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Undercover Cop Picks Up Mom, Pulls Car Next to Building So She Can’t Escape, Kills Her as She Begs for Help 12 April 2022 23-year old Donna Castleberry Dalton, a mother of two, was shot and killed by Officer Andrew Mitchell of the Columbus Police Department. Since that fateful day in 2018...

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...

Disgraced Police Chief Found & Arrested After Faking His Own Death to Avoid Dozens of Felony Charges 6 March 2022 William Anthony Spivey was fired last year from his role as Chief of Police in Chadbourn after he was hit with dozens of charges including evidence mishandling, drug trafficking...

Fatal police shootings in 2021 set record since The Post began tracking, despite public outcry 9 February 2022 Police shot and killed at least 1,055 people nationwide last year, the highest total since The Washington Post began tracking fatal shootings by officers in 2015 — underscoring the...

While Trying to Kill Fleeing Driver, Cop Mistakenly Shoots Multiple Bystanders 11 February 2022 As frequent readers of the Free Thought Project understand, many police officers in the land of the free are often prone to immediately resort to deadly force even in situations in which none is...

Trapped in the Floods with Floodwaters Rising, Prisoners Wait for Help in Floating Feces 12 February 2022 [ The flooding in Dixie County, Florida, began in July, brought on by Tropical Storm Elsa. Then the rains kept falling. By August, the ground was saturated, and the semirural county was...

Columbus, Ohio, killer cops Jason Bare (left) & Zachary Rosen (right) Mistrial declared in Henry Green wrongful death lawsuit 17 November 2021 After jurors could not come to a unanimous decision, a mistrial has been declared in a federal wrongful death suit filed by the family of Henry...

Ex-deputy charged with murder in Casey Gordon Jr. shooting 2 December 2021 The Ohio sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot Casey Goodson Jr. in the back five times was charged Thursday with murder in an encounter that led to protests and about which many questions remain, in part because it was...

After the DEA Stole $70,000 From This Filmmaker, He Got His Money Back, Plus a $15,000 Settlement Keddins Etienne's experience shows that bullies who seize innocent people's property tend to back down when their victims put up a fight. 5 November 2021 Before a federal drug agent stole nearly...

ATF agent accuses Columbus police officers of excessive force 10 December 2020 An agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has filed a federal lawsuit accusing two Columbus police officers of using excessive force against him while he was working in his official capacity. Agent...

Marco R. Merino (left) & John J. Kotchkoski (right) Columbus police narcotics officers accused of distributing nearly 8 kilograms of fentanyl 29 September 2021 Two Columbus Police officers with the Police Drug Cartel unit were arrested and charged with crimes related to distributing nearly...

“Even if You Win, You Stay Locked Up”: How ICE Uses Appeals to Keep Immigrants in Detention 1 October 2021 Sara Mendez-Morales had lost almost all hope. It was a cold stretch in early February, and she had spent nearly six months in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...