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US Postal Service Sued For Seizing ‘Defund Police’ Facemasks 6 June 2022 Two years ago, just as the COVID pandemic was beginning to radically transform day-to-day life for nearly everyone on the planet, the United States Postal Service decided to protect cops from passive criticism. One month...

Nothing Has Changed Since George Floyd Died, US Cops Still Kill Someone Every 8 Hours 3 April 2022 It has been nearly two years since Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. At the time, Floyd’s death would set off massive protests across the country as politicians and political pundits played...

This Program Aims to Correct the Culture of Acquiescence That Allowed Derek Chauvin to Kill George Floyd "Active bystandership" training encourages officers to stop their colleagues from violating people's rights. 31 January 2022 The federal trial of three former Minneapolis police officers...

Derek Chauvin trial expert calls Hammond police use of force among ‘most abusive’ he’s seen Video shows future police chief beating Black man in custody 27 January 2022 One of the nation’s leading experts in police procedure told the Hammond City Council on Tuesday that video of white police...

Civil Rights Suit Filed by Family of Black Teen Who Died in Police Custody Advances: Derek Chauvin’s Expert Is One of the Defendants 19 January 2022 Long before George Floyd’s murder sparked international attention to dangers of what is known as the prone position—the form of police restraint...

WATCH: Raging Cop Strangles Female Officer After She Stopped Him from Attacking Handcuffed Man 14 January 2022 Since the murder of George Floyd rocked the nation in 2020, across the country police departments and municipalities have passed legislation requiring cops to intervene if they see...

Minneapolis Oversight Board Says Police Department Should Ditch 'Excited Delirium' Training 6 January 2022 Excited delirium isn't a medical condition. It's just post-death rationalization that shifts the culpability for deaths at the hands of law enforcement to the corpses the cops created...

Court Finally Strips Cops of Qualified Immunity for Laughing as They Killed Handcuffed Innocent Man 31 December 2021 As TFTP previously reported, on the night of Aug. 10, 2016, Tony Timpa called 911 asking police to help him because he had a history of mental illness and he was off his...

New Law Requires Police to Train Yearly on How to Stop Fellow Cops from Breaking the Law 26 December 2021 Arkansas has recently passed a handful of laws which are highly beneficial to the people and will go into effect in 2022. Some of the laws ban vaccine mandates, grant constitutional...

The Supreme Court Declines To Determine if You Have a First Amendment Right To Film the Police 1 November 2021 The Supreme Court has just refused to hear a case at the nexus of police abuse and the First Amendment, declining to consider a petition from a man who says his free speech rights...

ATF Goes On Tour To Teach Journalists That Cops Are Usually Right When They Kill Someone 11 November 2021 The ATF (the accepted not-actually-an-acronym for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) is back on its periodic charm offensive. This time the charm seems a bit more...

Newark cops, with reform, didn’t fire a single shot in 2020 10 January 2021 Newark Police officers did not fire a single shot during the calendar year 2020, and the city didn’t pay a single dime to settle police brutality cases. That’s never happened, at least in the city’s modern history...

Former Minneapolis Cop Mohamed Noor Re-Sentenced to Prison for Shooting Innocent Woman Who Called 911 21 October 2021 A Minnesota judge on Thursday re-sentenced a convicted police officer to 57 months behind bars — the maximum possible punishment — in the shooting and killing of a woman who...

Sheriff charged with falsely reporting Black newspaper carrier to police 21 October 2021 A sheriff in Washington state has been charged with two misdemeanors for falsely accusing a Black man delivering newspapers in January of making threats against him — an incident that led to a significant...

Kim Potter May Claim ‘Innocent Accident’ and ‘Innocent Mistake’ Defenses in Daunte Wright Shooting Death 14 October 2021 The veteran police officer who shot and killed a 20-year-old Minnesota man in April is set to argue that the incident was the result of an accident and mistake, according...

Investigation: Minneapolis Cops Responded To George Floyd's Murder By Refusing To Do Their Jobs While Still Collecting Their Paychecks 27 September 2021 The police in Minneapolis are giving the public what they think the public wants: fewer police officers, fewers interactions with police...