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Border Patrol Agents Are Trashing Sikh Asylum-Seekers' Turbans “The turban is sacred.” At least 64 Sikh men have had their headwear confiscated and discarded by Yuma’s Border Patrol. 2 August 2022 Gurjodh Singh was leaning against a rusted vehicle barrier — planted like a giant jack in the...

To Promote Public Safety, Michigan Authorizes Cops To Rob Travelers at Airports The change represents a substantial reversal of civil forfeiture reforms aimed at protecting innocent property owners. 2 June 2022 Graham Filler, a state legislator in Michigan, describes two recently enacted...

Sen. Ron Wyden Catches ICE Illegally Collecting Americans’ Financial Data 15 March 2 022 ICE wants data and doesn’t care how it gets it. Its recently-elevated pursuit of all things not considered naturally American has increased its demands for information on… well, everybody. It works with...

Phoenix City Council Says PD Can Have Surveillance Drones Without Any Policy In Place Because Some Officers Recently Got Shot 25 February 2022 The Phoenix Police Department wants drones and it wants them now. And, according to this report by the Phoenix New Times, it’s going to get them...

WATCH: 13yo Girl Repeatedly Punched by Police, Tackled for “Getting Too Close: 2 February 2022 Phoenix police are conducting damage control this week after video was posted online of one of their officers punching a girl, who is reportedly just 13-years-old. According to police, the girl was...

You Can't Solve Homelessness by Making It a Crime In an August ruling, Washington's Supreme Court found that a homeless plaintiff's truck qualified as his homestead. 17 January 2022 A man's car is his castle. So declared the Washington Supreme Court, more or less, when it ruled last August...

"Innocence isn't enough": Arizona urges the supreme court to send Barry Jones back to death row The case has far-reaching implications: Should new evidence be ignored by the federal courts even when it exposes a wrongful conviction? 30 December 2021 THE MORNING OF the oral argument in Shinn...

The 4 officers are: Ronaldo Canilao Oswald Grenier David Head Jason Hobel 4 Phoenix police officers denied immunity over 2017 fatal arrest attempt 2 December 2021 Four Phoenix police officers were denied qualified immunity in a lawsuit over the death of a Black man during a 2017 arrest...

Mexican woman shot in head by US Border Patrol files claim: ‘I am looking for justice’ Marisol García Alcántara was shot shortly after arriving in the US, while riding in an SUV in Arizona 15 December 2021 Attorneys for a Mexican woman who was shot in the head by a Border Patrol agent and...

School Resource Officer in Hillside arrested for allegedly assaulting student 10 December 2021 A school resource officer in west suburban Hillside is accused of physically assaulting a student. According to officials at Proviso West High School, the officer entered a classroom and confronted...

U.S. Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Police in New York Suburb The inquiry will focus on whether the Mount Vernon department engaged in a “pattern or practice of unlawful policing,” officials said. 3 December 2021 Federal prosecutors have opened a civil rights investigation into whether...

Phoenix Cop Arrested by FBI for Bilking 'Paycheck Protection' for $1.2 million 9 December 2021 A former Phoenix cop is accused of stealing $1,276,500 through a federal program meant to help struggling businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic. Officer Toni Richardson spent paycheck...

Prosecutors will not seek charges against former Tucson police officers over in-custody death The Pima County Attorney's Office said there was insufficient evidence to charge the officers with a crime 22 September 2020 No criminal charges will be filed against four current and former Tucson...

She Got Her Car Back 6 Years 2After Police Seized It Malinda Harris’ ordeal shows how easily the government can take innocent people’s property under civil forfeiture laws. 8 December 2021 After police in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, took her car, Malinda Harris did not get a chance to...

With federal oversight in short supply, state AGs step in to probe troubled police 23 November 2021 Police in Aurora, Colo., shot 20-year-old Jamaal Bonner in the back three times with a submachine gun during a sting operation, killing him. Four years later, the department formally apologized...

Lawsuit Claims Cops, Prosecutors 'Fabricated Evidence' Against BLM Protesters 14 July 2021 Over a dozen anti-police brutality protesters filed a new lawsuit on Tuesday alleging that the Phoenix Police Department and the Maricopa County Attorney's Office colluded to maliciously prosecute them...

Restaurateur whose business was raided by sheriff gets $5M 20 October 2021 Maricopa County officials approved a settlement Wednesday with a restaurant owner in metro Phoenix who claimed in a lawsuit that then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office had defamed him and violated his rights about seven...