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Federal Court Allows Protesters’ First Amendment Suit Against Violent Boston Cops To Continue 18 July 2022 A lawsuit filed by four protesters against three Boston police officers can move forward, following a federal judge’s determination that the cops’ counterarguments were too ridiculous to...

The Killing of a Portland Antifascist Activist Went Unsolved, Then Journalists Sued the City Three years after Sean Kealiher was killed, police arrested a suspect, just as The Intercept’s public records lawsuit neared a ruling. 16 August 2022 For months after her son’s killing, Laura Kealiher...

Which Is More Scandalous: The Training for Armed Teachers or the Training for Police Officers? On average, the minimum requirement for cops is about 650 hours, compared to about 1,300 hours for barbers. 1 August 2022 A recent New York Times story about armed teachers casts doubt on the...

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...

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...

FBI provides Chicago police with fake online identities for "Social Media Exploration" team Internal documents also reveal that police can take over informants’ social media accounts and pose as them online. 20 May 2022 Brian Campbell couldn’t sleep. It was May 31, 2020, and demonstrations...

5 Cops Restrain, Assault Man Having a Seizure, Until He Dies—Only One Charged is Nurse Who Tried to Save Him 9 April 2022 After the death of Eric Garner in 2014 shook the nation, the phrase “I can’t breathe” has become a chilling symbol for violence doled out at the hands of the state. TFTP...

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...

Police Could’ve Used a No-Knock Raid Correctly, Instead, They Knocked, Then Shot & Killed a 2yo Hostage 5 April 2022 After the death of George Floyd in May of 2020, the nation engaged in fierce debates about how to curb the problem of excessive force in the land of the free. After massive...

State Passes Bill That Could Jail People for 30 Days for Filming the Police 29 March 2022 Frequent readers of the Free Thought Project know that filming the cops is not a crime. Despite this being a widely known provision — held up with multiple court precedents — cops continue to violate the...

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...

School Surveillance Video Released Showing Cop Throw 12yo Girl Down, Kneel on Her Neck March 21 2022 In August of 2020, just a few months after the country descended into mass protest over the death of George Floyd, video footage showed an officer with the Kenosha police department shoot...

How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence 5 March 2022 Michael Williams’ wife pleaded with him to remember their fishing trips with the grandchildren, how he used to braid her hair, anything to jar him back to his world outside the concrete walls of Cook County Jail. His...

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...

WATCH: Father of 5 Handcuffed, Suffocated to Death By a Half Dozen Cops for Refusing Blood Test 18 March 2022 The words ‘I can’t breathe’ have become a rallying cry for those who advocate for an end to police brutality. In case after gruesome case, these words are captured on video as cops...

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...

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...

Austin cuts police budget by 1/3 amid national 'defund' push The Austin City Council has voted to cut one-third of the city's $434 million police budget amid national calls for “defunding” law enforcement in favor of spending more money on social services 13 August 2020 In a unanimous vote...

Banning the Type of Police Raids That Killed Amir Locke Is Just a Start Police violence expert Samuel Sinyangwe says it’s time to rethink more common types of raids, too. 12 February 2022 Amir Locke, a 22-year-old aspiring musician, was sleeping on a couch in his cousin’s Minneapolis home on...

Americans Want Police Reform, Not Abolition. So Did This Slain NYPD Officer. Despite a binary media narrative, the vast majority of the U.S. is in favor of quality, accountable policing. 3 February 2022 "My perspective on police and the way they police really bothered me," wrote Jason Rivera...