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... police investigating the murder immediately suspected Glossip and when interrogating Sneed repeatedly brought up Glossip's name and essentially pushed Sneed to point the finger back at Glossip. Jurors were not played the interrogation tape at either of Glossip's two trials. Oklahoma...

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...

A 17-Year-Old Processes Police Sexual Violence in One of the Summer’s Most Anticipated Novels Leila Mottley’s “Nightcrawling” explores the grief and joy of a young Black survivor. 6 June 2022 In May 2016, a secret within the Oakland Police Department exploded into the public eye: Multiple...

Police Chief Arrested, Jailed for Running a Meth Distribution Ring 16 May 2022 If we were to declare a winner in the War on Drugs today, there would be no question that drugs won. Despite tens of billions of dollars wasted, hundreds of thousands of innocent lives ruined or ended, and the...

D.C. Spent $2.5 Million in Pandemic Relief Funds on Parking Cops 24 March 2022 Pandemic funds used to hire parking cops, pay for prisons, build hotels. At a time when many residents were struggling due to job losses and loss of business, the District of Columbia ramped up efforts to wring...

WATCH: Cops Cruelly Taunt 70yo Woman in Mental Crisis Before Beating Her Bloody for Not Leaving Bathroom 31 March 2022 The Tulsa police department has a Community Response Team, which includes mental health specialists who are trained in dealing with sick individuals who need help not...

As America Slips Deeper Into Authoritarianism, State Brings Back Executions Via Firing Squad 22 March 2022 As TFTP reported, the Justice Department quietly amended its execution protocols in December 2020, no longer requiring federal death sentences to be carried out by lethal injection and...

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...

First lady Sarah Stitt has crashed two state vehicles in less than a year 15 February 2021 In less than a year, first lady Sarah Stitt has crashed two state vehicles. On Dec. 17, Sarah Stitt was driving a 2019 black Chevy Suburban when she failed to stop for a traffic signal at N.E. 36th...

Parole denied! Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, rapist officer Daniel Holtzclaw Serial Rapist Cop, Sentenced to 263 Years, Up for Parole After Doing Just 6 Years 7 February 2022 A disgraced former Oklahoma City police officer, Daniel Holtzclaw, 29, was sentenced to 263 years in prison in 2016...

A SWAT Team Wrongfully Raided Her Home. Now Cops Say Footage From the Raid Is Private Since No One Was Killed. Plus: A wave of educational gag orders, marijuana banking measure moves forward, and more... 3 February 2022 Judge says footage shouldn't be made public. In May 2020, a SWAT team...

Texas Town To Start Issuing Traffic Tickets By Text Message 2 February 2022 Way back in 2014, Oklahoma state senator (and former police officer) Al McAffrey had an idea: what if cops could issue traffic tickets electronically, without ever having to leave the safety and comfort of their...

Police Banned From Enforcing Traffic Laws In Oklahoma Town Over Abuse Of Traffic Tickets For Money 28 January 2014 When police departments begin viewing themselves as revenue generating entities rather than law enforcement entities, it has a deleterious effect on the public, which is now...

Guthrie, Logan County, Oklahoma, sexting deputy Christopher Andrews Former Logan Co. Deputy Turns Himself In Following Arrest Warrant 21 January 2022 A former Logan County deputy has turned himself in to police on Friday due to a warrant out for his arrest, according to Logan County...

Too many nightcapps for Officer Capps! Affidavit: Tushka officer was drunk on duty 14 October 2021 A Tuskha police officer was scheduled to appear in court Thursday after being arrested last month for being intoxicated while on duty. Tushka police and Atoka County deputies received...

'Functionally Illiterate' Death Row Inmate Couldn't Understand a Form Letting Him Choose His Execution Method Alabama allows death row inmates to pick an execution method other than lethal injection. But this intellectually disabled prisoner didn't receive proper accommodation, a judge says. 11...

Former Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer & murderer Shannon Kepler Ex-Oklahoma Officer Is Sentenced in Killing of Daughter’s Boyfriend Shannon Kepler, who had served as a police officer in Tulsa for 24 years, was tried five times before a federal jury found him guilty of the 2014 murder of...

Big Trouble in Little Rock A Reformist Black Police Chief Faces an Uprising of the Old Guard 18 December 2021 1 - Backlash: On the morning of May 28, 2020, a Black sergeant with the Little Rock, Arkansas, Police Department woke up, turned on the news, and saw the George Floyd video for the...

Dallas Police Took $106,000 From a Traveler. They Haven't Explained Why. A police dog's alert prompted the search, and the money was seized via civil asset forfeiture. 8 December 2021 On Sunday, a Facebook post from the Dallas Police Department went viral. It depicts a police dog, Ballentine...

Numerous references to police & prosecutorial misconduct: Despite a botched execution and concerns over innocence, Oklahoma prepares to execute Julius Jones Persistent problems with lethal injection have not swayed the state’s determination to put Jones and five other men to death 14 November...