were fine, but once the pretext evaporated, it was time to cut civilians loose. We hold that a...

71-Year-Old Pickleball Enthusiast Armed With Sharpie Arrested for Felony Criminal Mischief Arslan Guney spent 10 hours in jail for making a few marks on a gym floor. He could still get three years in prison. 28 March 2022 Arslan Guney worked as an engineer for Vlasic Pickles. In retirement...

Colorado Deputy and Wife Charged with Unlawful Storage of Firearm After 3-Year-Old Daughter’s Death on Mother’s Day 19 May 2022 Nearly two weeks after a 3-year-old girl was shot inside her own home on Mother’s Day morning and lost her life, the toddler’s parents face several misdemeanor...

Disturbing Video Shows 10 Cops Hold Man Down as an Officer Sodomizes Him With a Baton 26 March 2022 Following the death of George Floyd America and the rest of the world watched in horror as disturbing and violent acts of police brutality were carried out against peaceful protesters. While...

Kids Are Back in Schools. Cops Shouldn't Be. Police are being asked to handle kids broken by failures of public schooling. 16 March 2022 It's no secret that bad policy all too often breeds more bad policy. After two years of pandemic-related disruptions to public schooling and the lives of...

Police Repeatedly Question Mom of 6 Who Let Kids Pick Up Litter Outside "There are no known stories of any abductions here," says Anna Hershberger. 16 March 2022 Massachusetts mom of six Anna Hershberger has had the police called on her three times this past year. What has this recidivist...

WATCH: Half Dozen Cops Attack, Handcuff 12yo Boy, Accuse Him of Stealing His Own Bike 4 March 2022 There is an all too common story that plays out across the United States like a broken record — innocent Black people get accused of stealing or breaking into their own property. We’ve seen...

Paramedics in 2 ketamine cases cannot practice in state 15 February 2022 A paramedic involved in a 2018 incident in which an intoxicated woman received ketamine before passing away is no longer allowed to practice in Colorado. The state launched an investigation after the Problem Solvers...

Colorado Legislators Advance Bill To Ban Police from Lying to Minors During Interrogations Reason reported last year on how minors are particularly susceptible to being coerced into false confessions. 25 February 2022 Democratic lawmakers in Colorado are advancing a bill that would ban police...

Fired Johnstown, Colorado, police officer & stalker Aaron Sanchez Fired Johnstown police commander arrested for stalking 4 February 2022 The former second-highest-ranking officer in the Johnstown Police Department has been arrested for felony stalking. Aaron Sanchez, 48, was a commander...

Silverthorne Police Sergeant Joel Victor Ponedel Arrested 2 February 2022 Silverthorne Police Sergeant Joel Victor Ponedel turned himself in to the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday. Ponedel, 37, is facing charges of stalking, wiretapping, third-degree assault and harassment...

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...

Westminster police threw 78-year-old to the ground and shocked him with Taser, lawsuit alleges Clayton Shriver alleges he was shocked with Taser during 2020 arrest to the point of “significant bleeding” 19 January 2022 Westminster police threw a 78-year-old man to the ground inside a Walmart...

Kansas and California Cops Used Civil Forfeiture to Stage Armored Car Heists, Stealing Money Earned by Licensed Marijuana Businesses The Institute for Justice argues that the seizures violated state law, federal law, and the U.S. Constitution. 18 January 2022 Because the continued federal...

Still need to do some deep cleaning from the top down, starting with the police chief: Rogue Loveland police officer Paul Ashe UPDATE: Loveland Police officer placed on unpaid leave following internal investigation 19 October 2021 City officials confirmed Tuesday that Loveland Police...